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The winners will be announced at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel, London on 9 October 2024.
Recognising successfully delivered project outcomes
Commercial Property Project of the Year
This category recognises outstanding new commercial and mixed used buildings where the primary function/focus is on providing high quality lettable space.
Cultural & Leisure Project of the Year
This category recognises the value of exceptional buildings and facilities in enhancing communities and contributing to their health and wellbeing, whether it is a leisure centre, museum, gallery, library or religion-based development.
Environmental Project of the Year
This category recognises projects that are delivering environmental improvements for local communities and regions by mitigating the impact of extreme weather and climate change on people, properties and business.
Placemaking Project of the Year
This category recognises initiatives that have improved the final outcome of a project to create quality public spaces that enhance infrastructure to the level where people not only want to use it, they enjoy using it too. We will be looking for project teams that can demonstrate an understanding and recognition of the importance of working with local communities to deliver new public spaces.
These teams will worked hard to understand the needs of local people and key stakeholders to incorporate those needs into the design stages and may have also engaged with the community and stakeholders to get them to participate during the delivery stage too.
Residential Project of the Year
This category recognises the value of exceptional buildings in meeting Britain’s housing needs whether it is a small residential development, major new community development, student accommodation or senior living development. The category is open to all projects where housing/accommodation provision is the primary purpose. The entire project does not have to be completed but the phase of work that the entry centres on must be complete.
Retrofit Project of the Year
This category recognises the value of exceptional retrofitting across all sectors, where those involved have given new or improved life to buildings and infrastructure. Great retrofitting can enhance long term outcomes, create a new or renewed purposes and deliver economic, social and environmental dividends from retrofitting rather than rebuilding.
Social Infrastructure Project of the Year
This category recognises schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, research facilities, law courts, prisons and other civic buildings that contribute towards improved social service provision in the UK.
Transport Project of the Year
This category recognises transport projects that are enhancing capacity, providing better connectivity or improving helping to improve reliability of local, regional or national transport services.
Upgrade & Renewal Project of the Year
This category recognises maintenance and renewal projects in any sector that may be standalone, one-off projects or form part of an ongoing operations or maintenance programme.
Utility Project of the Year
This category recognises projects that are contributing to the resilience, reliability, affordability and quality of the UK’s communications, energy, clean water or wastewater networks.
Sharing best practice during project delivery
Carbon Net Zero Initiative of the Year
This category will recognise projects that are leading the field with reducing embodied carbon during the construction of new infrastructure or buildings to support the government’s target to be carbon net zero by 2050. The initiative could be an alternative design, use of new materials or innovative equipment to reduce energy consumption during the project.
Community Impact Initiative of the Year
This category recognises projects that have improved the lives and prospects of the communities that live close to the project area.
We will be looking for project teams that can demonstrate an understanding and recognition of the importance of working with local communities. These teams will have gone the extra mile to have not just sought to mitigate the impact of construction on the community to provide true outreach in the form of engagement with schools and community groups and potentially offered training and employment.
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Digital Initiative of the Year
This category recognises projects that are driving the use of smart technologies in construction to improve design, delivery or safety.
Digital solutions used in the right way have the potential to improve project efficiency at every stage and to allow engineers to focus their skills on the more technical challenging aspects of scheme. However, understanding why a solution is adopted over another, benchmarking its use to demonstrate success and look for continued improvements is critical to ensure technology allows engineers to work smarter.
Environment & Sustainability Initiative of the Year
This award seeks to recognise project teams that have introduced a specific project-based initiative that is targeting a lower carbon solution, specifically boosting the whole life sustainability of the project or is improving environmental sensitivity.
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Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative of the Year
This category seeks to recognise project teams that understand the importance of creating a safe and healthy working environment and strive to improve wellbeing of those delivering the work. Judges will be particularly keen to see examples of initiatives that tackle mental health.
Partnership Initiative of the Year
This award seeks to recognise project teams that are changing ways of working to become integrated teams and fully collaborate within the supply chain to deliver better outcomes for all those involved in the construction industry.
Product Innovation of the Year
This category recognises an innovation in products for design or construction that are deployed on specific projects and that are boosting overall project outcomes.
Productivity Initiative of the Year
This category recognises initiatives that aim to improve productivity on project whether it is at the design, procurement or construction stage. The productivity improvement could focus on skills, quality, contractual issues and sharing risk, standardisation or overall project outcome. Judges for this category recognise that productivity initiatives may be at a very early stage with no demonstrable return on investment.
Temporary Works Initiative of the Year
This category recognises the key role played by good temporary works design in construction.
Overarching Awards
Small Project of the Year Award
This category recognises the most outstanding smaller projects, to the final out-turn cost of £15M or less. All projects shortlisted in their category are eligible for this award, which will be judged by lead judges from each category represented on the shortlist
Project of the Year Award
This category is the best of the best; the shortlist will be formed of the eight winning excellence in project outcomes categories. The winner is quite simply the most outstanding project of the year and will be decided by the panel of judges, primarily taking into account the scores awarded for project outcome.
Initiative of the Year Award
This category is the best of the best; the shortlist will be formed of the eight winning best practice in project delivery categories. The winner is quite simply the most outstanding initiative of the year and will be decided by the panel of judges, primarily taking into account the scores awarded for potential industry impact.
Special Awards
NIC Design Principles Award
This category will champion projects that are exemplar in terms of design and judge them against the National Infrastructure Commission’s (NIC) Design Group’s four key principles of climate, people, place and value.
The Design Principles for National Infrastructure were set out by the NIC’s Design Group in January 2020 in order to drive industry improvements. The NIC Design Principles Award will recognise a winner in the BCIA project categories that most closely adheres to the four key principles.
The Design Group believes the legacy of these schemes will be judged on how they succeed in responding creatively to the needs of climate change, the environment and communities.
The IPA’s Industry Innovation Champion
This flagship category within the BCIA initiatives awards will recognise an individual client, consultant, designer, architect or contractor that is delivering innovation on multiple fronts across their business or a specific division to improve their day to day work, as well as the outcomes of the projects they are working on.
Supported by
The ICE President’s Nature and People-Positive Champion
This flagship category within the BCIA awards will recognise an individual client, consultant, designer, architect or contractor that is delivering nature and people-positive outcomes on multiple fronts across their business or a specific division to improve their day-to-day work, as well as the outcomes of the projects they are working on.
In line with the ICE president’s priority for 2024, the outcomes presented will contribute to designing and constructing a built environment that halts and reverses nature loss and enhances the lives of people living and working locally.
The practices presented could focus on specific project approaches and outcomes, on wider initiatives that span more than one project or on activities across a whole company or division working in the built environment.
Entrants to this category must be able to demonstrate that they have taken bold, ambitious steps compared to their peers when it comes to understanding and delivering nature and people-positive outcomes.
The results of this may not yet be fully delivered but entrants should demonstrate the ambitions of the early steps being taken, quality of thinking and benchmarking that will allow the results to be quantified and measured in the fullness of time.