VGC awards list
People are central to our success
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Shortlist: British Construction Industry Awards
Our VWEX programme has been shortlisted in the category of Community Impact Initiative of the Year
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Shortlist: CN Awards training excellence
The VGC Academy has been shortlisted for the 2022 CN Specialists awards.
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Shortlist: Inspiring Change Awards
Our STEM programme was shortlisted in the Inspiring Change in Education category at the 2022 awards.
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Winner: Most Inspiring Employer
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Winner: Better Society Award
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Balfour Beatty Highways social value award
We received the social value award at the November 2020 Balfour Beatty Highways conference
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Highly Commended: BCIA community engagement initiative award
Highly Commended for the British Construction Industry award for Community Engagement Initiative of the Year 2021
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Highly Commended: CN Specialist Community Engagement award
Highly Commended for the 2020 CN Specialist Community Engagement award
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Highly Commended: IRP Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practitioner
Highly Commended for 2019 IRP award for Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practitioner
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Shortlisted: CN Talent CSR Initiative of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2019 Construction News Talent award for Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative of the Year
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London Healthy Workplace award
VGC is one of only around 250 organisations in the capital to achieve the London Healthy Workplace award (2019).
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Shortlisted: IRP CSR Practitioner of the Year
In October 2018 we were shortlisted for the Institute of Recruitment Professionals award for Corporate and Social Responsibility Practitioner of the Year.
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Infrastructure supply chain award 2018
Skanska infrastructure supply chain award: ‘Act Ethically and Transparently’ Sept 2018
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Shortlisted: UKRIA corporate social responsibility 2017
Shortlisted for UKRIA corporate social responsibility award in 2017
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Crossrail Sustainability award
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Shortlisted: ‘Best Retention Strategy’
Shortlisted for the Construction Investing in Talent awards ‘Best Retention Strategy’ 2016
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Shortlisted: CN Talent ‘Best Place to Work’
Shortlisted for the Construction Investing in Talent awards ‘Best Place to Work’ 2016
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Shortlisted: Construction News ‘Employer of the Year’
Shortlisted (the only labour supply company) for Construction News ‘Employer of the Year’ 2015 award
Diversity is our strength
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Highly Commended: Women into Construction Champion of the Year
CSR Manager, Kimberley McGinty, received this at the 2022 Women into Construction celebration event.
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Winner: Construction News award
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Women into Construction support
Women into Construction support award received September 2019
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Shortlisted: London Construction Awards Diversity and Inclusion award
Shortlisted for London Construction Awards Diversity and Inclusion award 2019
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Women into Construction support
Women into Construction support award received October 2018
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Shortlisted: CECA Inspiring Change award
Shortlisted for CECA Inspiring Change award May 2018 (workplace category)
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Shortlisted: Construction News Diversity Champion
Shortlisted for Construction News Diversity Champion award in 2017
We look after each other
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Winner: Modern Slavery Prevention
We won at the 2022 HS2 People Legacy Inspiration Awards in recognition of our robust recruitment and onboarding practices.
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Winner: Most Innovative FREDIE Initiative
The FREDIE awards are hosted by the National Centre for Diversity, where we won this 2022 award for our Go Beyond the Gates programme.
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Highly Commended: Best Private Sector Project
Our Go Beyond the Gates programme received highly commended at the 2022 National social value awards
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Costain Defining Blue
Our HS2 south team have achieved Costain Defining Blue status for Quarter 4 2021 and Quarter 1 2022.
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Balfour Beatty Highways
We were the top scoring ‘pyramid score’ supplier for health and safety across all of Balfour Beatty Highways projects for May 2021
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Costain Defining Blue
Our team on Thames Tideway east achieved Costain ‘Defining Blue’ status for the second half of 2020
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Costain Defining Blue
Our team on Thames Tideway east achieved Costain ‘Defining Blue’ status for the whole of 2019
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RoSPA Silver award
RoSPA health and safety award ‘workplace involvement in safety and health’ 2019
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Network Rail STAR 2018
Two further Network Rail STAR awards were received in 2018 after Crossrail’s senior construction manager assessed our projects at Gidea Park and Shenfield.
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‘250 club’
‘250 club’ acknowledgement by Balfour Beatty Vinci JV for our team on the M6 junction 2-4 smart motorway upgrade in summer 2018.
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Crossrail Anglia SHE award 2018
Our team at Goodmayes won a Crossrail Anglia SHE award from client Costain in summer 2018.
