Award categories
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These awards are designed to showcase excellence and reward achievement from organisations and project teams that have achieved regional acclaim. In order to qualify for the awards the project team / organisation must demonstrate the application of Constructing Excellence principles. There are a total of 12 awards categories: |
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Integration & Collaborative Working
Judges are looking for evidence of early involvement, long-term relationships, procurement by value, common processes and modern commercial arrangements. Obvious benefits will include a less adversarial approach,but judges will require evidence of how workforce development has improved as a result of collaboration, in addition to the products or services and customer satisfaction. Successful entries will have succeeded in integrating their teams to such a level that they appear as a single entity to the customer.
The Legacy Award - Sustainability
Nominations should demonstrate the application of the principles of sustainable construction and/or sustainable development that deliver a sustainable legacy. This can be on a single project which has taken the three aspects of sustainability into account, across a series of projects or through a change process within an organisation.
SME Award
This category is open to small construction companies employing 50 or fewer people who have made strides in improving their company through implementing best practice. Judges are looking for examples of where improvements have been made across the board in terms of both people and processes. In particular judges will be looking for evidence of people development, adopting best practice, and/or collaborative and new ways of working.
Health & Safety
The judges are looking for the project or organisation where health and safety has been driven forward to go beyond what is required within the duties as stated in CDM2007 in order to achieve an excellent result. To be successful in this award the judges are looking for evidence that best practice has been utilised in producing a scheme or schemes where buildability, future maintenance and final demolition have been fully considered and where both health and safety have been a key driver.
Innovation
This award is about getting away from the idea that we should continue to do what we have always done, because we feel comfortable with it. It is about developing new solutions to the
problems we encounter, achieving an innovative solution which enhances the value of the finished product, without increasing the risks associated with it. It will highlight innovation in finding technical or environmental solutions and overcoming problems within a project or process. Entries could include the use of IT/ICT solutions; the use of environmental technologies; innovation in process or delivery and the use of offsite or modular construction or prefabrication.
Value
The judges are looking for either a project on which long-term value has been best achieved or an organisation that has achieved value on a number of projects over a period of time. Judges will consider how completed projects have been designed and constructed to achieve maximum benefit for owners and end users and helped them accomplish their goals. Project teams and organisations should demonstrate how achieving the optimum outcome for owners and end users was a key driver throughout the design and construction process and provide any available data on what has been achieved. Examples of projects that should be put forward in this category include, but are not limited to, schools designed and constructed with student attainment as a key driver; hospitals designed and constructed to aid patient recovery time or offices designed and constructed to improve productivity.
Leadership & People Development
The winner in this category will clearly define improvements resulting from leadership and training interventions including where these have been driven by an enlightened client. Entries
should show respect to our workforce and the communities, while simultaneously winning respect from them through workforce development, skills and training, benchmarking, equality and diversity, and improvements to health and safety and the working environment.
The G4C Award for Young Achiever
The G4C Award looks to recognise a young achiever in our industry. G4C stands for ‘Generation for Change' and is the early career group within Constructing Excellence. The judges are looking for the person that has best demonstrated a fit with the current G4C
priority areas of people, sustainability and asset outcomes. For more information. The award is open to anyone with less than five years experience in the construction and built environment sector.
Heritage Project of the Year
This award recognises the achievement of high standards in the repair, re-use and revitalisation of the region's historic buildings, sites and places. Entries should demonstrate evidence of research and investigation, consideration of alternative options, choice of appropriate procurement route, application of well-considered and sympathetic technical solutions (whether traditional or innovative), delivery of quality and enduring outcomes, and a commitment to the development of heritage skills and training opportunities.
The Achiever's Award
This award will recognise outstanding performance or influence by an individual who is truly inspirational in the opinion of the sector peer group. The winner will show exemplary actions
that have changed the behaviour and performance of others and delivered disproportionate benefits for, and left a legacy in, the outputs of the built environment sector.
Client of the Year
An award for the client that has shown the greatest drive to ensure that best practice principles are adopted on its projects and throughout its supply chain.
Project of the Year
The winning project team will have shown the highest level of technical achievement, innovation and application of best practice, while delivering a project to time and budget and with teamworking throughout the supply chain. This winner may be drawn from winners of the earlier categories or may be an project or organisation that has displayed excellence across a number of categories.