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Emsworth site manager named as best in the country for quality

A site manager working with Barratt Homes in Emsworth has won a top national award for the quality of the homes he is building.

Phil Cripps, site manager at the housebuilder’s Saxon Corner development in Emsworth has won a National House Building Council (NHBC) Pride in The Job Quality award, which credits him as the best in the UK.

Known as the “Oscars of the housebuilding industry”, these prestigious awards recognise the finest site managers from around the country.

In total, Barratt site managers in the region have won four Pride in the Job Quality awards this year. This is the 17th year in a row that Barratt has won more Pride in the Job Quality awards than any other housebuilder, showing its long-term commitment to building high quality homes.

These awards, now in their 41st year, rate site managers against key criteria such as technical expertise, health and safety, consistency, leadership and attention to detail. The awards celebrate the vital role site managers play in ensuring new homes are delivered on-time, on safe sites, and to the highest quality standards.

Every site manager who is registered with the NHBC is automatically entered into the awards, with just 450 winners being selected from 11,000 entrants, showing how difficult they are to win.

These awards come off the back of a Barratt site manager being crowned the overall winner in last year’s awards. Kirk Raine, senior site manager, won the supreme award, the fifth time in the last six years that a Barratt site manager has won the top prize.

Mark Keen, Barratt and David Wilson Homes Construction Director, said: “Winning these awards is not only a great achievement for our award-winning site managers, but also for their wider teams and all of the sub-contractors involved, as well as the business as a whole.

“Following a challenging year for the construction industry, it’s great that our site managers can be recognised as leaders in their field. My personal congratulations go to Phil and all of the winners.”

Phil is delighted to be a winner of one of these prestigious awards. He said: “These awards are a goal that every site manager should be striving for. The team here is delivering quality homes and places to live that our customers can be proud of, and to win a Pride in the Job award, makes the work we do all the more special.”

There awards closely follow Barratt Developments being awarded 5 stars by its customers for satisfaction in the annual Home Builders Federation (HBF) new homes survey. To be rated 5 star means that more than 90% of its customers would recommend one of its homes to a friend, with Barratt being the only major national housebuilder to be rated 5 star for 12 years in a row.

Pride in the Job award winner, Phil Cripps is building homes at Saxon Corner in Emsworth.

The new development is a collection of two, three and four-bedroom homes within walking distance of the town centre, and within easy reach of local shops, cafes and restaurants. The development also boasts excellent transport links via the nearby A27 and A3.

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