Everything you need to know ahead of the 2024 Building Awards

Tonight’s ceremony at The Grosvenor House Hotel marks the 30^th edition of the event.

Tuesday 5^th November 2024 is special for two reasons. The first being Guy Fawkes night where we gather to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot in 1605. The second, which is arguably superior within this field, is the celebration of the Building Awards which will be taking place at The Grosvenor House Hotel, London from 18:30pm tonight.

Created by Building, the UK’s leading magazine for construction professionals, the awards, which are comprised of 21 categories, aim to recognise the outstanding achievements of different individuals/organisations involved in the construction sector.

The finalists for this year’s event include:

Architectural Practice of the Year

• BPTW
• Buckley Gray Yeoman + BGYID
• ECD Architects
• HLM Architects
• LOM architecture and design
• Ryder Architecture

Building Magazine Project of the Year

• Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, 2 Ruskin Square
• Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, One Great Cumberland Place
• HLM Arcitects, London Institute for healthcare Engineering
• Jenner Group, Shoreline
• L&P Group, Lucent
• Mace Group, UCL Marshgate
• Sheppard Robson, TTP Campus
• Tillbury Douglas, Scottish National Galleries
• Todd Millburn, Richard Elpick, Brims, JCP, Ad Gefrin
• Willmott Dixon, Gascoigne East Estate Regeneration – Phase 2

Building’s Good Employer of the Year

• Ashe Group
• Balfour Beatty VINCI
• BPTW
• HLM Architects
• Kier Group
• Mace Group
• Plan A Consultants
• Rider Levett Bucknall
• Ridge and Partners
• Whittam Cox Architects
• XCO2

Construction Client of the Year

• British Land
• Bruntwood SciTech
• Enfield Council
• Ministry of Justice
• Quadrum Global
• Stanhope
• Transport for Greater Manchester

Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (fewer than 100 staff)

• B&CO
• Cahill Design Consultants
• Circle Development
• exigere
• Keegans
• Magnitude Quantity Surveyors Ltd
• MESH Construction Consultancy
• Plan A Consultants
• Twin and Earth Ltd
• Zerum Consult Ltd

Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (over 100 staff)

• Core Five Consulting Limited
• CPC Project Services
• Currie & Brown
• Drees & Sommer UK
• Fulkers Bailey Russell
• Mott MacDonald
• Rider Levett Bucknall
• Turner & Townsend Alinea

Contractor of the year

• Glencar
• Reds10
• Tilbury Douglas

Delivering Social Value Award

• Adderstone Living with Places for People
• Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture
• Gilbert-Ash
• Glencar
• HLM Architects & Morrison Construction
• Multiplex
• MYCO Contracts Ltd
• VINCI Building

Digital Excellence Award

• ALICE Technologies and Implenia, WindWorks Infrastructure wind farm project
• Bellway Homes, MiTex UK & Ireland, Zehnder, Digital technology and collaboration let Bellway and partners get ahead of the Future Homes Standard
• Drees & Sommer UK, University of Liverpool Digital Twin for Tracking & Optimising Live Operational Building Performance
• Gleeds, Digital PMO transformation for the University of Nottingham Estates and Facilities department
• Kier, Ministry of Justice, Glider and Future Decisions, MoJ Digital Twin Pathfinder at HMP Five Wells
• McLaren Construction, Creation of an integrated Digital Information Management function
• PRP, Building Safety Risk App
• Reds10, Imjin Barracks Single Living Accommodation (SLA): SMART SLA for the Army
• RLB Digital, RLB & Moda, DIGITAL SOCIAL VALUE PLATFORM
• Skanska, Production Control Tool

Engineering Consultant of the Year

• Black & White (B&W) Engineering
• Cundall
• Eckersley O’Callaghan
• Harley Haddow
• Hydrock, now Stantec
• OFR Consultants
• WSP

