Award Categories 2010
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Leadership & People Development
An Award for the organisation that has shown the greatest respect to their workforce and communities, while simultaneously winning respect from them through workforce development, skills and training, benchmarking, equality and diversity, and improvements to the working environment.
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An Award for the organisation that has shown the greatest respect to their workforce and communities, while simultaneously winning respect from them through workforce development, skills and training, benchmarking, equality and diversity, and improvements to the working environment.
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Integration & Collaborative Working
Judges will be looking for evidence of how workforce development has improved as a result of collaboration, long-term relationships and common processes and tools across organisations. The successful entry will have succeeded in integrating their teams to such a level that they appear as a single entity to the customer.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of how workforce development has improved as a result of collaboration, long-term relationships and common processes and tools across organisations. The successful entry will have succeeded in integrating their teams to such a level that they appear as a single entity to the customer.
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The Legacy Award - Sustainability
Submissions 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.
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Submissions 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.
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with support from Health & Safety
The judges will be 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 be successful in this award the judges will be looking for evidence that best practice has been utilised in producing a scheme where buildability, future maintenance and final demolition have been fully considered and where both health and safety have been key drivers.
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The judges will be 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 be successful in this award the judges will be looking for evidence that best practice has been utilised in producing a scheme where buildability, future maintenance and final demolition have been fully considered and where both health and safety have been key drivers.
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Innovation
This award will highlight innovation in finding technical or environmental solutions and overcoming problems within a project or process. Entries may 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.
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This award will highlight innovation in finding technical or environmental solutions and overcoming problems within a project or process. Entries may 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.
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Value
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.
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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.
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SME
This category is open to small construction companies who have made strides in improving their company through implementing best practice. Judges will be 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 collaborative and new ways of working.
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This category is open to small construction companies who have made strides in improving their company through implementing best practice. Judges will be 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 collaborative and new ways of working.
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CIBSE
This Award will be given to the project or organisation that has best complied with the spirit and standards or best engineering practice in Design and Procurement of Building Services associated with the Built Environment. Applications will be judged on the calibre of the Building Services solution in respect of Low Energy and Carbon Footprint and also across the entire supply chain.
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This Award will be given to the project or organisation that has best complied with the spirit and standards or best engineering practice in Design and Procurement of Building Services associated with the Built Environment. Applications will be judged on the calibre of the Building Services solution in respect of Low Energy and Carbon Footprint and also across the entire supply chain.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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*Student of the Year Award
This new award will recognise the top students from both the trades and professions sectors.
The judges will be looking for students who have developed and achieved the most in terms of both examination results and effort and who have excelled in initiative going above and beyond what is required of them for the benefit of their employer and their own learning. Nominations can be made from individual companies, colleges, universities, institutes and institutions. A substantial cash prize will be awarded to the winner(s) by the awards sponsors Northern Counties Builders Federation.
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*Heritage Award
This new award for the north east seeks to recognise schemes which may include repair, improvement and enhancement which has significantly improved the aesthetic quality of the building/project, the repair or restoration of a listed building; the alteration, improvement or extension of a listed building or similar or the improvement to external spaces, gardens and courtyards. The judges will be looking for evidence of team members trained in heritage skills, use of traditional methods and materials, demonstration of added educational value.
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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 a project or organisation that has displayed excellence across a number of categories.
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 a project or organisation that has displayed excellence across a number of categories.
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