Constructing Excellence Yorkshire & Humber Awards 2015 – Thank you for helping to make it the best one yet!
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Well, what can we say but what a night! Friday 17th July saw the culmination of six months meticulous planning by the Constructing Excellence team to bring you this year’s Constructing Excellence Yorkshire & Humber Awards 2015, and what a night it was! Held at the National Railway Museum in York, this event brought together over 350 industry professionals, representing a wide cross-section of the construction sector, in a spectacular celebration to recognise and reward the very best examples of construction excellence, achievement and best practice the regional built environment has been involved in over the last 12 months.
Sponsored by AtlasCloud, attendees were treated to a champagne drinks reception, a gourmet three course meal dining amongst the museum’s magnificent collection of historical carriages, and a fantastic AV show interspersed with a rousing awards presentation. Fourteen different awards were handed out, each representing the core themes of the Constructing Excellence strategy, including leadership and people development, SME of the year and new for 2015, BIM project of the year.
In addition, attendees were also encouraged to share images from their tables to social media with a bottle of bubbly being awarded for the best “selfie” of the night! Our excellent host for the evening was BBC Look North’s Amy Garcia who kept proceedings both professional and relaxed as well as introducing the audience to the “belfie” (look it up if you don’t know!).
Carillion Morgan Sindall secured the biggest haul of the night walking away with three awards for their A1 Leeming to Barton improvement project; Innovation, BIM Project of the Year & Best of the Best categories. Other winners included Interserve who secured the Value category for Huddersfield Royal Infirmary project, Opus International Consultants who took the leadership prize and hull-based contractors M B Roche & Sons who were named SME of the Year. Morgan Sindall Grontmij Joint Venture rounded off a successful night for the Morgan Sindall Group by scooping the much coveted Project of the Year award for highly inventive time & cost efficiencies implemented at Castleford Waste Treatment works.
However the real winner on the evening was the industry itself. The sheer breadth of shortlisted projects, schemes & organisations represented at this year’s awards demonstrate once again that our regional construction sector continues to push boundaries & lead the way in driving up industry standards and “doing things better”. Innovation and creativity shone through all the projects entered with many underpinned by Construction 2025 core themes & vision. Collaboration was also a key theme of the evening with many of the shortlisted projects being undertaken in partnership demonstrating that we really are “stronger together”. The future of the industry also looks to be in good hands with an inspiring presentation delivered by three students from St Ambrose Barlow High School with big plans for their careers in our industry – future keynote speakers perhaps!
So all we have left to say is congratulations and a big THANK YOU to all our sponsors, supporters, entrants and participants who have made this year’s #ceyhawards the best one yet and we look forward to working with you all again to set the bar even higher next year!
Thank you
Liz, Mitch & Donna, CKE Team
Full List of Winners and Highly Commended
Achiever of the Year (sponsored by Leeds Sustainability Institute)
Winner: Tom Dolan , Kier Construction
Client of the Year (sponsored by William Anelay)
Winner: The University of York, Nominated by Faithful+Gould
Health & Safety (Sponsored by William Birch & Sons)
Winner: Hull Re Roofs Project , Lovell
Highly Commended: Henry Boot Construction Ltd
Heritage (sponsored by Lovell)
Winner: Sewerby Hall Access Project, East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Highly Commended: The Judge’s Lodgings, William Anelay
Innovation (sponsored by Project Five Consulting)
Winner: A1 Leeming to Barton Improving Large Goods Vehicles (LGV) Driver Behaviour through Roadworks, Carillion Morgan Sindall JV
Highly Commended: M1 Junction 33 – Highways BIM Project , Aggregate Industries UK Ltd in collaboration Costain Ltd and Mouchel
Integration & Collaborative Working (sponsored by Faithful+Gould)
Winner: York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Kier Construction
Highly Commended: Yorkshire Water Integrated Asset Management team,
Leadership & People Development (sponsored by ESH Construction)
Winner: Opus International Consultants (UK) Ltd
Highly Commended: A-one+ STEM Ambassador Group, A-one+ Integrated Highway Services
Sustainability (sponsored by Interserve Construction)
Winner: Little Kelham, Citu
Highly Commended: Golcar Passivhaus, Green Building Store
Highly Commended: Area 12 Managing Agent Contract, A-one+ Integrated Highway Services
Project of the Year (sponsored by M3 Ltd)
Winner: Castleford Waste Water Treatment Works , Morgan Sindall Grontmij Joint Venture
2nd Place: Tophill Low WTW – Nitrate removal plant, Amey
1st Highly Commended: Bowcliffe Hall, Conlon Construction
2nd Highly Commended: The Kelpies, Falkirk, SH Structures Ltd
SME of the Year (sponsored by East Riding of Yorkshire Council)
Winner: M.B.Roche & Sons Ltd
Value (sponsored by Gosschalks Solicitors)
Winner: Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Interserve Construction
Young Achiever G4C (sponsored by Class of Your Own)
Winner: Danielle Kirk -Mitchell, Henry Boot Construction
Highly Commended: Tom Wilcox Harrison, Simpson (York) Limited
BIM Project of the Year (sponsored by Tekla UK)
Winner: A1(M) Leeming to Barton Improvements, Carillion Morgan Sindall Joint Venture
Highly Commended: A160 Port of Immingham Improvements Project – A Highways England ‘BIM Early Adopter’, Costain
Best of the Best
Winner: A1(M) Leeming to Barton Improvements, Carillion Morgan Sindall Joint Venture
With thanks to our headline sponsor, Atlas Cloud
Atlas Cloud is a customised cloud platform which delivers email, applications and data in your own common data environment, enabling mobility and internal and external collaboration securely and helping those driving towards BIM Level 2 and beyond. Our ‘Virtual Project Office’ environments are built using enterprise grade Cloud technologies, allowing people to work from anywhere on any device using low bandwidth and supporting new working practices – for example live Revit drawing reviews and collaboration on-site on an iPad.
Atlas Cloud is built from the ground up as a service based model and is recognised as the future of IT service procurement; on-demand, sensitive to and therefore an enabler of the agility demanded by businesses to compete in this changing world. The technology comes with a per month, per user pricing, is available immediately and includes delivering, managing and updating software versions on a project by project basis.
Over £2000 was raised for this year’s charity – thank you everyone for your generosity!
We are thrilled to announce that our charity partner for this event is Disability Action Yorkshire. Based in Harrogate, Disability Action Yorkshire are a charity that provides services that aim to improve the lives of disabled people. These include residential care which trains younger adults in the skills required to live independently, care and support within people’s own homes, fully accessible holiday accommodation and training in the skills required for employment linked to a thriving social enterprise. Our belief is that disabled people should have the same opportunities and life choices as everyone else and do all that we can to facilitate that. Follow them on twitter @disactyorks . Donate to their work here
We are now in the process of putting together our documentation for #ceyhawards 2016. Contact Liz Schofield if you are interesting in sponsoring or entering via email to e.a.schofield@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
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