How TudorMay is advancing its long-term strategy with facades growth, new projects, and strong partnerships
Built on the principles of hard work, dedication, and quality, TudorMay is a leading provider of specialist subcontracting services across the construction sector. From facades and windows, structural framing and drylining to screeding, fireproofing, and painting and decorating, the company proudly delivers tailored solutions that meet the unique demands of every project and address the challenges of today’s built environment.
When Construction & Civil Engineering last sat down with Sam Faux, Group Managing Director of TudorMay, in 2025, we took a deep dive into the company’s growth and evolution, including its expansion and diversification strategy and future vision. Now, one year later, we rejoin Sam to discuss TudorMay’s progression over the last 12 months and learn more about its recent projects and developments.
“We’ve maintained our turnover with a small growth margin,” Sam reveals. “A lot of our work is in the residential market, particularly in the Southeast, which has shrunk by approximately 24 per cent in the last year, so we’re proud to have realised our current position. The market conditions have been challenging, but we’ve spent a lot of time fine-tuning our processes to get the right foundations in place for some more aggressive growth in 2027 onwards.”
Solutions-focused strategy
While market conditions have undoubtedly created challenges, TudorMay’s resilience has been underpinned by a clear and disciplined growth strategy. Rather than reacting to short-term fluctuations, the company has remained focused on strengthening key areas of its offering, such as its facades and remediation business, ensuring it is well-positioned to capitalise on future opportunities and build sustainable, long-term growth.
“We’re still working on the long-term strategy that we established in 2023, and part of that strategy was focused on strengthening our offering to the market,” Sam elaborates. “Facades was one of those areas that we’d previously been involved in, but at a very small scale, so we’ve actively enhanced our team and increased our pipeline there. Three years ago, our pipeline was around 90 per cent drylining and ten per cent facades; now, it sits at around 52 per cent drylining and 48 per cent facades. The important thing is that the strategy doesn’t change regardless of market conditions. We can’t control those, but we can control what we do and how we adjust our short-term goals to meet the long-term plan.”
The success of this strategy can already be seen in the delivery of major projects across the business. TudorMay has continued to secure and execute significant drylining contracts, including its drylining work on Berkeley Group Plc’s landmark Bethnal Green development, which aims to deliver 555 new homes across three acres. The project highlights TudorMay’s ability to remain adaptable and solutions-focused while delivering against its long-term objectives.
“The project has realised a small delay against the original delivery programme as the existing steelwork needed to be treated, but we’ve now completed around 55 per cent of the project. It’s a prime example of how we’ve had to be fluid in our approach where things haven’t necessarily gone as planned. That said it continues to be an incredible project to be involved in,” Sam affirms.
Building on the momentum of the Bethnal Green development, TudorMay’s project portfolio continues to expand across both residential and specialist schemes. This breadth of work demonstrates not only its capability in delivering complex drylining packages, but also its growing presence across wider construction disciplines for a range of trusted clients, such as Watkin Jones and Arada.
“Grove Cresent is a student accommodation scheme that we’re delivering for Watkin Jones, who are a valued client. We’ve now completed the onsite works, so the rooms are all ready to be occupied in the next academic year. We delivered the project with a strong performance and, on the back of that, we’re now excited to have secured our next project with Watkin Jones, New Kent Road,” Sam details.
“We’re also proud to have recently secured a project for Arada. It’s a really stunning facade project called Chalk Farm, where we’ll be completing the SFS, windows, curtain wall, terracotta cladding, and metal cladding; it’s a bit of a statement project for us. We’re really looking forward to developing a strong relationship with Arada on the back of that job and we’re hoping to add a couple of other disciplines to that scheme as well.”
Prioritising people, processes, and procedures
Looking ahead, TudorMay’s focus remains firmly on maintaining quality, consistency, and a strong internal culture as the foundations for continued growth. While market conditions will inevitably continue to shift, the company’s disciplined approach, adaptable mindset, and commitment to its people ensure it is well placed to navigate future challenges.
“Our main priority, first and foremost, is to maintain our standards,” Sam emphasises. “For me, our focus at TudorMay is doing the right things properly and consistently. As we grow, we’ll continue to manage our own KPIs internally, hold ourselves accountable, and deal with problems head-on. Alongside that, we’ll keep striving to better ourselves and our environment. We want everyone who works at TudorMay to feel that they can tackle problems without it becoming detrimental to their overall performance or wellbeing, in the best headspace they can possibly be in.
“We’ve seen some really aggressive growth over the last five years, and it’s really a testament to our staff,” he says, concluding our conversation. “It’s easy to climb to the top of the mountain, but without the right people, processes, and procedures in place, you can very quickly come tumbling down, so it’s poignant that we’ve been able to sustain the level that we’re operating at. It’s a tough market, but for us, today is today and tomorrow will be tomorrow, and we’ll be fluid enough to deal with whatever is thrown our way.”