We won Product Supplier of the Year 2025!
Joseph Ash Medway were proud to win the Product Supplier of the Year category in the Steel Window Association Awards for our galvanizing and powder coating services.
The Steel Window Association (SWA) is a trade organisation which represents the great majority of UK steel window and door manufacturers, ranging in size from the smallest of craft-based companies through to large, multi-site companies.
The Product Supplier of the Year category was new for 2025, and we were nominated by Steel Window Association members based on our ability to provide high-quality goods and services that assist them in delivering award-winning projects.
Dan Lyons (Commercial Manager) and Sacha Aarons (External Sales & Account Manager) were delighted to accept the award on behalf of the company from judge John Ramshaw, Technical Editor of Architecture Today.
The Steel Window’s Association also presented Dan and Sacha with a year’s free membership for Joseph Ash Galvanizing.
Thank you to those who nominated us, and congratulations to the other category winners!
The 56th Structural Steel Design Awards (SSDA) took place in late September at Christchurch, Spitalfields, marking another year of excellence in structural steelwork. As a proud Silver Sponsor of Steel for Life (which sponsors the event), Joseph Ash Galvanizing is thrilled to celebrate the winners, commended projects, and everyone who contributed to making the event a success.
The SSDA is an annual celebration highlighting steel’s versatility and value in construction, emphasising its cost-effectiveness, sustainability, innovation, and aesthetic appeal. This year’s entries again showcased remarkable diversity and complexity, demonstrating the very best in structural steel design.
The winning projects were:
- 8 Bishopsgate, London
- Aviva Studios, Manchester
- Beaulieu Parkway Bridge, Chelmsford
- Co-op Live Arena, Manchester
- n2 Nova Evolved, London
- Sky Innovation Centre, London
Commendations also went to:
- 4 Angle Square, NOMA, Manchester
- Bishops Square, London
- Clarice Pears Building, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Glasgow
- Haymarket, Edinburgh
- Lucent, London
- One Great Cumberland Place, London
- Paddington Square, London
A Merit went to:
Holbein Gardens, London
National Finalists included:
- Allerdene Bridge, Gateshead
- Battersea Power Station Phase 3B, London
- Devon Place Footbridge, Newport
- Maggie’s Royal Free Hospital, London
- Plot 7B New Bailey, Salford
- Sky Studios Elstree, Borehamwood
- Tommy Taylor Memorial Bridge, Barnsley
Professor Roger Plank, Chairman of the Judges Panel said:
“The Awards scheme provides an opportunity for the sector to showcase excellence in the use of structural steel across a wide range of projects varying in nature, scale, regional location and budget. We were pleased to see the inclusion of so many large prestige commercial buildings this year, but we are just as interested in small projects of any type and would like to encourage a greater number of submissions across the widest range of structures.
“In conclusion I can say, on behalf of all the judges, that the awards, commendations, the single merit, and national finalists recognised in the Structural Steel Design Awards this year, reflect the impressive quality of the current steel construction industry, and everyone involved should be proud of what has been achieved.”
To read about each winner in detail, view the SSDA Winners Brochure.
The 55th Structural Steel Design Awards recently took place in London, where the much-anticipated project winners were announced and applauded. The 2023 SSDA Awards were open to steel-based structures situated in the United Kingdom or overseas built by UK or Irish steelwork contractors. Once more, the submitted projects displayed exceptional quality, celebrating structural steelwork at its finest.
Jointly sponsored by the British Constructional Steelwork Association and Steel for Life, this event was a magnificent celebration of steel’s manifold virtues, encompassing cost-effectiveness, sustainability, innovation, and aesthetic appeal.
Five outstanding champions emerged triumphant from a meticulously curated shortlist of contenders. Six projects also received commendations, and three received merits.
