News

New Head Office for NIAB in Cambridge

Posted on January 15, 2019

Continuing our relationship with SDC and NIAB (National Institute of Agricultural Botany) in Cambridge, we are delighted to have been awarded the mechanical and electrical package for the new NIAB Bingham head office site off Huntington Road. The existing site pulls together three existing buildings that will be refurbished...

20 years and counting…. recognising our long service colleagues

Posted on December 9, 2018

As part of the Barnes Group tradition all of our people get together for a Christmas celebration with lunch and a few drinks on the last working day of the year. The event also is an opportunity to recognise our colleagues who have achieved long service milestones with us....

Maintaining its historic charm, whilst giving a modern edge in Notting Hill

Posted on November 9, 2018

Working with Dawnus Construction, we will start work in the New Year to refurbish and create further new space within this thriving serviced office facility. Closely located to the world famous Portobello Market, in Notting Hill West London, Pall Mall Deposit combines tradition with a quirky and modern edge...

Suffolk Skills Show

Posted on October 20, 2018

For the fourth year running, Bower Fuller was a participant at the 2018 Suffolk Skills Show. The event at Trinity Park in Ipswich had over 4,500 students from Suffolk secondary schools visiting throughout the day. As an employer, the show provides a unique opportunity to showcase our business and...

Great East Run – Team Bower Fuller

Posted on September 26, 2018

It was great to see so many Bower Fuller athletes turn out last Sunday to participate in the Great East Run on an un-typical warm September morning. Covering a full half marathon at 13.2 miles, Russell Langley, Jack Wilkinson, Dale Whitmore, Mike Eley, Christina Burrows and Ben Parker all...

Superstar Estimator Retires

Posted on August 30, 2018

This month we have said goodbye to one of our most respected senior mechanical estimators, Gerald Day who has retired. “Gel” as he is fondly known has been with our business for 17 years. During this time, we have estimated (no pun intended) that he has priced around £250m...

Keeping cool at the Family Fun Day

Posted on July 20, 2018

Celebrating 40 years of the Barnes Group on one of the warmest days of the year, we all took great pleasure in putting our MD and other Directors into the stocks for a good old fashioned soaking at our annual fun day. Over 400 staff and retirees of the...

We are recruiting

Posted on June 20, 2018

We are recruiting – our Ipswich office is looking for a mechanical estimator, management trainee and mechanical and electrical apprentices. Our Dartford office is looking for a mechanical project manager. Please check out the careers section of our website for further details. ...

Wingfield Barns

Posted on June 20, 2018

Wingfield Barns is a listed building owned by Mid Suffolk District Council in which our Special Projects team carry out planned and reactive maintenance together with a yearly building condition report. The facility lies in the Waveney Valley, just inside the Suffolk border with Norfolk. It is a unique...

Charity of the Year – AMEND Fundraising

Posted on May 16, 2018

Quiz Night Bower Fuller was one of twenty teams competing at the hotly contested quiz night held in central Ipswich on a recent wet Friday evening. Some of the finest brains from the construction industry in Suffolk assembled to demonstrate their knowledge of everything and nothing. Contractors, consultants, sub-contractors,...