Hobson & Porter has commenced work on the new Beverley Parklands Yorkare Home site, just off Hull Road.
The project is a 70-bed care facility with a separate care unit for nursing, residential care and two smaller dementia care units, on a 1.3-acre site.
The client, Yorkare Homes Ltd, is an award-winning care homes provider, which recently won the prestigious Pinders Healthcare Design Award for the best new care home 2015 in the UK, for its Magdalen care home in Hedon.
We were absolutely delighted to have the BBC film at one of our live construction sites in Yorkshire yesterday (Thursday 18th August)
The five minute interview was conducted live and broadcast nationwide on BBC News 24, as well as being featured on a number of regional BBC Look North bulletins throughout the day.
Sarah Corker, Business reporter from the BBC, visited our site at the Ozone Business Park in Howden where we are currently constructing a new office and distribution facility for The Horncastle Group.
We have recently completed the stunning extension to the Premier Inn Hotel which is located on Ferriby Road in Hessle.
The extended Premier Inn borders the beautiful Country Park in Hessle, offering guests a quiet country stay with quick access to the city centre. Some of the new rooms completed in the project have fantastic views overlooking Hull’s iconic Humber Bridge.
The extension is attached to the Home Farm Restaurant, a place where guests and visitors can enjoy freshly cooked pub classics with a view,
We are pleased to see that Aaron Wilson has made a great start on his two-week work experience with Hobson & Porter, gaining invaluable experience on one of our live projects.
Aaron is enjoying some hands on experience working with our minor works team on the ERYC’s ‘Structural Repair and Planned Maintenance Housing Referral Scheme,’ and is currently working on a property in South Cave.
The project is already proving the perfect opportunity for Aaron to experience what it is like to work within the construction industry as it consists of lots of different types of construction works,
A construction project for one of the UK’s largest independent aluminium suppliers has just been successfully completed by a Hull-based firm.
Hobson & Porter contractors has handed over the £4m project for the Eltherington Group Ltd, on the former Seven Seas factory site on Hedon Road, as part of Eltherington Group’s expansion plan. The growth of the factory will result in the creation of more than 20 new jobs.
Work for the project started in February this year,
Pupils at Driffield C of E Infant School were treated to a tour of a construction site as Hobson & Porter extends the school’s kitchen over the Summer holidays.
Before breaking off for six weeks, the pupils were given the chance to see the construction process and learn about the day-to-day work of the site staff.
Commissioned by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the project involves the expansion to a single storey, traditional build with concrete brickwork.
Charlie Walsh has made a hugely impressive start at Hobson & Porter, winning two awards at Hull College’s School of Construction and Green Energy Skills Annual Awards 2016 – after just over one month with the company.
The bricklayer joined us in May of this year, while working towards a Level 1 in Bricklaying at Hull College, with Level 2 scheduled to begin in September. His experience of the company began with work on the Hull Dry Dock site,
Hobson & Porter recently took part in the Hull Teen Tech 2016 Event at the KC Stadium for the fourth year in a row.
Teen Tech hosts lively one-day events to inspire young teenagers to seek a career in science, engineering and technology.
The scheme is an award-winning, industry-led initiative to help the younger generation understand their true potential, and the real opportunities available in the contemporary workplace. The scheme aims to combat the shortages in skills within these industries by inspiring and educating young people before they choose what to study at university.
Hobson & Porter team members will once again be taking on the challenge of Tough Mudder, a 20kilometer course of rolling hills, dark woodlands, deep bogs and thick swamp-like mud, complete with over 20 obstacles.
Hobson & Porter have previously completed the course twice, and have also taken part in other challenging activities, such as the Hull 10k.
The team have been doing some run training together in preparation for the race, and plan to tackle some different events together in future years.
A unique micro agriculture enterprise in the heart of the Hull is set to turn unused land into a community project and poverty solution.
Rooted, which has launched a city farm at land on St Peter Street, is a revolution in urban agriculture, a concept based on “a farm in a box”, which is transforming currently vacant land into a unique micro agriculture enterprise in the heart of the city.
Rooted is a not-for-profit organisation that is working to turn future development sites into unique community service locations,
