UVDB Green Lights HBPW For A Second Time

HBPW has been cleared to work for the country’s largest utility companies after being verified for the second year running, under the Achilles UVDB accreditation scheme.

The scheme clears the way for leading engineering companies to work for UK Power Networks through to the National Grid, Canal and River Trust and Scottish Water.

Associate Paul Jacklin, who has responsibility for quality standards within HBPW, said: “Accreditations are the silent contractors within companies like ours because they work hard to maintain the standards that win contracts and keep us successful.

“However, it is a daily challenge to ensure that agreed benchmarks are rigorously enforced and adhered to, which takes a mammoth effort by both engineering personnel and the admin team that supports them. But, once again, this re-accreditation gives us the green light for another year and tells the sector that HBPW is a firm that takes standards and health and safety seriously.”

He said that achieving accreditations was a gradual process that took years to refine.

“Once in place, they are a badge of credibility that instantly tell a range of people within large sprawling organisations, that HBPW is able to deliver without the need for further extended checks at departmental level.”
The firm developed its own quality assurance scheme several years ago, not only to meet ISO9001 criteria, but to control and complement the innovative and lateral processes for which it has become known amongst clients and contractors.

“Maintaining quality systems takes real time and effort, however, they play an instrumental part in work bids because they cut through hours of rigorous screening by letting key players know that we have already jumped through a raft of key hoops and are fit for purpose.”