22 January 2024
Planning achieved Cornwallis Court, Bury St Edmunds
We are delighted to have recently received the news that planning has been achieved at Cornwallis Court, Bury St Edmunds. Our Pre-Construction team have been working with our client the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution Care Company, and the consulting team for a number of months on this scheme, … read more »
31 January 2024
Baker Street Project
We are delighted to share a few images of our latest completed refurbishment scheme. 219 Baker Street, Marylebone. Situated in this busy inner city London location, we worked collaboratively with our client to sustainably refurbish luxury apartments within the block, including their … read more »
01 February 2024
Countdown to 80!
2024 is well and truly in full swing for us at Kind and the countdown to our 80th year is on! Accompanying some exciting new project announcements and significant project milestones this year, including the imminent completion of 2 Passivhaus accredited schemes, we are excited to this month … read more »
06 February 2024
Women Into Construction
Kind-ly supporting the Women into Construction programme! We are delighted to be supporting this programme, encouraging women into our industry - which is full of a wide range of diverse career opportunities. Soon we will be welcoming one of the participants to our organisation for a taster … read more »
08 February 2024
Newham Apprenticeship Fair
As part of National Apprenticeship Week, we’re attened the Newham Apprenticeship Fair at the Old Town Hall in Stratford. With 300+ students in attendance, we couldn't wait to inspire them towards a career in construction! 97% said they are likely to consider an apprenticeship as a … read more »
20 March 2024
Breaking Ground at the former Colchester Hospital - Lexden Gardens
After recently entering into contract with our client Essex Housing to begin phase one of the redevelopment of the former Colchester Hospital site, we were delighted to start the week off on Monday with a ground-breaking ceremony on site, marking the beginning of this project. Phase one of this … read more »
20 March 2024
Tree planting to mark to first day of spring!
Happy first day of spring! To mark this day, our Pre-Construction Director, Gerry, and Site Manager, Joseph, are at Gerrards Cross train station with The Tree Council, helping with their Rail Roots initiative, which supports environmental regeneration at several rail stations across the … read more »
21 March 2024
Berners Street makes it into the NLA’s latest edition of ‘Great Estates: Models for Modern Placemaking’
Exciting news! New London Architecture recently launched the second edition of Great Estates: Models for Modern Placemaking by RIBA Publishing, and we are thrilled to see our project 42 Berners Street featured in the book! We completed this 9-storey commercial development for our client The … read more »
23 March 2024
Lighthouse Club Renewal
We’re very pleased to say that we’ve renewed our support for the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity for another year – as you can see with our Company Supporter Certificate! It’s the only charity that provides emotional, physical and financial wellbeing support to the construction … read more »
28 March 2024
Work Placements at Kind & Co
This week we were delighted to welcome Oriana, an overseas qualified architect and urban designer, who is currently looking for her next opportunity in the UK. We were pleased to give her an insight into the operational side of our business, filled with diverse experiences, ranging from … read more »
09 April 2024
Lexden Gardens (Former Essex County Hospital)
We are well underway on site at Lexden Gardens (the former Essex County Hospital), progressing with Phase 1 of this redevelopment to the redundant hospital site. The first phase will bring 63 new quality homes to the development. In order to achieve this, we will be: - … read more »
10 April 2024
Margaret Thatcher Infirmary Phase 5 Complete!
We are delighted to bring news of refurbishment progress on site at the Margaret Thatcher Infirmary, which remains underway for our client The Royal Hospital Chelsea. Phase 5 is complete, in this phase we have undertaken substantial bespoke joinery works throughout the floor and we have … read more »
22 April 2024
London Marathon Success!
