VGC awards list

Our VWEX programme has been shortlisted in the category of Community Impact Initiative of the Year

The VGC Academy has been shortlisted for the 2022 CN Specialists awards.

Our STEM programme was shortlisted in the Inspiring Change in Education category at the 2022 awards.

We won the 2021 Inspire award for Most Inspiring Employer

We won the 2021 Better Society National Commitment to the Community award

We received the social value award at the November 2020 Balfour Beatty Highways conference

Highly Commended for the British Construction Industry award for Community Engagement Initiative of the Year 2021

Highly Commended for the 2020 CN Specialist Community Engagement award

Highly Commended for 2019 IRP award for Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practitioner

Shortlisted for the 2019 Construction News Talent award for Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative of the Year

VGC is one of only around 250 organisations in the capital to achieve the London Healthy Workplace award (2019).

In October 2018 we were shortlisted for the Institute of Recruitment Professionals award for Corporate and Social Responsibility Practitioner of the Year.

Skanska infrastructure supply chain award: ‘Act Ethically and Transparently’ Sept 2018

Shortlisted for UKRIA corporate social responsibility award in 2017

Crossrail Sustainability award for maximising employment opportunities Aug 2016

Shortlisted for the Construction Investing in Talent awards ‘Best Retention Strategy’ 2016

Shortlisted for the Construction Investing in Talent awards ‘Best Place to Work’ 2016

Shortlisted (the only labour supply company) for Construction News ‘Employer of the Year’ 2015 award

CSR Manager, Kimberley McGinty, received this at the 2022 Women into Construction celebration event.

We won the Construction News 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Excellence award

Women into Construction support award received September 2019

Shortlisted for London Construction Awards Diversity and Inclusion award 2019

Women into Construction support award received October 2018

Shortlisted for CECA Inspiring Change award May 2018 (workplace category)

Shortlisted for Construction News Diversity Champion award in 2017

We won at the 2022 HS2 People Legacy Inspiration Awards in recognition of our robust recruitment and onboarding practices.

The FREDIE awards are hosted by the National Centre for Diversity, where we won this 2022 award for our Go Beyond the Gates programme. 

Our Go Beyond the Gates programme received highly commended at the 2022 National social value awards

Our HS2 south team have achieved Costain Defining Blue status for Quarter 4 2021 and Quarter 1 2022.

We were the top scoring ‘pyramid score’ supplier for health and safety across all of Balfour Beatty Highways projects for May 2021

Our team on Thames Tideway east achieved Costain ‘Defining Blue’ status for the second half of 2020

Our team on Thames Tideway east achieved Costain ‘Defining Blue’ status for the whole of 2019

RoSPA health and safety award ‘workplace involvement in safety and health’ 2019

Two further Network Rail STAR awards were received in 2018 after Crossrail’s senior construction manager assessed our projects at Gidea Park and Shenfield.

‘250 club’ acknowledgement by Balfour Beatty Vinci JV for our team on the M6 junction 2-4 smart motorway upgrade in summer 2018.

Our team at Goodmayes won a Crossrail Anglia SHE award from client Costain in summer 2018.

We won Costain ‘Defining Blue’ at Crossrail Bond St for excellent performance in Q2, Q3 and Q4 in 2019

Rob Barnard’s team won a third Network Rail star jointly with Costain in 2017, also for works on the north-east spur of Crossrail Anglia.

Subcontractor of the month awards in March and April 2017 from Costain on the Crossrail Anglia contract

‘250 club’ acknowledgement by Balfour Beatty Vinci JV for our team on the M5 junction 4a – 6 smart motorway project in May 2017.

Network Rail STAR award for health, safety and environment (with a score of 97%) in Aug 2016 for Crossrail Anglia

A second Network Rail STAR award in December 2016 for track drainage project at Crossrail Anglia

Network Rail and Costain contractor monthly safety award in Aug 2016 at Crossrail Anglia

Health and safety supplier forum award three times running from Aug 2016 to April 2017 for Crossrail Whitechapel (BBMV)

TfL LU Beacon award July 2016 for the Farringdon signal equipment room project

‘Safety Contractor of the Year’ at Crossrail Bond Street station works 2014 and again in 2015 – awarded by Costain Skanska JV. The safety acknowledgement system changed in 2016; we continued to top the table as long as the system was running.

Gold status with Supply Chain Sustainability School awarded in Jan 2016

Atkins SAG (Safety Action Group) safety award in January 2015 for East Kent resignalling phase 2 project

Subcontractor HSE award in August 2014 from client Skanska for the M1 junction 19 improvement project.

Subcontractor safety league for Ferrovial Agroman in Sept and Oct 2015 for Heathrow Bravo taxiway works

Balfour Beatty’s Track Partnership supplier performance league table for Jan 2015; top of close call league table in May and June 2016

Zero Harm award Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering 2012

VGC Projects has been shortlisted for Contractor of the Year at the 2022 London Construction Awards for work with client G.Network.

We recieved an award for meeting the commitments of the Procurement Skills Accord 2021/22 for the Energy and Utilities Skills Partnership.

CSR Manager Kimberley McGinty won this for running  bricklaying sessions with a local SEN school on ALIGN sites.

VGC is a member of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon integrated labour team which won the 2019 Highways England ‘improving employee engagement and behavioural change’ award

VGC and partner Danny Sullivan Group received a collaboration award from CSJV for our work on supporting ex-offenders into construction careers at the HS2 enabling works supply chain forum in May 2019.

Shortlisted for 2019 Irish Post Building Britain award

VGC is a member of the integrated labour team on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement project. The ILT collaboration was recognised with the Innovation award at the A14 Supply Chain awards in January 2018.

Our collaborative work with Costain and Network Rail was one of six project shortlisted by Rail Media in 2017 for the Most Interesting development in support equipment award.

Awarded Costain Blue status at Crossrail Bond Street station for three quarters running over 2016-2017.

Business support lead Rebecca Parfitt has been shortlisted in the Rising Star category of the 2022 London Construction Awards

Apprentice joiner Max Nisbet was a finalist in the Lakes College Further Education and Apprenticeship Awards.

Apprentice Natalia Lagos has been shortlisted at the 2022 Construction News Specialists Awards.

We won the 2021 Inspire award for the ‘most inspiring employment initiative’ for Go Beyond the Gates

We were Highly Commended for the 2021 CN Specialist award for Training Excellence.

We are Highly Commended for the REC award for People Development Business of the Year

We received the award to recognise our investment in sustainable talent for essential services and infrastructure.

Shortlisted: Better Society Award for National Commitment to Skills and Training 2021

Gold status with Supply Chain Sustainability School awarded in Jan 2016 and maintained every year since

VGC was one of 46 companies to win Procurement Skills Accord awards for 2019-2020.

VGC was accepted as a signatory to the Energy and Utilities Skills Partnership Procurement Skills Accord

NSARE (National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering – now called NSAR) outstanding training award 2014, and gold status award in 2018.

Infrastructure 21 award for Training Excellence 2015 (CECA New Civil Engineer)

Shortlisted in the Training and Development category of UKRIA (UK Rail Industry Awards) 2015