Rok in administration - Employs almost 4,000 people

[mickg]

In August, the company - which employs almost 4,000 people - reported a £3.8m loss for the first half of the year.

Just one week before the results, the group said it had uncovered "serious failings" in financial and operational controls.

Both Rok plc and Rok Building Limited have been placed in administration.

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[rimexboy]

ouch

[rab1]

we`re on two off their sites right now.
???

[lutonlagerlout]

another crowd with 1 man per van driving around in brand new motors
bet the directors wont lose any money personally
we have been asked to go back and price more schoolwork for the local council
apparently they passed all the work we used to get onto 1 of these *big* firms,and the standards slipped off the radar,plus it was double the cost
everyone below site manager was agency
LLL

[rab1]

true, they started out as a type of agency doing council work.
= you need a door fitted we`ll source you a joiner.

[GB_Groundworks]

that hospital job we just did, for interserv subbed to another they had 1 site manager in a suit and red hard hat everyone else subbed in, not even one guy sweeping up. not my idea of how it should be

ROK the uk local builder, erm no thanks. wonder what their lease and fuel bill was for all those new vans. wonder if those lads will cut is as self employed again

[mickg]

just had a conversation with someone and they have been taken for over 100k and another company he knows about are owed 300k

he also said the workers in our area got sent home yesterday

what the situation with your jobs rab ?

[lutonlagerlout]

probably 20-30 medium sized business's will go bust
business's that have been built up through hard graft over the years by families
and they get knocked by the men in suits,who as i say wont lose a penny "its business"
a female relative of mine got knocked for 26k by a business that went bust 1 day and re-opened the next with the guys wife as the new boss
she couldnt even offset it against tax
like you mick I will never get in that deep with anyone
LLL

[michaelthegardener]

i feel sorry for a few local businesses that were in with them a roofer and 3 different sparks all got the work with them so went out and got all new vans ??? why do they allways seam to do that ! they had a contract with bristol city council over 5 years for 3.75 million and had recently got the job of buliding 12 houses for 700k there was one bloke on that site today but dont know who he was ............ they have also left a tower block half cladded i feel sorry for the poor sods who have to live there its wrapped in blue plastic at the mo :p

[rab1]

mick, personal message sent.

[henpecked]

that hospital job we just did, for interserv subbed to another they had 1 site manager in a suit and red hard hat everyone else subbed in, not even one guy sweeping up. not my idea of how it should be

ROK the uk local builder, erm no thanks. wonder what their lease and fuel bill was for all those new vans. wonder if those lads will cut is as self employed again

Couldn't have put it better,100% agreement.
This is what happened to the industry in the first decade of this century. Hopefully, it will wipe the floor clean and it will be a fresh start for you guys on here. I'm staying out of it for now, a few family jobs and that's it. Long term plan of setting up a private business, not building related.
Shame as I really enjoyed the craic on site for all that time, just not the same for me. Would like to see how all those plastic site agents are doing now

:laugh: :laugh:

Hp

[DNgroundworks]

Got a start on a site Monday just gone sub-contracting to a civils firm that are main contractors the paving rejuvenation works of alexandra square at Lancaster uni, got work there until march with most lads doing 15 hour days to meet deadline, were on 7am untill 9.00pm next week, need to do it though to claw back some money and pay off a big wedge of debt i have accumulated from business being slow for months prior.

Just got us in to do the machine work, ripping out the entire square on little micros in 12 phases, have to use tiny machines and little tipping skips as there is a 1 ton weight limit on the overpass per square metre.

Also with there being students everywhere, and blind people stumbling into working areas, h&s is really strict, never experienced it before.

Apparently the firm we are subbing to is trying to expand there operation, the works they are doing are gettin bigger and bigger and more high profile.

see here - http://www.lancs.ac.uk/alexsquare

[lutonlagerlout]

well done dan
at least xmas will be a little cheerier round your neck of the woods
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

How you doing without your cpcs card Dan on the machines. We couldn't even move one without ours on that hospital job? Have you got your health and safety site card?

Glad you found something though nothing worse than not working good luck with it

[hondacrm]

2 years ago I went for a job with a local building company called Sol Construction because I wanted to work locally. They said no. Rok bought Sol Construction some time back. Lucky they said no.