A huge congratulations to our Site Manager Fabio, for running the London Marathon on Sunday! Fabio ran the marathon in an impressive 3 hours, 51 minutes; raising an amazing £1300 for the Lighthouse Charity/Prostate Cancer UK. … read more »
24 April 2024
London Borough of Sutton Site Visit
Last week, the site team at Woodcote Road were delighted to walk our client London Borough of Sutton around one of the Passivhaus projects we are delivering for them. Our in-house Air Testing team have been conducting QA tests as we progress on site – we find this an invaluable practice, which we … read more »
29 April 2024
Evette Prout - Business Development Manager
We’re delighted to announce Evette Prout has joined our team as Business Development Manager. Evette has a wide range of experience in the built environment. She joins us with a strong background in MMC and, as a certified Passivhaus consultant, she is extremely passionate about delivering high … read more »
30 April 2024
Women Into Construction Celebration
Last week we were delighted to attend the Women into Construction CIC ‘Employment Programme Celebratory Event’. It was great to catch up with Oriana Fernandez who was one of 3 women who joined us for a work placement under this programme. We were delighted to offer these women a broad … read more »
07 May 2024
Essex Housing Awards 2024 Sponsor
Delighted to be sponsoring the award for Climate Action – Decarbonisation/Retrofit or New Build at this year’s Essex Housing Awards! We are pleased to be associated with this particular category, following on from winning the award for Small Housing Schemes (1-24 homes) at last year’s … read more »
10 May 2024
Woodcote Road Site Visit
Our site team at Woodcote Road had a great visit from London Borough of Sutton’s Cllr Jayne McCoy, Cllr Muhammad Sadiq, Cllr Sam Martin and Lauren Fabregas LBS Project Manager. All were keen to check out the council’s very first Passivhaus homes, which we are currently delivering for Sutton … read more »
13 May 2024
A Commemorative Gift From The Tree Council
Our Managing Director Steve Juson was delighted to welcome the Tree Council's Chief Executive Sara Lom, and Head of Development Cat Gransden, to our head office this morning to accept a commemorative and specially made print from the Artists Rob and Nick Carter. Since supporting the Tree … read more »
21 May 2024
UKREiiF
We’re in Leeds over the next couple of days for the UKREiiF conference! Our Head of Marketing and Partnerships, Gemma Gallagher, is pleased to get straight into networking this afternoon, hosted by local engineering consultants, Adept. Throughout the rest of the day, there were lots of … read more »
24 May 2024
Housing Design Awards 2024 - Regency Court: Shortlisted
We are pleased to announce that our project Regency Court has been shortlisted in this year’s Housing Design Awards! To read more about this scheme, please click here: https://bit.ly/3R0Fdg1 … read more »
30 May 2024
Whitlock Estate Diamond Jubilee Event
Over the bank holiday weekend, our site team who are currently delivering Whitlock Drive for our client Wandsworth Council, were delighted to provide support and attend the Whitlock Estate’s Diamond Jubilee Event with Mayor Sana Jafri and local residents. It was a great celebration, and everyone … read more »
03 June 2024
Styles House Phase 1 Complete
As we complete phase 1 of Styles House, we are delighted to have received such amazing feedback from the Tenant Management Office who we worked so closely with on this scheme. It highlights our Kind Effect in action! Well-done to the team at Styles House and thank you Alethea for your lovely … read more »
07 June 2024
Charity Golf Day & Fundraiser
Our Senior Projects Manager Danny is running a charity golf day and fundraiser on Friday 28th June at Stock Brook Country Club, in support of the UK Brain Tumour Charity. In 2023, Danny’s son Ashley was diagnosed with a Medulloblastoma Brain Tumour. Following multiple operations and months of … read more »
10 June 2024
Stephen Jackson UK Strongest Man Finalist
We are proud of our Projects Manager Stephen Jackson who took part in the UK Strongest Man competition in Cardiff over the weekend. Well done and congratulations on your achievement. On Saturday, Stephen competed against 11 other contenders and successfully got through to the final having … read more »
11 June 2024
Royal Hospital Chelsea Founder's Day
Our site team at Royal Hospital Chelsea were delighted to attend the Founder’s Day for the second year running. It was a pleasure to attend this prestigious event in the RHC's annual diary, and we were pleased to have been invited! Today, we continue with our project on site which consists of the … read more »
18 June 2024
Three fantastic scores from a recent CCS monitoring visit
In the space of just over a month, we have received three fantastic scores from recent CCS monitoring visits… Army and Navy: 42/45 Lexden Gardens: 41/45 Morse Close: 41/45 Well done to all three sites for continuing to uphold the strong reputation we have at Kind as Considerate Contractors … read more »
26 June 2024
Cornwallis Court celebrates start on site
Last week, our Managing Director Steve Juson was delighted to join our projects team on site with our client RMBI Care Co. to celebrate the beginning of the phased redevelopment of Cornwallis Court; a 64-bed new build care facility planned in Bury St Edmunds. Architectural design: … read more »
02 July 2024
Senior PM Danny Williams’ Charity Golf Day
Last Friday, we were delighted to part sponsor and attend our Senior PM Danny Williams’ Charity Golf Day at Stock Brook Manor in Essex. Danny was raising money for The UK’s Brain Tumour Charity, a charity very close to his heart after a very personal experience with the disease, when his … read more »
06 July 2024
Cornwallis Court has hit the headlines!
