A £370,000 project has been secured at Lufton College in Yeovil. The old dining room has been demolished and a new steel framed dining room and servery is being built.  The project started on site in April 2006 and is due to be completed in September 2006.

£365,000 project to build a new Sports Pavilion was built and playing fields for Callington College in Cornwall was completed in December 2005. The project also included changing rooms, showers and spectator facilities. 

In August 2005 the refurbishment and building of 9 flats and houses was completed at Starcross near Exeter. This contract was worth £650,000.

This project was entered into the Local Authority Building Control South West Awards for ‘Best Conversion’ and was awarded ‘Highly Commended’

In February 2005 the building of 4 specially adapted houses with integral lifts were completed for disabled people.  This contract was worth £454,500.

In April 2005 the company branched out with their new build developments and built 17 new homes in Lewdown near Okehampton. 

The houses are a mixture of 3 bedroom 3 storey and 2 storey townhouses and 2 bedroom 2 storey houses, many having ensuite bathrooms, a balcony, a garage and parking.  They are built to an exceptionally high standard with all of them having uPVC windows and doors, high quality fitted kitchens, wood laminate flooring and quality white bathroom suites with steel towel rails. 

This project was worth £1.1m.

Dave Jones, Managing Director at Jones said, “We are really proud of this development which offers one of the few opportunities in recent years, or in the foreseeable future, to become a home owner of a new property in the village.”

Yeovil based building contractors Jones completed a £500,000 extension to a nursing home in Yelverton in Devon.  The project was completed both on time and to budget and the owners are thrilled. 

Ravenscoft Nursing Homes has had a two storey extension completed comprising of twelve new bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms.  Jones also built a large sun lounge off the newly refurbished lounge and also built a new seating area for residents and their family and friends in the corridor area.

Andrew Gardiner, Operations Director at Jones said, “This has been a great job for us as the owners have been excellent to work with, being very patient and understanding about the level of disruption that can be caused with such a large project.  We are proud that we have completed it on time as that means that the owners can start advertising the fabulous new rooms that are now available.”

Karen O’Carroll, the joint owner of Ravenscroft Residential Homes said, “We are absolutely thrilled with the results, Jones have been wonderful all the way through, friendly, helpful and tidy.”

Yeovil based building contractor Jones completed a £210,000 project to extend the facilities at the Westland’s Football Club at Alvington, Yeovil.  The project which has included an extension to the existing changing room facilities and installing additional showers for both the players and the match officials also included installing new flood lighting on the pitches.  The plans were designed by Boon Brown Architects of Yeovil.

Dave Jones, Managing Director at Jones visited the football club recently and officially handed over the new facilities to Brian Rowsell, Chairman of Westland’s Football Team who are one of the main users of the facilities and Dudley Miller, President of the Westland’s Leisure Complex which owns and manages the football club facilities at Alvington

Dave Jones, Managing Director at Jones said, “This was a great project for us to do as we have only recently taken on the sponsorship of the Westland’s Under 15’s Football Team who play at Alvington and so for us it is wonderful that the boys and many other players will get to enjoy the benefits of these new facilities.

Dudley Miller, President of the Westland’s Leisure Complex, said “We are thrilled with the new changing rooms and showers; they really are premier standard.  We have been very impressed with Jones who not only completed the job when they said that they would they also did it within the budget which is excellent news.”

In June 2005 Jones completed building an additional 2 classrooms, a kitchen area and toilet facilities at Fiveways School in Yeovil. £350,000k extension to teaching and learning space at Fiveways School in Yeovil for Somerset County Council.

The school which is based at Victoria Road in Yeovil are absolutely thrilled which their new addition.  Mark Collis, Head teacher at Fiveways School said “The new building has replaced 2 very inadequate mobile teaching rooms with 2 fantastic new purpose built classroom areas, a kitchen and toilet facilities for the senior end of the school (aged 13-16 years).  The kitchen area helps the children to become confident in many every day tasks such as cooking, washing up, loading and unloading the dishwasher, clearing away and much more.  Due to more of our children having a higher level of need larger teaching areas and more spacious toilet facilities allows them to be much more independent.  It has made a significant transformation to the overall feel of the school and we are absolutely thrilled with the end result.”

Dave Jones, Managing Director at Jones, “This project was a particularly rewarding one to take on as we always knew that the end result would make such a difference to the youngsters at this school.  We are also very pleased with the overall look of the additional building as it not only blends in with the main building of the school but is also quite a modern looking slightly retro addition to the school.  We are really proud of it.”

Buckler’s Mead is an 11-16 co-educational comprehensive school, serving pupils of South Somerset.

In 1999 Jones built an extension to their Sports Hall including new changing facilities.  In 2003 Jones built a new Music Block which included both teaching and practice rooms.

This project was worth £500,000.