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Costain 'Defining Blue'
We won Costain ‘Defining Blue’ at Crossrail Bond St for excellent performance in Q2, Q3 and Q4 in 2019
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Network Rail STAR 2017
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.
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Subcontractor of the month
Subcontractor of the month awards in March and April 2017 from Costain on the Crossrail Anglia contract
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‘250 club’ 2017
‘250 club’ acknowledgement by Balfour Beatty Vinci JV for our team on the M5 junction 4a – 6 smart motorway project in May 2017.
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Network Rail STAR - August 2016
Network Rail STAR award for health, safety and environment (with a score of 97%) in Aug 2016 for Crossrail Anglia
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Network Rail STAR - December 2016
A second Network Rail STAR award in December 2016 for track drainage project at Crossrail Anglia
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Contractor monthly safety
Network Rail and Costain contractor monthly safety award in Aug 2016 at Crossrail Anglia
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Health and safety supplier forum award
Health and safety supplier forum award three times running from Aug 2016 to April 2017 for Crossrail Whitechapel (BBMV)
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TfL LU Beacon
TfL LU Beacon award July 2016 for the Farringdon signal equipment room project
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Safety Contractor of the Year
‘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.
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Gold status
Gold status with Supply Chain Sustainability School awarded in Jan 2016
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Atkins SAG safety award
Atkins SAG (Safety Action Group) safety award in January 2015 for East Kent resignalling phase 2 project
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Subcontractor HSE award
Subcontractor HSE award in August 2014 from client Skanska for the M1 junction 19 improvement project.
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Subcontractor safety league
Subcontractor safety league for Ferrovial Agroman in Sept and Oct 2015 for Heathrow Bravo taxiway works
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Top of close call league table
Balfour Beatty’s Track Partnership supplier performance league table for Jan 2015; top of close call league table in May and June 2016
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Zero Harm award
Zero Harm award Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering 2012
We collaborate with colleagues and clients
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Shortlist: Contractor of the Year
VGC Projects has been shortlisted for Contractor of the Year at the 2022 London Construction Awards for work with client G.Network.
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Procurement Skills Accord
We recieved an award for meeting the commitments of the Procurement Skills Accord 2021/22 for the Energy and Utilities Skills Partnership.
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ALIGN Values Awards
CSR Manager Kimberley McGinty won this for running bricklaying sessions with a local SEN school on ALIGN sites.
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Highways England customer award
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
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Collaboration 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.
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Shortlisted for Irish Post Building Britain award
Shortlisted for 2019 Irish Post Building Britain award
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A14 Supply Chain Innovation 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.
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Shortlisted: Most Interesting development in support equipment award
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.
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Costain Blue status 2016-2017
Awarded Costain Blue status at Crossrail Bond Street station for three quarters running over 2016-2017.
We achieve potential
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Shortlisted: Rising Star
Business support lead Rebecca Parfitt has been shortlisted in the Rising Star category of the 2022 London Construction Awards
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Shortlisted: Lakes College Further Education and Apprenticeship Awards
Apprentice joiner Max Nisbet was a finalist in the Lakes College Further Education and Apprenticeship Awards.
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Shortlisted: Apprentice of the Year
Apprentice Natalia Lagos has been shortlisted at the 2022 Construction News Specialists Awards.
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Winner: Most Inspiring Employment Initiative
We won the 2021 Inspire award for the ‘most inspiring employment initiative’ for Go Beyond the Gates
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Highly commended: CN Specialist award for Training Excellence
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Highly Commended: REC People Development Business of the Year
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Energy & Utilities Skills Partnership award 2021
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Shortlisted: Better Society Award
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Gold status
Gold status with Supply Chain Sustainability School awarded in Jan 2016 and maintained every year since
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Energy & Utilities Skills Partnership award 2020
VGC was one of 46 companies to win Procurement Skills Accord awards for 2019-2020.
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Energy & Utilities Skills Partnership Procurement Skills Accord 2019
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NSARE outstanding training award
NSARE (National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering – now called NSAR) outstanding training award 2014, and gold status award in 2018.
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Infrastructure 21 award
Infrastructure 21 award for Training Excellence 2015 (CECA New Civil Engineer)
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UKRIA shortlisted
Shortlisted in the Training and Development category of UKRIA (UK Rail Industry Awards) 2015