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The number of NHBC Pride in the Job awards won
by the Site Managers of the top 30 House builders

2005
51
48
27
29
21
14
11
7
12
6
3
6
6
2
0
1
4
5
1
2
4
1
1
1
4
2
1
0
0

[Total figures for Awards combined for all companies within each company group.]

Figures for 2007 are before acquisitions of David Wilson Homes by Barratt, Linden by Galliford Try and the Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey merger.

The NHBC started the 'Pride in the Job' competition as long ago as 1980, with the aim to reward the very best site managers in the UK and raise quality standards of new homes by introducing competition between site managers. These much coveted awards are given to individual site managers, not the house builder that employs them or the development site they are responsible for. The competition is one of the most prestigious in the house-building industry and has, over the years, become synonymous with the quality of new homes. This year 400 site managers have been selected out of more than 18,000 sites across the UK, to receive their Quality Award - the first round of the competition.

The best house builders will employ the best site managers and the best site managers win these awards.

However, the total number of awards a house builder’s site managers receive, is not in itself an indication of quality. The larger builders will have more sites and therefore a greater number of site managers participating in the competition, accounting for around 62% of around 130 Seal of Excellence awards in 2007.

Barratt Homes Ltd
George Wimpey UK Ltd
Persimmon Homes Ltd
Taylor Woodrow Developments Ltd
David Wilson Homes Ltd
Bellway Homes Ltd
Miller Homes Ltd
Redrow Homes Ltd
Berkeley Group Plc
Kier Residential Ltd
McCarthy & Stone (Devs) Ltd
J S Bloor Ltd
Morris Homes Ltd
Laing Ltd
Countryside Properties Plc
Stewart Milne Group Ltd
Crest Nicholson Residential Plc
Bovis Homes Ltd
Linden Ltd
Cala Ltd
Lovell Partnerships Ltd
Galliford Try Plc
Willmott Dixon Housing Ltd
Gladedale Homes Ltd
Alison Homes
Banner homes
Jones Homes Homes
Frank Haslam Milan & Co Ltd
Ben Bailey Homes Ltd

2006
52
50
38
31
21
18
12
7
7
7
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
0
4
6
2
0
0

The NHBC Pride in the Job Competition

2006
16
12
5
12
2
7
5
2
4
1
3
0
0
2
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

SEAL OF EXCELLENCE

QUALITY AWARDS

2007
57
36
40
29
13
19
16
12
6
6
2
1
10
0
10
1
7
3
5
2
0
2
0
2
3
3
2
0
0

Comment: 2007 NHBC Quality awards.
Yet again Barratt confound their critics and top the league table for the third year in a row. They must employ the country’s top site managers as the competition unofficially runs from June to June; the end of Barratt’s financial year and a time of increased pressure to achieve the required completion numbers. Over 50 winners each year, despite the large number of sites is still quite an achievement and a yardstick for the rest of the industry.

Morris Homes based in Cheshire and building in the north of England have won ten awards this year doubling their total from last year. They are one of the largest independent housebuilders in the country and are clearly getting it right.

The big guns of Bovis, Kier, and Berkeley are by comparison appear to be not striving for quality as much as their sales brochures would have you believe.

2007
17
8
12
11
0
6
5
1
3
1
0
0
1
0
2
0
1
1
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0