Housebuilder of the Year

• Bellway Homes
• Berkeley Group
• Mount Anvil
• Thakeham

Housing Project of the Year

• Autor, Preston Road
• Cullinan Studio with ECE Westworks, Maitland Park Estate
• Fraser Brown Mackenna (FBM) Architects, Regent Place
• Kier Construction, Marylebone Square
• McAleer & Rushe, Canada Water Plot K1, London
• McAleer & Rushe, Exchange Square Phase 2, Birmingham
• Platform_Platform_in Glasgow
• Solus Homes Limited, HSSP Architects Limited and BARK Design Studios, Waterside Village
• Vivly Living, formerly Yorkshire Country Properties, Knowle Grange, Abbey Road, Shepley
• Willmott Dixon Westminster City Council & Child Graddon Lewis, 300 Harrow Road

International Project of the Year

• Alchemy, Nassau County International Cricket Stadium
• Buckley Gray Yeoman, Skylight
• JTP, Oaks Phase 1, Prague
• Ritchie Studio, The brewhouse and Trident Park, Malta

Major Contractor of the Year

• Mace Group
• McLaren Construction
• Multiplex
• VINCI Building
• Wates Group

Manufacturer of the Year

• ARC Building Solutions
• Keyfix
• Lignacite
• Saint-Gobain Interior Solutions
• Senior Architectural Systems
• Siderise Insulation
• Zentia

MMC Award

• College Road, Croydon, Tide Construction and Vision Volumetric
• SMART SLA for Army, Reds10
• Mary’s Catholic Voluntary Academy, Tilbury Douglas
• Trent View College, HLM Architects

Net Zero Award

• AECOM, Centre for Resilience Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW), University of Exeter
• AKT II, Norton Folgate
• Bellway Homes, MiTek UK & Ireland, Zehnder, Barton Quarter – Plot 256 – leading the way towards carbon-cutting construction
• Chetwoods Architects and Baytree Logistics Properties, Baytree Nuneaton
• Cundall, Eden, New Bailey
• Davies Maguire, Sheldon Square Amphitheatre
• Greencore Homes, Hook Norton Community Land Trust
• Quadrum Global, 11 Belgrave Road
• Thornton Tomasetti, 40 Charter Street
• Tilbury Douglas, St. Mary’s Catholic Voluntary Academy

Retrofit Project of the Year

• AECOM, The old War Office, London
• Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, 1 Berkeley Street
• Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, DSDHA, Morris + Co, Stanton Williams, East for British Land, Norton Folgate, Norton Folgate
• Barr Gazetas, Fivefields
• Barr Gazetas, Grainhouse
• Buckley Gray Yeoman, YY London
• Hydrock, now Stantec, Hafod Morfa Copperworks – Swansea, Wales
• Mailen Design, Domus Campus
• Quadrum Global, 11 Belgrave Road
• RE, Arding & Hobbs

Small project of the Year

• A Brick for Venice, AKT II, Local Works Studio and Urban Radicals
• Bespoke lifts at the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) restoration project, Stannah Lifts – Major Projects Division
• Garden House, Greenaway Architecture
• Gordonstoun: The Queen Elizabeth II Rooms, Rivington Street Studio
• Grimes Graves Project, Ramboll
• Manor Lodge School Early Years Extension, IID Architects
• Pont House, Weave Architects
• The Junction, Autor
• Tun House, A’Bear & Ball Architects
• Woodwell and Meadow Barn, Market Overton, Distinctive Developments Group Ltd

Specialist Contractor of the Year

• DGP plc
• Kilnbridge
• McGee
• Mivan
• Specialist Group

In addition to the categories listed above, CEO of the Year is also awarded at the event by the judges who are comprised of a number of industry experts including Dr Bola Abisogun, Founder of Digital Twin Skills Academy CIC, Brian Berry, CEO of Federation of Master Builders and Katy Dowding Skanska UK.

On the topic of professional individuals set to attend the event, it is also sponsored by a number of respected organisations. These include Build UK, AET Flexible Space, Clement Windows Group, Carlisle, Cundall, Fenwick Elliott and many more.

More details about tonight’s even can be accessed in full here.

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