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Local site managers win in national housebuilding competition

SITE managers working for local housebuilders Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes in South Wales have scooped four prestigious awards in a national competition to find the best-run building sites in Britain.

Phil Barry, Chris Herbert, Neil Burman and Chris Davies gained official recognition for the excellence with which they run their developments with a Pride in the Job Quality Award.

Winners in South Wales include Barratt Homes site manager Chris Davies who works at Foxglove Meadows in Newport.

Phil Barry is the site manager for Glas y Dorlan in Neath with fellow David Wilson Homes site manager Neil Burman at Ocean View in Ogmore-by-Sea and Chris Herbert who works at Mountain View in Abergavenny.

The four winners were joined by site managers working for Barratt Developments across the UK, who have scooped more than 80 awards for quality workmanship.

The Pride in the Job Quality Awards are the most coveted in the housebuilding industry. They are awarded after the construction standard setting body National House-Building Council (NHBC) carries out a series of spot check site inspections to select the best-organised and best-quality housing developments.

Thousands of site managers throughout the UK were judged on every aspect of their job, including technical skill, quality workmanship, customer service and site safety.

The site managers will now go forward to the final round of the competition which will select the best site manager in Britain.

Barratt and David Wilson Homes managing director Steve Williams said he was delighted that local site mangers have again been judged as among the best in the housebuilding industry. “The official recognition of the jobs which our winning site managers are doing, shows that we are building some of the best quality homes in the country.

“The site manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring our teams deliver high-quality new homes and we are delighted that our investment in training and developing the very best staff has been recognised in this way. This is truly an outstanding result and one which should inspire confidence in our buyers.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Barratt Homes .