British Precast Best Practice Awards 2014

A special British Precast 50th Anniversary Awards dinner has celebrated winners of the British Precast Best Practice Awards and also 50 years of the association. “These Awards have showcased outstanding examples of our members’ tireless work in health & safety, sustainability, projects and innovation,” says Andrew Dix, president of British Precast. “We had over 30 entries this year from a wide range of member companies, both large and small. These Awards demonstrate the best of ingenuity and forward-t
May 12, 2014 Read time: 3 mins

A special 1829 British Precast 50th Anniversary Awards dinner has celebrated winners of the British Precast Best Practice Awards and also 50 years of the association.

“These Awards have showcased outstanding examples of our members’ tireless work in health & safety, sustainability, projects and innovation,” says Andrew Dix, president of British Precast.

“We had over 30 entries this year from a wide range of member companies, both large and small. These Awards demonstrate the best of ingenuity and forward-thinking within the precast concrete industry. Our winning members deserve recognition for their achievements in each category.”

Award winners were:

Project Award
Decomo UK: for The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend-on-Sea, England.

Innovation Award
J&P Building Systems for a new design methodology for precast stairs.  

Sustainability Award (full member)
Forticrete for its energy efficient lighting at Forticrete’s Cebastone cast stone
factory.

Sustainability Award (associate member)
Carbon8 Aggregates for the manufacture of carbon negative, lightweight aggregates

Health & Safety Aaward
3712 Brett Landscaping & Building Products for an improved traffic management system which delivers a safer site and reduces the environmental footprint.

Outstanding Contribution to Health & Safety Awards
Two Awards were also presented to individuals or teams in recognition of leadership, special efforts or significant contribution or improvements in health & safety in the business or along the supply chain:

Cliffe Management Team (Brett Landscaping & Building Products)  for leading significant health & safety improvements throughout the Cliffe factory complex.
Chris Taylor (Stanton Bonna)  whose product knowledge and site support experience enables him to identify potential problems and present solutions.

Full list of winners and runners-up:


Health & Safety Award


 Rating  Company  Project Name
 Winner  Brett Landscaping & Building Products  Improved traffic management system delivers safer site and reduces environmental footprint
 Highly Commended  5934 Charcon Construction Solutions  Plasma cutting device: Morpeth
 Highly Commended  Stanton Bonna  Helping customers to avoid work at height during offloading
 Highly Commended  1343 Hanson UK  Hanson UK’s Health and Safety Week
 Short Listed  Brett Landscaping & Building Products  Poole site house keeping & refurbishment
 Short Listed  Forticrete  Isolation of Operating Machinery
Sustainability Award: Full Member


 Raiting  Company  Project Name
 Winner  Forticrete  Energy efficient lighting - Cebastone
 Highly Commended  6156 Cemex UK  Low Carbon Concrete Sleepers
 Short Listed  Brett Landscaping & Building Products  Maximising efficiency of intersite product transfers
 Short Listed  Hanson UK  Thermalite EPD
 Short Listed  Hanson UK  Hanson Commercial sustainability training
Sustainability Award: Associate Member


 Rating  Company  Project Name
 Winner               Carbon8 Aggregates  Manufacture of carbon negative, lightweight aggregates
Innovation Award


 Rating  Company  Project Name
 Winner  J&P Building Systems  New Design Methodology for Precast Stairs
 Short Listed  Brett Landscaping & Building Products  PermCalc - Software for the design and costing of permeable pavements
Short Listed  CPM Group  Rhyl Harbour Development and application of Redi-Rock Positive Connection Block
Project Award


 Raiting  Company  Project Name
 Winner  Decomo UK  The Forum, Southend-on-Sea
 Highly Commended  Forticrete  Robinson Court, St Elphins Park, Matlock
 Highly Commended  Evans Concrete Product  10 Finsbury Square, London
 Shortlisted  Cornish Concrete Products  Hill Top House, Oxford
 Shortlisted  Sterling Services  Jewish Community Centre, London
 Shortlisted  SCC  MMU Birley Fields, Campus M.S.C.P, Manchester
Quarry Products

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