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Water is integral to maintaining the quality of our natural and built environment. Protecting our water and natural environments through better water management is crucial in adapting to changing demography, resource use and climatic regimes.

There are a number of ways in which we can address the challenge of water resilience in what we do and here are some of the ways in which we do just that.

We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the category "Building Contractor of the Year - Turnover £5m-£30m" – at the Construction Awards of Excellence 2023. While the construction sector has a range of awards programs, there are no others that are independent. The awards are designed to recognise those individuals and companies that set the gold standard in the construction sector.

Our site manager, Richard Young has been crowned winner of the Seal of Excellence in the NHBC Pride in the Job awards. Richard was presented the award in front of an audience of sector peers at an awards ceremony in Bristol for his work at Taw Wharf’s Longbridge Quarter in Barnstaple. The awards recognise site managers dedicated to achieving the highest standards in house building and committed to building homes of outstanding quality for their customers.

One of the roles held by our Managing Director, Paul Knox, is being a member of the NHBC Council. As part of this role Council members are able to nominate deserving charities with an honorarium paid annually by NHBC as part of their Social Responsibility Programme. This year we are delighted to have nominated the North Devon Hospice as our favoured charity to receive a £500.00 honorarium to assist their on-going care work with loved ones and their families within our community.

For a second year in a row, our site managers at Taw Wharf Barnstaple have won a Quality Award in the first round of NHBC’s Pride in the Job Awards 2022. From a field of more than 8,000, Richard Young and Peter Hamley are two of the 443 site managers to be awarded the accolade for their work at our Taw Wharf development in Barnstaple.

The Pearce Construction ethos to training and development starts with our annual apprentice intake. The company thrives through it apprenticeship programme and has a rich history of home grown talent stretching back to the company’s inception 75 years ago. Whilst we take a modern approach to training and development we still have one eye on the old indentures that many of our employees signed up to and therefore we still offer minimum 3 year apprenticeships to a standard of level 3.