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FeaturesSite services specialist of the year
In 1962, Jack and Noreen Coleman started a tiny demolition and excavation company.
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FeaturesPiling specialist of the year
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.
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FeaturesStructural specialist of the year
Billington has a reputation within the construction community as one of the most advanced subcontractors around.
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FeaturesCladding specialist of the year
It’s been quite a year for Lakesmere: turnover rose 43% to £27m and profit almost doubled to £886,900.
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FeaturesRoofing specialist of the year
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.
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FeaturesM&E specialist of the year
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 ...
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FeaturesDecoration specialist of the year
It sounds like Mission Impossible: roll out 150 driving test centres in locations from Stornoway to Penzance in 16 weeks.
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FeaturesFlooring specialist of the year
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 ...
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FeaturesOff-site specialist of the year
When Moho, Urban Splash’s swanky Manchester housing development, was unveiled earlier this year, it proved that volumetric housing developments could be, well, swanky.
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FeaturesTraining award
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.
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FeaturesInnovation of the year
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.
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FeaturesPersonality of the year
Anyone who has met or talked with Keith Blanshard, aka The Modular Man, is likely to have detected his passion for off-site construction.
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A ‘true friend’ to all sides of the industry
The sad news that George Brumwell had died suddenly this week prompted the same response in everyone – shock and sadness, of course, and an overwhelming expression of what a genuine and likeable man he was.
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Emcor loses £5m battle over Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Electrical specialist Emcor Drake & Scull has lost a £5m legal claim against Balfour Beatty over work carried out on the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
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NewsBrighton rocks
This £265m masterplan by Wilkinson Eyre for Brighton Marina is to go before planning officials at Brighton and Hove council today.
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Industry still falling short over safety, says HSE
Construction is still failing to meet targets for cutting fatalities and injuries, despite a drop in accident figures, HSE statistics revealed this week.
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CABE backs Royal Arsenal
CABE has backed Allies and Morrison’s masterplan for the controversial Royal Arsenal scheme in Woolwich, south-east London.
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Sheppard Robson takes over at Broadcasting House
Architect Sheppard Robson has been appointed to complete phase two of the BBC’s Broadcasting House redevelopment.
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NewsArad goes red
Architect Ron Arad Associates has won planning permission for the National Design Museum in Israel.