Beard
About
An award-winning construction company with a commitment to excellence and an ambition to make a positive impact on the communities in which we live and work. We create spaces with integrity, imagination and commitment.
Over the years we have developed a wide skill set and our combination of traditional building skills and modern construction management techniques, enable us to deliver challenging and award-winning projects. These are often in difficult locations or in constrained conditions, working alongside our customers’ own activities.
We enjoy working with customers who share our values and are dedicated to delivering for them; this has resulted in many longstanding customer relationships with real benefits for both parties.
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Leading school for deaf children complete
We’ve completed a major rebuild of Mary Hare School in Newbury, the UK’s largest school for the deaf. Delighted pupils and teachers moved into their new facility this week.
Meticulous restoration of the UK’s oldest lido
We’ve completed the refurbishment of Cleveland Pools, in Bath.
Bill Taylor wins gold CIOB Construction Manager of the Year Award
The Chartered Industry of Building (CIOB) Awards showcase and recognise the achievements of industry professionals, teams, and clients in the built environment each year.
Oxfordshire’s Property Market
B4 Members from the commercial and residential property sectors give us their take on the effects COVID-19 has and may have had on the property market.
B4 Property Day
It’s B4 Property Day at B4. So we’re highlighting some recent and not so recent articles and press releases posted by B4 members over the past year or so.
B4 Property Day
It’s Property Day at B4 so we’re highlighting some recent and not so recent articles and press releases posted by B4 members over the past year or so.
B4 Property Day. A view from Beard, Director, Dean Averies
Rewind nine months to March and we were quick to react and protect our business. In April many of the projects we had priced were put on hold and new tenders were slowing down. Our customers were telling us that now was not a good time to spend vast sums of money. Even the customers that had the finance secured, did not want to be seen spending money frivolously.
An audience with Mark Beard of Beard Construction
Throughout its 125 year history, Beard Construction has prided itself on building relationships as well as buildings and perhaps the three words that best describe the way in which they do everything are friendly, efficiency and committed.
NEXUS Webinar Series with Mark Beard, Richard Venables, Jayne Woodley and...
Join us for the first in a series of NEXUS webinars where we will hear from Mark Beard, Patron of NEXUS and High Sheriff in Nomination for shrieval year commencing April 2022, former High Sheriff, Richard Venables, Jayne Woodley of OCF and Grant Hayward, who is well known to businesses across both organisations and will remain proactively involved in the future development of NEXUS.
Beard runs 90% of sites to break ‘vicious circle’ of closures
Family-owned construction firm Beard, whose work include medical research facilities, special needs schools and MOD work, is continuing to operate on more than 90 per cent of its sites, despite the wave of closures that the industry has seen in response to the spread of Covid-19.
Beard publishes celebration of 125 years
Family-owned construction firm Beard has published a book marking 125 years of the company.
Somerville College break ground on new accommodation building
A ground-breaking ceremony performed by the husband of former Somerville College Principal – the late Catherine Hughes – has celebrated the start of construction on a new on-site student accommodation building for the Oxford University college.