A former joiner is in line for a major UK honour after placing first at an all-Wales building industry awards event.
Anwyl Construction Site Manager Steve Wyman took the National House Building Council’s prestigious Wales Pride In The Job Seal of Excellence for his work at the St Francis Park estate, in Prestatyn.
The 30-year-old originally from Bushbury, Wolverhampton, who works for Rhyl-based Anwyls, won the Medium Builder category, one of just 100 winners across the UK, and will now go on to represent Wales at the building industry ‘Oscars’ in London in January.
Steve, a father of three, who now lives in Kinmel Bay, near Rhyl, said: “I’m delighted. I went down to Cardiff for the Wales awards and it was brilliant, a real thrill.
“I won a Pride In The Job award last year for a site I was in charge of in Holywell but to go on to the national awards in London is really special.
“My mum, Linda Turner, still lives in Bushbury and she is thrilled. She’s really excited about me going to London.. ”
Anwyls Director Mathew Anwyl said: “We’re overjoyed at this award, it’s fantastic to have now been recognised four years in a row at these awards which we consider to be a benchmark of quality for the building industry.
“It’s a real feather in his cap for Steve who has done a brilliant job and is recognition for the hard work he has put in here and as a site agent for us for five years after coming up through the ranks.
“Steve works really hard and puts it all in. He shows great attention to detail and runs a very tidy site and this is his reward.”
Steve, who joined Anwyl Construction as a joiner in 2002, is married to Cadi and the couple have three children, Zack, 12, Angel six, and Tjae, trhree.
He has been in charge of the St Francis Park estate since work started there last September and Anwyls have already handed over six apartments and nine houses for social housing to housing association Pennaf.
Steve added: “St Francis Park is a 51-property development along what was formerly an old track and it looks really tidy now and I’m very proud of it.
“It has gone well but we did have complications with some of the land where we had to drive in pilings but that was sorted out and we’re very happy with it.
“Because it was also close to existing homes we have done considerate construction to minimise disruption and we have kept the site up to standard which is something the NHBC inspectors noted.”
NHBC Inspector Mark Donlon said: “Steve has worked hard on a tricky mixed-tenure site to deliver much needed social housing to the community as a priority, despite this being a less practical approach to scheduling the build sequence.
“These are very special awards, the housebuilding Oscars, and we inspected over 400 sites across Wales on 38 different categories and look at all the different aspects of the build from the foundations to the completion.
“We make these awards as an incentive to improve the quality of housebuilding in the UK and to raise the bar and it is an enormous distinction for Anwyls to have won again.”
