TriConnex Sponsor ‘Best Mixed-Use Development’ at Showhouse WhatHouse? Awards
Showhouse held the WhatHouse? Awards Gala on Friday (18th November) at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel, London, celebrating the best new homes in Britain with over 1500 industry professionals.
The event was hosted by former Leader of the Conservative Party William Hague and England Rugby World Cup winner and broadcaster Maggie Alphonsi.
TriConnex sponsored the awards, and Director, Chris Doré presented the ‘Best Mixed-Use Development’ category with gold, silver, and bronze awards being presented to the following winners:
Gold: Battersea Power Station, London, Battersea Power Station
Silver: High Street Quarter, Hounslow, London, Barratt London
Bronze: East Wick & Sweetwater, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, Places for People and Balfour Beatty Investments
Congratulations to all of the winners on their successes.
TriConnex discusses electrical capacity competition with Showhouse Magazine
TriConnex Director Chris Doré speaks to Showhouse magazine as part of their Utilities Special discussing the competition housebuilders are facing for the UK’s limited electrical capacity.
Find out how TriConnex focuses on finding compliant, cost-effective solutions – so developers can get on with building homes, without having to worry whether utilities will be in place.
Read the full article on p31 here
TriConnex Sponsor ‘Medium Housebuilder of the year’ at Housebuilder Awards 2022
The Housebuilder Awards 2022 returned to the InterContinental London – The O2 on Thursday 10th November.
The Housebuilder Awards celebrates excellence in all aspects of the housebuilding sector, including customer satisfaction, marketing, design, community initiatives, staff development and sustainability.
TriConnex were one of the event sponsors, and so members of the team attended the black-tie ceremony, and Managing Director, David Topping proudly presented the ‘Medium Housebuilder of the Year’ award to winners ‘St Modwen’ and ‘The Hill Group’.
The Hill Group have won the ‘Medium Housebuilder of the year’ award for three consecutive years – congratulations to Hill on this achievement.
Congratulations to all of the winners on their achievements and to the finalists.
TriConnex achieves Best Companies ‘Ones to Watch’ accreditation
We are pleased to have received the Best Companies ‘Ones to Watch’ accreditation following successful completion of our recent employee engagement survey.
The ‘Ones to Watch’ accreditation is awarded to organisations that secure a BCI (Best Companies Index) score of at least 600 in their b-Heard survey.
The b-Heard survey enables employers to gain honest and insightful feedback, asking employees to rate their responses anonymously and confidentially to a series of questions based on 8 factors covering wellbeing, leadership, and personal development etc.
Achieving the ‘Ones to Watch’ status confirms that TriConnex is an organisation that represents good levels of workplace engagement and that we are showing promising signs for the future.
TriConnex also featured in the Regional and Sector league tables of the recent ‘Best Companies Live’ event which celebrates the very best in workplace engagement.
Best Companies state “It is a standard of excellence towards which many organisations aspire, but only the best achieve.”
David Topping, TriConnex Managing Director added: “At TriConnex we realise that our greatest strength is our people – we’re a service-based business and our future success depends on the experience we deliver to our customers. So it’s really important to have highly engaged and motivated teams, and that we create an environment where each individual is able to perform at their best and whose contribution is truly valued. Our Best Companies achievement recognises the progress we’re making and demonstrates how we are living our values and taking feedback on board.”
TriConnex support Edith Borthwick school’s Jubilee Picnic
We continue to strive to give something back to our local communities, and we are pleased to have developed a strong relationship with Edith Borthwick school, by supporting a variety of events and improvement projects.
Edith Borthwick, a special day school for students with severe and complex learning difficulties, organised a summer picnic in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The sponsorship they received from us has helped them to plan and run this well-organised event with lots of activities for the children to enjoy.
With over 250 guests attending, the picnic was a huge success and enabled both families and students to come together and enjoy a relaxed afternoon of amusement, therapeutic bubbles, and refreshments.
Vicky Faulks, Chairperson of the Friends of Edith Borthwick, commented “We were able to create a magical and relaxed atmosphere for everyone. Thank you so very much for the sponsorship and ongoing support, it genuinely makes a difference!”
Showhouse Magazine Broadband Special - Featuring TriConnex
This month’s Showhouse magazine features a Broadband Special and TriConnex Director Chris Doré discusses (on p43) the expectations, customer satisfaction and ‘day one’ connection considerations that are so vital in delivering this essential utility.
Check out the full article here
TriConnex Business Development Team get caked in mud for our community
Last week the Business Development Team here at TriConnex spent a muddy day volunteering at a local Play & Resource centre. The charity provides recreation facilities and respite care for children and young adults.
The team got together and spent a day in the charity’s outdoor area, helping to improve their garden facility by tidying it up, planting flowers, jet washing the paving slabs and making it look refreshed.
After enjoying the first volunteering session so much, they decided to return to the charity for a second day, helping to paint their main indoor space.
Tom Barker, Business Development Manager commented “What a fantastic muddy day it was! Well done to everyone involved, I know we all really enjoyed it.”
Commercial Team Volunteer at Local Nature Reserve
As part of our volunteering scheme, employees can take up to 5 working days paid per year, to dedicate their time to support a charity, institution, or community group, by volunteering their time.
Six Members of our Commercial team recently completed a full day volunteering at Marshall Park in Braintree, Essex, helping members of the council to tidy up the nature reserve.
The volunteering project was arranged through Braintree District Council, but the volunteering is collated and organised by ‘The Friends of Hoppit Mead LNR’, a charitable organisation.
