Daniel Owen joins Constructing Excellence North East (CENE)

Daniel Owen is proud to announce that we have joined Constructing Excellence North East (CENE), strengthening our commitment to the built environment and the clients, contractors, and candidates we support across the sector.

Who are Constructing Excellence North East? 

CENE is the regional partner to Constructing Excellence, the national organisation driving best practice and innovation across the UK construction industry.

Working with clients, contractors, consultants, and the wider supply chain, CENE focuses on:

• Championing collaboration and smarter ways of working.
• Improving productivity, quality, and safety across projects.
• Supporting skills development and attracting new talent into the sector.
• Providing a platform for networking, knowledge-sharing, and thought leadership within construction.

Through events, forums, and working groups, CENE brings the region’s construction community together to tackle shared challenges and raise standards across the industry.

Why we’ve joined CENE 

Daniel Owen has 40 years’ experience recruiting for the built environment, covering construction, housing, civil engineering, maintenance, rail, and facilities management.

Our Newcastle office is a key northern hub for us, and membership of CENE is a natural next step in our regional growth. This allows us to:

• Play an active role in supporting a better, more sustainable construction industry.
• Align the goals we set when we became an Employee Owned business, which share CENE’s long-term, community-focused values and commitment to doing things the right way.
• Connect more closely with contractors, consultants, local authorities, housing providers, and the wider supply chain to understand their workforce challenges and support them with targeted, compliant recruitment solutions.

What this means for our clients and candidates 

CENE membership is core to remaining at the forefront of industry change, from upcoming projects and frameworks, to emerging skills needs and new ways of working.

In practice, that means:

• Better insight into the talent and capability needed for future schemes.
• Stronger relationships with the organisations delivering the North East’s built environment.
• A clearer line of sight between workforce planning, project delivery, and long-term sector growth.

Ultimately, it’s about our recruitment expertise supporting a high-performing, sustainable construction sector.

Want to know more?

If you’d like to discuss our CENE membership or how our recruitment can support your project pipeline, please get in touch:

Sarah Sidey
National Accounts Director
T: 0191 814 1360 | M: 07710 218438
E: Sarah.Sidey@danielowen.co.uk