Shortlist 2025

Business excellence categories

Carbon Reduction Champion

  • Balfour Beatty - M25 J10/A3 Wisley interchange improvement project
  • Kier Group Climate innovation
  • KpH Deconstruction Services - Deconstructing carbon
  • Maple Facades - Carbon reduction initiative
  • McGee - Modular façade retention system — a groundbreaking example of circular economy innovation in construction
  • Peel Ports Group Supporting the construction industry to decarbonise
  • Qflow Driving Sustainability: Reducing carbon emissions through innovative construction technology
  • Ryebridge Construction Marchwood Port redevelopment
  • See The carbon reduction project
  • Sir Robert McAlpine Net Zero 2045
  • Speedy Hire Net Zero transformation
  • Think Hire - Sustainable Innovation

Construction Consultancy of the Year

  • AZ Scears Management Services
  • Cundall
  • DACI Utilities Engineering Consultancy
  • Gleeds
  • L&P Group
  • Majenta
  • OFR Consultants
  • Studio Booth
  • The FES Group

Contractor of the Year (turnover over £500m)

  • Balfour Beatty
  • Galliford Try
  • Mace Group
  • McLaren Construction
  • Multiplex Construction Europe
  • Murphy
  • VolkerFitzpatrick

Contractor of the Year (turnover under £500m)

  • Careys
  • Clancy
  • Gilbert-Ash
  • Hochtief-Murphy Joint Venture
  • Kilnbridge
  • Kori Construction
  • Miller Knight
  • Novus Property Solutions
  • Taylor Woodrow

Digital Construction Excellence

  • Advance Plus (MWH Treatment and J. Murphy and Sons)  delivering capital investment programme for United Utilities Oswestry WTW
  • Balfour BeattyDigital safety
  • Chetwoods ArchitectsChetwoods works
  • Eave and Morgan Sindall InfrastructureBeckton depot digital safety transformation
  • GBE Services LondonCommitted to digital optimisation
  • John Sisk & Son A digitally enabled integrated approach
  • Multiplex Construction Europe 76 Southbank
  • Services Design Solution - Bletchley rail depot upgrade
  • Skanska UK - A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvement scheme
  • Translink - Translink’s revolutionary digital leadership at Belfast grand central station
  •  Zed Pods - Fortis House — a 23-unit zero-carbon, social-rented modular housing project in a flood zone

Health, Safety and Wellbeing Excellence (Company)

  • Balfour Beatty 
  • Bechtel Cavendish Nuclear Solutions Pile fuel cladding silo
  • Caledonia Water Alliance, MGroup Water and AECOM - Building a Diverse Future: DGP’s Commitment to Inclusion
  • Danny Sullivan GroupLeading the way in health & safety
  • Group Metropolitan 
  • Hochtief-Murphy Joint Venture“For the Generations Ahead” — one team, one spirit
  • KeltbrayMaking safety simple
  • Maple FacadesDedication to HSEQ
  • Skanska UK - Building Operating Unit
  • Speedy Hire - Safety first, always
  • VGC Group - Utilising data and technology to improve our health and safety strategy

Regeneration Project of the Year

  • Bellway London at Barking Riverside -   Bellway
  • Eden Dock -  Canary Wharf Group
  • 412 Muswell Hill Broadway Crawford Partnership
  • Church Lane North Equans and Beyond Housing
  • Rosmead regeneration Hull City Council
  • Powerhouse, Chelsea Waterfront Hutchison Property Group
  • Darley Street Market Kier
  • Former Nurses' Home Manx Development Corporation
  • Paradise Birmingham — One Centenary Way - MEPC
  • 20 Years in the making — Lewisham Gateway - Muse
  • Hale Wharf regeneration - Waterside Places
  • Hopetown Darlington - Willmott Dixon, Darlington Borough Council, SCAPE, Tees Valley Combined Authority, Space, BGP, tga, railway Heritage Trust, Historic England, Arts Council England and Art Fund

Specialist Contractor of the Year

  • BAM Ritchies
  • Caxton Façades
  • Connolly Scaffolding
  • Fugro
  • Lloret Control Systems
  • McGee
  • ME Contracting
  • Menard UK
  • MWH Treatment
  • Pro Steel Engineering
  • Zed Pods

Supply Chain Collaboration Excellence

  • AR, The Enabling Partner 
  • Balfour Beatty - Supervisor passport scheme
  • Canary Wharf GroupEden Dock
  • City Building Safer Drugs Consumption Facility
  • Eave and Morgan Sindall InfrastructureBeckton depot Eaveolution
  • Galliford TryExmouth Long Sea Outfall
  • Milestone Infrastructure SME supply chain development programme
  • National Highways and Kier TransportationA417 missing link
  • Radius Group - Pioneering supply chain innovation
  • SMP Alliance comprising: National Highways; Fluor; Jacobs; WSP; Balfour Beatty; BAM / Morgan Sindall Joint Venture; Costain - NEAR programme
  • Tarmac - HS2 concrete driver ride along's
  • Vision Consulting - WINEP5 collaboration

Innovation categories

Best Product Innovation

  • Imperial Thermal Engineering - Epot — Zero emissions electric equipment for the roofing industry
  • JSM Group Services - NICE® (Non-Intrusive Cable Extraction)
  • LMS Highways - A rapid-set, low-carbon concrete mix
  • minimass 3D printed concrete beams
  • Modular Interiors - Prefabricated washroom frame/wall system
  • PowerCem Technologies (UK) South Elmsall constructed wetlands
  • Rhinovating - Rhinovator mixer
  • Sapphire Balconies - West Way Place, Botley
  • SIP IT (Scotland) Non-combustible SIP panel
  • UB Infrastructure - Rapid assembled net zero buildings for securing critical national infrastructure
  • Walther Strong - Rebarflex: The future of reinforcement

Company Innovation of the Year

  • Pre lift crane checks - Ainscough Crane Hire
  • Protecting social housing development projects - Housing Bond Alliance
  • Data-driven carbon savings - Sapphire Balconies
  • Revolutionising construction with a kit-of-parts approach - WSP

Best Use of Technology

  • Automated Architecture - Robotic micro-factories
  • Changemaker 3D - Water industry printfrastructure
  • CLM Fireproofing - Firestopping information Management (FiM)
  • Eave - Eaveolution — Transforming construction health & safety through innovative technology
  • FYLD and Colas - Transforming safety & efficiency: AI-powered digital revolution
  • GBE Services London - AI optimisation in construction
  • P. Flannery Plant Hire, Spillard and Xwatch - Safety revolution
  • Qflow and Morgan Sindall Infrastructure - AI-driven carbon excellence: Transforming sustainability with QFlow at Surrey Quays
  • Selwood - SelTank by Selwood — Smart storage for smarter water management
  • Skanska UK - Skanska GeoPlan: The Geospatial construction sequencing tool
  • Skyway Canada Skytrax ecotech

Project categories

Community Engagement Project of the Year

  • Eco Warriors in Hertfordshire Primary Schools  - Artelia
  • M1/M62 CSB social impact - Balfour Beatty and National Highways
  • M6 J21a — J26 Scheme - Costain
  • York Street Station: A platform for local community engagement - GRAHAM
  • Millers Quay - GRAHAM
  • One Maidenhead  - JJ Rhatigan & Co (UK)
  • Kierriculum at Marjory Kinnon School - Kier
  • Carrstone House - Kori Construction
  • Magna Park, Corby - VolkerFitzpatrick
  • Stockport interchange  - Willmott Dixon


Health, Safety and Wellbeing Excellence (Project)

  • Chelsea Barracks - Ardmore Construction Group 
  • One year of health, safety & wellbeing campaigns SB3 – Bachy Soletanche Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering JV
  • A40 Eynsham Park and Ride Balfour Beatty 
  • A30: Championing health, safety and wellbeing Costain

Low Carbon Project of the Year

  • Walworth town hallConamar Building Services
  • Strongford Net ZeroJN Bentley
  • Nebula - MEPC — Milton Park
  • Driving down carbon on the A12 - Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, AECOM and National Road Planing
  • Retrofit programmeMorgan Sindall Property Services and Amplius
  • Net-zero bill free homes Octopus Energy
  • 11 BelgraveQuadrum Global and BAM Construction
  • Animal Studies CentreSpeller Metcalfe
  • Halifax bus station - Willmott Dixon
  • Fortis House — a 23-unit zero-carbon, social-rented modular housing project in a flood zone - Zed Pods

MMC Project of the Year

  • Transforming TimberEcoSystems Technologies, Built Environment — Smarter Transformation and Edinburgh Napier University
  • Orsett Heath AcademyMcAvoy
  • Merit delivers Solihull elective hub — Solihull hospital Merit
  • HS2 welfare & training Premier Modular
  • Honeycroft, LawfordRose Builders
  • Martin Baker — office & canteen Wernick Buildings
  • Fortis House — a 23-unit zero-carbon, social-rented modular housing project in a flood zone - Zed Pods

Project of the Year (under £20m)

  • Solving the unsolvable to move a crucial water main in TwickenhamClancy and Thames Water
  • The Heal's Building Conamar Building Services
  • Walworth Town HallConamar Building Services
  • 20 Giltspur StreetDeconstruct UK
  • Carrstone HouseKori Construction
  • Kingston Cromwell Road Bus StationVolkerFitzpatrick
  • Radlett strategic rail rreight interchange ECI — Landfill remediation works VolkerFitzpatrick
  • Sarah Turvill Multifaith Centre, University of ExeterWillmott Dixon
  • Brent Civic Centre - Willmott Dixon Interiors
  • Wilten Construction
  • Fortis House — a 23-unit zero-carbon, social-rented modular housing project in a flood zone - Zed Pods

Project of the Year (£20m - £50m)

  • Bertha Park — super sewer Caledonia Water Alliance, MGroup Water and AECOM
  • Mountbatten House, Basing View, BasingstokeCField Construction
  • Govan to Partick BridgeFarrans
  • Stroud Sewer StrategyGalliford Try
  • Orsett heath academyMcAvoy
  • Melton STW AMP7 WFD and Q Improvements MWH Treatment and Severn Trent Water
  • 11 BelgraveQuadrum Global and BAM Construction
  • Durham Investigative Hub Tilbury Douglas
  • Warringtonfire: Fire testing laboratory - Tilbury Douglas
  • Eclipse leisure centre - Willmott Dixon

Project of the Year (over £50m)

  • Belfast transport hubBabcock International
  • Avonmouth Severnside Enterprise Area (ASEA)BAM Nutall and Mott MacDonald Joint Venture
  • East West Rail Phase 2 East West Rail Alliance comprising AtkinsRéalis, Laing O’Rourke, Network Rail and VolkerRail
  • Gull Wing Bridge: Lowestoft's Third CrossingFarrans Construction
  • Belfast Grand Central StationFarrans Sacyr Joint Venture
  • Millers Quay GRAHAM
  • HMP MillsikeKier with Ministry of Justice
  • Clive Booth student accommodation Morgan Sindall Construction
  • Begbroke science buildings - Oxford University Development
  • Welcome Building® - Trammell Crow Company and Wates
  • Stockport Interchange - Willmott Dixon, Transport for Greater Manchester, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Stockport MDC, Rise Homes, Cityheart, Renaissance, TACE, Ramboll, Gillespies, Leach Rhodes Walker, The Harris Partnership, WSP, BDP and Pagabo

Workforce excellence categories

Rising Star

  • Marzia Bolpagni Mace Group
  • Alex Boote ARC Building Solutions
  • Hannah Hart AtkinsRéalis
  • Edward Hixson Skanska UK
  • Priya Jadav Balfour Beatty VINCI Joint Venture
  • Matt Jones Jones Weatherproofing
  • Shanice Katana Mace Group
  • Rebecca Paramor Morgan Sindall Infrastructure
  • Amy Pymont - AECOM
  • Gemma Rutter - AtkinsRéalis
  • Dawood Shoaib - AtkinsRéalis
  • Lavinia Toma - Keltbray

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Diversity and Inclusion Excellence

  • ArcadisArcadis parent and carers network
  • AtkinsRéalis#HackaFuture
  • BellwayEmployer of choice
  • Complete Wall SolutionsBuilding Futures: Empowering Salford's diverse workforce in construction
  • Danny Sullivan GroupBuilding an inclusive future
  • DGP
  • Future CastFEMCON
  • KpH Deconstruction Services Empowering change
  • Systra UK & Ireland - QGIS & Mergin Maps
  • The Circle Partnership - The circle academy
  • VGC Group - Changing the face of construction: VGC's approach to equality, diversity, and inclusion
  • Willmott Dixon - Diversity steering group

Construction Leader of the Year

  • Nohman Awan Balfour Beatty
  • Duane McCreadie - Farrans Sacyr Joint Venture
  • Scott Rothwell - DASCO Construction
  • Amitoj Singh - TransVolt Power Solutions, Novus Power and Advanced Power Services
  • Lyndsey West - KpH Deconstruction Services

Training Excellence

  • Balfour Beatty and Flannery Plant Hire Operator Skills Hub – Skills Bootcamps
  • Black & White Engineering The Black & White Global Academy: A People-First Approach to Learning and Development
  • Devine Direct Labour Group
  • DGP - Equipping Our Workforce: DGP’s Holistic Approach to Training and Wellbeing
  • Keltbray NextGen construction leaders initiative
  • L Lynch Plant Hire and Haulage Second chances
  • Murphy Development for all
  • OFR Consultants - OFR – Investing in People
  • SGB-cape -  Cadets
  • Stonbury - A culture of mentorship, professionalism, and continuous growth
  • Survey Solutions -  Bridge platform
  • Thomas Sinden -  Building futures

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