Strong entry in terms of numbers and quality indicates industry's desire to innovate and improve.
Westbury and Lovell are the supreme award winners in the first ever Ðǿմ«Ã½ Homes Quality Awards, hosted in association with the Housing Forum. Full results are:
  • Best training/people development strategy (sponsored by the Housing Forum) winner: Countryside
  • Best customer satisfaction improvement strategy (sponsored by British Gypsum) winner: Crest Nicholson
  • Best quality improvement strategy (sponsored by Zurich Financial Services)winner: Miller Homes
  • Best change strategy (sponsored by Hyperwise) winner: Bowey Homes
  • Best options and choices initiative (sponsored by Property Week) winner: Southern Housing Group
  • Best health and safety approach (sponsored by Construction Best Practice Programme) winner: Lovell Partnerships
  • Best company-wide sustainability strategy (sponsored by Thermalite) winner: Wilson Connolly
  • Best approach to partnering/supply chain management (sponsored by Ðǿմ«Ã½) winner: the Amphion Consortium
  • Best approach to partnering with subcontractors (sponsored by Eternit) winner: Lovell Partnerships
  • Best building efficiency initiative (sponsored by BuildOnline) winner: Westbury Homes
  • Private sector housebuilder of the year (sponsored by Euroform Products) winner: Westbury Homes
  • Affordable sector housing provider of the year (sponsored by Blue Circle Industries) winner: Lovell.

The judged were: Steve Morgan, formerly of Redrow; Tom Bloxham, chairman of Urban Splash; Jonathan Seal md of Hamptons Residential Development and Investment; Malcolm Pitcher, marketing expert; Professor David Gann of SPRU and chair of the Housing Forum demonstration project panel; Judith Harrison project director of the Housing Forum; David Birkbeck, chief executive of Design for Homes; Kevin Myers, chief inspector of construction at the Health and Safety Executive, Mike Cohen, formerly of The Guinness Trust; Sarah Peace, partnering expert; Andrew Forrest, of the Industrial Society; Florian Sommer of New Economics Foundation; John Doggart, director of Oscar Faber; and Josephine Smit, editor of Ðǿմ«Ã½ Homes.