Comedian and author Mark Watson is to host the RIDBA Building Awards 2023.
Best known for being one of the UK’s leading live comedians, he is also a writer, producer and director.
A TV and radio regular, Mark has appeared on almost every panel show going from Have I Got News and Mock the Week to 8 Out of 10 Cats and Would I Lie To You.
He’s also appeared on This Week, Live at the Apollo, Taskmaster, and celebrity editions of Mastermind, Pointless and Bear Grylls’ Celebrity Island.
Mark Watson will host the RIDBA Building Awards at the Graduate Hotel, in Cambridge, on Friday September 22.
Due to high demand for tickets, only sponsors and those who have a shortlisted entry are able to book to attend the awards evening. Click here to book.
Click here to see the shortlisted entries for the awards.
Thank you to all of those members who took the time to enter and thank you to those members who are sponsoring the event.
Revealed: Shortlist for RIDBA Building Awards 2023
A record number of entries across eight categories have been whittled down to form the RIDBA Building Awards 2023 shortlist.
The winners will be announced at an awards evening hosted by comedian and author Mark Watson at the Graduate Hotel, in Cambridge, on Friday, September 22.
The RIDBA Building Awards 2023 shortlist is:
Commercial category
Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Station, A.C. Bacon Engineering
CJ Cox Limited New Workshop, Rose Engineering
Roundhouse Play Area, S&A Fabrications
Franks Ice Cream, Shufflebottom
Morgan Sindall Merthyr Bus Station, Shufflebottom
Tong Engineering, Timmins Engineering
Farm storage
Replacement general purpose building, A.C. Bacon Engineering
Ben Pauling Racing, Naunton Downs, D Jones Welding
Oxey Farm suckler building, M D Anthony
West Midlands Safari Park, Minshall Construction
Sunnylands, Powell & Co Construction
Ash Holt Barns, Timmins Engineering
Pembertons cattle shed, Wareing Buildings
Residential and offices
The Property Hub, M D Anthony
Island estates, Shufflebottom
Luda barns, Timmins Engineering
Luxury residential property in Poulton-le-Fylde, Wareing Buildings
New product or service
Halo Solar, Ash & Lacy
Voortman V807, Cutmaster Machines
Innovative pig lift, Designeering
STRUMIS e-learning, STRUMIS
Tekla PowerFab 2023, Trimble
Hybrid Supa Slat, Wolfenden Concrete
Prizes will also be handed out for outstanding workmanship and training.
The judges of the awards are RIDBA’s technical consultant Martin Heywood, RIDBA’s livestock consultant Jamie Robertson, working at height expert Joe Black and LEAF Marque farmer Andrew Brown.
Tickets have been in extremely high demand. As a result, from now on bookings for the awards evening will only be available to those who have made the shortlist.
Thank you to all of those members who took the time to enter and thank you to those members who are sponsoring the event. AJN Steelstock will headline sponsor the awards. The premium sponsors are Joseph Ash Galvanizing, Barrett Steel and STRUMIS. The event sponsors are Steadmans and Kingspan.
RIDBA members will be able to go behind the scenes at family-run business Wareing Buildings this summer.
Established almost 115 years ago, Wareing’s ten-acre site in Preston boasts cutting edge machinery and technology, while being steeped in history.
Following the success of RIDBA’s tour of IAE in April, RIDBA and its members will be heading further north to the Lancashire-based frame manufacturer on July 6, 2023.
Registration will be at 1pm with lunch provided for free before the tour begins at 2pm. It will finish at approximately 4pm.
To secure free places for you and your colleagues, click here or below to complete the booking form. Once you’ve booked you will receive a confirmation email.
Staffordshire based RIDBA member IAE host RIDBA members for tour of new factory.
Six groups were taken through various parts of the business, including the new 39,000ft² customer experience centre and 84,000ft² manufacturing space.
Cutting edge machinery appears throughout, powered by more than 300 members of production staff.
Amy Boothby, marketing manager of supplier member IAE, said: “As a member of the association it presented an excellent opportunity to bring fellow members to our manufacturing operation in Stoke-on Trent and share with them our 38 acre site.”
“It was a fantastic day and we really enjoyed catching up with industry friends.”
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RIDBA is one of the first groups to experience an exclusive tour of facility with the ribbon cut less than 12 months ago.
Mark Wilcox, managing director of supplier member Filon Products, said: “Special thanks to the very generous team at IAE for being incredible hosts and taking the time out to give us a tour around their brilliant factory.”
“What an eye opener! A brilliant facility which they are clearly very proud of, and rightly so.”
The day also saw IAE host an open RIDBA board meeting and AGM.
IAE’s Rob Johnson and Gemma Lovatt also delivered a presentation on the business and its history. RIDBA general manager Joe Chalk gave a session on how members can make the most of their membership.
Following several requests from members, the entry deadline for this year’s RIDBA Building Awards is being extended by one month.
The new deadline for you to submit your entries is April 28.
It’s an excellent opportunity for you to showcase your business and projects to the rest of the industry and potential customers, whether you win or not! It’s easy to enter so click the button below to do it now.
A panel of experts will judge the entries before we announce the winners and present them with trophies at a ceremony at the Graduate Hotel in Cambridge on Friday, September 22.
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