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BOVEY CONSTRUCTION HIGHLY COMMENDED IN NATIONAL AWARD

Built In Quality Awards Ceremony Photograph
l to r, Andrew Carpenter from Teignbridge Council Linda Barker
and Simon Curling at the Built In Quality awards ceremony

Bovey Construction, based in Caton, Ashburton, South Devon, has won a highly commended in the small domestic category of the 2004 National Built In Quality Awards. The award was made on the basis of two innovative and contrasting extensions on a 1920s bungalow at Haytor in Dartmoor National Park. This puts the rural firm in the top three building firms in the country, specialising in domestic work.

Simon Curling, the project’s site manager, was accompanied to the ceremony in London on 10 June by Andrew Carpenter and Rodney Gover from Teignbridge Council Building Control, who nominated Bovey Construction for the awards. The construction firm won 210 out of a possible 230 points on the score sheet, which applies a range of criteria from quality of construction to the site environment.

Nominating Bovey Construction for the award, the surveyors’ department described the project as “very difficult, combining modern and traditional materials”. The modern element is shown most clearly in the semi-circular garden room, which was constructed in steel and glass, but still required traditional, hard-earned skills. In contrast, the finely crafted glass and wood entrance hall literally plugs a gap – thereby eliminating a wind tunnel – between two gables each side of the main entrance.

Photograph of Nomimated Building
Photograph of Nomimated Building
Photograph of Nomimated Building

For more information, ring Bovey Construction on 01626 821919.
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