North Wales Built-In Quality Awards

The Built in Quality Award scheme is for builders who achieve outstanding quality in their construction work relating to building control. The scheme highlights the importance of Building Control in achieving high standards and gives a well-deserved boost to builders active in the Wrexham and North Wales areas. Completed projects can range from new homes, extensions and alterations through to commercial developments.

Each participating Council's Building Control Surveyors will nominate builders who achieve high standards of workmanship and comply with the Building Regulations for an award. The award will take the form of a certificate presented by Mayor or elected member during a special ceremony and then put forward for a national award.

Award Categories

Awards will be made on an annual basis to winners who are in the following categories:

• Small Domestic
• Volume Housebuilder
• Apartments/other residential
• Small Industrial/Commerical
• Large Industrial/Commercial

Nominations

Wrexham's Building Control Surveyors identify sites that consistently achieve high standards and meet the following criteria:

• Compliance with building Regulations and energy efficiency
• Supplying and managing information (giving notices and information relative to the work)
• Speed of fault rectification
• Site environment - Safety and storage of materials (so as not to be detrimental to their use)
• Client/customer satisfaction
• Access for disabled (where applicable)

Judging

The panel is made up of Building Control Managers and an independent architect.

Awards Dinner

Mayor or elected member will normally present awards at a well publicised ceremony on an annual basis.

Built in Quality Award Winners 2003

This years awards were held on 28th March 2003 at the St Davids Park Hotel, Ewloe. This extremely successful event, sponsored by Kingspan Ltd, was held to acknowledge quality building within the county.

Councillor Matthews of Flintshire County County Council opened the evening by welcoming the 170 guests to the dinner; This was followed by speech from Graham Lee, National Business Development Director for LABC Services who concentrated on the benefits of working together to achieve quality and then the awards ceremony.

Dave Sharp, Principal Building Control Surveyor of Wrexham County Borough Council, presented the Wrexham awards to:

• Lord & Lady Hughes of Abrahurst Ltd in the small residential category for their development at Caelica Farm, Tallarn Green.
• Martin Moore of Moore Construction also in the small residential category for Little Grange, Penley.
• Brian Spencer of Country Barns & Homes in the volume builder category for their development at Honkley Barns, Rossett.
• Johnathan Baldwin of Zouk Café Bars Ltd for their conservation of 7 Town Hill, Wrexham.

All the evening's winners went forward to the National LABC Awards, held on June 5th 2003 in London.

See the Wrexham Built-In Quality Award winners projects

Organisers of quality awards:

• Karl Jones, Building Control Officer - Gwynedd Council.
• John Wilkinson, Senior Building Control Officer- Flintshire County Council,
• Ian Vaughan Evans, Building Control Manager - Flintshire County Council,
• Joanne Davies, Building Control Officer - Wrexham County Borough Council,
• Dafydd Evans, Building Control Officer - Anglesey Council,
• Richard Broughton, Building Control Officer - Denbighshire County Council,
• Richard Tiedtke, Senior Building Control Officer - Conwy County Borough Council.

Built-In Quality Award Winners 2003

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