Awcock Ward Partnership

From all the team at AWP, we wish you a very Merry Christmas! 🎄 🌟

This year, instead of sending Christmas cards, we have made donations to Bread Of Life Outreach, who will support the homeless in Exeter and Mid Devon this winter. And Parkinson's UK who work towards finding treatments and cures for the neurodegenerative disease.

Our last working day before Christmas is Friday 22nd December.
The AWP Office will reopen on Tuesday 2nd January.

Chosen by Rodin's Team, (Ollie Thomas, Jacob De-La-Croix, Jayesh Elson, Jacob Hutt, Mitch Ayers, Tyler Shere) our Q4 Charity Donations are going to:

⭐ St Luke's Cheshire Hospice

⭐ The DPJ Foundation

⭐ YMCA Exeter

⭐ Exeter Waymakers

Please read more about our chosen charities here:

https://www.awpexeter.com/news/2023-q4-charity-donations

2023 Q4 Charity Donations As part of AWP's quarterly giving scheme, Rodin's team have chosen to support four charities relevant to various team members - St Luke's Hospice (Cheshire), DPJ Foundation, YMCA...

It's Christmas Jumper Day today at AWP! 🎅 🎄

We're raising money for Save the Children: https://christmas.savethechildren.org.uk/fundraising/CJD230018566

We're hiring!

We are looking for an Experienced Transport Planner / Engineer to join our team.

Check it out on our Recruitment Page, along with our other vacancies:

https://www.awpexeter.com/about-us/recruitment

This morning we were joined by Shauna Greenaway from the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity, who gave us an insight into what services and support they offer, and some hard-hitting statistics about mental health in the construction industry.

Their mission is to make wellbeing support visible and accessible for all in the construction community. Their online portal, Make It Visible, is dedicated to everyone working in construction or allied trades to improve the welfare and wellbeing of the workforce and their families. Whether you’re struggling with emotional, physical, or financial wellbeing, you will find all the help and support you need here: https://makeitvisible.info/

Take a look at their website too for more information on their free self-paced e-learning modules and interactive masterclasses: https://www.lighthouseclub.org/wellbeingacademy/

Thank you Shauna for a great presentation & for the wonderful work you all do at Lighthouse🙂

🎉 2023 Annual Value Awards 🎉

We held our annual prizegiving event to announce the winners of the AWP Value Awards. A huge congratulations to ...

Millie Hunt - 🤝 Mutually Respectful
Ceri Middleton - 🎁 Sharing
James Blyth - ⭐ Star of the Year
Jayesh Elson - 🤝 Trust
Ralph Morris - 💎 Value for Money
Jake Richards - 👌 Delivering Quality Services
Craig Mason - 💡 Informed

Congratulations also to Simon Baker who has reached the 10 Year milestone at AWP, and was awarded with his Long Service Award!

Read more about the awards here:
https://www.awpexeter.com/news/2023-annual-value-awards

Our Halloween Charity Bake Sale went down well in the office today! 🎃
Thank you to everyone who baked delicious treats, and all money raised will be donated to St Luke's Cheshire Hospice.

👋🏽 Come and say hi to Daisy and Jacob today at the University of Exeter Careers and Placement Fair!

Thank you to Exeter College Exeter Apprentices for the biscuits, for our sponsorship of the Apprentice and Employer awards back in July - a really lovely gesture! 😊

Yesterday 5 AWP women took on the Trevi Women 10k Warrior Women Walk around Burrator Reservoir 🌲 and what a beautiful day for it!

A fantastic event supporting women affected by trauma and abuse. Well done to Team AWP who have raised £585 for Trevi -
https://trevihouse.enthuse.com/pf/team-awp

Project Update!

We are pleased to see planning consent being awarded for a new residential development AWP has worked on for several years at Devizes in Wiltshire. Working on behalf of one of our long-standing clients, Square Bay Property, AWP were commissioned to undertake the Transport Statement, Flood Risk Assessment and Drainage Strategy to support the outline planning application for up to 59 dwellings on land to the west of Hillworth Road.

pad Design Ltd
Pearce Planning
Thea Osmund-Smith

Read more below 👇
https://www.awpexeter.com/news/new-residential-development-in-devizes-secures-planning-consent

Project Update!
We're so pleased to see planning permission being granted for this much needed health and wellbeing facility in Teignmouth.

Clink the link below for more info:
https://www.awpexeter.com/news/teignmouth-health-wellbeing-hub-gains-planning-approval

Teignmouth Health & Wellbeing Hub gains Planning Approval AWP were pleased to provide Transport and Flood Risk input into a new Health & Wellbeing Centre in Teignmouth. The proposed centre will combine three existing NHS GP surgeries, which will be...

