Safer Scotland has a £500,000 contract at the Northumberland Energy Park, a site for energy-based industries. The deal, signed with UK and Continental building and civil engineering contractor Farrans, will push Paisley-based Safer Scotland’s turnover to in excess of £1.6 million, up by 50pc on this year.
The business’ founder Ryan Clark, pictured, said: “This is an important new step which opens up a world of potential for our offering. The opportunities in England are 50 times greater than north of the border.”
The Northumberland contract, which will run for two and a half years, will entail CCTV, manned guarding and access control at the development sites across the Blyth Estuary. It follows a contract win with Farrans for a road realignment project in Aberdeenshire. That, in turn, followed a £200,000 instruction at the £38m Farrans Roadbridge Joint Venture which was set up to construct the A737 Dalry bypass.
At Dalry, Safer Scotland developed in-house, a bespoke mobile CCTV surveillance tower for Farrans which runs on renewable energy.
Mr Clark said: “The bypass was a rolling project with constantly changing power needs and risk profiles. The client wanted a tower which they could move themselves and which would not be dependent on replacing hydrogen power cell gas canisters. We developed a solution which combined solar panels and an inbuilt wind turbine capacity which meant remote and dangerous areas could be effectively monitored. Its standalone generating capacity has given us a proof of concept model which we can roll out more widely.”
As he adds, while personnel traditionally have been used to guard sites, they can be vulnerable to intimidation, corruption, isolation-related incidents and attack. Hence, his firm is 90pc to 95pc weighted towards CCTV and the company employs technical solutions wherever possible, creating significant cost savings for clients as well as more effective security coverage.
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