Quality honoured in new awards

Westbury and Lovell are the supreme award winners in the first ever Building Homes Quality Awards, hosted in association with the Housing Forum. Full results are:

• Best training/people development strategy (sponsored by the Housing Forum) winner: Countryside
  
• Best customer satisfaction improvement strategy (sponsored by British Gypsum) winner: Crest Nicholson
  
• Best quality improvement strategy (sponsored by Zurich Financial Services)winner: Miller Homes
  
• Best change strategy (sponsored by Hyperwise) winner: Bowey Homes
  
• Best options and choices initiative (sponsored by Property Week) winner: Southern Housing Group
  
• Best health and safety approach (sponsored by Construction Best Practice Programme) winner: Lovell Partnerships
  
• Best company-wide sustainability strategy (sponsored by Thermalite) winner: Wilson Connolly
  
• Best approach to partnering/supply chain management (sponsored by Building) winner: the Amphion Consortium
  
• Best approach to partnering with subcontractors (sponsored by Eternit) winner: Lovell Partnerships
  
• Best building efficiency initiative (sponsored by BuildOnline) winner: Westbury Homes
  
• Private sector housebuilder of the year (sponsored by Euroform Products) winner: Westbury Homes
  
• Affordable sector housing provider of the year (sponsored by Blue Circle Industries) winner: Lovell.

The judged were: Steve Morgan, formerly of Redrow; Tom Bloxham, chairman of Urban Splash; Jonathan Seal md of Hamptons Residential Development and Investment; Malcolm Pitcher, marketing expert; Professor David Gann of SPRU and chair of the Housing Forum demonstration project panel; Judith Harrison project director of the Housing Forum; David Birkbeck, chief executive of Design for Homes; Kevin Myers, chief inspector of construction at the Health and Safety Executive, Mike Cohen, formerly of The Guinness Trust; Sarah Peace, partnering expert; Andrew Forrest, of the Industrial Society; Florian Sommer of New Economics Foundation; John Doggart, director of Oscar Faber; and Josephine Smit, editor of Building Homes.