The Merit Journey
2002
Merit Holdings Limited incorporated.
First major contract wins with Diamond Light, Domnick Hunter, Newcastle University and Chiron Vaccines.
2003
Offsite technologies integrated into project delivery.
2004
Glasgow office opened.
2005
Start long-term repeat client work with semiconductor client, Newport Wafer Fab.
2006
Contract win – Cleanroom Installation CENAMPS.
2007
Contract win – Halley VI British Antarctic Survey.
2008
Contract win – Plastic Logic.
North East Business Awards 2008 – Regional Finalist Company of the Year Award
2009
Start long-term repeat client work with Synergy Health (now STERIS).
2010 – 2011
Deliver four Centralised Sterile Services Department across the UK for STERIS including two live hospital environments.
2013
Contract win – Harrods’ K-Section Refurbishment Project.
2014
Win CIBSE Award for Harrods’ K-Section Refurbishment Project.
2015
London office opened.
Complete concept design for GSK for their Stevenage site.
2016
Contract win – suite of projects ‘Places Portfolio’ for GSK in Stevenage.
Contract win – Rolls-Royce.
2017
Contract win – design and build new Krios Cryo Electron Microsope Laboratory for Francis Crick Institute.
2018
Crowned winners of the overall Company of the Year award at the North East Business Awards.
Contract win – Project Partner Framework Francis Crick Institute.
2019
First entirely offsite manufactured project – Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult.
Contract win – UK Battery Industrialisation Centre.
In the top 5 Highest Climbers of the Journal’s Top 200 2019 list.
7th Fastest Growing Large Business in the North East and 18th Fastest Growing Business overall in the North East – Ward Hadaway’s Fastest 50.
New Kings Cross office opened.
2020
Zero Carbon Emissions 2020.
Merit launches Merit Health.
Merit launches FLEXIPOD®.
Merit Offsite Factory expansion to 270,000ft²
New Newcastle Head Office.
Shortlisted for Best Use of MEP and POD Technology ‘Offsite Awards’.
2021
New sterile services department designed and built using FLEXI POD® solution for Northumbria Healthcare.
£66m contract awarded to design and build UK’s first CAR-T Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility.
£30m contract awarded to deliver new ADC Manufacturing Facility for Piramal.
2022
Merit completes Messenger RNA vaccine manufacturing facility for CPI, Darlington in approx. 30 weeks.
Phase one handover of Grade C cleanrooms to Autolus Therapeutics in record time; only 17 months.
2022 – 2023
Merit announces a 44,000ft² expansion at its Cramlington-based factory.
2023
Record year for Merit as turnover increased by 44% to £60m on the back of proprietary platform design and increased productivity.
Merit appointed as the main construction partner to deliver the new £35m Berwick Hospital.
Moderna appoints Merit to deliver clinical biomarker laboratory project at new Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre, Harwell, Oxford.
Merit wins ‘Specialist Contractor of the Year’ at the Construction News Awards.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust appoints Merit to deliver new £25m Elective Hub (Operating Theatre Block)