Publication Date: 19-09-2024 09:00
Prestigious industry award won by Bellway London project manager in Barking
The high quality of the work delivered by the project manager at Bellway London’s Eastbrooke Village development in Barking Riverside has been recognised with a prestigious national award.
Marcus Gallagher, 38, from Maidstone, won a Quality Award this year in the National House Building Council’s (NHBC) annual Pride in the Job competition and is one of just 449 site managers from across the UK to receive the accolade. Ten per cent of the winners were from Bellway.
Marcus was selected from a pool of more than 8,000 site managers whose sites have been inspected by the NHBC over the past year, placing him among an elite group within the industry.
As a Quality Award winner, Marcus is automatically entered into the next stage of the competition – the NHBC’s Seal of Excellence and Regional Awards, which will be awarded later in the year.
The NHBC runs the Pride in the Job awards annually and every site registered with them is automatically entered into the competition. Each site manager is judged on a wide range of aspects of their work including attention to detail, leadership, technical expertise and health and safety.
This is the first Pride in the Job award which Marcus has won.
He said: “I’m super proud of not only myself but also my team. We have all worked very hard so it’s very rewarding to have won the award. My goals as a site manager are to finish on time, make sure health and safety measures are followed, stay on budget and hand over a good product.”
Marcus entered the construction industry 15 years ago as a trainee assistant site manager before progressing to the roles of assistant site manager then site manager. He joined Bellway as a senior site manager in February 2022 and was later promoted to project manager.
He said: “My dad was a site manager when I was growing up and I always aspired to be like him. Bellway is one of the biggest housebuilders in the country. They are a five-star housebuilder and they offer good training programmes too.”
Dave Clark, Construction Director for Bellway London, said: “The Pride in the Job Quality Awards are rightly held in high regard nationally as everyone in the industry knows just how hard it is to win this accolade.
“The judging is incredibly rigorous, which means that winning the award is testament to the quality of the homes being built at Eastbrooke Village.
“I would like to congratulate Marcus and every member of his fabulous site team for their achievement and wish them all the best for the next stage of the competition in the autumn.”
Bellway is building a selection of one, two and three-bedroom apartments at Eastbrooke Village.
To find out more, visit https://www.bellwaylondon.co.uk/new-homes/north-london/eastbrooke-village or call 020 3411 5776.
