BANKING & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Retail Banking and financial services property delivery is in our blood, its where this all began.

This is our specialist subject and part of the Castles DNA derived from decades of working both client and contractor side delivering successful projects for the most demanding Retail Banking and Financial Services organisations including The Halifax, The Nottingham, Santander, RBS, Nationwide, Insight Investment, ESure, Invista Asset Management, The Bank of Scotland, Rothschilds, Clerical & Medical, Equitable Life and the Yorkshire Building Society.

CONSTRUCTION excellence

Our family of businesses continues to be supported by our construction activities. We operate nationwide and guarantee high quality bespoke projects delivered with the insight of a professionally qualified, experienced team.

EXPERIENCE

Our founding partners spent the majority of their careers (pre Castles) working for financial services organisations delivering construction and real estate programmes across the UK, Europe and North America. They have collectively delivered projects from High Street Retail Banking programmes, mission critical data centre buildings, offices and dealing floors around the globe and everything in between. We are one of the most experienced Financial Services contractor teams in the UK.

PROFESSIONAL control

Castles has a unique history. Its owners are industry professionals coming from successful careers in Architecture, Surveying, Project Management and Construction.

They are highly experienced in the delivery of Corporate Real Estate projects and the Financial Services Sector and the delivery environments in which they exist, including:

+ Specialist procurement practices.
+ PMO Liaison.
+ Prince 2 / APM processes.
+ Shared data Environments.
+ Stakeholder Management practices.
+ Model Offices.
+ Culture and Environment Testing.
+ Incumbent specialist / nominated suppliers.

FINANCIAL CONFIDENCE

Having such a long history of working within the Financial Services and Banking Sectors makes us acutely aware of the needs of procurement teams, finance departments and project auditors. Castles continues to be wholly funded by our owners with minimum debt and strong investment ratios ensuring that we can satisfy the most stringent of financial reviews.