Construction is headed up by Construction Director Chris Neil who looks after the major new design and build development projects.

Somerset Care is the largest not-for-profit company in Somerset. Based in Taunton, the company operates 27 care homes in Somerset and Gloucestershire which provide residential and nursing care for over 1,000 residents, and through their domiciliary care company ‘Care at Home’ they undertake over 20,000 hours of community care every week of the year.

Andrew Larpent OBE, Chief Executive of Somerset Care said, "The Somerset Care Group is investing heavily in developing new and improved care services to ensure we can enable older people in our care homes to enjoy the best possible quality of life. 

We appointed Jones as a construction partner as we recognised a shared commitment to quality and a company that listened carefully to what we as the client were saying.  We have enjoyed working together with the teams from Jones on four major projects in Somerset. 

Each has been complicated by the need to ensure that the lives of our existing residents have not been adversely affected by the building work.  This has required excellent teamwork and mutual understanding between the care home staff and the construction teams on site. 

Jones staff have shown sensitivity and care in working alongside our staff.  The dialogue between client and contractor has been professional and friendly and we, and more importantly our residents, are delighted with our new buildings. Together we are setting new quality standards in care services for the elderly.  We are delighted to be working with the professional team from Jones.

In October 2005 Phase 1 and 2 of Frith House were completed.  A 62 bedroom residential home has been built in Burnham on Sea for client Somerset Care.  The contracts for Phases 1 and 2 were worth £2.4m.

Phase 3 works which are worth £700,000 included the stripping out of the existing remaining wing of the building and completely refurbishing it to form sixteen en-suite bedrooms with auxiliary lounges and assisted bathroom.  There is also the construction of a new laundry room and external works forming car parking, bin stores and bicycle storage.

£2.7 million project to re-develop the Grovelands Residential Home in Yeovil to provide a sixty-bed state of the art care home with dementia facilities.

A £1.3million project to build a brand new three-storey bedroom wing with additional extensions.  The additional extensions will be new offices for the Manager and Assistant Manager, a hairdressing salon and new lounge areas together with an additional lift.  An extensive refurbishment and extension project all being carried out whilst existing care home remains fully operational within a 12 month period.  This project will be completed at the end of 2006.

In March 2006 Wyndham House was completed, an 18 bedroom extension to a care home for client Somerset Care.  This project also included a new dining room, lounges, public refurbishment of the existing back of house areas, additional hair dressing facilities and new garden area for residents use.  This contract was worth £1.3 million.

Gerald Lee, Director at St Monica Trust said, "The Garden House at Westbury on Trym currently provides accommodation for 50 residents. It is a purpose-built complex which houses the Trust’s physiotherapy and hydrotherapy department, and offers valuable and effective treatments to residents who have had a medical referral from their GP or other medical consultant.

We appointed Jones to build the twenty five bedroom extension to the Garden House because the building of care home is included in their range of specialisms with an experienced and informed team.  In fact they had been recommended to us by a care company who also work with Jones.  Our experience of them during the build has been simply excellent; they have been both friendly and professional.

Throughout the build they have answered all our needs and responded positively to the restrictions and specific requests that came with building an extension in a Care Home environment.  Residents and staff have been undisturbed and very complimentary about the attitude and approach of their employees.  We are confident that this project will be completed both on time and within budget which is a win-win situation for everyone."

£1.9 million contract is currently underway working with St Monica Trust in Bristol to build a twenty-five bedroom extension to an existing award winning design Care Home with extensive rooms and dining facilities and new lift.  This project will be completed in October 2006.

Methodist Housing Association operates throughout the UK, providing care homes, housing and support services, with a particular emphasis on the quality and meaning of life for older people. The organisation supports more than 6,500 older people in residential and nursing care homes, specialist dementia care homes, sheltered housing schemes and community projects.

A £2.3million contract in Saltash in Cornwall to construct 23 one bedroom sheltered apartments for over sixties and a new church hall to replace the demolished building previously located on this site.  This project will be completed in June 2007.

A £1.3million contract to strip out an existing Victorian building and design and build 13 one and two bedroom luxury apartments over four floors with high quality finishes and residents lift together with residents lounge communal area and warden assistant office.  Contract includes the landscaped gardens to the rear of the property.  This project will be completed in July 2007.

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.