A new £1.37m highrise lift replacement project for Dundee City Council will help Caltech Lifts towards its goal of achieving £4m annual revenue by the end of October next year and moving to larger premises in the city.
The Dundee-based family firm began work recently on the project to replace eight ageing lifts in the multi-storey flats at Dallfield Court, Hilltown Court, Tulloch Court and Bonnethill Court in the Hilltown area of the city.
More reliable, less running costs
Each block’s two lifts will be replaced in turn by ones with the latest technology – offering a better ride for residents and greater reliability thanks to a remote monitoring system which will allow Caltech to carry out preventative maintenance before a breakdown would occur during the warranty period. After that, the council’s lift team will be able to do the same using the lift software. The lifts will also cost the council less in power – thanks to brake energy regeneration drives.
The company, run by brothers Andrew and Fraser Renwick, was awarded the contract in May after a competitive tender process and expects to complete the project in early 2024.
Dundee City Council is one of several public sector clients for Caltech, whose others include the local authorities in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, West Lothian, Perth and Kinross and East Lothian. Recent public projects include ones at schools in Edinburgh, Perth and a science building in Aberdeen.
Its growing list of private sector clients include Balhousie, Meallmore and Randolph Hill care groups, the Hillcrest and Abertay housing associations as well as Dakota Hotels, Eddrington Group, Gillies, Crieff Hydro Hotel, National Express and Rolls-Royce.
Revenue and staff growth
The Dundee highrise project will help Caltech towards its goal of £4m annual revenue by the end of October 2023 after two years around £2.6m due to several projects being delayed by Covid-19 knock-ons. Staff headcount will soon rise by three to 26 – with the addition of a new lift engineer, labourer and admin person.
Profit from the Dundee City Council project will also help Caltech achieve its goal of moving to larger premises by 2025, having outgrown its base at the city’s docks. The decision to buy or build its new HQ will be taken once Caltech has sufficient funds set aside.
Speaking about the contract win, Caltech Lifts Managing Director Andrew Renwick said: “We’re naturally delighted to have won this work for Dundee City Council, after having successfully completing a similar project for it in 2016.
‘Very positive about 2023’
“2022 has been busy with projects delayed by Covid and, despite the predicted recession, we are very positive about 2023 as we already have a lot of exciting projects secured for next year.
“All the while, our maintenance portfolio continues to grow as Increasing numbers of private businesses and local authorities switch to us because of our reputation for providing thorough services, fair value repairs and rapid response times to breakdowns.
Established in 1978, Caltech Lifts Limited is one of Scotland’s leading suppliers and maintainers of lifting equipment, including passenger lifts, goods lifts, disabled access lifts and stairlifts to the Public and Private sectors, and maintains more than 1,500 lifts across Scotland.
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Sandra Cole05/08/2022I would like to say a huge thank you to your team for the excellent customer service you have provided to my parents in Dundee. You have gone way beyond providing a service. My mum is disabled and cannot function at home without her stairlift. She is by all accounts housebound. The support you have given them is quite frankly unbelievable and it is blatantly apparent how much you care. I cannot recommend your company highly enough. My parents are my world and I have no words to explain just how well you have looked after them. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are amazing. Sandra Cole.Lynn N14/02/2022Quoted and fitted a stairlift for my parents at short notice and at a significantly lower price than all the national competitors. Happy to support a local company, and we were delighted with the service - from sales staff to the guy who performed the installation.kev08/06/2021We (Alpha Projects) have worked with Caltech Lifts on several projects and would not hesitate to highly recommend the company. We have always found Caltech to offer a friendly, personable service and carry out their works in an efficient, safe and timely manner.John Fort07/05/2021Cannot thank Caltech enough for swift service in getting our lift back up and running in time when we urgently needed it most, could not have got this service any where else top job guys - Thank you again - The Fort Hotel Broughty Ferry DundeeJason Sellars18/12/2020An absolute pleasure to deal with. Having discussed my requirements Caltech were able to provide a stairlift that matched my criteria and budget perfectly. Very impressed by their clear, friendly and fast communication as well as punctuality . Installation work by engineer Tony is impeccable, and was carried out very efficiently with no disruption at all. He also gave excellent step by step instructions on using the lift (we all observed Covid awareness throughout). This stairlift has helped to lift my mum out of what has been a very difficult time for her, and I'm so pleased to have supported such a well deserving local company. Thanks again Murray, Graeme and Tony!Robert Sloan13/12/2020I would highly recommend Caltech Lifts as just installed a stair lift into my mothers home. From start to finish all those involved have been very professional, efficient, keeping us informed throughout the whole process. The installation was carried out to a high standard. Special thanks to Graeme and TonyHenry Donaldson19/07/2020We recently had a problem with the lift in the care home myself and my wife run - our current service provider said we were going to have to spend £20,000 to upgrade the equipment so naturally I got a second price. To my absolute delight Caltech sent an engineer out to take details but also to spend a little time on the lift to which they managed to resolve the intermittent fault and it has now been running perfectly for 6 weeks!! Can't thank the team enough.Brian J Kidd03/07/2017Super helpful. Great service and staff, highly recommend
