Specialist housing refurbishment and building business PiLON has been awarded the prestigious Construction News Training Award during a glittering ceremony at a packed Grosvenor House Hotel, London on Tuesday 10th July.
“We are delighted to be recognised as a leading operator in this sector and in such illustrious company”, says PiLON Chairman Florian Moldoveanu, speaking after the event. “We are a young company with huge ambition and we know that it is our people that represent our best asset and our future growth. We have recently opened a specialist Innovation and Training Centre which has focussed our already substantial training programme even further ensuring that the best standards are reached across our 500 strong team. Everyone has a training action plan which has proved a huge success in motivating and developing us all”.
Commenting at the ceremony Rebecca Evans, editor of Construction News, said, “The Training Award is for individual construction companies, however large or small and the winning firm has to demonstrate a positive approach to producing well-trained staff committed to delivering exceptional quality to their customers.
PiLON stood out. This is a business that is only eight years old but has made training integral to everyone in the company from day one. The judges gave PiLON the award because they are a business with a clear vision that holds training and development at the core of everything they do. The business has done extremely well in a tough market and its own passion and commitment to training – where 92 per cent of staff say training and development is the best thing about the company - is borne out by its results: 96 per cent customer satisfaction and 80 per cent repeat business. PiLON is an excellent model for all construction businesses to follow and I congratulate them on winning this Construction News Award from among a very competitive field.”
David Barnes, Training and Development director at PiLON, concluded “It’s been a dramatic year, with this award following an invitation to sit on the Construction Panel of the British Safety Council and to advise the Federation of Master Builders on training initiatives. Our PiLON Management Academy is in its 5th year and I am sure that we will continue to attract the top talent as together we expand and deliver exceptional results for our clients”.
