Fortem Solutions ______________________________________________________________________________________________
As experts in social housing in the UK, Fortem delivers responsive repairs, capital works and retrofit, including high rise buildings that enhance homes with minimal disruption to residents. The company works nationally with long-term strategic partnerships with social housing landlords.
“ As part of the Willmott Dixon Group, Fortem benefits from the credibility and recognition of being associated with a large brand while remaining a standalone business within the group,” opens Colin Read, Operations Director( Repairs).“ We employ a highly skilled direct delivery workforce, supported by a central management team, and together, we successfully deliver projects across three workstreams: retrofit, repairs and maintenance and capital works.”
At its core, Fortem’ s mission is to raise the bar in social housing to provide safe, warm, and decent homes for people across the UK.“ Our ethos, that‘ Every Home Matters’, reflects our commitment to successful project and repairs delivery, it reminds us why our work is so important,” Colin states.
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“ Social housing is our sole focus and the only sector we’ ve worked in since our inception in 2002. Considering our work, social value has always been a key element of our company culture; it’ s about offering purpose beyond profit, leaving a positive impact on people’ s lives and improving their communities.
“ Our integrated repairs and maintenance service offers solutions from call handling, 24 / 7 responsive repairs, void refurbishments, and compliance work, including gas servicing, electrical testing, and fire safety.”
Andrew Brown, Director of Capital Works and Retrofit, elaborates:“ Our retrofit services
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