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2004

Alistair Humphreys and David Johnston with Cllr. Alistair Glanville, Portfolio Holder for Mendip DC

July 1
InterPublic sign a ten year contract to refurbish and rebuild Mendip District Council toilets. The contract also includes managing the facilities.

July
InterPublic commence the refurbishment of Commercial Road, Shepton Mallet.

October
Started in July 2004 InterPublic worked hard to get this major refurbishment finished in time for the closing date for the 2004 Loo of the Year Inspections.

This target was achieved and the facility won a 5* award and Best Unattended Public Toilet England. The party attending the awards which included Councilors and Officers for Mendip District Council retuned elated and with an armful of awards which included InterPublic being voted Best UK Public Toilet provider 2004 /2005.

2005
Loo Of The Year Awards and Mendip – InterPublic are awarded a number of 5-star awards. In addition, Commercial Road, Shepton Mallet is voted Best Unattended Facility 2005.

Before starting work at Union Street, Wells

January
InterPublic commence the refurbishment of Union Street, Wells, public toilet.

May
The refurbishment of Union Street, Wells, is complete

Work in progress on the new public toilets at St Johns Car Park, Glastonbury

September
InterPublic commence the construction of the new public toilets at St Johns Car Park, Glastonbury

2006
January
St Johns Car Park, Glastonbury opens.

Summer 2006 and InterPublic commence the construction of a new toilet at Justice Lane, Frome.

November 2006
Mendip District Council Building Regulations Department held their inaugural 'Built in Quality' Awards at their Shepton Mallet offices.

The Building Regulation Officers for Mendip had assembled a short list of projects that had been completed in the previous year and one of the categories was Best Accessible Project.

InterPublic were short listed with two other nominees for the Design and Build of St. John’s Car Park Public Toilets, Glastonbury.

InterPublic were pleased to attend the awards ceremony and learn that they had won the Category for Best Accessible Project.

Director Alistair Humphreys of InterPublic Urban Systems is seen collecting the award from Anthony Bird of Community in Government, responsible for the updating Building Regulations in respect of fire prevention and protection of structures.

December 2006
Impressed with the overall project Tracey Aarons Building Control Service Manager for Mendip completed the application for the project, along with a stunning reference for the project and InterPublic Urban Systems Ltd, for submission to the Local Authority Building Control Built in Quality Awards for the South West of England to be presented in February 2007.

2007
January 2007 and InterPublic open the new toilets with ShopMobility and Market Offices at Justice Lane, Frome.

February 2007
Notification is received that the 2007 LABC South West Awards will be presented in February in Torquay, InterPublic are advised that they have made the short list for the Best Accessible Project. Directors David Johnston and Alistair Humphreys were joined by Stuart Finney, Contracts Officer for Mendip District Council, at the Grand Hotel, Torquay for the Awards Ceremony.

The Master of Ceremonies for the evening announced that the short list for the Best Accessible Project comprised six projects and followed this with a brief description of the projects. Presenting Certificates of Merit to all but the winners, InterPublic Urban Systems’ name was the last to be announced and they triumphed again, walking away with LABC 2007 Best Accessible Project South West Region.

David Johnston, Alistair Humphreys and Stuart Finney are seen receiving the silver plate award from Sophie Long of the BBC.

With two successes back to back InterPublic were encouraged to enter the National LABC awards to be presented in London in October 2007. Mindful that this project which had won at regional level was on a small scale compared to large city projects hopes were not high of any success. The application for nomination was completed in July and forwarded to the LABC office. Notified in August that InterPublic were part of the first short list, the luck ran out and the project did not make the National Awards presentation short list.

Below is a news item taken from the Mendip District Council website

Mendip's Toilets are Best in the West - 09 May 2007

St Johns Car Park, Glastonbury

Mendip's loos have been flushed with further success after winning through to the finals of a national competition.

Mendip District Council's new block of toilets in St Johns Car Park,
Glastonbury, have been voted the Best Accessible Building in the Local Authority Building Control's (LABC) annual South West Built In Quality Awards.

The accolade comes hot on the heels of the council's own Built In Quality Awards which gave similar honours to the toilets earlier this year.

The block was built by InterPublic Urban Systems and is part of a three-year investment programme by the district council to update public conveniences across Mendip.

The toilets will now go through to the LABC's national finals which take place in October at the Grosvenor Hotel in London.

In addition, Mendip District Council also scooped a highly commended for its work with the builders of a loft conversion at Springbourne House in Frome, which won a prize in the Best Domestic Extension/Alteration category.

Tracy Aarons, who manages Mendip District Council's building control team, said: "Congratulations go to both InterPublic Urban Systems for the Glastonbury toilets and to Pauline Fletcher and Clive Blakey for their work on the conversion at Springbourne House.

"Both were already recognised as the best at our council's awards - this is now a double celebration for them. We are keeping our fingers crossed that they will be successful on a national level.

"The building control team at Mendip work closely with developers to ensure construction is to the highest quality, and these awards prove this close partnership working is paying off."

Matthew Hunt, the chairman of the LABC South West region, said: "The quality of nominations for these awards has been very impressive and offers a clear demonstration as to what the region can achieve through commitment and dedication to the end product."

June 2007
The new toilet at Southside Car Park, Street is opened. Cllr. Bob Smith, Mayor of Street, Cllr Alistair Glanville, Portfolio Holder for Streets & Landscapes and Alistair Humphreys Director of InterPublic at the Official opening in August. The new toilet has been well received by the public offering the usual high standards of provision that is expected from InterPublic. Included in this facility is the newly revised Anti Vandal Alarm System, with new features and improved software, the alarm is now very flexible in the way it is offered. The toilet has an InterPublic Rainwater Harvester System incorporated with the capacity to store some 9000 litres of rainwater.


	2008 Sponsorship is provided by Headline Sponsor Albany Washroom Services and Associate Sponsors Armitage Shanks, British Cleaning Council, Help the Aged, and Hydro Nova Europe, together with the national tourism bodies of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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