AWP recently came 3rd in Cycle September against other similar-sized consultancies in the UK! 🚴‍♂️

Cycle September is an annual campaign aimed at promoting cycling, which involves a range of competitions where businesses can compete against each other. AWP saw a great turnout, with over 280 rides and a total distance of 1,760 miles. That’s further than cycling between Exeter and Rome!

We had several members of staff who started cycling during September having not ridden since childhood, and we almost tripled our score compared to last year. In total, we saved around 365 lb of CO2!

A number of events were organised during September to encourage staff to cycle. This included a charity ride along the River Exe to the Turf Locks pub and a free breakfast for anyone who travelling in without a car on World Car Free Day. We had an internal leaderboard between teams, with Team Dan just pipping Team Transport for the top position! Also well done to Daisy for winning the individual prize.

Cycle September is just one part of AWP’s Staff Travel Plan, which covers a wide range of measures to encourage staff to travel using sustainable modes of transport, including events, route planning, cycle parking, a shower and a drying cabinet.

Well done to all who took part and we look forward to competing again next year!

2023 Q3 Charity Donations

As part of our charitable giving scheme, Team Graham have chosen to support five charities - FORCE Cancer Charity, Baby Bank Network Exeter, Tommy's, Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity and Trevi Women.

Please click the link below to find out what events we took part in, and to find out more about what these charities do 🧡

https://www.awpexeter.com/news/2023-q3-charity-donations

2023 Q3 Charity Donations As part of Q3 2023 charity donations, Team Graham have chosen to support five charities relevant to various team members - FORCE, Baby Bank Exeter, Tommy's,  Lighthouse...

😊 Welcome to our four new apprentices! 😊

AWP are excited to have welcomed four fresh apprentices throughout August and September.

All joining as Apprentice Technicians, from left to right:
Byron Povey – Team Graham
Adam Champion – Team Transport
Luke Hallett – Team Dan
Tyler Shere – Team Rodin

They have just started their BTEC Level 3 Civil Engineering course at Exeter College and are looking forward to their future within the business. We’re really looking forward to supporting them throughout their career.

Welcome to the team! 👏




Exeter Apprentices

https://www.awpexeter.com/news/welcome-to-our-four-new-apprentices

AWP are proud to have sponsored a number of local grassroots youth sports teams over the years.

This season we have sponsored the Westexe U13 football team, which includes Graham's son, Lennon. The team are now kitted out with AWP branded lightweight, waterproof training coats, ready for all the elements that the English weather can throw at them. ☔

Good luck for the season Westexe! ⚽

Thank you Woodward Smith Architects for hosting a brilliant charity event at Raceworld Karting on Friday. 🏎️

Team AWP’s highly competitive spirit meant we finished in 1st place on the podium! 🥳🏆

The AWP Racing team are ready! 🏎️🏎️🏎️

Today is the day! Looking forward to our charity go karting event at Raceworld Karting, raising money for ChemoHero.

See you there Pearce Homes, Awcock Ward Partnership, Heddon Mill, JRC Consulting Engineers, Orbis Ecology Ltd, Ruddlesden geotechnical, Lodgico Ltd, Arrowbuild SW Ltd, Mazzard Construction, Hazelwood Homes Developments Limited, Lakeway Ecological Consultancy and Richard Green Ecology Ltd!

Building Greater Exeter Open Day - Axminster

Saturday, 7 Oct, 10am - 4pm, 2023

We've adopted an additional approach to engagement, with the goal of interacting and sharing opportunities directly with the public.

Join Building Greater Exeter and Partners at Axminster’s first Gate to Plate Festival; https://lnkd.in/eiJCAGaP

Funded by East Devon District Council and produced by eat Festivals (www.eatfestivals.org) this fantastic open-air event highlights the best of the district's outstanding food and drink producers, as well as traditional crafts people, entertainers and NOW local trades, skills and employability initiatives helping the built environment to shape the future workforce.

🌞 August Social – Kayaking/Paddleboarding 🌞

We made our way down to Exeter Quay after work yesterday for our summer social!

With a mixture of paddleboards, canoes and kayaks, we travelled down to Double Locks for some food and drinks. We then made our way back – all but one managed to stay on board their vessels!

