Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category
Clayworks wins the Products and Services category at the Cornwall Sustainability Awards held at the Royal Cornwall Showground, Wadebridge, Friday 3rd December.
Many thanks to all who supported us – especially to Patrick Hudson from NISP (National Industrial Symbiosis Programme), who stepped in to receive the award of our behalf. (We were still 30 miles away hemmed in by ice).
The event is hosted by Cornwall Council and was chaired by BBC’s Dick Strawbridge and Charlie Luxton.
Next stop: our full website (thanks for waiting)
Are natural materials getting noticed? Just heard that we’ve been shortlisted for Building Magazine’s ‘Green Innovation Awards’.
Voting for this ends on the 28th April if you’re interested and the chance to vote can be accessed at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/28FTXDQ. (You’ll have to copy and paste this address). Should we make the final three, we’ll be invited to speak at the exhibition. We’ll also be speaking at Cornwall Council’s “Waste as a Resource” event at the Royal Cornwall Showground in May.
Now back to the day job….
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Clayworks is thrilled to have been notified that they have won this years ‘Duke of Cornwall’ award for their building work with clay and lime. The Duke of Cornwall award is given once a year to a company/individual who is working toward passing on traditional skills to the next generation and the wider community. Clayworks believes that these building skills are relevant for the twenty first century and is constantly striving to ensure that they maintain an important part in both the traditional and contemporary building landscape.
At the end of 2003 we received a huge boost of confidence in our work when we received the ‘Pioneers to the Nation’ award from HM the Queen. We attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace where we rubbed shoulders with personalities such as Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela who were also receiving the award. It was a humbling experience.
After our royal experience we got back into our muddy clothes with a new perspective and stuck our teeth into some demanding yet rewarding projects. Among these projects was the rebuilding of a two-storey cottage in Feock, the construction of a two-storey internal cob wall in a new-build, which acted as a heat store for a wood burner, constructing a new cob music room for Padstow primary School, numerous lime plastering/rendering jobs, as well as a great project that was down the road from our house. This entailed the building of new cob walls on the footprint of an old malthouse barn. It was great to be able to walk to work with our pitchforks in hand. All these jobs enabled us to put into practice the range of skills that we offer – building new monolithic cob walls without the use of formers, restoring old cob walls using pre-dried cob blocks to stitch parts of the old cob walls together or create new corners, and applying lime and earth plasters, renders and washes onto old and new cob and stone walls.