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Rob Hooker attends the CIOB Company & Client Forum 2025

23rd October 2025

Greendale Director, Rob Hooker, was pleased to attend the CIOB Company & Client Forum 2025 on 21st October held at Reading Town Hall. After a warm welcome from Amanda Pilgrim CMgr FCMI Pilgrim and Ruth Kennedy-Green, Director of Membership, CIOB, Chartered Company Members were invited to the stage to collect their certificates. Rob was delighted to take to the stage to receive Greendale Construction's certificate presented by Ruth herself. Read more »

James Piddock achieves CIOB membership

14th August 2025

We are delighted to announce that James Piddock, who joined Greendale in August 2023 as a Quantity Surveyor, and who was promoted to join our Senior Leadership Team in January 2025, has been awarded membership to The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Read more »

Greendale takes CIOB on site visits to Poole Museum and Bournemouth International Airport

11th June 2025

Greendale was delighted to host Helen Patel, Senior Business Development Manager at The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), and James Cole, Business Development Manager at The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) on a tour to two of our sites, Poole Museum and Scaplans Court, and Bournemouth International Airport Read more »

CIOB Conservation Conference 2025: Engage. Involve. Empower.

13th March 2025

Directors, Rob Hooker, Chris Cave, and pre construction manager, John Walker attended the 2025 CIOB Conservation Conference, held on the 12 March at the Congress Centre, Great Russell Street, London. The conference focused on the people behind the projects preserving UK historic buildings. Read more »

CIOB Conservation Conference – The future of heritage conservation

14th May 2024

Greendale Construction Directors, Rob Hooker, Andy Musselwhite, and Chris Cave (above) attended the CIOB Conservation Conference – The future of heritage conservation, at The Congress Centre in London on May 9th. The conference Read more »

Greendale hosts successful CIOB visit to Poole Museum

16th April 2024

We were delighted to host a visit from members of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) to our site at Poole Museum, where we are currently in the middle of phase 2 of a fifty-week major refurbishment to Poole Museum and Scaplens Court. Read more »

CIOB Conservation Conference: New ideas for tough times

26th April 2023

Greendale Director, Rob Hooker, was pleased to attend the CIOB Conservation Conference: New ideas for tough times, held in London, on April 25th. Rob said: "It was fantastic to attend this conference, with interesting subjects and thought provoking presentations. The location itself, at One Moorgate Place, was stunning. The conservation conference was in partnership with English Heritage, and tackled the question: 'How do we protect our built heritage when times are tough.' Read more »

CIOB CEO,Caroline Gumble, visits Greendale Construction – and takes in some sites along the way!

2nd March 2020

We were delighted to welcome the CEO of the CIOB, Caroline Gumble, to the Greendale offices on Friday, before taking her on a tour of some of our current sites across Dorset, including Canford School and the Priest's House Museum, as well as Highcliffe Castle, which we completed the latest phase of last year. Read more »

Rob Hooker meets with CIOB CEO Caroline Gumble

26th November 2019

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