Thank you to Sean at Kayakhub Exeter for sorting us out, we can’t wait to do it again next year.🛶🚣‍♂️

⛳️ Longest Day Golf Challenge ⛳️

Tomorrow, our team member Jake Richards is taking on the challenge of playing 72 holes of golf in one day, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. The 4 rounds of golf will take approximately 16 hours and involve about 50,000 steps, which is equivalent to roughly 20 miles! Jake will be playing with 3 friends, supporting each other every step of the way.

Macmillan is a fantastic charity that provides vital physical, financial and emotional support to people living with cancer. Each player has lost much loved family members and friends to cancer related illnesses so they’d like to do their bit and help raise a significant amount of money to make a real difference.

The guys have set themselves a target for fundraising of £750, but would love to go above and beyond this for such a worthy cause. AWP have donated to the team as part of their Q2 charitable giving scheme, and we are looking forward to seeing how they get on!

Please donate whatever you can, big or small, it would be much appreciated. Good luck Jake!

Please hit the link below to donate ⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://longestdaygolf.macmillan.org.uk/Team/bushwhackers

🚴Today is National Cycle to Work Day, and to celebrate, all staff who cycled into the office were offered a free breakfast. We saw a good turnout, despite the mixed weather and rain!

Cycle to Work Day also provides an opportunity to show the benefits of cycling, being a great way to reduce your carbon footprint and improve your fitness, as well as being excellent for your mental health!🚴

Cyclists: Robbie Mackley, Richard Leevers, Jacob Hutt, Isaac Woodman, Ceri Middleton

Project Update! 👇

AWP were commissioned by the Duchy of Cornwall in 2020 to provide engineering support, design and co-ordination for the new commercial development ‘Kew An Lergh’ within the heart of their Nansledan development.

The construction of Kew An Lergh has been recently completed and formally opened by his Majesty King Charles III on the 13th July 2023.

The commercial development has already been welcoming its occupiers and is fully leased by creative media companies, artisan shops, a nature focussed nursery school, and soon to be new café and wellness studio.

Kew An Lergh borders the Newquay Strategic Route which is on target to be completed late summer 2024, forming the main route through Nansledan’s planned Market Street, a new High Street for Cornwall, which we are also supporting.

Kew An Lergh forms part of our ongoing development wide commission to provide engineering support, master planning, and design co-ordination for the Duchy of Cornwall’s new sustainable Cornish community. Nansledan is a 540-acre extension to the seaside town of Newquay. Upon completion the new community will consist of approximately 4,000 homes, a range of shops, cafes, restaurants, offices and leisure facilities arranged around walkable neighbourhoods.

We provided input on constraints and opportunities from the early stages of design development for Kew An Lergh and its surrounding infrastructure, informing the masterplan to navigate the levels, parking provision, building access points, drainage and services in the most sustainable fashion, whilst incorporating landscaping and lighting. Our team prepared the formal highways and levels designs, a CEMP and preliminary drainage design for approval under the ‘Local Development Order’ (LDO), and also secured a swift drainage consent through Cornwall Councils Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA).

Post LDO approval we continued our input through detailed design and construction, securing the Section 38 and Section 104 approvals for the highway and sewers.

AWP supported the construction team throughout the build on service provision, meter placements, a new substation and the ground source heat pump network, reviewing and co-ordinating the 16 bore holes (each 130m deep), pipe network and manifold positions to co-exist with the other underground services/drainage and landscaping. (The ground source heat pumps are predicted to reduce annual carbon emissions by around 84% compared with traditional gas boilers!).

It’s been a pleasure supporting this commercial development through to fruition and great to see its already bringing joy to the local community.

We look forward to enjoying the artisan shops and café on our next visit...!

https://lnkd.in/eUrKdeTT

This weeks league games...

🏟️HCC 1st XI 🆚 Braunton Cricket Club - Bar 2nd XI
📍Mountbatten Park
🕐 1pm Start

Match sponsored by Awcock Ward Partnership

Our 2nd XI play away 🆚 Seaton Cricket Club 2nd XI

Keep posted for match updates!

Best of luck to both sides...

🏏 Sponsored by MKM Building Supplies Honiton

Congratulations to our Assistant Technician, Jack Taylor, for winning Construction Technical & Professional Apprentice of the Year 2023! 🎉

We had a great evening on Friday at Winslade Park where the Exeter College Apprentice & Employer Awards ceremony was held and Jack was announced winner.

Jack began his apprenticeship in 2021 and will next year complete his Civil Engineering Technician Level 4 qualification. Jack says, “I’m very happy to receive this award. Thank you to Exeter College for providing me with a high standard of teaching. I look forward to completing my final year!”

