Maidenhead & Windsor

The Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough is celebrating after hearing two major building projects it has regulated have been shortlisted for a total of four national building awards.

The Windsor and Maidenhead council’s building control team, which ensures developments across the borough comply with building regulations, worked closely with the applicants of the Ascot Racecourse redevelopment and St John the Baptist Convent housing development, Windsor, throughout the design and construction processes of their respective projects.

For the first time, officers decided to nominate developments on which they had worked, for the National Local Authority Building Control Built In Quality Awards, and they are delighted all of their nominations have been shortlisted. They are:

· Ascot Racecourse:

Best commercial project
Best partnership with client
Best fire engineering solution

· St John the Baptist Convent:

Best housing project

Cllr Derek Wilson, lead member for Windsor and Maidenhead planning and housing, said: “This is a great achievement for the team and I am very pleased their work on these projects has been recognised within the industry.”

Roger Paine, building control consultancy manager, said: “The Royal Borough secured the contracts for these projects against private tenders and built up an excellent and effective relationship with the applicants.

“We nominated these two projects in recognition of the high quality and innovative methods of construction achieved and, in the case of Ascot Racecourse, to mark the long-term working relationship achieved between the client and ourselves on a complex project which had to be built to a tight and unmoveable completion date.”

The annual Local Authority Building Control National Built in Quality awards are organised by Building magazine, with the aim of rewarding excellence in construction. The winners will be announced on Thursday October 18 at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel In Park Lane, London.

Last year’s event was attended by around 500 people, while this year 180 projects - double the number from last year - were submitted to be judged across the 12 awards categories. For more information about the awards see www.labc.uk.com

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead