Awards
Kent Excellence in Business Awards
KEiBA is an awards scheme that was set up by Kent County Council to recognise and reward excellence in business within the Kent & Medway region.
Winner Employer of the Year 2010
Winner Commitment to the Community 2010
Winner Large Business of the Year 2009
Runner Up Employer of the Year 2009
Runner Up Commitment to the Community 2009
Commitment to Health and Safety
All of our sites are registered with an external Health & Safety assessment company; Construction Safety (South East) Limited. This company is responsible for undertaking regular safety inspections on all our sites. As a result of our performance we have recently received silver and bronze awards and also achieved 3 orders of merit awards, all as follows:
Silver Award - New England Quarter (One Brighton)
Bronze Award - Caspian Wharf
Order of Merit - LEMO
Order of Merit - Highfield House
Order of Merit - Chapel Park Road
The very last award of the evening was for Continued Excellence in the Field of Health and Safety Management, given to one of our Site Managers, Neil Mugridge.
Considerate Constructors Scheme
The Considerate Constructors Scheme provides an assessment of the effectiveness of site management in relation to working conditions and the project’s impact on the surrounding environment. It is our policy to register all our sites with the Considerate Constructors Scheme.
2010 Gold Award One Brighton
2010 Bronze Award Caspian Wharf
2010 Bronze Award Highfields
2009 Silver Award Poplar Place
2006 Silver Award Ordell Road
Platinum Employers Award
The Kent Education Business Partnership recognised our work in supporting schools in the Thanet area with a Platinum Employers Award. This support has included taking work experience placements on our projects for 15 year old students from 5 schools in the area, delivering workshops within the schools and at the company’s site-based skills centre, and supporting curriculum events such as the Thanet SkillsFest and Business of Enterprise.
Job Centre Plus Awards
Denne have been awarded the Youth Employment Award as part of the JobCentre Plus Awards 2010. Denne’s site-based skills centre has been responsible for arranging 10 employment opportunities for local unemployed young people. These have been arranged with the Company’s trade contractors and have resulted in 9 of these placements taking up apprenticeships. The judges were so impressed with our work that we were judged as overall winners receiving the Best Employer Award for the South East.
Building Magazine Award
As part of the Leadbitter Group, we have recently been the winner of Building Magazine Award for 2009 ‘Major Contractor of The Year’.
Excellence in Recycling Awards
As part of our ISO140001 EMS we have developed a range of Site Waste Management Procedures. Through these procedures we achieved 87% recycling at One Brighton and won the 2009 “Excellence in Recycling” award. This was for our continued partnership and work with Greater London Waste Disposal in reducing waste and increasing recycling on site in order to reduce our impact on the environment.
Housing Forum Demonstration Project Status
The National Skills Academy has recently received Constructing Excellence Housing Forum Demonstration Project status.
Special Recognition Award
We won a Special Recognition Award at the ‘Creating the Futures Awards 2008’ ceremony for our One Brighton development based on the outstanding vision and commitment to managing environmental and sustainable issues.
This highly sustainable project is based on the concept of creating high quality and well-built homes, shops and offices, with real community spirit as well as a place that allows people to live an affordable and ‘green’ lifestyle.