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Category
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Description
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Impact
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Innovation
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Integrated Teams
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Skills and Training
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This award seeks to highlight those businesses with company-wide processes to support education and training. These systems might be aimed at filling the skills- gap or up-skilling the workforce, attracting under-represented groups, training within the supply chain or developing specialist skills.
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Measures of impact upon, for example, students/pupils; employee or supply chain numbers; staff involvement; wider educational outcomes. Permanent, organisation-wide systems & processes in place.
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Organisational and/or supply chain development
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or providers
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Infrastructure Award
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This category must emphasis the multi-disciplinary expertise of professionals involved in the design, planning and construction of our built environment: roads, water supply, wastewater, stormwater, power supply, flood management, recreational, and other assets. It can include projects that tackle issues such as crime, health, sport or education.
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Physical and/or social regeneration; re-use of existing land. Social sustainability.
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Technology, people and/or processes
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Joined-up agencies; agency/interest group engagement
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Environmental Sustainability
Award
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Awards for the Environment play a crucial role in demonstrating progress on environmental and sustainable development issues
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Measures of impact upon business operations for example, effective management of environmental, financial and social responsibilities such as biodiversity, energy efficiency, sustainable buildings, waste and/or recycling.
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Process, technology and/or design, successful innovation of sustainable products, services and manufacturing processes, minimising pollution and environmental impacts
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Local communities, community engagement, agency/interest group engagement.
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Innovation
Business Award
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This award seeks to reward innovation and business process improvements that focus on key business drivers such as quality, time and cost.
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Impact upon business measured by key performance indicators
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Business process, technology, supply chain innovation.
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Occupants, client, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, manufacturers
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Heritage Award
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Heritage Awards can be made for schemes of repair, improvement and enhancement which significantly improve 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 other building;
the improvement to external spaces, gardens and courtyards;
a scheme of redecoration or improvement; an outstanding new building;
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Funds received as part of a local regeneration initiative, number of people trained in heritage skills, use of traditional methods and materials, demonstration of added educational value.
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Business process, supply chain
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Engagement with other agencies as part of a regeneration initiative, supply chain, schools, community
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Contractor of the Year
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This Award recognises contractors that are pushing the boundaries of the Rethinking Construction agenda, to improve the quality and efficiency of the service provided to its clients.
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Reductions in construction cost, time and defects, demonstrated by performance measurement on projects which could include: prisons, sporting venues, military schools, hospitals and high-rise homes
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Innovation in leadership, improving customer satisfaction, delivering quality, investment in R&D.
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Integrated processes and teams
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Small Business of the Year
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Recognises a significant impact on the industry over the previous year and strong prospects for future growth.
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Demonstrating a strong commitment to health and safety, safe working conditions, improving management and supervisory skills.
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Eg. standard components and processes; waste minimisation, value for the customer.
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Involving architects, quantity surveyors, joiners, civil engineers, aggregates suppliers, property developers, building contractors, demolition, electrical, flooring and manufacturers.
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Client of the Year
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Recognises clients with the drive to ensure that best practice principles are adopted on its projects and throughout its supply chain.
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Lead the integration of product development, project implementation and partnering in the supply chain.
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Share knowledge through Demonstration Projects and/or the Best Practice Programme.
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Replace competitive tendering with long term relationships based on clear performance measurement.
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Project of the Year
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Recognises the highest level of technical achievement, innovation and application of best practice, while delivering a project to time and budget and with team working throughout the supply chain.
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All of the above!
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All of the above!
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All of the above!
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