Capital move leads to £23m of cladding packages
September 2015

Cladding specialist ALUMET has won three major facade packages on London residential jobs worth a total of £23m.
The contractor has secured two deals with Berkeley Homes at Woolwich and Kensington Row worth a combined £15m. The third win is for developer Downing on the Atlas tower in Vauxhall with a package value of £8m, with work scheduled to start on the sites in the coming months.

The deals highlight a dramatic change in Alumet’s strategy sparked by the London residential boom, according to Sales and Commercial Director Laurence McBeth, who said: “Alumet has been around for 22 years or so and for most of that time we deliberately stayed out of London and the residential facades market because there was more than enough commercial work in the Midlands and North to keep us busy. But the rate at which the residential market exploded out of the recession in London changed our attitudes, ambitions and strategy.

“The extent of that change means to that we have now in the last two years secured sales and orders for full facades totalling £62m – all in London and all in the residential market and much of it with the Berkeley Group.”