Rigger of the Year
Summit Steel’s Jon Bray won the 2008 Total Production International Award for Rigger of the Year.
The Awards – which recognise the production industry’s most innovative and ambitious technical, creative and production achievements - were presented at London’s Grosvenor House venue on February 17th. Bray says “With the O2 contract , the last year has found me working on site more than in recent years, helping load-in a number of large shows at The O2. I have really enjoyed it, particularly seeing the improvements in our regular team through training over the last year.”
In 1994, Bray founded Summit Steel to provide well-presented and maintained premium quality equipment and technology, backed up by extensive knowledge and experience. Based in Kent, Bray and the Summit team enjoyed another extremely hectic year in 2007.
Personal highlights included being among the first three candidates to attain his Level 3 National Rigging Certificate (Rigging Supervisor), currently the highest level of PLASA’s newly launched National Rigging Certificate (NRC) scheme. Company high points included winning the contract to supply and look after all the in-house rigging requirements at London’s busy O2 Arena.
Already this year the pace continues for Summit. They broke rigging records in the Royal Albert Hall with the installation of Cirque du Soleil’s “Varekai” show and other projects include building a complete red carpet area running down Bow Street for the 2008 BAFTAs last week.
