News
Here you can find out about the latest news from Barratt Commercial Support.
Recent Award Success
Homes for Scotland Awards
Our Scotland division has enjoyed resounding success at this year's Homes for Scotland Awards. We were proud to take home the standout award of the ceremony, Homebuilder of the Year 2021, with judges blown away by our high-quality homes, approach to the environment and innovation and customer-centric designs at our developments across Scotland. The commitment to keeping our... Read More »
Posted: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 09:39
Tags: Awards, Barratt, Best Practice, David Wilson
31 Seals of Excellence and 5 Regional Winners
We are delighted to share that 31 of our NHBC Pride in the Job winning Site Managers have gone on to win Seals of Excellence, with 5 of the 31 also being regional winners. We've also picked up more Seals of Excellence winners than any other housebuilder!
With site teams, subcontractors and suppliers working together to achieve high standards, Leading Construction continues to be a key component of our... Read More »
Posted: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 12:08
Tags: Awards, Barratt, Best Practice, David Wilson, NHBC
93 of our Site Managers have won 2021 NHBC Pride in the Job Quality Awards
We are pleased to announce that our site managers have received even more Pride in the Job awards than last year, and then any other housebuilder for an incredible seventeen consecutive years.
Pride in the Job is the only UK-wide competition dedicated to recognising site managers who achieve the highest standards in housebuilding, with winners selected from more than 11,000 site... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:08
Tags: Barratt, Best Practice, David Wilson
Barratt Developments are 5* for the 12th year in a row
We are proud to announce that we've been awarded the Home Builders Federation (HBF) 5 Star Home Builder status for the 12th year in a row. This makes us the only national housebuilder to have achieved this.
5 Star status means that more than 90% of our customers who responded to the national customer satisfaction survey have said that they would 'recommend us to a friend'.
The HBF Customer Satisfaction... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:55
Tags: 5 Star, Barratt, David Wilson, HBF
Celebrating our Supreme Pride in the Job Award winner
We are delighted to share that Kirk Raine, site manager at The Grove at Doseley Park in our Mercia division was named Supreme Winner in the Large Builder Category at the NHBC Pride in the Job Supreme Awards on Friday, making this the fifth time one of our site managers has won the top award in the past six years.
This is an incredible achievement, particularly considering this is the second time that... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 10:27
Tags: Award, Barratt, Best Practice, David Wilson, NHBC, Pride in the Job
We're proud to be a CDP Supplier Engagement Leader
We're proud to feature on the CDP's 2020 Supplier Engagement Leaderboard a recognition of our work alongside our supply chain to reduce our carbon emissions and become the UK's leading sustainable housebuilder.
The Leaderboard is part of CDP's supply chain report Transparency to Transformation: A Chain Reaction, which explores the business case for supply chain action and how it... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 10:17
Tags: Barratt, Best Practice, Climate Change, David Wilson, Emissions, Supply Chain
Self Billing Agreements Update
Back in 2019 we shared with you the news that we would be updating our self-billing agreements so that we can process more payments through this method in our new COINS system. We are in the process of rolling out the new COINS update to our remaining divisions after a successful pilot and therefore more divisions are asking their subcontractors to sign up to the new agreement. By Spring 2021, all... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:59
Tags: Barratt, Coins, David Wilson
Thank you from Secretary of State
Following on from the HBF and MHCLG's joint statement about the importance of the construction sector remaining open to the economy, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Alok Sharma, has issued a letter to those working in the sector to thank them for their 'invaluable contribution in supporting the economy.'
It's positive that Government continues to recognise the significance... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:16
Tags: Barratt, Best Practice, COVID-19, David Wilson, Health & Safety, SHE
National Drawing Portal for Suppliers and Subcontractors
We have added some guidance documents for suppliers and subcontractors that wish to access drawings through our National Drawing Portal.
In order to gain access to the drawing portal, please contact your Divisional representative for an invitation to be sent and for you to register your details.
Click HERE to view the information.
Posted: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:59
COVID-19 Guidance for Suppliers and Contractors
As part of the government news about the gradual easing of the lockdown restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we have been working extremely hard to put in place new and enhanced measures across our business to welcome our employees, suppliers and subcontractors back to work on our sites.
You will find guidelines on our website about our enhanced safe working practices, briefing notes and... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 15 May 2020 17:00
Tags: Barratt, COVID-19, David Wilson, Health & Safety, Important, SHE