PJA win Responsible Employer of the Year Award

13th November 2024

REDA Chair Scott Witchalls presented Jerry Muscroft and his team at PJA with the Responsible Employer of the Year Award at the Berkshire Property Awards 2024. The engineering, transport planning and placemaking firm based in the TW12VE building  in Reading town centre demonstrated a truly responsible business strategy. The other businesses shortlisted for the award were DevComms, Lichfields and SEGRO. 

Station Hill’s Ebb and Flow development won Residential Development of the Year for the quality of design, placemaking, sustainability, ESG agenda and use of materials. 

Nigel Horton Baker, Chief Executive of REDA, said: “Congratulations to PJA as the winners of the Best Employer Award.  Like REDA, their vision is to create a better place. PJA are an innovative and creative high growth independent company based in Reading Town Centre, who have exceeded the targets in their responsible business strategy. PJA takes a holistic approach to design solutions generating ideas through their wide-ranging team of experts in the built environment professions. Through this approach PJA are also able to develop their people, exposing them to multidisciplinary working and providing rewarding career structures at all levels. And they don’t stop there, providing staff with opportunities to be STEM ambassadors in local schools and colleges helping to develop the workforce for tomorrow,  volunteering in the local community, raising money for charity and committing to reducing their carbon footprint.”