LABC Building Excellence Awards 2021 winner: Best Non-residential Site Manager

More than 750 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to acclaim best practise, quality and standards in construction.

These were the first Building Excellence Awards since 2019 following the global pandemic and LABC has revised the awards to focus more on professional skills and competence – dividing the awards into two: ‘people’ and ‘places’.

A panel of industry experts judged a list of the highest quality projects and teams from around England and Wales to showcase solutions to complex technical or construction issues, site constraints, technical innovation and the building control professionalism that leads to safe, sustainable and high quality construction projects.  

LABC is delighted to announce the Best Non-residential Site Manager winner is David Blackman, Emery Building Contractors in Bath.

The judges considered Dave’s enthusiasm for keeping up to date with changes to regulations, attendance at B&NES Building Control and LABC update seminars and the commitment by Emery Building Contractors to train their staff on industry changes. His work on the £20m renovation, alteration and refurbishment of Bath Abbey particularly impressed. This is an historic monument, over 500 years old and of international importance. It is a place of historic burial and situated in the centre of Bath next to Roman remains and the hot springs. Dave took on this site from a previous site manager and very quickly took control of the site, embracing the technical challenges of the site and made sure work met exacting heritage status requirements and modern day building regulations. 

Congratulating Dave, Lorna Stimpson, LABC Chief Executive said,