Celebrating excellence at the Red Star Awards

Red Star
January 15, 2024

Celebrating excellence at the Red Star Awards

  • By Marlborough Highways

Returning for its second year, on Friday 12 January 2024, Marlborough Highways hosted its Red Star Awards at the Stock Brook Country Club in Essex. The glamorous annual event recognises and rewards Marlborough’s people, and provides an opportunity to celebrate in the company’s shared success.

With almost 200 guests in attendance from every part of the organisation, there were eight main award categories spanning Superstar, Most Supportive, Best Manager, Motivator, Excellent Feedback, Keeping Us Safe, Rising Star, and Gang or Team of the Year. Each of those shortlisted had been nominated by a fellow member of staff, with hundreds of entries going to an impartial judging panel for review. There was also a special Directors Award category (Emerging Leader), with the winner and highly commended individual chosen by the leadership team for their dedication to excellence.

Hosted by the comedian Kevin McCarthy alongside Marlborough’s four directors, there was a fantastic atmosphere throughout, with a drinks reception and three-course meal followed by a live band.

This year’s award categories supported Marlborough’s new company values ‘We are bold. We have spirit. We know people matter. We take pride in everything we do.’ All nominations received needed to express how an employee or team supports the values, and the various award categories meant that people across the business were recognised and celebrated.

Matthew Revell, Marlborough’s Managing Director, said, “This year’s Red Star Awards were even bigger and better and were a powerful reminder that our greatest asset is our people. We celebrated not only individual achievement, but a collective success that is embodied through our new company values. I was hugely impressed by the quality of the awards submissions and am grateful to everyone who made a nomination. I would like to congratulate all of the winners and those who were highly commended; it is a testament to their talent and dedication. The wonderful evening was one that we will all remember with a sense of pride; I am already looking forward to next year’s event.”

(Image: The Red Star Awards winners, accompanied by the Marlborough Directors)

“One of the things I value most is their very collaborative and transparent team culture. It makes a big difference to have a contractor that wants to work closely with us and is supportive and responsive. With Marlborough, I get a team who are attentive, work collaboratively and honestly with me and don’t lose focus on delivering first class communications and compliance.”
Carly Norris, Project Manager Operations, Hackney Council
“From the design stage, Marlborough has been fundamental in delivering the Broad Lane Square improvements scheme. During the works, not only did the team manage to keep to the programme, but they went the extra mile to ensure attention to detail and came up with innovative solutions to address issues encountered on site. My thanks on behalf of Haringey goes out to Marlborough for their dedication to deliver.”
Dana Rasheed, Project Manager, Haringey Council
“Working alongside our Term Service Contractor Marlborough Highways, we successfully completed renovations to the Crowstone Footbridge. The designs were provided by Marlborough, and the work was unique. The scheme was completed to budget and ahead of its programme duration.”
Neil Handley, Senior Engineer, Southend-on-Sea City Council
“I would like to thank you and your team for your efforts, the Marlborough crews were professional, courteous, and hard working all day and ensured the event went without a hitch. You and the team were a credit to the company, demonstrating commitment and support to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.”
Nick Davies, Specialist Services Manager, Barking and Dagenham Council
“I just wanted to say what a pleasure it has been to work with Marlborough Highways over the last six months. The quality of work is superb, and there has been some excellent collaboration between Milestone and Marlborough to complete, what at times, has been quite a challenging scheme. I hope to work with Marlborough on another project in the near future.”
Colin Hill, Schemes Manager, Milestone Infrastructure
“Marlborough worked with us in constructing a 1.3km cycle track. There were a number of technical difficulties to overcome, and their gifted foreman worked to propose some innovative solutions to the challenges we faced. The result is a facility that the locals are proud of, providing walkers and cyclists with alternative access to the hospital and nearby school. The scheme was a lot of hard work, but well worth it.”
Rob Venables, NEC Project Manager, Essex County Council
“Marlborough attracts people who take care and have pride in their work. Several gangs of Operatives worked tirelessly for six months to reconstruct drainage networks, lay more than 3km of high quality bespoke granite kerbs and granite channels blocks to ensure positive drainage. The technical compliance, attention to detail and level of quality finish along the entire carriageway was exceptional”.
Mark Chiverrell, Technical Director, Project Centre
“We saw huge benefits in appointing Marlborough as our full service contractor and we’re impressed – they’ve delivered consistent high quality service and superior quality control across every project. Marlborough, provide us with a ‘one-stop’ shop solution – we get the same quality of service and better control across all aspects of the project.”
Darren Bryant, Principal Engineer, Enfield Council

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