2011

PRECAST2011 took place on 18th May at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Leicester. Nearly 350 delegates were in attendance and some 40 exhibitors. Attendees also enjoyed many presentations and speeches including a highly engaging Health & Safety, Fatal Accident Enquiry Role Play, presented by Laura Cameron and Tom Stocker from McGrirgors LLP as one of the first morning sessions.

Delegates were also lucky enough to attend not one, but two product launches. The first being X-SEED in the UK, which was launched by Dr. Michael Kompatscher from BASF, followed by the Kodi Klip launch of LFS Connection Systems in the UK by Jon Kodi and Stuart Jones.

One of the key sessions from the day focused on Building Information Modelling (BIM) with David Philp of Balfour Beatty Construction, David Evans from Tekla, James Austin of _space architecture and James Thomson of Buro Happold taking part.

Martin Clarke, Chief Executive of British Precast said “ We are now actively planning PRECAST2012 to be bigger and better. The content gives our Members what they are looking for – good networking, hard information, the opportunity to market new products and services and the chance to celebrate achievement. Expectations are rising and we have to deliver – an exciting year ahead for our small team. There will be some changes but the essential ethos will remain”.

British Precast holds the annual award scheme to recognise the excellent work carried out by its members and provides another way of sharing best practice within the membership.

We had 5 main awards, all of which were very kindly sponsored and the presentations were made by Olympic and Commonwealth High-jumper, Geoff Parsons.

Award winners and runners up:

Health & Safety Award sponsored by Lafarge
Winner: Stanton Bonna- Eliminating Dust, Noise & Vibration Through Product Design

Runner-up: CR Longley & Co. - Occupational Health Initiative

Sustainability Award sponsored by Hanson UK
Corporate Category

Winner: Aggregate Industries- A+ GRI Sustainability Report

Site Category
Winner: Brett Landscaping- Energy reduction in Curing Chambers

Innovation Award sponsored by Chryso
Winner: PCE, HM Prison, Featherstone 2

Project Award sponsored by Grace
Winner: Decomo- Bodleian Book Storage, Swindon
Runner-up: Thorp Precast- Pudding Mill Lane

Thank you also to BASF and Tekla who were our joint Event Sponsors.

Further details of speakers and all the presentations can be found here.

Award winners can be seen on our Awards Page. There are also separate pages for our Innovation Award and Project Award. Don't forget to visit our online gallery for images of the winners as well as the rest of PRECAST2011.

2010

Tuesday May 11th saw the British Precast Annual Conference and Annual Awards take place at the Concrete2010 event.
Around 250 delegates attended during the day and visited the 41 exhibitors and advisory desks as well as enjoying a host of top presentations, including a very well received talk from award-winning architect, Rab Bennetts and HSE Board Member, Robin Dahlberg.

Five Full Members of British Precast have won Best Practice 2010 Awards after submitting outstanding entries into our annual competition, which comprises the categories health and safety, innovation, sustainability and best project.

Marshalls Plc had two winning entries, with Hanson UK, Tarmac Building Products and Trent Concrete all scooping first prizes at a ceremony at British Precast’s Annual Conference in Leicester on 11th May. In addition, several member companies were awarded Commendations and a Special Communications Award was presented to J&P Building Systems.

Martin Clarke, Chief Executive of British Precast, said: “I am delighted with, no only the number of entries received this year, but also the high standards in all categories. I congratulate all the winners and entrants. Competition between members to win our awards is intense and makes a major contribution to our improvement agenda.”

2009

The National Precast Conference, Expo and Best Practice Awards Ceremony 2009 was held at Athena in Leicester and welcomed over 180 delegates and 25 exhibitors. Our Associate Members highlighted services and products that are of potential interest to precast manufacturers during the seminar and guest speaker Nigel McKay of Bovis Lend Lease provided the keynote speech. We sprinkled our Best Practice Award presentations among the day's events. A selection of images from the day can be viewed and downloaded from our online gallery.

2008

The Building Excellence in Precast National Conference was held on the 13th May 2008. It featured key presentations from the Construction Products Association (CPA) and House Builders Federation (HBF) as well as international speakers from Finland and Switzerland. A copy of all the presentations can be requested from the events team, it is free to all members, a charge of £75 is made to all non-members.