Category: Frameworks
We are exceptionally proud to have won the Delivering Value Award at the Constructing Excellence South West Awards 2024.
The project returned more than eight times the social value pledged, this has and will continue to make a real difference to the local community.
The judges said “The winner of this award is the project that we considered provided the most value compared to the project budget and had the biggest impact on the wider community. Among other things, the project achieved a social value over eight times the target set at the start of the project, a social value that almost matched the total project value.”
“As well as the statistics presented, the judges were impressed with the impact the project provided on a deprived community. During the project, support was given to community kitchens and foodbank’s, a police led intervention scheme in local schools was sponsored, nutrition and youth schemes were also developed and supported. The project has left a legacy of apprentices in bricklaying, carpentry, plumbing and electricians in the local area and has brought life back to a site that had been abandoned and the focus of antisocial behaviour since 2011”.
To add further context around the work carried out to ‘Add Value’ to the project and area, the challenges that the site team faced in the first eight weeks of the project were far and wide, some were eye watering and to the extent that as a business unit management team we contemplated suspending the works!
I’d like to congratulate the whole team for their tenacity and focus which is far more than just being recognised through achieving this award. The innovation and collaboration with all stakeholders and the introduction of external stakeholders to the end users has helped support and secure additional revenue streams for the Rugby Club as well as forward thinking training and development opportunities for the community through the ‘Bristol Bears HIT programme’ who are now in partnership with St. Bernadette’s Rugby Club of which Stepnell played a key part in this partnership.
Thank you to the whole team for all the hard work in achieving this exemplar project. We now look forward to seeing this development and it’s initiatives supporting the community of Hartcliffe for years to come.
