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PRO INSTALLER JULY 2015
PRO NEWS
@proinstaller1
Congratulations to
all the winners:
Achiever
Winner: Rachel Vincent – VincentStokes
BIM Project of the Year
Winner: B & K Structures - BskyB Believe in
Better Building
Client of the Year
Winner: Leicestershire Fire & Rescue Service
Health and Safety Award
Winner: Lift & Engineering Services
Heritage Award
Winner: Robert Woodhead - Lincoln Castle
Revealed
Innovation Award
Winner: X-LAM Alliance - CLT
Highly Commended: Ground Source Consult Heat Exchange Systems
Integration and Collaborative
Working Award
Winner: Anglian Water - Love Every Drop
Campaign
East Midlands shines at
Celebrating Construction Awards
More than 300 leaders
and innovators from
across the construction sector gathered at
the Nottingham Belfry
for the Celebrating
Construction Awards.
Held for the first time,
the prestigious ceremony commended the
East Midlands’ most
inspiring construction
projects and people.
Head of East Midlands
judging panel, Alan Coole
from Scape Group, said:
“There are many pockets of
excellence in the East Midlands and we are proud to
have showcased the skilled
people who work here to
the region and subsequently at a national level.”
Renowned business journalist, speaker and conference chair, Declan Curry
hosted the awards and
spoke about the return of
the East Midlands Awards
after an absence of four
years and the outstanding
quality of the entries, reflecting the improvements
the industry is seeing in the
economic indicators for the
region and a growing confidence in the construction
industry within the East
Midlands.
The big winner on the
night, Robert Woodhead,
picked up four top hon-
ours, including three
awards for their innovative
Lincoln Castle Revealed
project - winning the prestigious Project of the Year,
Heritage Award and the
Legacy Award for Sustainability.
The Celebrating Construction Awards are presented
by the Built Environment
Hub, a membership organisation created to drive
best practice in construction product and process
innovation in the Midlands
region, in association with
Scape Group and Salus
Approved Inspectors.
The Awards were hailed
as a great success by
Leadership and People
Development Award
Winner: Lift & Engineering Services
entrants, judges and
attendees alike. The East
Midlands winners will now
gain a place at the finals
of this year’s national
Constructing Excellence
Awards which are being
held in central London in
November.
If you are interested
in getting involved in
next year’s Celebrating
Construction Awards,
there are 10% early-bird
discounts on sponsorship
opportunities booked
before 01 October
2015 email amy.pryce@
builtenvironmenthub.org
for details
The Project of the Year Award
Winner: Robert Woodhead - Lincoln Castle
Revealed
Highly Commended: Morgan Sindall - King in
the Car Park
SME of the Year Award
Winner: VincentStokes
Highly Commended: Butler & Willow
Sustainability Award
Winner: Robert Woodhead - Lincoln Castle
Revealed
The Value Award
Winner: EOS Facades - The Barn, University of
Nottingham
The Young Achiever Award
Winner: Michael Broadhurst - Robert
Woodhead
Highly Commended: Hayley Millar - Wates
New Appointments Underline Customer Commitment
Saint-Gobain Glass is underlining its commitment to putting
customer needs at the heart
of the business with the creation of two new roles; Head of
Sales and Customer Experience Manager. Both roles
have been filled by internal
group promotion of two highly
experienced figures, Richard
Wall and Martyn Stoakes.
Richard Wall is appointed Head
of Sales after nine years with Saint-
Gobain Isover as well as previous
experience at Cemex and Bestobell
Valves. Richard’s remit will be to
support delivery of the company’s
sales strategy while continuing
to build and sustain excellent
customer relationships and service
levels.
Richard said: “I know from my
years with Isover how committed
the group is to putting the customer at the heart of everything it
does and I am very much looking
forward to the challenge of being
able to build on that commitment
in my new position.”
Martyn Stoakes, as Customer
Experience Manager, will support
the company’s customer-focused
strategy. Martyn has been with
SGG UK for 15 years, most recently as Purchasing and Logistics
Manager.
He said of his new role: “Having
the opportunity to seek customer
insight and help shape what the
future looks like in terms of our
service ambitions and meeting and
exceeding what our customers are
looking for is a challenge that I
relish”.
Both will report to Sales & Marketing Director Andy Hyde, who
said: “The creation of these new
roles willenable Saint-Gobain Glass
to further enhanc H