STAFF at construction consultants Ridge and Partners are celebrating after winning The Hawkins Business of the Year Award at the Oxfordshire Business Awards.
The 625-strong team from Ridge, with local headquarters at The Cowyards, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock received the coveted award for demonstrating all-round achievement, a clear vision for the future, success against objectives and sustained growth.
The prestigious black-tie event was held on Friday at the John Henry Brookes building at Oxford Brookes University, with more than 500 people in attendance.
Speaking at the ceremony, Partner Graham Blackburn said: “We are very proud indeed to join such an illustrious list of winners.
READ AGAIN: Business leaders unite for 25th Oxfordshire Business Awards“We are proud of our roots in Oxford - Harold Ridge started out after the Second World War and we have become very successful, working on national and international projects.”
Ridge and Partners LLP, which works across all public and private sectors, is delivering a number of high-profile projects across Oxfordshire, including Westway Place, the redevelopment of the Botley precinct in West Oxford; Oxford University and many of the Oxford colleges; UKAEA at Culham; the new headquarters for South Oxfordshire District Council and a number of local F1 teams.
Mark Richards, office managing partner at Ridge in the county, added: “We are immensely proud of our team in Oxfordshire for their incredible hard-work, passion and commitment to delivering amazing work for our clients.
“We’re delighted to be recognised as Business of the Year in this milestone year for these prestigious awards, and to be a standard bearer of success for businesses in Oxfordshire.”
The annual Oxfordshire Business Awards has been recognising, rewarding and promoting the excellence of Oxfordshire-based companies since 1994.
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It was the second year running Oxford Brookes University hosted the night at the John Henry Brookes building.
Ridge is an award winning, multidisciplinary property and construction consultancy successfully delivering a unique range of town and country planning, project and cost management, architecture, surveying, design, engineering, health and safety, expert witness and property consultancy services with vast experience across all public and private sectors.
An entrepreneurial and dynamic forward-thinking business, Ridge puts quality and reliability first, achieving over 80 per cent repeat business from satisfied clients.
A spokesman said: “We help our clients create better and more sustainable places for people to live, learn and work, providing scale and capability with a personal touch.
“Together, we aim higher, so our clients and people go further.”
Founded in Oxford since 1946, Ridge now employs over 625 people in 11 offices across the UK and has successfully delivered projects in over 75 countries worldwide.
Harold John Ridge, a Chartered Quantity Surveyor launched the firm in St Giles in 1946 before it moved to Beaumont Street in 1949.
By 1965 the team had grown to 25 and moved back to bigger offices in St Giles.
In 1977 an office opened in Reading followed by another office in Bristol in 1988.
In 1990 the Oxford office relocated to Midland House, Botley.
The London office opened in 1998 and in 2006 more than 90 staff moved from Oxford to Woodstock.
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