Christmas may feel like a distant memory, but the students at Lofty Heights CIC Skills Academy will benefit for a long time from a couple of pre-Christmas deliveries! When the Christmas Wish for materials came from Claire Flowers and Jon Spraggons at Lofty Heights, we teamed up with Mark Lockwood of Travis Perkins, Ipswich, to […]
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Lofty’s Christmas wish delivered!
Congratulations to Will Crabtree, who recently achieved a Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Occupational Work Supervision (Construction) Will joined Gipping in 2023 as a Tradesman and General Operative and worked at our Ravenswood Site before moving across to Hawke Road. If the name sounds familiar, you are right…Will is the brother of our Site Manager, […]
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New Year, new qualifications!
Our site at The Dell, Aldeburgh, has undergone a rapid transformation recently. The project, a new-build three-bedroom home, is located on the edge of the golf course. Designed in response to the site’s topography and tree positions, the building minimises its impact on the landscape and biodiversity, resting on pretensioned stone plinths that lift it […]
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Progress Update – The Dell
Today it was enrichment day at Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School, where we are working on the construction of a new sixth-form block. When Head Teacher, Dr Richard Wilkin, asked if we would be willing to give a series of talks to Year 11 students about the project, career opportunities for women in construction, and […]
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Pupil enrichment day at Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School
We were delighted to jointly sponsor the timber for these very smart raised beds at Sprites Primary Academy in Ipswich. Thank you to Mark Lockwood of Travis Perkins for your generous contribution. The construction work was done free of charge by our Site Manager, Dale Gregory, assisted by his brothers-in-law. Dale says: ‘The school were […]
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New raised beds for Sprites Primary Academy
Did you see Grand Designs #HouseoftheYear 2025 last night? It was the third episode where Kevin McCloud, Damion Burrows, and Natasha Huq, explored homes that celebrate materials and craftsmanship. We are excited to see Amento by James Gorst Architects, which is one of the homes shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2025, featured in […]
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Amento on Grand Designs 2025
We are delighted to welcome Sharon Dean to the Gipping family! Sharon has come from the not-for-profit sector with many years of experience in senior finance roles. She will take on a new role at Gipping as Financial Controller, working alongside Paul Orriss, Joint Managing Director. In 2019, Sharon completed the Chartered Management Institute Management […]
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Welcome to Sharon
Mr Bluesky came to Brentwood! Brilliant blue skies provided a dramatic backdrop for the installation of a complicated steel frame at our site at Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School this week, where we are constructing a new sixth-form block, including a terrace and all associated external works and drainage. This is our second project for […]
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Mr Bluesky came to Brentwood!
Exciting times at our project at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge! Our super-talented Site Manager, Dale Gregory, has captured some amazing drone footage of the largest mobile tower crane ever built, lifting sections of curved glazing for the new rooflight into place. The Spierings Mobile Cranes‘ SK1265-AT6 has a 5th extending jib […]
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Exciting times at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Our former Ravenswood Site team were thrilled to attend The Ipswich Society‘s Annual Awards this week, to be presented with the Award of High Commendation for Ravenswood, along with Barefoot & Gilles Architects and Handford Homes. As an implementation of the Ipswich Society’s objectives, Annual Awards are given for the projects which have made a […]
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Another award for Ravenswood!