ONE of North Wales’s top builders has scooped a major award for an educational building in Flintshire.

Anwyl Construction’s work to create the innovative £1.8m Small Animal Centre at Northop College has earned them the award for Best Educational Building from Flintshire County Council’s Building Control Department.

It is one of two awards Anwyl Construction has won in different categories in the county – they have also won the Best Dwelling for Plas Celyn, Llanasa – as well as two others elsewhere in North Wales.

The Rhyl-based company, which employs 150 staff, won the same award last year – for the Learning Centre at Northop College, part of Deeside College.

Anwyl Construction director Tom Anwyl said: “We’re naturally delighted to have once again been very successful in the North Wales Building Control County Awards.

“We consider them a hugely important accolade and a benchmark for the construction industry in North Wales.”

The Small Animal Centre is a ground-breaking £1.8m project.

It features viewing areas and temperature controlled environments for some exotic creatures such as iguanas, monkeys, and even an 8ft carpet python as well as an aquarium area, a dog grooming parlour, outside aviaries and kennels .

Anwyl built in key ‘green’ features such as rainwater harvesting, sun pipes providing natural lighting, air source pump heating and a roof garden.

Anwyl Construction will now see the four county winners go forward to a glittering occasion at St David’s Park Hotel in Ewloe for the North Wales awards tomorrow (Friday).