Housing Excellence Awards 2009

The Housing Excellence Awards celebrate companies that make social housing work, whether by constructing houses, running social housing schemes or developing products and services that aid with housing issues.

The Winners have been announced!

1. Best New Affordable Housing Scheme of the Year

Sponsor: Inside Right

The Nominees are:

1. Upper Wood Street ( Parc Crescent ), Bargoed -
   United Welsh Housing Association
2. The Point, Hayes – Thames Valley Housing Trust, Ballymore Properties and Rolfe Judd
3. Rowan Close and Cherry Close, Gosport – Portsmouth Housing Association and Guinness Hermitage
4. Crowcroft Scheme, Northmoor, Manchester – Great Places Housing Group
5. Ashton- under- Lyne, West End Phase 4 – Regenda Group, West Pennine Housing Association and Denovo Design
6. Winner: The Friends group Project, Wirral – Wirral Methodist Housing Association

2. Affordable House Builder of the Year

Sponsor: NHBC

The Nominees are:

1. Southdale Homes
2. Winner: Great Places Housing Group
3. Larkfleet Group
4. Lovell

3. Supplier of the Year

Sponsor: Herbert T Forrest

The Nominees are:

1. West Port Timber Windows and Doors
2. Travis Perkins
3. Total Glass
4. Winner: Inside Right

4. Product of the Year

Sponsor: Connaught Partnerships

The Nominees are:

1. Baxi Duo-tec Combi 28 HE - Baxi
2. Grundfos ALPHA2 – Grundfos Pumps
3. Spirocombi – Spirotech UK
4. Cirrus Tenders – Cirrus Purchasing
5. Winner: Domestic Compact Heat Pump – Kensa Engineering

5. Customer Service Award

Sponsor: Digital UK

The Nominees are:

1. Winner: Riverside
2. South Essex Homes
3. Guinness Midsummer Partnership with Connaught
4. Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust
5. Northwards Housing
6. Bolton at Home

6. Tenant Care Programme of the Year

The Nominees are:

1. South Liverpool Housing
2. Estuary Housing Association
3. Winner: Eastlands Homes and Connaught Partnerships

7. Social Landlord of the Year

Sponsor: Morrison Facilities Services

The Nominees are:

1. One Vision Housing
2. Winner: Riverside
3. Sandwell Homes
4. The Guinness Trust

8. Innovation in Housing Technology Award

The Nominees are:

1. Housecall – M3 Housing
2. ebusiness Management System – Reidmark and Broadland Housing Group
3. BluBrik Development software package – Blutek
4. Winner: CorVu Performance Management System – Rocket Software UK
5. The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Property Maintenance System – Smith& Byford and Vixensoft

9. Partnering Scheme of the Year

The Nominees are:

1. Winner: Blackpool Coastal Housing Decent Homes Investment Programme - Connaught Partnerships, BAAS, H T Forrest, Mears & Read and Errington
2. Breathe+ Consortium – Adactus Housing with partners SmartWater, Merseyside Police and SitexOrbis
3. Shoreline Housing Partnership – Bullock and Mears
4. The Liverpool Mutual Homes and Kinetics Partnership

10. Regeneration Scheme of the Year

Sponsor: The Vinden Partnership

The Nominees are:

1. The Great Estates Project – Bolton at Home
2. Winner: The Daneville Estate – Liverpool Mutual Homes and Bramall Construction
3. The Deighton + Brackenhall Initiative - Kirklees Council and Southdale Homes

11. Consultant of the Year

Sponsor: Bullock Construction

The Nominees are:

1. The Wrekin Housing Trust in-house Asset Management Consultancy
2. Cirrus Purchasing
3. Pellings LLP
4. Echelon Consultancy
5. Winner: Simon Fenton Partnership LLP

12. Sub Contractor of the Year

The Nominees are:

1. Straightline Construction
2. PiLON
3. Winner: Rothwell Plumbing Services
4. GEE Construction

13. Contractor of the Year

Sponsor: JTC Furniture Group

The Nominees are:

1. Rok
2. Morrison Facilities Services
3. Winner: Wates Living Space
4. G & J Seddons
5. Apollo
6. Bullock Construction