Norfolk Chamber’s CEO, Chris Sargisson compered the Norfolk Construction Excellence Awards 2018 on Thursday evening at the OPEN in Norwich.
The awards night was a great success, celebrating some fabulous projects in Norfolk. There were some great project winners, with the overall winner on the night being LSI Architects.
The guests attending the awards were all asked to take part in their own ‘construction project’ – each table had to build an aeroplane from an assortment of straws, lollipop sticks, paper, and sticky tape – and anything else that came to hand on their tables.
The finished projects would be launched off the OPEN balcony and needed to fly as far as possible and would be judged accordingly. Amazing amounts of variation and imagination were used to produce some inventive entries. The winner not only flew the furthest, but managed a loop-the-loop!
Commenting on the successful evening, Chris Sargisson said:
“It was a huge honour to host the constructing excellence awards. I would like to say very well done to all the fantastic, talented companies who entered and a huge congratulations to LSI Architects for being chosen as the overall winner.
“When I agreed to compere, I never imagined I’d be asked to orchestrate over 20 people throwing a variety of homemade aeroplanes from the balcony. Brilliant! My favourite entry was one made using the end of a French baguette! Some took to the sky, soared magnificently but now sadly remain in the lighting gantry. Maybe next years’ ‘table challenge’ could be to build a device to get them down…?”
