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The country\u2019s largest integrated brickwork and scaffolding subcontractor Lee Marley Brickwork has delivered record \u00a387m for 2024 despite a turbulent period caused by government building safety changes.<\/p>\n

The brickwork contractor was hit when the two-staircase rule for residential towers was lowered from 30m to 18m in July 2023.<\/p>\n

Clients paused schemes to redesign, pushing back around \u00a330m of secured work by up to nine months.<\/p>\n

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Despite the programme setback, pre-tax profit rose 25% to \u00a33.6m as the group cut overheads and boosted project returns.<\/p>\n

The major cost restructuring saw senior management layers removed and greater responsibility pushed through the business, cutting admin expenses by 7% and improving returns by 5% between the first and second halves of 2024.<\/p>\n

The latest figures complete a business turnaround following a \u00a32.2m slide into the red in 2022 in the face of wage and materials inflation.<\/p>\n

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The year-end order book swelled to \u00a3135m with LMB ending the year with \u00a32m cash in hand, continuing to reinvest in its scaffolding arm and training operations.<\/p>\n

LMB also expanded its in-house apprenticeship academy, enrolling 26 new starters to take total apprentices to 117 across the UK. The firm has now gained approval to deliver Level 2 and Level 3 brickwork apprenticeships.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/n52EWMr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The country\u2019s largest integrated brickwork and scaffolding subcontractor Lee Marley Brickwork has delivered record \u00a387m for 2024 despite a turbulent period caused by government building safety changes. The brickwork contractor was hit when the two-staircase rule for residential towers was lowered from 30m to 18m in July 2023. Clients paused schemes to redesign, pushing back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-7372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}