Meet the Finalists
2025 | Public
Arriving partway through the build, Paul Fletcher turned around a project that had got badly bogged down. The team’s focus on landscaping the site’s extensive 17 acres – which included the construction of wildflower meadows, attenuation ponds and an ornamental pond – had left it behind on the zinc-roofed main building.
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Plymouth Crematorium In The Park
Paul changed the strategy, prioritising instead completion of the angular zinc roof. Realising that the numerous alterations to the roof’s multiple pitches was delaying the scaffold take-down, he replaced all the scaffold with scissor-lifts to complete installation. Productivity immediately improved.
Even though punctual completion was a client red line, Paul ensured that quality did not suffer, achieving greater speed by increasing site team numbers. Emphasising the need for zero defects, he also instilled a no-blame culture so that errors were not compounded by a failure to own up to them. To ensure quality met client expectations, he set the snagging system up so that only the client could close defects.
On this highly bespoke project, Paul understood the client vision and made it happen. He respected the facility’s dignity journey, carefully overseeing the design and building of bespoke 2.4m-high internal doors to allow for the added height of shoulder-borne coffins, and coordinating the building and M&E systems with the client-supplied cremators to ensure seamless installation and faultless fit-out.
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