Criterion and Commitment
We’ve been thinking a lot recently about how we’ve been able to build our team since we formed our Employee Ownership Trust around 18 months ago. It almost goes without saying that team collaboration is a fundamental part of the EOT but sometimes it’s easy simply to focus on our projects and customers in order to deliver great service and run out of time to think about us and our team.
So it was great to be able to focus on the first anniversary of Ellie Pearson and Marine Durand joining the team last year and we did it in style with a Projects team dinner at The Criterion in London’s Piccadilly Circus. Ellie joined us in a graduate role as Junior Interior Design Architect, whilst Marine has recently moved across to take the role of Project Experience Manager and has years of experience supporting businesses’ operations.
We don’t often post pictures of the team on a night out but given the anniversary and the incredible interior of the Criterion, we thought this was too good an opportunity to miss! If you’re interested in architecture (and you probably have at least a passing interest in construction if you’re reading this blog!) then the story of the Criterion building with its Long Bar and glistening gold mosaic ceiling is fascinating. The restaurant is mentioned in the first Sherlock Holmes book, A Study in Scarlet, and has seen visits from the likes of HG Wells and Winston Churchill and was even the setting for many a meeting of the Suffragettes. So we were following in a great tradition of London diners…and we can’t wait to return!
