BERKSHIRE HOMEBUILDER’S SITE MANAGER RECOGNISED FOR CONSTRUCTION QUALITY

A senior site manager at David Wilson Homes’ development in Newbury has won a top national award for the quality of the homes he is building.

Now working at the homebuilder’s Donnington Heights development, Steve Watts (41) won a Pride in the Job Quality Award from the National House Building Council (NHBC) for his work onsite at the Newbury Racecourse community. These prestigious awards are known as the “Oscars of the housebuilding industry”.

In total, Barratt Developments’ site managers have won 98 Pride in the Job Quality Awards, which is more than any other housebuilder. This is the 18th year in a row that site managers from Barratt Developments have won more of these awards than any other builder, underlining the long-term commitment David Wilson Homes has to building high quality properties.

Steve has been with David Wilson Homes since October 2015 having first joined as an Assistant Site Manager, based at an Oxfordshire development in Kingston Bagpuize. This is his first award win since becoming a site manager.

Steve said: “Winning a Pride in the Job Award is without a doubt my proudest career moment to date.

“I’ve been trying now for the last four years and to finally have one is unbelievably special to me, and hopefully it will be one of many to come.”

The Pride in the Job Awards showcase the best site managers in the country who can demonstrate exceptional standards in building new communities, delivering the highest quality homes for their customers. Each site manager is judged on a range of key criteria including health and safety, their technical knowledge, customer service and attention to detail.

Every site manager who is registered with the NHBC is automatically entered into the awards, with just 450 winners being selected from over 11,000 entrants.

The awards also help to build quality standards across both developments and teams, with winning site managers invariably having an assistant site manager working with them. They in turn learn the high standards that are needed to win, increasing quality throughout the industry.

Campbell Gregg, Managing Director at David Wilson Homes Southern, said: “We want to make our customers happy by building high quality homes for them. These awards recognise only the best new homes and well-run developments and we are very proud of our record having won more of these awards than any other housebuilder for 18 years in a row.

“Every customer who buys a home built by a site manager who has won a Pride in the Job Quality award can have confidence that their home is of the highest possible quality.”

These awards closely follow Barratt Developments being awarded five stars by its customers for satisfaction in the annual Home Builders Federation (HBF) new homes survey. To be rated five star means that more than 90% of its customers would recommend one of its homes to a friend, with the developer being the only major national housebuilder to be rated five star for 13 years in a row.