Double award recognition for Palgrave Brown

A Palgrave Brown product story

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Feb 1, 2008

Palgrave Brown help two developer customers to pick up regional awards in the National House-Building Council's (NHBC) annual Pride in the Job awards.

The awards went to the site managers of two projects in the South West, in Exeter and Devizes.

The Exeter project was a C G Fry and Son .

mixed development of houses, apartments and some social housing, while the Devizes project was a McCarthy and Stone retirement housing project.

The Yeovil branch of Palgrave Brown worked closely with the developers' site managers to ensure trouble-free delivery of timber supplies as and when they were required, with flooring supplied to the Exeter site and trusses to the Devizes site.

This level of partnership supports the project by avoiding holding stock on site, while offering flexibility so that any changes to requirements can easily be accommodated.

NHBC set up its 'Pride in the Job' (PIJ) competition in 1980 to seek out the UK's best site managers and reward them for creating quality, beautifully finished new homes.

The drive for quality is at the heart of the prestigious awards, which focus on the day-to-day operation of the building site and the work of the site manager.

Nick Fricker, general manager at Palgrave Brown Yeovil, comments, "Our team is extremely pleased to have contributed to the success of our developer partners.

The work that the NHBC does to raise standards in the housing construction industry is recognised nationwide and to have two of the projects to which we have contributed win an award is an excellent endorsement of Palgrave Brown's complete 'on time, every time' reputation.

"The awards acknowledge not just excellence in materials but also the contribution to performance of individual site managers and we regard these support services to be an equally important part of our total offering," he continues.

Palgrave Brown has the engineered timber industry's widest and most comprehensive product portfolio, including roof trusses, SIPS, MDF mouldings, stairs, and doors, as well as being a distributor for the i-Level Silent Floor System.