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ounded in 1984 by Bernard Dwyer, London-based PHD has established as one of the go-to construction access firms in the country, providing scaffolding solutions to a broad range of projects. In recent years those have included One Hyde Park, the London 2012 Olympics, the Cutty Sark’s restoration, Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, and both Kings Cross and Marylebone stations. Expanding from an entirely scaffold and modular access business to now include a range of other solutions,
in 2019, PHD is looking to create a national network of firms across the UK. All of which would be held to the same standards, with contracts distributed to the best in their respective fields within the respective regions. Localised work on a national level. Keen to learn more, we asked Alan Brockhouse, the firm’s CEO, what this means for the company and end customer alike. “Our clients are important to us, and we want to be able to service them on a national scale. Many of the
firms that we service are national and multi-national companies, that have access requirements across England and Wales,” he explains. “Having established excellent relationships with these firms and produced cost-effective, high-quality access solutions for them, they inevitably want to use our services further afield. This is where our concept of our national network originates from. “By setting up key hubs across the UK, we are looking to acquire businesses in other regions of the country,
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