Knights Brown has opened an place of work in Norwich to toughen its transmission & distribution (T&D) capacity and enhance power infrastructure building.
The brand new place of work will perform as a regional hub for Knights Brown’s rising T&D staff, which now numbers greater than 150 other people throughout direct and freelance roles. The growth displays expanding call for for specialist civils capacity as the United Kingdom modernises the electrical energy grid to deal with new renewable connections.
Knights Brown is headquartered in Ringwood, Hampshire and has places of work in South Wales, Kent, Scotland and now East Anglia. Turning over round £100m a 12 months, its paintings spans substation and turbine civil engineering and groundworks, grid reinforcements and enabling infrastructure as smartly coastal and port paintings, water utilities, infrastructure and constructions.
David Shillabeer, head of transmission & distribution, mentioned: “East Anglia is among the maximum energetic areas within the nation for renewable era and grid funding. Setting up an enduring base right here alerts our intent and strengthens our skill to enhance the foremost programmes of labor going down. This place of work provides our groups the proximity and platform they want to ship initiatives safely, successfully and in authentic collaboration with our consumers.”
Steven Value, divisional director for power, added: “Our groups are already curious about crucial infrastructure throughout the United Kingdom, and insist for capacity in T&D civils is handiest expanding as new era comes on-line. Having a devoted hub in Norwich complements how we paintings with operators, builders and supply companions, and positions us to enhance the area’s long run power ambitions.”
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