Mouchel, the privately-owned consultant engineer, has turned in record results, raising pre-tax profit 23% in the year to 31 July.
Profit rose from 拢3.5m last year to 拢4.3m, and turnover increased 15% to 拢71.5m. Chief executive Jim Harding said the order book, at more than 拢200m, was stronger than it had ever been.
He said the group, which aimed to become a leading provider of managed services for infrastructure assets, was focusing on longer-term contracts. It was particularly interested in winning government transport deals.
Harding said: "Much of our future growth in turnover will be independent of the economic cycle, as it will be underpinned by long-term contracts."
Our growth will be underpinned by long-term contracts
Chief executive Jim Harding
The group has won a Highways Agency contract to manage maintenance and incident response for the M25 for the next five-to-seven years. It also has long-term partnering arrangements with nine local authorities.