The five winners are as follows:
Commendations went to:
- Tropical Fruit Warehouse, Dublin
- Ed Sheeran Mathematics Tour
- The Outernet, London
- Clery’s Quarter, Dublin
- SAS13 Bridge Replacement, Birmingham
- Montacute Yards, London
Merits went to:
- Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow
- New Riverside Stand at Fulham FC
- Cody Dock Bridge, London
According to the BCSA website, Chairman of the Judges, Professor Roger Plank said: “The awards, commendations, merits and national finalists recognised in the Structural Steel Design Awards this year reflect the impressive quality of the current steel construction industry, and everyone involved should be proud of what has been achieved.”
Click here to read about each winner.
Congratulations to the winners and everyone who took part.
(Photo of Battersea Power Station by Edson Rosas on Unsplash / Award night photos provided by Steel for Life)
Submit your entries by 31 March
The RIDBA Building Awards is taking place again in 2023, and the deadline to submit your entries is 31 March 2023. If you have a building project you’re proud of and would like to enter, submit your entries by the deadline for your chance to win.
There are several categories to enter, including
Industrial and Production Awards
The RIDBA Building Awards ceremony will take place in Cambridge on 22 September 2023 and Joseph Ash Galvanizing is proud to be a Premium Sponsor.
The photo above is the Wharton Cattle Shed in Lincolnshire by S&A Fabrications, winner of the Livestock Award.
The photo below is Lingwood House, the RIDBA Overall Winner of 2021, constructed by M D Anthony Ltd.
Will your project be a winner?
Visit the RIDBA website for further details.
The annual Galvanizing Association Galvanizers Awards (GAGAs) will be announced next week (Friday 1 July), and we’re looking forward to it, especially as it’s a face-to-face event again.
Some amazing entries have made the shortlist, and we’re proud that some of the projects have been hot dip galvanized by Joseph Ash Galvanizing and Premier Galvanizing: The Hothouse by Cake Industries, The Whitby Trail by Emma Stothard Sculpture, the Swing Bridge by Tonkin Liu and Cake Industries, and Nest by Ian Gill Sculpture.
Here’s the full shortlist.
If you’re heading to the Ceremony next week, we wish you luck in winning one of the awards!
Great news! Joseph Ash Galvanizing has been awarded ISO14001, the international standard for designing and implementing an environmental management system.
The award has been granted to Head Office, as well as five of the plants: Joseph Ash Bilston, Joseph Ash Bridgend, Joseph Ash Chesterfield, Joseph Ash Telford, and Joseph Ash Walsall.
An environmental management system, often called an EMS, comprises the policies, processes, plans, practices, and records that define the rules governing how a company interacts with the environment.
Preventing companies from causing negative impacts on the environment are two of the most critical challenges facing businesses today. Achieving the ISO14001 standard shows we’re amongst the world’s businesses that care enough about the background to reduce our environmental footprint.
Congratulations to all our team members for achieving this latest standard!
Michael Worth, Head of Technical and ESG at Joseph Ash Galvanizing said “Everyone should be incredibly proud of their contributions to this achievement. This clearly demonstrates that our approach to managing our environmental impacts and our strategy to maximise environmental opportunities are on the right trajectory to delivering continual improvement in this area.”
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See some of the steps we take to minimise our impact on the environment in our Green Future plan.
We’re celebrating across the Joseph Ash Group, after landing another RoSPA Gold Award – the internationally-recognised award for demonstrating high health and safety standards.
We have received the RoSPA Gold Health and Safety Award for working hard to ensure our team members, customers, clients, and contractors get home safely to their families at the end of every working day.
Organisations receiving a RoSPA Award are recognised as being world-leaders in health and safety practice. Every year, nearly 2,000 entrants vie to achieve the highest possible accolade in what is the UK’s longest-running H&S industry awards.
The RoSPA Awards scheme is the longest-running of its kind in the UK, and receives entries from organisations across the globe.
Julia Small, RoSPA’s Achievements Director, said: “This is a fantastic and well-deserved accomplishment. All our award entrants demonstrate their unwavering commitment and passion for keeping people safe at work. By receiving this recognition Joseph Ash Galvanizing joins like-minded businesses and organisations worldwide, who represent the very best in their approach to Health and Safety. I would like to add my personal thanks for all the work that it has taken to secure this well-deserved award – congratulations to all those involved, who champion and drive up Health and Safety standards every day. You are a fantastic example to others in your sector.”
