KOR was founded in 1997 by Mike Pickford, initially named Mike Pickford Construction and Project Management. In June 1998, Vincent Goff joined Mike and together they embarked upon an expansion of the business, undertaking a variety of projects for differing customers, related to both commercial and operational aspects of the construction industry.

In the spring of 2002 it was recognised that the business in its current format had reached its optimum level and took the decision to expand the business by bringing in additional stakeholders. During the following 2 years, four individuals known to the Company were engaged as directors, thereby broadening the expertise of the Company.

KOR LIMITED, the current trading name of the Company was incorporated in February 2003.

In May 2004, Mike Pickford decided to pursue an alternative career path and departed from the Company. The remaining Directors, Vincent Goff, Michael Hawkins, Christopher Brocksom and Gregory Elkington are all highly experienced individuals who have maintained the controlled expansion of the business by continuing to provide a high quality and professional service to both existing and new customers.

Philosophy

At KOR, we pride ourselves upon being centred around a work ethic built upon premium quality of work, a top flight service and transparency in our customer dealings.

These facets enable us to provide a user friendly and comprehensive service, which has the ability to manage both the commercial and operational aspects of the construction industry.

Employing a team of skilled and highly qualified individuals, KOR’s multi disciplined resources enable the execution of almost any type of task related to any type of project. A non exhaustive list of our services includes project commencement to financial completion, procurement through to final account negotiation, tender and contract reviews, valuation, forecasting and cost assessment, monitoring, audit reporting, dispute resolution, claims and loss recovery, tender, contract and progress planning, and project management.

Our highly diverse staff are drawn from many aspects of the construction industry with extensive experience in building, civil engineering and infrastructure works. They are capable of adapting to the differing and changing needs of customers, contractors, subcontractors and specialists such as legal experts and the like.

Our aim is to provide a comprehensive service to our customers utilising appropriately skilled individuals or groups of individuals from our team to achieve requisite solutions. In achieving this, we attempt to maximise the added value of our services by involvement at an early stage when it is possible to optimise both technical and economic solutions to create optimum performance. However, even at a later stage - during the contract period or post contract - we can still add value via the provision of reviews and reports which can assist in the identification of areas of weakness or anomaly. Our recommendations for action provide the customer with balanced considerations for subsequent improvement and methods of resolution.

We are currently seeking accreditation of our quality management systems under the ISO 9001:2000 standard which we hope to achieve in the near future.