Dawnus

Turnover rises 75% in 2011

Despite the recession in the construction industry, Dawnus Construction has posted record turnover and profit results for 2011. In the year to 31st December 2011 we saw our turnover increase to £135.6m, up from £77.5m in 2010, an increase of approximately 75%. Pre-tax profit also increased to £12.49m in 2011 from £3.15m in 2010. Finance Director Tim Lowe said: “The results ref...

Dawnus Selected for Welsh Water Framework

  Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has recently announced that they have selected Dawnus as a Tier 1 Framework Contractor across all the Welsh regions. The work will involve the construction and maintenance of water and waste water treatment works, tanks, pumping stations and other Dwr Cymru Welsh Water assets. Whilst we previously enjoyed working for Dwr Cymru Welsh Water and their Par...

Gem Bridge Wins CCS Silver Award

Dawnus had a spectacular year of Awards in 2011 and it looks like 2012 will be no different. Our Gem Bridge site in Tavistock has recently been awarded a Silver Considerate Constructors Scheme 2012 National Site Award. The 2012 Considerate Constructors Scheme National Site Awards have been presented to the highest scoring 7½% of sites, selected from over 8500 eligible sites. This is the fourth Consid...

Building Awards 2012 Finalist

We are delighted to announce that, for the second year running, Dawnus Construction has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Contractor of the Year (up to £300m) category for the Building Awards. We are extremely pleased and proud to be shortlisted as one of the top Contractors again, in spite of the tough trading conditions of the last year and the record number of entries submitted.   The p...

Targeting BREEAM Outstanding and Exemplar Status at TATA Steelworks

Our exciting new projects at TATA Steelworks in Port Talbot have been targeted to achieve two sustainable development firsts for Dawnus. The £12.3m development consists of the concurrent design and construction of a stores building, training centre and industrial heritage/visitor centre being built on the live steelworks site. Both the stores building and visitor centre have achieved BREEAM Outstandin...

Dawnus International Moves Into Senegal

Dawnus are expanding their international operations, having secured a major new contract in Senegal. The US$20m (£12m) project for Mineral Deposits Limited, will involve earthworks for a 25km road and rail project in support of the Grande Côte Project, a titanium and zircon mining operation. The project runs between the capital, Dakar, and St Louis. The Dawnus team will be led by Mike Condon a...

Silver CMYA award for Wes Day

Congratulations to Wes Day, who has been awarded a Silver Award in the CIOB Construction Manager of the Year Awards. Wes won the Award for his outstanding work as Construction Manager in delivering the £14.2m 1 Guildhall Square project, which involved the design and construction of a new six-storey office building in Southampton city centre. Wes was commended for his value engineering on the project...

Level 5 Green Dragon Environmental Standard

We are pleased to report that our Environmental Management System has been awarded Green Dragon Level 5 accreditation by Groundworks Wales. The Green Dragon Environmental Standard is in addition to our ISO14001 accreditation which has been in place since 2005. Level 5 is the highest tier of Green Dragon and goes further than ISO14001 in several areas including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the comm...

Trainee Engineer Wins 'Most Promising' Award

Congratulations to Charlotte Farley, who has won the CECA South West Training Award for Most Promising Trainee Civil Engineer 2011. Charlotte was presented the award at a ceremony on the 30th September at CECA’s annual lunch at The Grand Hotel in Torquay. Charlotte began working for Dawnus in 2008 as a trainee engineer for our South West England region. Since joining the company has worked on projec...

Dawnus Announce Major Scarlets Sponsorship Deal

Dawnus Construction is proud to announce an extended sponsorship deal with the Scarlets for the new 2011/2012 season. Dawnus are already official sponsors of the Scarlets’ Next Generation/ Genhedlaeth Nesaf programme, a Welsh Rugby Union initiative to help train upcoming young players from Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, in a three year partnership which will help pay for coaching, equ...