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Welcome to the Constructing Excellence awards page. This year eight regions will be hosting regional awards ceremonies to celebrate the best of construction from their local industries. The winners from within each region will go forward to a national final that will take place in November 2008. Entries will be considered by an independent panel of judges. The deadline for submissions is 17:00 on Monday 30th June 2008. Categories
These awards are designed to showcase excellence and reward achievement from organisations and project teams that have achieved regional acclaim. In order to qualify for the awards the project team / organisation must have engaged with the Constructing Excellence agenda and adhered to the principles of Rethinking Construction. Integration & Collaborative Working: Judges will be looking for examples of procurement, systematic project management, collaboration up and down the supply chain, integrated logistics, as well as evidence of improvements as a result. Obvious benefits will include a less adversarial approach, but judges will require evidence of how workforce development has improved as a result of collaboration, in addition to the products or services and customer satisfaction. Successful entries will have succeeded in integrating their teams to such a level that they appear as a single entity to the customer. Leadership & People Development: Judges will be looking for improvements resulting from leadership and training interventions including where these have been driven by an enlightened client. Entries should show respect to our workforce and the communities, while simultaneously winning respect from them through workforce development, skills and training, benchmarking, equality and diversity, and improvements to health and safety and the working environment. Health & Safety: This award will be given to 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 achieve an excellent result. 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 or schemes where buildability, future maintenance and final demolition have been fully considered and where both health and safety have been a key driver. The Legacy Award - Sustainability: Nominations are required of examples of 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. Innovation: This award is about getting away from the idea that we should continue to do what we have always done, because we feel comfortable with it. It is about developing new solutions to the problems we encounter, achieving an innovative solution which enhances the value of the finished product, without increasing the risks associated with it. It will highlight innovation in finding technical or environmental solutions and overcoming problems within a project or process. Entries could 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. Value: The judges will be looking for either a project on which long-term value has been best achieved or an organisation that has achieved value on a number of projects over a period of time. 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. Examples of projects that should be put forward in this category include, but are not limited to, schools designed and constructed with student attainment as a key driver; hospitals designed and constructed to aid patient recovery time or offices designed and constructed to improve productivity. The Achiever’s Award: This award will recognise of 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. The award winner will naturally show all the hallmarks of Eganesque behaviour, be sustainable and show a wholehearted embracing of the Rethinking Construction principles – but adopted and adapted to make a real difference within the sphere of the applicant’s own operation, influence and community. SME Award: This award is open to small construction companies employing 25 or fewer people 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 new ways of working and collaborative working. 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. Project of the Year: This award will go to the project team that has 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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