Industry ‘Oscar’ for building site boss Liam
THE manager of an Ashbourne building site has been awarded a prestigious “Pride in the Job” award for his work on a new housing estate, writes GARETH BUTTERFIELD.
Liam Hathaway, 42, is overseeing the construction of the Ramblers Gate development and is one of three site managers working for David Wilson to have been given an NHBC Pride in the Job Quality award.
Liam, from Leicester, has spent 25 years working for the firm and this is now his seventh Pride in the Job gong.
He said: “Being recognised for another year’s hard work is excellent and the award means just as much to me as my first.
“We’ve got a really closeknit group at Ramblers’ Gate and we all share the same drive to deliver a top quality product for our customers in
Derbyshire. It’s great to be back on-site after a challenging period, but everyone is happy to be building homes again and the safety measures in place have enabled us to do efficiently.”
Now in their 40th year, the awards - considered to be the “Oscars of the housebuilding industry” - recognise the very best site managers from around the country.
Each site manager is judged on a range of key criteria including health and safety, their technical knowledge, customer service and attention to detail.
Pride in the Job is the most highly regarded competition in the housebuilding industry with just 450 individual winners being chosen from over 11,000 entrants.
John Reddington, Managing Director at David Wilson Homes East Midlands, said:
“Now that we are back building and selling homes again, it’s now more important than ever that customers have confidence in the homes they are buying, and the mark of a Pride in the Job Quality award shows that their home has been built to the highest of standards.
“We are very proud to have won more of these quality awards than any other housebuilder for 16 years in a row.”