NEWS | IG Masonry Support champions brickwork excellence at 2025 ABC Awards

IG Masonry Support is delighted to once again sponsor the Association of Brickwork Contractors (ABC) Awards 2025, reinforcing its commitment to advancing skills and excellence across the brickwork sector. 

The annual awards are a celebration of ‘outstanding quality in the brickwork contracting sector’, with the judges evaluating nominees across five categories: Supplier of the Year, Commitment to Training & Development, Project of the Year, Craftsperson of the Year and Bricklaying Apprentice of the Year.  IG Masonry Support will be sponsoring the Commitment to Training and Development category, helping to encourage the builders of the future and assist in the brickwork sector’s continued growth.   

Emphasising the company’s commitment, Scott Denham, Sales Director for IG Masonry Support said: “We are delighted to continue our sponsorship of these awards and partner with ABC who reflect our belief in nurturing talent and driving industry excellence. The type of training they provide is essential to ensuring products innovated by ourselves and other masonry-based companies are implemented using the highest workmanship. By supporting these awards, we are investing in the future of brickwork excellence.” 

The winners of each category will be announced at a gala night being held at London’s St Pancras Hotel on 28th February 2025. It will mark the third time the awards have been held since their inception in 2021. 

For more information on the ABC Awards visit: aofbc.co.uk 

NEWS | Proud suppliers of 2024 Brick Awards shortlisted projects

After much anticipation, the annual Brick Development Association Brick Awards shortlist has been revealed, and we are very proud to learn that IG Masonry Support products feature in seven projects across six categories. 

The Brick Awards celebrate the pinnacle of brick architecture and craftsmanship. Each year, hundreds of projects are submitted by eminent architects, brickwork contractors, main contractors and developers. These projects span a diverse spectrum of creativity, showcasing an array of colors, shapes, and brick types, unfolding across 18 hotly-contested categories.

IG Masonry Support has supplied its products and services to 7 of the shortlisted projects, these include:

Large Housing Development

Urban Regeneration 

House Builder

  • Vistry Homes
    • Meridian One

Public

  • Aspen Wood Hospital

Specialist Brickwork Contractor

  • Chine Brickwork Ltd
    • King George’s Gate
  • Grangewood Brickwork Services Ltd
    • Marylebone House

Worldwide

  • Monaghan Peace Campus

Our Sales Director, Scott Denham shared his thoughts:

“We are pleased to hear that once again our products have been featured in the Brick Awards shortlisted projects with the brickwork solutions we have provided. This shortlisting showcases our commitment to engineering excellence through offsite craftsmanship. Our continued support of the annual Brick Development Association Brick Awards is something that we are very excited to be a part of.

We look forward to learning the winners of the Awards in early November and wish everyone involved in the projects, the very best of luck. 

The Brick Awards ceremony takes place on Wednesday 6th November 2024 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. For more information, please visit: www.brick.org.uk/brick-awards

NEWS | Hailing Brick Awards Success of ‘Highly Articulated’ Mixed-Use Development

We are proud to announce that Kindred House, a 25-storey mixed-use development in Croydon, benefitted from our innovative masonry support and brick slip systems, and was judged winner of the ‘Large Housing Development’ category at the 2023 Brick Development Association (BDA) Brick Awards.

Our bespoke products were deemed integral to the building’s high-quality brickwork finish to create a façade described as ‘highly articulated’ by judges.

Scott Denham, our Sales Director, said: “As a proud sponsor of the Large Housing Development category at the 2023 BDA Brick Awards, we’re delighted at Kindred House’s success. The project is an outstanding example of the striking, imaginative designs that can be fulfilled with brick, thanks in part to the evolution of evermore innovative masonry support. Congratulations to all involved.”

Kindred House, designed by Pitman Tozer Architects, is built on the site of a former car park adjacent to a flyover in Central Croydon. It comprises 128 apartments, 60 of which are affordable accommodation. Retail and public space, and 10,000sqft of office accommodation also form part of the development, which was constructed using more than half a million Zircon bricks manufactured by Wienerberger.

The building’s standout stepped form was instrumental in breaking up the building’s mass and creating an attractive composition of adjoining slender proportions. The building’s distinctive silhouette heralds a gateway to south Croydon’s Old Town.

Scott Denham continued: “We’re proud of our involvement with this outstanding project. It’s a credit to the ingenuity and collaborative efforts of each stakeholder that its execution earned the plaudits of the BDA Brick Awards esteemed judges.”

To read about our full product package for this project, view our case study.

NEWS | IG Masonry Support products feature in Brick Awards shortlisted projects

The annual Brick Development Association Brick Awards shortlist has been announced, and IG Masonry Support is proud to have supplied to nine of the shortlisted projects.

The Awards is one of the most prestigious brick architecture awards in the UK. It celebrates the very best examples of clay in the UK’s built environment and attracts a large number of exemplary projects from leading architects, housebuilders, developers, and contractors, across 17 categories.

This year, IG Masonry Support is sponsoring the Large Housing Development category, which recognises new-build, private, and public-sector residential developments, sited in the UK, which comprises 101 units or more.

With the shortlist being announced in July, IG Masonry Support is delighted to learn that it has supplied products and services to 9 of the listed projects. These include:

Small Housing Development

Medium Housing Development

Large Housing Development

Education

Innovation

Housebuilder

Craftsmanship

  • Ilona Rose House, London

Specialist Brickwork Contractor

All of these buildings demonstrate the craftsmanship and design value that can be achieved in brick – one of our oldest and most durable building materials.

Scott Denham, Sales Director of IG Masonry Support said: “We are pleased to be continuing our longstanding support and sponsorship for the annual Brick Development Association Brick Awards.

We are also delighted to have produced brickwork solutions for a total of 9 projects shortlisted, demonstrating our commitment to achieving engineering excellence with offsite craftsmanship.

On behalf of everyone at IG Masonry Support, I would like to wish all the finalists the best of luck and look forward to seeing them at the Awards.”

The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday 8th November 2023 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. Visit www.brick.org.uk/brick-awards to find out more.