By John Connell

Last updated at 14:41, Thursday, 05 July 2012

Two members of the Story Homes’ team have been recognised in regional finals of prestigious building control awards.

Duncan Chisholm, who manages Magellan Park in Whitehaven, was crowned winner in the LABC Warranty Site Manager’s Excellence awards.

Mark Irving, who manages Edmondson Close, Brampton, was runner-up. More than 300 guests packed the Newcastle Hilton to acknowledge the very best of the region’s site managers.

Duncan said: “I was delighted but amazed when my name was read out.

“Mark had just won runner up in the awards and we all thought that was fantastic.

“We didn’t think we’d ever win second and first in the awards.

“I took my wife with me and a few colleagues and it was a great evening.

“I’m looking forward to going to the national finals in November.”

Mark added: “I was really pleased to be short listed for an award for running our site in Brampton. We had a great night at the awards and I’m delighted for Duncan.

“He’s done a great job at Magellan Park. He’s also been looking after 22 apprentices and being filmed for the past year.

“He totally deserved to win. We’ll all be rooting for him in November.”’

Duncan will go forward to represent the northern region in the national awards in November.

He shot to fame for his part in the recently screened ITV4 Rookie Builders series where he oversaw the work of apprentices as they took on the challenge of a lifetime – to build an executive 4-bedroom detached property in a year.

Duncan and Mark were assessed on their high standards in managing and delivering successful developments.

Between them they have over 20 years experience working for Story Homes.

All site managers working on sites of three or more units who are registered with LABC warranty are eligible for the awards.

Site Managers are nominated by their LABC site audit surveyor based on build quality, site administration, health and safety, protection of work in progress and site tidiness.

Ian Sewell, managing director for Story Homes, said: “We’ve had an exceptional two weeks of awards.

“There aren’t many home buyers who can boast that an award winning site manager built their house or that they live on an award winning development, but most of our buyers can.

“We have a great team on-site and their dedication and hard work is recognised through the winning of these awards.

“Both Duncan and Mark are deserved winners and we wish Duncan success in the national finals.”

First published at 11:24, Thursday, 05 July 2012
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