How exciting! Our scheme Cornwallis Court has been featured in a number of publications recently, as we continue with the demolition on site this week. Thank you to The Carer and East Anglia Daily Times for the coverage. … read more »
29 July 2024
New Health Project - Canning Crescent
We are delighted to announce that via the LCP framework, we have recently been appointed to undertake the refurbishment, reconfiguration and upgrade works to Canning Crescent Mental Health Centre. This facility will provide a number of self-contained rooms for crisis and respite care, multi-use … read more »
01 August 2024
Putney Vale Site Visit
We had our first site meeting yesterday, with the London Borough of Wandsworth to discuss progress on site at Putney Vale. Groundworks have started and we look forward to delivering 14 homes for the local community in Wandsworth. … read more »
05 August 2024
Margaret Thatcher Infirmary Completion!
Last week our site team at the Margaret Thatcher Infirmary were delighted to attend a completion celebration with our client Royal Hospital Chelsea and resident Chelsea Pensioners themselves, as we marked the handover of the phased refurbishment of the building. We hosted a coffee morning with the … read more »
15 August 2024
Leather Gardens celebrates achieving Passivhaus Accreditation
At the end of July, we were delighted to hand over the first of four Passivhaus projects we are delivering for our client the London Borough of Newham. Leather Gardens, which has been named ‘Jean Desforges House’ has achieved Passivhaus classic standard and we were excited to recently … read more »
20 August 2024
Neurodiversity Initiative
Several suppliers have teamed up to continue to deliver social value outputs via the Procure Partnerships Framework. Under this initiative, Graham Group, McLaughlin & Harvey, Willmott Dixon and ourselves have been exploring how we can raise awareness and have a better understanding of … read more »
06 September 2024
Whitlock Drive Completes
This summer we are delighted to announce yet another successful handover, as we mark the completion of Whitlock Drive. This 9-unit scheme, which we have delivered for our existing client Wandsworth Council, is the second project we have built in recent years for the borough under their current … read more »
09 September 2024
Putney Vale Official Visit Marks Start On Site
Following our recent appointment to deliver 14 new homes for the London Borough of Wandsworth within the existing Putney Vale Estate, we were delighted to welcome local Councillor Aydin Dikerdem to site to mark the start of this project. Our site team and MD Steve Juson were pleased to meet with … read more »
13 September 2024
Housing Design Award Winner: Regency Court
We were delighted to attend the Housing Design Awards last night to witness our completed project, Regency Court, pick up a ‘completed scheme award’. We are thrilled this project has been recognised for ‘ticking lots of boxes’ when it comes to measuring the standards for a perfect living … read more »
17 September 2024
Apartment Development Of The Year
Brilliant news… Regency Court has won Apartment Development of the Year in the British Homes Awards! This scheme has already won an award earlier this month at the Housing Design Awards, and there’s another nomination for the Inside Housing Development Awards… can we make it a hat … read more »
30 September 2024
Inside Housing Development Awards Winners!
We were delighted to attend the Inside Housing Awards on Friday to see two of our projects receive awards! Congratulations to all the team involved in these two projects! Regency Court received the award for ‘Best Shared Ownership Development’ and Clapham Park D01 won ‘Best Regeneration … read more »
14 October 2024
More Passivhaus Certification Success!
We’re delighted to announce our project, Sutton Road, for our client London Borough of Newham has now handed over and has comfortably achieved Passivhaus accreditation! This scheme comprises of 29 affordable flats, with a mix of 1, 2 & 3 bed units including wheelchair accessible flats. … read more »
22 October 2024
First of two Passivhaus projects hands over for Sutton Council
In early October, we were delighted to handover the first of two Passivhaus accredited schemes we are currently delivering for our client Sutton Council. Woodcote Road brings 11 affordable quality homes to the borough; the scheme includes additional sustainable features to ensure the properties … read more »
25 October 2024
LRCTG Awards 2024
Our CEO Bill Bassenger, was proud to be joined by our nominated employees for this year’s LRCTG Awards (London Regional Construction Training Group), which took place at Pewters Hall, London. This annual ceremony celebrates the training and personal progression of employees working across … read more »
26 October 2024
Completion of Norman Grove
We’re delighted to have recently completed on our latest scheme ‘Norman Grove’ for London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Norman Grove consists of four town houses with two and three-storeys and 13 flats in a four-storey block. … read more »
30 October 2024
Volunteering with the Tree Council
We were delighted to join The Tree Council at Gerrards Cross Station last Friday. Our team had fun creating beautiful willow nests to benefit local birds and insects, making hedges using dead branches and other organic material, as well as planting fruit trees. … read more »
08 November 2024
Employee Briefing
We had a great time at our Employee Briefing event and social last Friday, updating employees on company progress and we had some great presentations including one from a longstanding Site Manager, who walked us through his route into construction and importantly the progression and development he … read more »