Winners special Celebrating quality Showcasing the winners and finalists of this year’s CN Quality Awards Judges’ Supreme Awards winner: Costain on the Porth Relief Road project, Safety Zone CN Quality Awards NICK EDWARDS QUALITY 25 June 2009 | 29 As our Construction Leaders Forum report showed a few months ago, partnering is com- ing under extreme pressure as clients seek short term cost gains. Progress built up slowly since the Egan report is being lost almost overnight. And – let’s be frank – partnering arrangements that existed in name only and did not really deliver good value to clients are being exposed and ejected. People talk too easily about “a flight to quality” during a downturn as if it is a given that the best companies will prosper during a recession while the bad go to the wall. But making quality pay is not a given, it is a fierce struggle that you have to focus all your attention on if it is really going to help you thrive. It’s why we are so pleased and proud to run the Construction News Quality Awards. It’s our chance to celebrate that struggle and to reward the victors. Our group of high profile and expert judges under the chairmanship of Alan Crane bring huge rigour to the process. Thanks to the fact that all shortlisted entries attend face-to-face interviews, no paper policy is taken at face value, no claimed outcome goes unchallenged. Although Costain deservedly won the RMD Kwikform-sponsored Supreme Judges’ Award after being shortlisted six times and winning two categories, the range of shortlisted companies is large and proves that the awards are not just for the biggest companies in the industry. I urge readers to use this special issue as a benchmark for all that is best in the industry – we will certainly be doing that by sending copies to some of the country’s biggest clients with a simple message: “If you want to know what the industry is capable of, read this.” www.cnplus.co.uk/home/awards Alan Crane CBE, Crane Construction Consulting Services; chair of judges Madeline Abas, Health and Safety Lawyers Assoc Andrew Best, Buro Happold Dr Peter Bonfield, BRE Tim Broyd FREng, Halcrow Vaughan Burnand, Constructing Excellence Peter Cunningham, Constructing Excellence Ron Edmondson, The Oldbury Partnership Alex Flach, Whitbread Group Adam Green, Carillion Stephen Howard, Business in the Community John Ioannou, Office of Government Commerce Sean Lockie, Atkins Gavin Murgatroyd, Gardiner & Theobald Neil Murray, SGB Doug Oakervee OBE, Crossrail James Preston-Hood, Grosvenor Group Nick Raynsford MP , Youthbuild UK Ian Reeves CBE, McGee Peter Rogerson OBE, CITB-ConstructionSkills Susan Steensma, CIRIA Richard Terry, Arup Tony Venn, Gardiner & Theobald James Wates, Wates Group Graham Watts OBE, Construction Industry Council Dean Webster, Cyril Sweett Andrew Wolstenholme, Balfour Beatty JUDGING PANEL “Making quality pay is not a given, it is a fierce struggle that you have to focus all your attention on if it is really going to help you thrive”

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Winners special

Celebrating quality Showcasing the winners and fi nalists of this year’s CN Quality Awards

Judges’ Supreme Awards winner: Costain on the Porth Relief Road project, Safety Zone

CN Quality Awards

NICK EDWARDS

QUALITY

25 June 2009 | 29

As our Construction Leaders Forum report showed a few months ago, partnering is com-ing under extreme pressure as clients seek short term cost gains.

Progress built up slowly since the Egan report is being lost almost overnight. And – let’s be frank – partnering arrangements that existed in name only and did not really deliver good value to clients are being exposed and ejected.

People talk too easily about “a fl ight to qual-ity” during a downturn as if it is a given that the best companies will prosper during a recession while the bad go to the wall. But making quality pay is not a given, it is a fi erce struggle that you have to focus all your atten-tion on if it is really going to help you thrive.

It’s why we are so pleased and proud to run the Construction News Quality Awards. It’s our chance to celebrate that struggle and to reward the victors.

Our group of high profi le and expert judges

under the chairmanship of Alan Crane bring huge rigour to the process. Thanks to the fact that all shortlisted entries attend face-to-face interviews, no paper policy is taken at face value, no claimed outcome goes unchallenged.

Although Costain deservedly won the RMD Kwikform-sponsored Supreme Judges’ Award after being shortlisted six times and winning two categories, the range of shortlisted compa-nies is large and proves that the awards are not just for the biggest companies in the industry.

I urge readers to use this special issue as a benchmark for all that is best in the industry – we will certainly be doing that by sending copies to some of the country’s biggest clients with a simple message: “If you want to know what the industry is capable of, read this.”

www.cnplus.co.uk/home/awards

Alan Crane CBE, Crane Construction Consulting Services; chair of judges Madeline Abas, Health and Safety Lawyers AssocAndrew Best, Buro HappoldDr Peter Bonfield, BRETim Broyd FREng, HalcrowVaughan Burnand, Constructing ExcellencePeter Cunningham, Constructing ExcellenceRon Edmondson, The Oldbury PartnershipAlex Flach, Whitbread GroupAdam Green, CarillionStephen Howard, Business in the CommunityJohn Ioannou, Office of Government CommerceSean Lockie, AtkinsGavin Murgatroyd, Gardiner & TheobaldNeil Murray, SGBDoug Oakervee OBE, CrossrailJames Preston-Hood, Grosvenor GroupNick Raynsford MP, Youthbuild UK Ian Reeves CBE, McGeePeter Rogerson OBE, CITB-ConstructionSkillsSusan Steensma, CIRIARichard Terry, ArupTony Venn, Gardiner & TheobaldJames Wates, Wates GroupGraham Watts OBE, Construction Industry CouncilDean Webster, Cyril SweettAndrew Wolstenholme, Balfour Beatty

JUDGING PANEL

“Making quality pay is not a given, it is a fi erce strug-gle that you have to focus all your attention on if it is really going to help you thrive”