The team was collecting litter from around the nature reserve as well as destroying weeds and taking part in the organisation’s annual ‘Balsam Bashing’.
‘Balsam Bashing’ is the process of destroying the Balsam weeds that grow along the riverbank. The team had to pull the Balsam out from the ground and stamp on the roots. These plants can grow up to 6ft tall and are a threat to other plants, as well as damaging habitats along banks and riversides. Our group removed huge amounts of the plant from the riverbank, so it was a successful day.
Well done to Anna Pringle, Millie Bauckham, Jess Pooley, Ellie Ivey, Josh Aylward and Ricky Clark for volunteering your time and helping the local community with this project.
TriConnex & EO Charging to offer fully integrated EV charging for new build residential housing
Helping developers respond to changes in building regulations and demand for off-plot charging
TriConnex has announced the launch of a residential electric vehicle (EV) charging product in partnership with EO Charging.
Our comprehensive residential EV charging solution will meet current and future requirements with industry leading technology, offering the supply, design and connection of EV chargers between 7kW to 350kW, depending on the size and scale of a developer’s project.
As part of the UK government’s aim to further incentivise UK drivers to choose an electric vehicle, it has signalled a change in building regulations to ensure a charge point is installed on every home with parking. The proposed changes would require developers to provide active charging provision in all new build residential developments. This would mean additional costs, operational challenges with regards to the management of charging points, and the requirement to select a solution that is reliable and complies with new regulations.
Whilst it is easy to fit a charging point to a single dwelling, there are inevitable complexities in shared developments or spaces such as with billing, maintenance and repairs of the equipment. TriConnex’ partnership with EO Charging resolves this by installing smart equipment that is market leading and can distinguish the cars and energy used each time for smart billing as well as providing unparalleled customer care and service should there be any issues. It is the first independent multi-utility provider to include a full EV supply and installation proposal within its quotations.
EO designs and manufactures industry-leading EV chargers and supplies hardware-agnostic cloud-based charge-point management software. Their products include the smallest smart fast chargers for individual homes, as well as larger units for charging in communal and public parking areas.
Benefits for developers
Meeting the growing customer demand for electric vehicle charging can increase the value of residential developments. As an independent residential specialist, TriConnex supports and advises developers on the extra capacity required to provide household and shared EV charging facilities. Through its partnership with EO Charging it now offers a fully inclusive product that also provides an innovative lifetime adoption option for long-term ownership and management of off-plot, shared and community chargers, removing this burden from management companies. Ensuring that the network capacity precisely matches the predicted charging demand provides certainty, both with regards to cost and delivery. TriConnex only specifies compliant, reliable equipment that offers homeowners the best experience.
On-plot EV charging can now be achieved with no increase in electrical loading, saving money and time through reduction in the number and size of cables required on site. Considering the current high prices of primary materials, such as aluminium and copper, that’s the right choice for both the environment and developers’ budgets.
Given the complexity of the technology and how rapidly it is evolving, the TriConnex team invests extensively in researching and creating products that help developers meet shifting planning and regulatory requirements and growing customer demands for EV chargers. This involves working closely with government, technical and industry organisations such as the Home Builders Federation (HBF) and developers. As a result, TriConnex is constantly reshaping its proposition, not just to meet the imminent building regulations, but also planning ahead for future technological developments and electricity demands.
Tackling inequity
Electric vehicles are cheaper to run and operate than petrol or diesel cars, even for drivers on a low income. But ease of use is just as important as affordability. Unfortunately, 62 per cent of households in British cities and urban areas don’t have their own parking space or garage. These EV owners have to charge at a charging station, or at the side of the road.
TriConnex’ new offering will deal with this problem in new build residential developments. Building regulations mandate chargers on plot, beyond which it’s a lottery of what the planners will be asking for on behalf of the occupiers.
Chris Doré, Business Development Director at TriConnex Ltd, said: “As the transition to electric vehicles gathers momentum, we expect to see an increasing demand for reliable, competitively priced charging installations from EV owners who don’t have access to on-plot parking. By providing a full range of residential EV charging solutions we want to add value to our customers’ developments and enable drivers to switch to electric vehicles.”
Charlie Jardine, CEO at EO Charging, said: “The majority of electric vehicle drivers find it easiest to charge their vehicles at home, and overnight when electricity is often cheaper. By analysing where domestic vehicles spend the most dwell time, often at home, it’s clear that investment needs to be made in both private and public charging infrastructure to support the green revolution. With the Government set to mandate chargers in all new developments, this partnership is ahead of the curve in helping to deliver this service for residents who want to embrace the EV revolution now.”
Virgin Media added to TriConnex fibre broadband offering
We are pleased to announce that Virgin Media is now available through our fibre broadband solution.
Our teams will install fibre for both Virgin Media and Open Fibre Networks Limited across shared infrastructure.
This approach and the recent technical and design upgrades to in-plot equipment will reduce housebuilders and developers street furniture and groundworks costs.
With 1GB ready fibre networks being a must-have for new homeowners, we support housebuilders by installing fibre solutions that offer customers an extensive choice of phone and broadband providers and ensure that there is no digital exclusion on developments.
Our solution also allows us to guarantee the connections on time, as we control the entire process in-house; design, installation and connection.
TriConnex’ fibre connections bring a fully integrated multi-utility design and delivery service, which includes a huge range of providers, including Virgin Media and Sky, available on day one.