For more information about the RoSPA Awards visit www.rospa.com/awards
The annual Galvanizer’s Association Galvanizing Awards (affectionately known as the GAGAs) took place on Tuesday. This year’s event had to be virtual, but the celebrations were in full swing!
The GAGAs celebrate the use of galvanizing in architecture and art. The GA also celebrated the added use of galvanizing in conservation, innovation and sustainability.
Find out who the winners of the 2020 GAGAs are:
Architecture Award
The Architecture Award celebrates the most innovative and effective use of galvanized steelwork in architectural projects. This year’s Architecture Award went to two joint winners:
Fordham Abbey Dojima Sake Brewery, near Ely in Cambridgeshire by SCABAL & KPTA, and The Hill House Box in Helensburgh by Carmody Groarke.
Engineering Award
The Engineering Award celebrates the most innovative and effective use of galvanized steelwork, but with special attention paid to structural functionality and industrial use of galvanized steel.
The Centre for Dairy Science Innovation at the University of Nottingham, by Haston Reynolds, is this year’s Engineering Award winner.
Sustainable Award
The Sustainable Award celebrates projects where galvanized steel is used mainly for its ecological benefits, which are clearly reflected within the project’s description and the philosophy behind it.
The Listening Station by Beech Architects won this year’s Sustainable Award.
Duplex Award
The Duplex Award takes into consideration projects that use galvanized steel coated with any of the organic coatings i.e. wet paints, powder coating etc. As with the architecture and engineering awards, it includes all sizes of project and the functionality as well as the aesthetics of the structure will be of interest.
This year’s Duplex Award has been won by Surman Weston, for Ditton Hill House in Surbiton.
Detail Award
The Detail Award is granted to projects that display interesting and innovative uses of galvanized steel in elements that are not the main part of a structure. But form a detail, which supports the overall functionality and aesthetics of the architectural or engineering project.
This year’s winner of the Detail Award is MELOY Architects, for Hill House Passivhaus.
Special Mention
Finally, this year’s Special Mention Award went to metal sculptors Bill and Peach Shaw, for their work Peacock.
The judging panel for the 2020 GAGAs consisted of Matthew Wells (Techniker), Isabelle Priest (RIBA Journal), Robin Dryer (chadwick dryer clarke studio) and Iqbal Johal (Galvanizers Association).
Congratulations to all the 2020 winners, and shortlisted entries!
See some of the award winners in a GAGA YouTube film.
In September we published a story about the shortlisted entries for SSDA the Structural Steel Design Awards. Read it here. As we’ve moved into October, we’re pleased to reveal the SSDA 2020 winners, as announced by the British Constructional Steel Association (BCSA) last week on the Steel Construction website.
The winners are as follows:
- Tintagel Footbridge, Cornwall
- 52 Lime Street, London
- The Curragh Racecourse Redevelopment
- A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme
- Bath Schools of Art and Design
- Brunel Building, London
Commendations also went to:
- Mary Elmes Bridge, Cork City
- The Post Building, London
- Centre Building, London School of Economics
- Waterloo Station Roof Infill
- One Bartholomew Bart‘s Square, London
- The Standard Hotel, London
Merits went to:
Congratulations to all the SSDA 2020 winners! Great achievements!
A special SSDA 2020 brochure (produced by the BCSA and Trimble Solutions (UK) Ltd in association with Kovic Design Limited) is available.
It’s a wrap! UK Construction Week is over for another year, and what a week it was!
UK Construction Week takes place at the NEC, in Birmingham, every year and Joseph Ash Galvanizing has exhibited there for the last four years. As the largest construction trade event in the UK, which unites over 650 exhibitors with an audience of over 35,000 trade visitors, it’s always a pleasure to attend.
We were part of the show again this year, and we very much enjoyed the event. It was great to meet so many people – delegates and other exhibitors – and if you were there and stopped by our stand, we thank you! It was great to meet you.
It was also great to share some of our stand space this year with our colleagues from: