Project of the Year (under £20m)
Wixoe Pump Station
BAM Nuttall
The Wixoe Pumping Station project was particularly challenging due to the high-risk electrical environment and the requirement that the facility remained operational throughout construction. The team committed huge effort to ensuring the highest standard of work in a healthy and safe working environment. They promoted a culture of positive and collaborative project management behaviors and approaches, to ensure client satisfaction and on time and on budget delivery. The team’s proactive approach also led to the introduction of innovative solutions and initiatives, rolled out and shared company and industry-wide, to effect positive changes for the project and beyond.
Mid Level 2 Sewer Non-Structural Liner and Access Shaft
Barhale with Thames Water
The Mid Level Sewer 2 Reinforcement and Shaft Construction scheme was a critically important project to protect a waste infrastructure asset serving thousands of people living and working in North London. Failure to achieve a successful completion could have interrupted progress on one of the UK’s largest transport projects and have had a significant impact on waste services. The project demonstrated innovative engineering to improve delivery, in terms of safety, the environment and day-to-day impacts on the community, and to provide a better overall outcome.
Sheppey Regeneration
Cognition Land and Water
Cognition Land and Water led enabling works, remediation, and ground engineering for the Queenborough & Rushenden Regeneration on the Isle of Sheppey. Collaborating with Homes England and Campbell Reith, they transformed neglected brownfield land into a site ready for housing, amenities, a school, and community regeneration. Cognition introduced innovative, sustainable and value-driven solutions, delivering the project collaboratively, safely, within budget, and with regulatory approval. The outcome featured strong client, stakeholder, supply chain and community relationships, a zero-accident record, and significant ecological improvements. Campbell Reith praised Cognition’s work saying, “Cognition’s can-do attitude and approach to this challenging project has been exemplary”.
Park Avenue Belfast
EHA Group
Park Avenue makes use of a former Hotel site which has been transformed into a mixed tenure residential development, blending effortlessly into its city environment. EHA Group, Lacuna Developments and RPP Architects combined to deliver the project for Choice Housing which started in April 2022 and completed in Jan 2024, twelve weeks ahead of contract and within budget. The project creates better community integration with 63 units for social housing and 27 for private rent. The project also features enhanced finishes with landscaping promoting a pride in the development, greatly enhancing the local area. A stand out project.
Knaresborough Leisure and Wellness Centre
ISG with Alliance Leisure
Knaresborough Leisure and Wellness Centre is an outlier in the local authority leisure sector. It is thriving, supporting the council’s climate ambitions and encouraging people to move, with facilities tailored to them. The project is a testament to collaboration between all major stakeholders from conception to completion; during construction it maintained high health and safety standards, sustainability and innovation were at the forefront of the pool construction and filtration systems. The site team embraced social value and met and exceeded targets. It can be safely said that this project has left a truly positive legacy on the local community.
Kimmeridge Court
Kier Construction
Kimmeridge Court is an exceptional NHS facility that provides in-patient care for Eating Disorders Patients. It is a state-of-the art mental health facility on the Grade II* listed St Ann’s Hospital Estate. An innovative engineered solution was required to construct the facility on the extremely constrained site, with several protected trees. This design protected the root structures by promoting aeration and rainwater penetration. The facility fits seamlessly into its existing surroundings, providing a home-away-from-home experience for the end users. The project’s success is down to a truly collaborative working relationship between the Client, the Clinical Teams, Kier and the Consultants.
Llyn Celyn Valves and Pipes
Mott MacDonald Bentley
Over recent years, our Client has faced challenging maintenance/end of life asset replacement works on critical dam safety schemes, many of which have been achievable through traditional construction methodologies. This project demonstrates an extremely challenging, high-risk job that went away from tradition and required “outside the box”, collaborative thinking. The success of this element of the project demonstrates the capabilities and knowledge within the supply chain with continuous improvement and safety being at the forefront of everything we do.
Imjin Barracks Single Living Accommodation
Reds10
Imjin Barracks was the first site to benefit from a sustainable construction delivering major improvements to the design and delivery of the Army’s Single Living Accommodation (SLA). Part of the British Army’s SLA Programme, the three-storey building is a true example of an innovative, digitally enabled, intelligent building and is one of Europe’s most advanced SMART buildings. The new SLA, which provides modern, sustainable accommodation for Army personnel based at the Headquarters of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), comprises 69 single en suite bedrooms, alongside communal living and dining facilities, kitchens, drying rooms and utility rooms.
Riverside Primary School
Robertson
Riverside Primary School is one of the first Passivhaus school projects in Scotland and the very first for our customer, Perth & Kinross Council. This has been an exemplar collaboration between client, architect, and contractor. Throughout this project, Robertson was required to work closely with our supply chain to make sure all actions led to us achieving Passivhaus status. Constructed to the highest quality with precise implementation, receiving perfect Considerate Constructor Scheme scores, Riverside Primary is exceeding energy efficiency expectations, helping our customer meet their emissions targets, and providing a perfect environment for young people to learn.
Central Park SuDS
Plymouth Highways
The objective of the Central Park Sustainable Drainage System remodelling scheme in Plymouth was to transform excess water from a problem, into a resource, for the local community and wildlife existing in the area. The project involved re-landscaping a large area of Central Park, the installation of additional ponds, swales and Geo-Grow systems. This has to provided a nature-based solution to flooding by using a sustainable drainage system, thus managing surface water and providing a space for wildlife and people.
Haberdashers’ Boys’ Pre-Preparatory School
VolkerFitzpatrick
VolkerFitzpatrick completed the construction of a new £7.5m pre-preparatory building at Haberdashers’ Boys’ School in Hertfordshire. As well as ensuring the school remained open throughout the one-year duration of the project, the team worked closely with the school and produced a detailed and flexible logistics plan to minimize disruption to school life. This included managing the traffic of up to forty school buses a day, thought to be the largest daily coach movement in the south-east of England. The project left a positive lasting legacy, generating more than £6.5 million of social value and was completed on time and within budget.
Aintree Hospital Urgent Care and Trauma Centre Expansion
Tilbury Douglas
The project celebrates the best of UK construction, with exemplar practices shared to enhance the delivery of urgent care NHS facilities nationally.The new Urgent Care and Trauma Centre was delivered on one of UK’s busiest acute hospital sites, facing the blue light ambulance route, helipad and landlocked on three sides by live operating theatres. A methodology that was only possible to deliver through true collaboration and significant planning to manage these constraints.The unique care and partnerships the new Centre delivers to save lives and brain tissue gives the project the wow factor and makes it a standout winner.