The Calm After The Storm at Suffolk Community Centre after DGS Services Solutions Support

As we move through the seasons of autumn and winter the frequency of storms becomes ever growing bringing days of rain, strong winds and flooding.  Storm Darragh the most recent storm was the fourth named storm of the 2024 /2024 season after Ashley, Bert and Conall.

Storms are named by the UK Met Office, Ireland’s Met Éireann or the Netherlands’ KNMI when they are forecast to cause ‘medium’ or ‘high’ impacts. The list of storm names is announced on 1 September each year and runs in alphabetical order and later on could possibly reach as far as Izzy, Rafi and Tilly.

It was against this background that Jason Allen, Industrial Services Director at DGS Service Solutions received a call from Suffolk Community Centre, Belfast looking for localised flooding support for the community centre after a recent storm.

The new Industrial and Window Cleaning Division within DGS moved quickly to respond as this clearly was a ‘crisis’ call needing immediate support.

Jason Allen, Industrial Services Director at DGS Service Solutions commented: “At DGS Service Solutions we took the call and realised immediately that an urgent deep clean was the order of the day after the flooding has made its way into the community centre. This project was dealt with swiftly and efficiently to ensure the Community centre could carry on with its impressive range of community based projects. We were delighted to assist and trust that this was an isolated incident for the centre but they were delighted that we were able to get them back up and running so quickly.”

DGS Service Solutions provide a range of outsourced Security, Cleaning and FM Solutions to a range of customers including shopping centres, offices,  factories, and retail outlets across Northern Ireland and Scotland.