Celebrating Chris Watts - finalist in the G4C Future Leader award
Building Plymouth is proud to announce that Chris Watts, winner of the 2020 Building Plymouth Apprentice of the Year award has been recognised once again, this time as a finalist in the Constructing Excellence South West awards 2020.
A model apprentice and a great spokesperson for the construction industry
Chris who is employed by Obedair is a finalist in the Generation for Change award category which recognises the future leaders of the construction industry.
His progression in the company has impressed everyone. He showed an immediate flair for quantity surveying and commercial management, which he became interested in during a talk by Building Plymouth’s Emma Hewitt at DHSB, when he was a student there.
An example of Chris’s impressive capability is that while working on a £2.5 million job over nine months, he continued to complete his surveying and commercial management course, and brought the project to a close within budget and to every stakeholders satisfaction, an achievement that normally on takes place in the third or fourth year of a commercial apprentice.
Not only a stellar apprentice, Chris is also heavily involved in Obedair’s social and community activities, giving his time up to support others. He is part of the Obedair team that regularly makes food and delivers the Soup Run to homeless people within Plymouth. He also helped deliver supplies and clothes to Shekinah at Christmas to support their annual Christmas lunch.
A great ambassador for the construction industry
Chris has spoken at a Building Plymouth Summit in a Q&A session with Emma to promote opportunities in construction and was so successful that he followed this with another talk to sixth form students at Hele’s School. This then got him another gig at Plymstock School for years 7-11 to tell them all about the great opportunities in construction and how they can get involved. What better than hearing from another young person about how great our industry is!