An Introduction to Term Contracts

Graham Halls - Associate Director

During Metropolitan’s 2015 expansion & subsequent growth the electrical department was split up to allow us to look after our clients in a more proactive way. Term Contracts was originally formed to look after our long-term clients with ongoing Business As Usual (BAU) contracts.?Starting with these smaller type works, company growth has allowed us to take on much larger projects over time while importantly always maintaining the same company ethos. The department has continued to grow year on year and now has 4 separate sub-divisions: Term Wharf, Term City, Term Critical & Term Framework all assisted by Mollie Heaton as our Project Administrator. The 5 strong management team have over 85 years of experience on Metropolitan between them and are well set up to look after all of our clients’ growing needs from small works to full turnkey infrastructure replacement projects.

Term City

David Barden, Contracts Manager

Project Managers – Adam Halls, Jason Taylor & Ian Reid

Mainly working in the city, but also supporting clients’ remote sites and data centres, our PMs and supervisors have built strong relationships with site management teams and have gained their trust to make us their go to preferred supplier for reactive and small works within live environments right through to fixed wire testing and fit-out projects alongside our inhouse mechanical and fabric teams. We pride ourselves on being able to provide immediate assistance to our clients day or night.?????

Term Critical.

Mark Williams – Contracts Manager

Project Managers – Connor Kane & Lee Drake

Term Critical was formed in 2021 adding an infrastructure arm to the Term Contracts team.

Headed up by Mark Williams, with Connor Kane [PM] and Lee Drake [PE] they have delivered some diverse projects.

These include: Landlords Fire Alarm Infrastructure Upgrade for a clients Global Head Quarters whilst the building remained occupied HV/LV Upgrade for the Science Museum London. Full UPS upgrade of 2 systems including Package Substations, Input & Output panels whilst maintaining critical power within the building.

PDU upgrade and replacement [8No.] within a Live data hall environment.

Mark Williams who has been with us for 5 years previously worked as a Senior Project Manager within our Critical Services Department before being promoted to Contracts Manager for the Term Critical Department.

Connor Kane has been with Group Metropolitan for 13 years. Starting with the company as an apprentice and working his way to Project Engineer with the small works department. Connor then progressed to Project Manager for the Critical Services Department and has continued this role for Term Critical, heading up his own teams for delivery of projects.

Lee Drake comes into the Business new as a Project Engineer and has just completed his probation period. Working as part of Connor’s team for the UPS upgrade project, Lee is now heading up the next phase of works for the PDU replacement at a clients Data Centre.

Gary Barden – Contracts Manager Canary Wharf

Project Managers – Josh Ballard, Joe Mason, John Staley & Tom Chitty

Predominantly looking after our clients in Canary Wharf, our Project Managers sit either within our own office, or based on site in client offices. This allows us to grow stronger relationships with the site teams and, as well as carrying out various types of planned works, it also means we can be more reactive to any issues that may occur at short notice. We think this is critical as generally the quicker a problem can be assessed and resolved, the better the outcome. Aside from working locally, we do work further afield as well, carrying out projects for the same clients at their other sites across the South of the country and even into Wales.?

Term Framework.

Leisha Bracher – Project Delivery Lead

Term Framework is a fairly new addition to the Term Contracts team – forming in 2021. It provides dedicated support to one of our key clients and is headed up by Leisha Bracher.

Leisha Bracher has been with Group Metropolitan for five years. She joined the company as a Project and Financial Coordinator and quickly grew within her role to a Project Delivery Lead. Leisha’s role enables her to manage and deliver various projects on behalf of the client, keeping within the agreed project timeframes and budgets whilst ensuring governance is met across all projects.