Construction and Engineering Awards 2020

45 Construction & Engineering Awards 2020 BUILD BUILD Construction & Engineering Awards 2020 44 arkham Flooring are very successful distributors and installers of top-brand prefinished hardwood flooring in the Ottawa and Greater Toronto Area. They work with manufacturers such as Mirage, Mercier, Kentwood, Vintage, Fuzion, and Torlys, to name just a few. Having been in business for over 25 years, Markham Flooring have made a big impression on the locals of Ottawa and the surrounding area. They have a great reputation for providing top-quality customer service in the comfortable, non-pressure atmosphere of their boutique shop. The beautiful showroom is one of the ways in which Markham Flooring stand out from their competitors. It is the focal point of their operations and is over 2,000 square feet in size. This boutique-style showroom has recently been renovated and gives people the perfect place to browse for the best floor to fit their home. It offers them the opportunity to see and feel samples of flooring from Markham Flooring’s suppliers. The showroom makes it easy for builders, renovators, contractors and interior designers to make flooring decisions with confidence. Customers visiting the shop will be presented with a wide variety of the top brands to choose from. Best Hardwood Floor Specialist - Ottawa For home renovations and new builds in Ottawa, one of the best places to deliver on new flooring installations is Markham Flooring. This team of flooring experts put a great deal of emphasis on good, quality service, and ensuring customers are fully satisfied with their final purchases. M Sep20203 From the very start of the quoting stage to the very end of the installation, each project is a team effort. Markham Flooring employs top installers with multiple years of experience to ensure that they have the knowledge and skills to deliver the best service possible. Beyond that, the company also have designers at their showroom that can help people to find the perfect floor to fit their home or project. Furthermore, the company keep a staff of service technicians, so that should a problem arise with an installation or with a customer, it can be dealt with in a timely and efficient manner. Markham Flooring have a working relationship with three of the largest local builders in the area. They have their finger on the pulse of new build construction and local renovations. Whether they are working alongside builders or upgrading the flooring in a project of their own, they are a very timely team, who are proud of their record of meeting installation deadlines. As a result of their good work, Markham Flooring have been seeing continuously increasing sales year-on-year. They have signed contracts for work extending into 2021, meaning they will be hitting the ground running in January. They have confidence in their ability to take on new contracts, based on the way they have efficiently managed to deal with the global pandemic throughout this year. By taking sensible precautions and ensuring the safety of both their team and their clients, COVID-19 has had little impact on their business. Mark Gilroy of Markham Flooring spoke about their success: “The key to any sale is service. We like to think that with any issue that arises, it is how you respond that will determine your reputation.” Markham Flooring stand by their products. With hardwood flooring, they say that virtually nothing can go wrong. Quality hardwood, properly installed, should look as good as new after 30 years, even in rooms of high traffic. This well-crafted and quality ideal is at the heart of all of Markham Flooring’s services. Contact: Mark Gilroy Company: Markham Flooring Website: www.markhamflooring.com or ottawahardwoodflooring.com Best Commercial Decorators - South East England stablished in 1991 by Managing Director, David Wilson, and his wife and Company Secretary, Elizabeth Wilson, Re-Style Decorators has since grown into a well-reputed commercial painting and decorating company with a strong workforce of over forty, including their self-employed sub-contractors. Principally carrying out commercial decoration works such as general painting, hanging wallcoverings and spray work in the Office Fit-Out market of London and the Home Counties, Re- Style demonstrate their proud flexibility by completing works on retail and housing projects upon special request. Over the years, Re-Style has worked with many Principal Contractors all over the UK of all shapes and sizes, including Overbury, McLaren, ISG, Willmott Dixon, BW, Alco Contracts and many more. Currently, Re-Style are completing works for a division of the Metropolitan Police, The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), an exciting project that has also guaranteed stability for Re-Style, as they took on Key Worker status throughout the confusing and fickle period of the national lockdown. Working on police stations such as Charing Cross, Bethnal Green, Edmonton, Hounslow, Islington, Twickenham and many more besides, as well as the Met’s counter-terrorism HQ, the Empress State Building in Fulham, these have been excellent ongoing projects for the company. Re-Style are also currently completing a further Key Worker project, the new COVID-19 testing laboratory at the Bracknell Healthspace facility in Bracknell. This work has been undertaken alongside the completion of the main headquarters of the Department for Transport in Westminster, a site that is attracting a great deal of publicity as it houses Grant Shapps’ efforts to keep the UK moving. Meanwhile, as Sage helps the government keep on top of the figures regarding Covid-19, Re-Style have recently completed their headquarters in the Shard Building. Other recent or upcoming companies that Re-Style has worked with include Sony PlayStation, Royal Bank of Canada and Nickelodeon. Working for such large and established corporations and organisations means that staying in budget and on time is non-negotiable for David and his team, and the firm goes to great lengths to ensure this. As such, Re-Style’s central ethos revolves around excellence in time management, no financial liberties, reasonable costs and most of all their uncompromising Health and Safety approach, which is overseen by their health and safety advisors, SHE Management. To achieve such high levels of excellence throughout the firm, ensuring total customer satisfaction and repeat business, Re-Style surrounds themselves with only the best and most devoted people. From the firm’s accountant of twenty plus years, Sundry Surandan, to David’s number two, Steve Cox, and Re-Style’s contract managers, Jamie and James, to the main contractors and architects they work with time and time again, Re-Style values professionalism and trust highly, and prizes these attributes in everyone they work with. Undeterred by the current national lockdown and with many projects in the pipeline, the future will hopefully be bright for Re- Style. With a loyal client base cultivated over the twenty-nine years of business, the firm is hopeful that previous customers will remember their excellent work and recruit them for new projects in the future. Whatever lies ahead for the company, Re-Style would like to thank all of their current and previous employers for their support over the years, and hope this will continue well into the future. Contact: David Wilson Company: Re-Style Decorators Ltd Web Address: restyledecorators.com E As Re-Style Decorators approaches three decades of operation, Founder and Managing Director David Wilson is able to reflect on twenty-nine years of exponential growth in its workforce, annual turnover and national client base. Specialist painters and decorators of Commercial and Residential refurbishments, Re-Style is often responsible for providing the finishing touch that transforms a space into something remarkable. With this in mind, the Re-Style team never settle for anything less than perfection. Aug20504