A senior site manager at Lioncourt Homes’ Heritage Walk development in Ironbridge has been named one of the region’s best in the NHBC’s Pride in the Job Awards for 2026. According to a release dated 26 October, the win earns him a place in the competition’s national final for the second consecutive year.
Mark Follos, Senior Site Manager at Heritage Walk, has won the Regional Award for the West region. The award recognises him as one of the top three of the 35 site managers who earned the Quality Award back in June. He was also awarded the Seal of Excellence, which sits between the Quality and Regional categories.
01A route to the Supreme Award
Following back-to-back regional successes, Mark now moves forward to compete for the Supreme Award, the highest accolade in the competition. Winners are due to be announced in January 2027. He was a runner-up in the Supreme Awards in 2022, and this year’s Quality Award was his sixth.
Mark Follos said: “Winning a Regional Award once is special, but to do so in consecutive years shows me that the standards we’ve set are far from a one-off, and that the processes our teams follow are the right ones.”
He added: “Every trade and member of our site team buys into the way we do things, and while the recognition falls under my name, it belongs to everybody that has made Heritage Walk such a brilliant site.”
02The Heritage Walk development
Heritage Walk is a development of 85 homes in the historic village of Ironbridge, and the site has been judged on every aspect of site management throughout the awards process. According to the release, 38 homes have been moved into, including six specialist homes created in partnership with HFT. Construction is expected to be complete in 2028.
Danny Tunstall, Construction Director at Lioncourt Homes, said: “Regional awards are difficult to win, and winning them in successive years is exceptional. Mark has built a reputation for delivering high standards consistently, and that’s exactly what these awards are designed to recognise.”
He continued: “The success at Heritage Walk is down to the effort of the whole site team and supply chain, but Mark’s leadership has been a major factor.”
03About the competition
Pride in the Job is run by NHBC, which describes itself as the UK’s largest provider of new home warranties and insurance. NHBC automatically enters every site manager with a site registered for a Buildmark warranty into the competition, and there are no entry fees or forms. The competition covers England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.
It has five categories: small, medium and large builders, plus multi-storey for projects up to seven storeys and high-rise for projects more than seven storeys. Industry awards remain a valued mark of quality across the property sector, as PAD has also reported when a Scottish agency was shortlisted for regional business awards.
Details and image via Lioncourt Homes.
