All Building articles in Specialist Contractor Awards 2005

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  • Billington supplied 1700 tonnes of steel for a beam and column frame for this multi-storey residential development in Durham
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    Structural specialist of the year

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    Billington has a reputation within the construction community as one of the most advanced subcontractors around.

  • Smoke Control Services won a £700,000 contract to install a system that extracts smoke in this newly refurbished shopping centre
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    M&E specialist of the year

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    WinnerSmoke Control ServicesThe smoke ventilation expert is a minnow compared with the other companies on the shortlist, but it has to be one of the best bosses in south Wales. Each of its 18 employees gets a personal development plan, job-specific and customer services training. On top of that, engineers ...

  • Coleman services its projects with its own extensive fleet of plant and equipment
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    Site services specialist of the year

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    In 1962, Jack and Noreen Coleman started a tiny demolition and excavation company.

  • Prater added a unique touch to the Robin Hood airport with its undulating roof
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    Roofing specialist of the year

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    With a whopping 90% of its work repeat business, Prater has almost as many fans as Arsenal, whose glamorous Emirates stadium it is working on.

  • Cementation leads the UK piling field, increasing its turnover 100% in the past decade
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    Piling specialist of the year

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    History has repeated itself. Last year’s winner of this category – and the overall title of best subcontractor in the UK – has done it again.

  • Keith Blanshard
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    Personality of the year

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    Anyone who has met or talked with Keith Blanshard, aka The Modular Man, is likely to have detected his passion for off-site construction.

  • Yorkon’s off-site manufacturing facility
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    Off-site specialist of the year

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    When Moho, Urban Splash’s swanky Manchester housing development, was unveiled earlier this year, it proved that volumetric housing developments could be, well, swanky.

  • Building site illustration
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    Look at me!

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    Want to grab a client’s attention? And keep it? In an fiercly competitive market, you have to offer something extra if you are going to win that juicy contract. Mark Leftly looks at the increasingly inventive ways companies are pitching for work and talks to clients about what they look ...

  • Coleman’s aggregate produced from excavated spoil
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    Innovation of the year

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    Coleman’s second category win of the evening was gained by a simple idea: washing the spoil dug up by its excavation business and recycling it.

  • Make worked with Seele Austria to develop this unique hexagonal cladding system
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    Hidden talents

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    Specialist contractors have the skills that can make or break a project, yet they are still overlooked by those higher up the supply chain. Now, according to new research, the industry – and particularly the design sector – is starting to realise the benefits of tapping into specialist knowledge.

  • A Twintec pile supported foundation slab built with steel fibre reinforced concrete
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    Flooring specialist of the year

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    WinnerTwintecA runner-up last year, Twintec has clinched the gold medal this time thanks to an 83% leap in turnover to £18m and its status as a world leader in the production of steel-fibre-reinforced concrete floor slabs. It is not resting on its laurels, though, but investing £45,000 in research to ...

  • One of IDM’s high quality, fast track fit-outs
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    Decoration specialist of the year

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    It sounds like Mission Impossible: roll out 150 driving test centres in locations from Stornoway to Penzance in 16 weeks.

  • Stanhope is one of the developers on the £4bn Stratford City project in east London, one of the country’s largest regeneration schemes
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    Client of the year

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    You – the specialists – picked Stanhope for this award, and no wonder: it is one of the country’s most high profile clients, having developed more than 12 million ft2 of workspace over the past 20 years, including offices for the HM Treasury and the London Stock Exchange.

  • The £235m Diamond Synchrotron research centre, Oxford, for which Lakesmere provided a bespoke cladding solution
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    Cladding specialist of the year

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    It’s been quite a year for Lakesmere: turnover rose 43% to £27m and profit almost doubled to £886,900.

  • Hotchkiss’ Ben Harvey receiving the HVCA Apprentice Ductwork Installer of the Year award for 2005
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    Training award

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    The fact that Eastbourne-based ductwork contractor Hotchkiss has archives that record taking “Frederick George Scarlett as an apprentice for a term of four years from the 20th day of January 1911 to the 20th day of January 1915” gives an indication of its longstanding commitment to training.

  • Mivan’s expertise in pre-fabrication helped it achieve the complex geometries inside the Scottish parliament’s debating chamber
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    Design integration award

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