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The Master’s Year

Following these awards we turned to our prestigious biennial Award - the Royal
Charter Award for Excellence.

The Royal Charter Award for Excellence was awarded to one of the biggest and most
complex construction projects ever undertaken in London - the Crossrail
development. The Master said “We recognise Crossrail as the most outstanding
engineering project of its time, a major contribution to the infrastructure of the
transport network to the Capital and the country as a whole, making life-changing
improvements to communications in the region, and are pleased to confer upon
them the Royal Charter Award for Excellence in Construction this 14th day of
February 2018. The award was received by our Guest of Honour, Sir Terry Morgan
CBE, the Chairman of Crossrail who, we are pleased to announce, has just become a
member of the Company.
We then turned to our Military awards:

101 (City of London) Regt (EOD) RE - Shafting & Shoring Cup – Cpl Matthew Hill
“Corporal Hill has provided unwavering support during an extremely demanding period
which has seen the majority of his Squadron deployed in Iraq on Operation SHADER.
Stepping up to a level of responsibility well above his charge, he has maintained the
Squadron’s equipment availability with both his immediate seniors absent for long
periods of time. Diligent and professional, he quickly identified a number of accounting
errors in the Squadron which he worked hard to resolve, devising new procedures
which were highlighted on inspection as exemplary and are now being mirrored across
the Regiment.
A natural leader investing huge amounts of effort into mentoring and developing
personnel with less experience in his field, including those senior in rank to him. Utterly
selfless, Corporal Hill works tirelessly to ensure that vital equipment is always available
to the Squadron when required; he is a shining example to his fellow Junior Non-
Commissioned Officers and thoroughly deserving of this award.”
HMS LANCASTER PRIZE
No HMS Lancaster prize was awarded in 2018 as HMS Lancaster was in deep refit and
there was no ship’s company. The prize was therefore donated to the Royal Navy &
Royal Marines Charity and was received on their behalf by Captain Peter Laughton RN,
Captain Surface Ships, Portsmouth, who is pictured left accepting the donation from
the Master of the Worshipful Company of Constructors, Tony Ward.

5001 Sqn RAF - Air Cdre DOW Trophy - Corporal Matthew Wakefield
“Corporal Wakefield has worked above and beyond within 5001 Sqn Operations Flight,
his support to the building and maintenance of Technical Working Environments over
the last twelve months has been unwavering.

As the only General Technician (Electrical) fit to deploy on Operations within the
Squadron he is often called away at very short notice. It is a mark of this individual that
his enthusiasm for deployment is still as strong as it was when he was first posted into
the Squadron. In his own words he ‘is excited for and driven to undertake’
Expeditionary Operations and this can be seen in every aspect of his professional work.
During 2017 he has been deployed on Technical Working Environments maintenance
tasks to the UAE, Kuwait and Cyprus. Additionally, he was called upon to deploy at
extremely short notice to support Operation SHADER as part of 5001 Squadron’s
Spearhead element. His professionalism and solid trade knowledge saw him head
hunted to undertake a period of work at MOD Abbey Wood within the Defence Engineering and Support Organisation.

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