JWA Shopfitting Solutions Ltd is a business set up in January 2019 utilising the background and experience of its principals Jason Lewis and Andy Paxton. We have experience working with UK and European based clients such as Beaverbrooks, Omega, Jimmy Choo, Tag Heuer, Hugo Boss, Gucci, Issey Miyake and many others. Our early years of trading have been well beyond our expectations with amazing support from our previous clients.
Jason and Andy have worked in the shopfitting industry throughout their careers and have extensive experience working for many blue-chip retail and commercial clients. We operate throughout the UK acting as the main contractor bringing together and coordinating the necessary skills and specialist contractors to provide a ‘second to none’ level of service to our clients. We are always keen to be involved in the various projects as early as possible so that we can add value in terms of practical design and best value choice of materials and construction methods. We can provide a ‘design and build’ service to develop the clients concept design to the detailed drawings required for all statutory & landlord approvals and construction.
Health & Safety considerations are at the core of our business, we care passionately about the well-being of our staff, contractors working on our sites and others affected by our operations.
JWA Shopfitting Solutions have been approved as a full member of the National Association of Shopfitters
and look forward to becoming an active member and valued support in developing our staff training plan.
“Providing a level of service second to none is at the heart of our business. In a fast-moving world, it is important to continually review methods of construction, materials and finishes to offer the most effective solutions to our clients. We work only with proven specialist contractors, consultants and individuals who use their experience and knowledge for the benefit of the project. We truly care about our clients, our staff and all of the people that we have the pleasure to work with.”
Jason initially worked for Dunn & Co. Shopfitters Ltd achieving his apprenticeship over a four-year period. Jason then moved to Edinburgh and for six years worked for a shopfitting company on hotels and bars, he then worked self employed in Dublin for a year in which time he worked in the airport, various hotels and shops in the surrounding area. From 1999, he worked in London as a sub-contractor for Davis Shopfitters, working in places such as Harrods and Mappin and Webb Jewellers. In 2004, Jason joined Newman Scott Ltd as a Site Manager working closely with the projects team, client and centre management maintaining the highest of standards and always completing projects on time. Jason has an NVQ level 3 in site management and is a CSCS gold card holder.
Andy has worked in the shopfitting Industry since leaving school, initially serving a craft apprenticeship in shopfitting joinery, thereafter, working as a bench joiner, site joiner and site foreman for a period of nine years before moving into the office as an estimator. Following a period of two years in estimating he started to carry out Contract Management work including a 130 store roll out for the menswear brand John Collier. He was made a company director in 1986 aged 29 and has served in this role until 2019 including two periods as Managing Director. Specialising in Contract Management particularly large & complex projects throughout the UK for clients such as Beaverbrooks, Hugo Boss, Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Kuoni Travel, Harrods, Selfridges, Heathrow Airport and many others. Served as a National Council Member & Regional President of the National Association of Shopfitters, Andy is a holder of SMSTS site safety plus certificate, IOSH safety for senior executives and is a CSCS black card holder.
Jayne joined North Yorkshire police in 2009 after having already worked for the same force for four and a half years as a civilian on the Enquiry desk. Jayne was a Response and Reassurance police officer, answering emergency and non-emergency calls on a daily basis and dealt with investigations such as Burglary, Stolen Vehicles, Domestic Assaults and various other types of crime. Jayne has spent several years in prior roles such as Sales Administration, Food Sales, Housing Officer and Customer service roles.
Roger has worked in company roles and freelance. From a three- year apprenticeship as a bench joiner with Newman Scott he was promoted at 22 to site foreman working on prestigious contracts including Harrods, Zara, Diesel, Hugo Boss and Selfridges. As a site manager for Prodrive Shopfitting he had clients such as Pandora, Austin Reed, Phones 4 U, Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein. Moving to the Property Maintenance arm as a contracts manager, he headed up all aspects of insurance funded repairs. Recent experience as Project Manager with Tom Willoughby Ltd involved clients such as North Yorkshire County Council and the NHS on new builds, internal refurbished, extensions, and commercial alterations. Roger has NVQ level 3 in joinery, five days SMSTS site safety plus, three- day First Aid at Work, temporary works co-ordinator- site safety plus, asbestos awareness and is a CSCS card holder. Roger has also recently completed a course to become a mental health champion. Roger achieved a level 6 NVQ diploma in Construction Site Management in 2022
Chris served his time at TMG joinery as a bench hand joiner specialising in purpose made joinery items for many nationwide construction firms including Taylor Wimpey, Fairclough, Shepherd Construction.
Chris then moved into the Shopfitting industry in 1999 when joining Newman Scott Shopfitters where he advanced to the role of production foreman, leading a team of 20 plus operatives, producing top quality shop fittings for a huge range of high end designer clients including Beaverbrooks, Hugo Boss, Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Harrods.
Chris has worked as a site manager for two years at JWA and progressed to the role of Contracts Manager with accreditations including SMSTS, CSCS Gold Card Holder, Advanced Joinery + Carpentry, Asbestos Awareness, IPAF + PASMA, First Aid.
Over 35 years experience in the construction industry.
Phil started his apprenticeship with NCS (Built on Innovation) at the age of 18, where he specialised in building and civil works. He spent 15 years as learning his trade as a Joiner, Site Foreman and then finally Site Manager.
Phil has since worked for Newman Scott, Barbers, Aptus and Rosebirch Fit Out Solutions.
His experience covers clients such as Patagonia, Sophie Hulme and Goldsmiths. At Aptis, he managed a £1.2 million fitout and worked in Germany for Rosebirch managing numerous large-scale Cinema fitouts
Phil holds qualifications in NVQ Level 3 Joinery, SMSTS, PASMA, IPAF, First Aid, Manual Handling and Asbestos Awareness.
Amir started his construction career straight from school at the age of 16. He worked for Speakmans Construction where he served a full-time apprenticeship, which lead gaining his NVQ Level 3 qualification in carpentry/joinery.
At Speakmans he worked on social housing and maintenance, to large pub and shop fit outs.
Once promoted to Foreman, he had his own team and worked on dental surgeries, school refurbishments, prison office refurbishments, new builds and many more different projects. After 8 years with Speakmans, Amir decided to become Self-Employed.
He has spent the last 12 years working on many large shop fit projects, either as a Site Manager/Joiner. He has worked on projects such as JD Weatherspoons, Toby carvery, Nando's, B&Q, Harvey's and Bensons, Homebase and many more.
JWA shopfitting solutions had the pleasure of delivering a brand-new store in York City centre. This project consisted of the full strip out of two shop units and the amalgamation of these to make a Beaverbrooks ‘Boutique’ style store and also a Tag Heuer showroom. The shop units were stripped back to a shell and refitted to both new concepts as shown in the images. Due to the age of the building we also had to re-roof part of the Beaverbrooks store and carry our minor damp and water ingress issues along the way. Site works were 12 weeks in total, and included full new M&E, shopfront and internal glazing, security shutters, flooring, and decorations throughout.
Speaking with David hall ( Beaverbrooks Store development project manager) he advised that both Beaverbrooks and Tag Heuer were very well received by all at Beaverbrooks.
Another great effort by Team JWA
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