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Company Profile
Porchfern was
established in January 1984, as a firm of building contractors. Contract
work is undertaken on projects with values ranging from £75,000 to
£2,500,000. The organization has gained a wide range of experience in
the following areas:
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New Build, Design & Build
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Land acquisition and Total
package Schemes
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Conversions,
Renovations/Major Repairs
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Timber frame
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Cyclic maintenance/repair
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Community
Centres/Churches/Medical Centres
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Secure accommodation
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Hostels, Hotels
A high degree of
loyalty and commitment by the workforce ensures high quality workmanship
and ‘right first time’ pride in the job. This is a result of, the
investment and training Porchfern Limited provide their team members at
all levels, via technical apprenticeships and courses both on and off
site, and training and at educational establishments. Additionally the
company is currently taking steps to become more involved with the CITB
and other local training initiatives. Those involved with the management
of quality in the firm have attended CITB & BEC courses and seminars,
and are encouraged to take advantage of such events.
CIS Status
Porchfern has a CIS
5 tax exemption certificate
Equal
Opportunities
Porchfern is on the
Approved Register of the London Equal Opportunities Federation (LEOF)
and
safebuild.com. Porchfern is an active Equal Opportunities
Employer. All employees and sub-contractors are required to sign their
conformity to the company's Equal Opportunity Statement and the
Safety Policy prior to their acceptance. It is the policy of
Porchfern Limited, to eliminate unlawful discrimination on the grounds
of a person’s race, religion, physical disability, sex, sexual
orientation, HIV status or age. The company is made up of people of a
vast diversity of backgrounds, cultures and upbringing; these range from
Asia to Africa to Caribbean and indeed U.K. & Europe.
Quality
Assurance, NHBC, BLP & Construction Line
Porchfern goes to
great lengths to ensure a consistent high quality standard of
workmanship. We have achieved the highly prized quality standard BS
9001:2000 and are regularly audited by independent quality auditors to
ensure continued compliance. Porchfern is NHBC and NICEIC
registered, BLP (Building Life Plans) approved, and Construction
Quality Assurance to ISO9001:2000 accredited by BM Trada, and
holder of FSC CoC (Forest Stewardship Council Chain of Custody)
Accredited by BM Trada TRACK This process ensures that the timber
or timber based products are sourced from responsibly managed forests
and is supported by many environmental bodies including World Wildlife
Fund.
Why are we so
good?
Porchfern Limited
are a genuine, ‘value for money’ construction company who are not claims
conscious, who thrive to deliver time and work with precision control of
resources both labour and material. The company and staff are honest,
courteous and are fully committed to the Project. Porchfern Limited is
keen to build upon their success to forge new links and to work to
establish long term relationship with prospective client organizations
and in particular housing associations.
Porchfern People
and their magic
Having built a vast
know-how, expertise and the collective intuition, the whole of Porchfern
operates as one unit, minimising wastage and abortive effort. This has
been achieved by investing in our
workforce, through training and instilling culture of constant drive for
excellence; continually searching for better way of achieving
objectives.
The prime movers
within the Company are Jay Gorasia Managing Director, (Prior to setting
up Porchfern Ltd., he worked as an engineer with many Contractors, and
consultants), Ravji Bhudia, (Graduate of University of London) is in
charge of implementing Quality management System, Health & Safety, CDM
and engineering matters. Pushpa Patel is responsible for smooth running
of the organisation and keeping the suppliers and sub-contractors on
track. Porchfern’s site management team consists of
Ramesh Patel, Devshi Vekaria, Ramji Gorasia,
Naran Patel. The firm can draw from the backing of external
specialist consultants in the field of Health & Safety, Architectural
Design, Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, Land Surveying,
Engineering and Management.
On the production
front, our team consists of tradesmen, many of whom, have generations in
the same trade and have learned the craft from father to son (and
occasionally daughter nowadays). Equally there are many who have served
apprenticeships. So, we have the technology and...We have skill.
We are on the
Approved list of most Housing Associations operating in London and
home counties. We are also on the select list
of approved contractors of many London Local Authorities.
Where are we
headed?
Porchfern is a
committed partner to providers of
social housing, and intend to maintain that commitment as the main core
of its business. In order to achieve a balanced mix its portfolio of
clients, Porchfern has made in-roads into the Local Government, Health &
Education, and Private Sector markets. We have achieved consistent
growth ranging from under 10% to over 40% year on year for over two
decades we still aim to grow but at a more constant rate.
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