This year's Charity Banquet was held in the famous Long Room at Lord's Cricket Ground on 19th September, with Mark Ramprakash as our Guest of Honour. At the Banquet the Master, Michael Parrett was able to announce, with a little help…
The Worshipful Company of Constructors were kindly invited by Freeman Julie Camp to sponsor Silver Shemmings Ash’s conference looking at “The Future of Construction” which was held on Thursday 12th September 2019 at the Leonardo Royal Hotel near Tower Hill;…
PM John Burrell has been acting as Almoner over recent years but in effect much of the work has been done by his wife, Michèle. At the Master's Weekend in Cambridge the Master was pleased to announce that Court had…
This year the Worshipful Company of Constructors Annual Golf Day was again held at Croham Hurst Golf Club (near Croydon). It was held on the sunny afternoon of Thursday, the 18th July and was, as usual, excellently organised by PM Alan Longhurst. Some 25…
Over the weekend of 12th to 14th July, the Master held his UK weekend in Cambridge, the City where he had been a post-graduate scholar at Wolfson College. In his "Back to School" weekend the Master had arranged for all…
On 10th July a small group of Constructors, organised by JW Terry Withers and his wife Alison, paid an extended visit to the new London HQ of Bloomberg, at Cannon Street in the City (a model of the building is…
Freeman Diana Chrouch (second from the left above), who, as a member of our Membership Committee is leading the work that their diversity sub-committee is undertaking, has been "Highly Commended" by WINTRADEWEEK in their recent awards ceremony. The WINTRADE "Women of Excellence" award, which…
On a sunny Saturday in July (July 6) in Brighton, the Company joined with the Secret WWII learning network to unveil a plaque honouring the late Captain Ronald Taylor, who was born near the spot where the plaque is situated and…
The author (Sorella Smith) of the recent WCC scholarship paper on the use of "Blockchains in the Construction Industry" will be presenting a live CIOB Webinar at 2.30pm next Thursday, 11 July 2019. Please use https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7977163967453495819?source=Dot+mailer to register your interest in taking…
A warm evening on 2nd July saw fifteen of us assembling outside the Imperial War Museum (IWM) for an out-of-hours guided tour of their First World War exhibition. The First World War gallery proved to be both fascinating and thought provoking, looking at…