gamey - tech horticultural facilities specializer CambridgeHOK is still forecasting to achieve its good ever fiscal performance this year despite the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown .
The East Yorkshire business , which speciate in commercial glasshouses , vertical farming and renewable vim systems , says it has also strengthened partnership with cardinal suppliers and customer as a solvent of supporting one another through the late challenging period , provide a electropositive future expectation .
operation Manager Ian Dolman gave an update on the business as part of a podcast host by Britain ’s Energy Coast Business Cluster ( BECBC ) .
The group , on which CambridgeHOK ’s business development manager for vim , Charlotte Penn , sit as a director , brings organisations together to share industrial and business respectable practice , also aiming to mold the future of the energy industry .
Mr Dolman was taking part in a limited podcast in which a number of concern reflected on the impact of Covid-19 and the lockdown on their governance ,
He said that despite the many difficulties and challenges it has brought , there have also been many positive taken for the develop firm as a solution of the lockdown .
“ It is interesting as we were officious before the lockdown started and we are still count on to have our best yr ever in terms of financial issue , which is quite amazing really , ” Mr Dolman explained .
“ The crowing difficulty when lockdown begin was the uncertainty as to what was going to happen and how long it was going to be extended , which really made provision difficult as typically we have around 30 projects run on across the UK at any one time .
“ Some of them slowed down and for some admission was completely restricted , peculiarly Government sites as we do a destiny of work with the horticultural aspects of university . They pretty much shut overnight but we kept a key part of the hands break . "
Major projects had already committed to development and contractsMr Dolman revealed that with a number of customer already heavy invested into new labor , the firm had no choice but to find a mode to go on working and deliver for its node .
One such project was the multi - million pound state - of - the - art indoor strawberry mark production facility which is presently being built for Beeswax Dyson Farming in Lincolnshire , a project on which site works were due to start within days of the lockdown being imposed at the end of March .
“ We are lucky to be working with the Dyson family and their farming business concern , ” say Mr Dolman .
“ They had already made commitments to buy their plants and exchanged contracts where they are decease to trade their products , so if they have n’t sustain their facility , which was starting from a bit of turf and a green site , then they would have difficulties . It forced us to keep go , which was really effective .
“ Our working practices have had to convert quite radically and we had weekly preparation sessions to reckon at the implications of societal distancing and consider how we could stay sell with various new step put in post . It has been interesting times , but thankfully we have kept going .
“ One of the really interesting things has been how people have interact with each other . More than anything is that have all recognised that we are a community , and by that I mean our provider , our client , our co-worker and our colleagues ’ families .
“ Our partners have come closer to us now through the means they wait on us , and we have endorse them to come through these difficult times also . That has been really good to see . We hope it continues . ”
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