water & sewerage
BARHALE-MAIL
Company profile
A leading contractor
Barhale is a leading civil engineering and infrastructure services contractor
in the UK, with an annual turnover in the region of £120M. The company provides
a broad range of quality services including construction and refurbishment of
client owned assets with a significant input into feasibility and design to facilitate
value engineered solutions for below ground infrastructure such as pipelines and
cables and above ground structures including water and wastewater treatment, bridges
and rail construction work. The core business units are supported by specialist
Plant, Tunnelling, Fabrication and Process divisions providing a single source
of supply
A safety conscious contractor
We are pursuing a zero accident culture and subscribe to a set of beliefs, which
state that
- All accidents are preventable
- Everyone is responsible for safety
- No task is to be undertaken unless it can be done safely
- We do not compromise on safety
- We never ignore an unsafe act or condition.
A client-focused contractor
Our flexible approach to satisfying client requirements means we can successfully
deliver projects under any procurement route. A large percentage of the company’s
workload is delivered through long term partnering frameworks utilising it’s directly
employed workforce of 1200 staff and operatives. During 2004 Barhale bid for and
retained contracts for up to ten years with existing clients including Anglian
Water, Severn Trent Water, Thames Water and Marconi whilst it continued to diversify
into new market sectors including industry and rail.
Our approach has always been recognised as a non-adversarial and client focused
one, which we bring to all of our work, whether long term partnering, multi-disciplinary
frameworks, term contracts or traditional tendered works.
A challenging contractor
Barhale's ethos is a proactive one of continuous improvement and total customer
focus in cooperative working environments. We deliver projects in a cost effective,
value for money, risk managed process, while constantly challenging the status
quo and ourselves as we strive to find better ways of working. We use the European
Foundation for Quality Management model for internal benchmarking and regularly
head our client's Key Performance Indicators tables.
A cooperative contractor
Barhale is committed to working collaboratively with other companies to ensure
the successful delivery of our client's projects. We strive to be a company that
the supply chain wants to do business with, and are firmly committed to the principle
of collaborative working and integration throughout the supply chain for the benefit
of our clients. our supply chain partners and ourselves.
A sustainable contractor
As would be expected of a company that works in the water industry, for blue
chip telecommunications clients and for local authorities care for the environment
is a guiding principle at Barhale and we are committed to sustainable construction
by minimising our environmental impacts and making a positive impact in the communities
in which we work.
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