Keith Walton Brickwork Ltd was incorporated in 1985 as a natural progression from Keith’s original partnership Walton Construction Company, a labour-only subcontractor working throughout the North West and West Yorkshire for national and regional contractors.

In 1991 Keith became aware of the trend in the South for main contractors to seek “full package” supply and fix subcontractors to carry out their brickwork, blockwork and stonework and felt it was a route he should follow sooner rather than later.

Discussions with David Ferguson (now the Managing Director) during 1991 resulted in him joining the company as Contracts Manager to not only manage and expand the existing business but to develop in-house systems regarding Health and Safety, Quality and Procurement that would sustain a change in business direction towards offering full supply and fix packages.

Our first client Sainsbury’s led to our company forging an extremely mutually beneficial and successful partnering arrangement. This resulted in excess of 60 projects being delivered on time and to value-engineered budgets. At the same time as our arrangement with Sainsbury’s was flourishing our growing reputation was coming to the attention of national contractor’s that Keith had previously worked for on a labour only basis, resulting in us starting to acquire labour, plant and material packages from a more diverse client base.

A change in senior management and decline in new build work at Sainsbury’s led us into securing a greater proportion of work from the blue-chip national and regional clients with whom we had started to forge relationships. Relationships that remain to this day in either formal partnering arrangements or preferred contractor status (Laing, HBG, Carillion, Bovis, Interserve etc..).

The current management team benefits from being a mix of professionals and tradesmen with varied backgrounds, including bricklayers, site engineers, project managers, and quantity surveyors all with diverse experience in different industry sectors.

Promotions from within our workforce are a key factor in our development and bring pride, loyalty, and stability to our business.

Our ongoing commitment to recruit up to 6 first year apprentices annually is proof of our attempt to continue to provide a skilled workforce for the future.

Our pro-active attitude and commitment to Health and Safety and training is without question, resulting in the receipt of many safety awards from our valued clients.

Our vision for the future is to continue to consolidate our relationship with respected business clients whilst seeking carefully controlled growth. Growth will be strictly linked to our capacity to manage that growth using proven human resources. We will not sacrifice our high standards in search of rapid growth.