Dawnus

Building Awards 2012 Finalist

We are delighted to announce that, for the second year running, Dawnus Construction has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Contractor of the Year (up to £300m) category for the Building Awards. We are extremely pleased and proud to be shortlisted as one of the top Contractors again, in spite of the tough trading conditions of the last year and the record number of entries submitted.   The p...

Targeting BREEAM Outstanding and Exemplar Status at TATA Steelworks

Our exciting new projects at TATA Steelworks in Port Talbot have been targeted to achieve two sustainable development firsts for Dawnus. The £12.3m development consists of the concurrent design and construction of a stores building, training centre and industrial heritage/visitor centre being built on the live steelworks site. Both the stores building and visitor centre have achieved BREEAM Outstandin...

Dawnus International Moves Into Senegal

Dawnus are expanding their international operations, having secured a major new contract in Senegal. The US$20m (£12m) project for Mineral Deposits Limited, will involve earthworks for a 25km road and rail project in support of the Grande Côte Project, a titanium and zircon mining operation. The project runs between the capital, Dakar, and St Louis. The Dawnus team will be led by Mike Condon a...

Silver CMYA award for Wes Day

Congratulations to Wes Day, who has been awarded a Silver Award in the CIOB Construction Manager of the Year Awards. Wes won the Award for his outstanding work as Construction Manager in delivering the £14.2m 1 Guildhall Square project, which involved the design and construction of a new six-storey office building in Southampton city centre. Wes was commended for his value engineering on the project...

Level 5 Green Dragon Environmental Standard

We are pleased to report that our Environmental Management System has been awarded Green Dragon Level 5 accreditation by Groundworks Wales. The Green Dragon Environmental Standard is in addition to our ISO14001 accreditation which has been in place since 2005. Level 5 is the highest tier of Green Dragon and goes further than ISO14001 in several areas including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the comm...

Trainee Engineer Wins 'Most Promising' Award

Congratulations to Charlotte Farley, who has won the CECA South West Training Award for Most Promising Trainee Civil Engineer 2011. Charlotte was presented the award at a ceremony on the 30th September at CECA’s annual lunch at The Grand Hotel in Torquay. Charlotte began working for Dawnus in 2008 as a trainee engineer for our South West England region. Since joining the company has worked on projec...

Dawnus Announce Major Scarlets Sponsorship Deal

Dawnus Construction is proud to announce an extended sponsorship deal with the Scarlets for the new 2011/2012 season. Dawnus are already official sponsors of the Scarlets’ Next Generation/ Genhedlaeth Nesaf programme, a Welsh Rugby Union initiative to help train upcoming young players from Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, in a three year partnership which will help pay for coaching, equ...

Fisher's Mill Bridge

Dawnus has completed the successful installation of the Fishers Mill combined footbridge, in front of an excited audience of local people. The 28m clear span and 45m approach boardwalk will form part of the Exe Trail cycleway from Exmouth to Exeter. The project to construct the new footbridge in Topsham is being carried out for Devon County Council. The bridge lift was scheduled to be installed in a 3 day...

Three Major Framework Successes

Following our acceptance onto the South East Wales Contractors (SEWSCAP) Framework at the start of 2011, we are delighted to have been informed that we have also been successful in our bid to join both strands of the South West Wales Regional Contractors Framework (SWWRCF). Through our inclusion onto SWWRCF, we have been shortlisted to tender for up to £300 million pounds worth of work in South ...

BREEAM Award for MHA Headquarters

Dawnus Construction’s project to construct a new office headquarters building for Monmouthshire Housing Association (MHA) has won an award for its sustainability and environmental performance.  MHA and Dawnus were presented the 2011 BREEAM Offices Award for Wales in a ceremony on July 14th , at the Holland House Hotel, Cardiff. The BREEAM Awards Wales 2011 recognise and reward the highest scori...