2019 Construction & Engineering Awards

BUILD 2019 Construction & Engineering Awards 22 Jul19048 Urban Marque Ltd: Best Bespoke Luxury Lodge Home Design Company - Eastern England Seeking to offer an innovative alternative form of housing, Urban Marque Ltd is the UK’s leading manufacturers of affordable luxury mobile homes, log cabins and static caravans, supplied and installed throughout the country. We spoke to Chris Thorpe from the firm to gain an insight into how it came to win one of this year’s coveted Construction & Engineering Awards. reated in 2015, Urban Marque was established solely to specialise in the design, engineering and manufacture of high-end bespoke lodge homes, that are compliant with the Caravan Acts of 1968 and will also meet UK Building Regulations for new build housing. Today, the firm serves a variety of clients, predominantly those who require independent living accommodation for family that can be stationed in a garden and many different arms of the leisure industry such as holiday parks, fishing lake venues and hotels who require standalone accommodation blocks. For these clients, Urban Marque offers a huge range of services including structural engineering, design and planning advice, including obtaining Lawful Development Certificates on behalf of clients. Chris explores how this diverse service offering can be tailored to meet the needs of specific clients, ensuring that they receive support they cannot find with other companies. “At Urban Marque, not only do we offer a bespoke design service, we can provide our clients with a route to build that suits both their budget and own resources. This means that we can offer a unique package that allows the clients to have their own input and Urban Marque will undertake a scope of works that the client decides. We call this our ‘joint build package’. C “Alongside this innovative range of services, Urban Marque also has its own ecological foundation system called Urban Plinth, which requires minimal labour and uses no concrete as is traditional for a standard foundation pad. Our structural engineering services consist of full site-specific calculations and drawings, unique to each project and our designs are based on our chartered structural engineers’ instructions. Unlike most suppliers of Mobile Homes, we do not have a one model fits all sites operation, and as such we are able to offer unique, bespoke support to our valued clients.” It is Urban Marque’s tailored service offering, combined with the firm’s dedication to quality, that sets them apart from its competitors in this busy market, as Chris is keen to highlight. “Unique to the market, Urban Marque aims to offer numerous differentiating factors to our clients so that they know they are in safe and reliable hands when they work with us. Without doubt our specifications and quality are one of the highest in our industry, so much so that all our homes that comply with the ‘no planning’ caravan acts will meet the high demands of the UK Building Regulations for new-build houses. “Most of our competitors only manufacture or sell standard designs and do not offer a bespoke design service, nor do they offer a choice of finishing materials. Our kits also arrive on site as flat-pack components and installed by our skilled timber frame erectors, this eliminates the need for a large crane to lift the two parts of a static caravan, required in law, over existing buildings and also allows us use smaller trucks that can access narrow roads. Although our quality is far in excess of most other suppliers of Mobile Homes; we are very competitive on price and usually lower that their standard catalogue prices. We also offer an insurance backed guarantee that offers our clients deposit protection, guaranteed completion of the project and a 10-year warranty if Urban Marque were to cease trading. “All of these features combine to make Urban Marque the perfect partner for those seeking a quality Mobile Home or semi- permanent housing structure. Quality, innovation and client service are the core tenants of our business and they drive us forward at all times.”