Safety award for house builder

A provider of shared-ownership homes has won a health and safety award for the second year running from the UK’s largest construction safety group.

Chippenham-based GreenSquare Homes was a winner at the Building Safety Group’s fifth annual Health and Safety Awards, scooping the prize for Member of the Year – Central and South.

Entrants were asked to demonstrate that they had a framework in place to improve safety and health performance during all stages of a construction project including; planning, design and post construction.

Barry Wood, GreenSquare’s managing director, said: “It is an excellent achievement for us to win the award for a second year. It demonstrates the continued efforts of our GreenSquare Homes colleagues in making sure that health and safety is a top priority in everything that they do.”

BSG managing director, Paul Kimpton said: “The BSG Awards ceremony was once again a national celebration of our members’ dedicated commitment to Health and Safety in construction. Recognised award winners such as GreenSquare Homes should be immensely proud of their achievement and highly commended for their admirable approach to reducing risk in the workplace.

“It is BSG Members like GreenSquare Homes who make a significant contribution to raising the bar when it comes to health and safety standards across the sector, and we offer them our congratulations.”

GreenSquare Homes is the in-house development arm of GreenSquare Group. Profits from selling new homes are used to support growth to ensure the Group’s ability to build more affordable homes for a range of customers across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. The group now owns and manages 12,000 properties across the region.

Pictured: GreenSquare’s contracts manager John Mumford, operations manager Tony Knight, managing director Barry Wood and site manager Martin Bance