We’re incredibly proud of Jack and this win is a real testament to the hard work he’s put in over the last few years.

AWP were also highly commended in the Small Employer of the Year category.

Thank you to Exeter College Exeter Apprentices and we look forward to continuing to work in partnership with you.

https://www.awpexeter.com/news/exeter-college-apprentice-employer-awards-2023

As part of our quarterly Charitable Giving Scheme, Dan’s Team have chosen to use the fund of £1500 to support YMCA Exeter, BCHA, RNLI and Macmillan.

YMCA Exeter are committed to the wellbeing of the young lives in the communities of Exeter, supporting people’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs including finding accommodation, addressing addictions, mental health, employment, education and much more.

BCHA are a South West based charitable housing association with a continuing mission to meet housing need and end homelessness. With their Exeter based homeless hostel, Gabriel House, under threat of closure, the number of people rough sleeping in Devon is at risk of increasing.

The RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crews saved 389 lives in 2022. Thousands of people get themselves into danger by the water and summer is an especially busy time for the RNLI.

Macmillan Cancer Support are organising a golf marathon challenge which AWP will enter a team into this summer. Any extra money we raise through this event will go towards supporting people living with cancer and their loved ones.

https://lnkd.in/eU-aYJvD

Q2 Charity Donations As part of our quarterly Charitable Giving Scheme, Dan’s Team have chosen to use the fund of £1500 to support YMCA Exeter, BCHA, RNLI and Macmillan. YMCA Exeter are committed to the...

As part of our events to celebrate Pride Month, we held an ‘Eat the Rainbow’ 🌈 Pride Lunch in the office to coincide with the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots on June 28th, 1969. Everyone was asked to bring in some food to share, with bonus points awarded for anything rainbow themed! Not only were we able to celebrate Pride and enjoy some very tasty food, but we raised £270 for our chosen Pride Charity, Proud2Be.

The Stonewall Riots are largely recognised as being the catalyst event which transformed the gay rights movement in the United States and across the globe. In an era of illegal gay bars, widespread homophobia and oppression, the events of the night of June 28th 1969 started as a response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City. More protests erupted over the following days, with residents of the Village organising activist groups demanding the right to live openly without fear of being arrested.

A year after the riots, the first gay pride marches were held across the United States. Within a few years, gay rights organisations were established across the world, with June now being permanently recognised as Pride Month.

Whilst we are lucky to live in a society where there is a much wider acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, there is still a long way to go before global acceptance is a reality. Homosexuality is still illegal in many countries around the world, and members of the LGBTQ+ community are still persecuted and harmed on a daily basis. We are therefore extremely thankful to organisations like Proud2Be who seek to end discrimination and support LGBTQ+ people to be their true selves.

At AWP we have marked Pride Month not only with today’s lunch, but have been spotlighting key themes and figures each week on our staff noticeboard and intranet, and last Friday we were joined by Max Price, co-founder of Proud2Be, who talked to us about the charity and answered questions from around the office.

https://lnkd.in/eqX5PygT

We're excited to announce we have been shortlisted for the Employer Award and congratulations to Jack Taylor (Assistant Technician) who has been shortlisted for the Apprenticeship Award at this years Exeter College Apprentice & Employer Awards. 🤩

We are also proud to be sponsoring the event and can’t wait to attend on Friday. Wish us luck!

We are over the moon to announce as one of our gold sponsors at the Exeter College Apprentice & Employer Awards 2023 taking place on Friday the 30th June.

AWP is an award-winning civil engineering consultancy providing specialist development planning and infrastructure services to the property industry.

"We aim to be a provider of high-quality, good-value professional services. Our proactive ethos is one of partnership working with our staff, clients, and co-professionals in the delivery of our projects."

Thank you to the team at AWP for your support.

Annabel Harris and Fionah Mazvita Mukondwa (GMICE) representing Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) at the 'Engineering Her Future' event for 'Women in STEM Day' on Friday.

Thank you Tamar Crossings for hosting a great event!

It's International Women in Engineering Day!

As part of this year’s International Women in Engineering Day activities, Principal Engineer, Annabel Harris is attending the “Engineering Her Future” STEM event representing both AWP and the Institution of Civil Engineers today in Plymouth.

Attending these types of events is important to AWP, as it provides the opportunity to encourage more young women to consider future careers in STEM sectors and helping to address the gender balance in what has historically been a male dominated construction industry.

We appreciate all women in engineering today and every day! Annabel Harris, Daisy Atkin, Fleur Elliott-Davies, Cat Grindle, Verity Saunders, Letisha Blackmore.