All Building articles in Building Awards 2007

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  • Denise Chevin
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    Welcome

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    In a year when construction hasn’t received the best headlines, the Building Awards remind us that there’s plenty to celebrate.

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    PFI/PPP Project of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    These projects prove that the PFI can deliver almost any kind of public sector project, from barracks to schools, and the winner may have changed the way we go about designing hospitals in the future

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    Personality of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    This award goes to a man who almost never appears in the pages of the British press, but has been a principal factor behind the success of Sir Robert McAlpine over the past 40 years

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    Manufacturer of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    A building is only as good as the stuff it’s made from, so the industry relies entirely on the firms that make it. This year’s winner has helped everybody out with the quality and innovation of its designs

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    Major Housing Project of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    This category proves beyond doubt that Britain’s elite housebuilders can tackle the most problematic brownfield schemes and produce innovative and intelligent solutions to them

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    Housebuilder of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Four firms battled it out in this category, each setting new standards in sustainability, community involvement, growth and regeneration, but the one that clinched it combined all these with aesthetic appeal ...

  • Lancefield Quay, Glasgow
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    Major Housebuilder of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    These mighty businesses have demonstrated that being big does not necessarily make a company less nimble or less innovative or less close to its customers or less aware of its social responsibilities ...

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    Entrepreneur of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    This award honours the business brains who are willing to put their own money on the line to create the companies that the rest of us are happy to work in. And this year boasts one of our best ever line-ups

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    Engineer of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    One area in which British construction has traditionally led the world is its engineering, so it’s good to see that its reputation is the safe hands of our six finalists, all of whom have been responsible for world-class projects

  • Paul Morrell
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    Outstanding Contribution To The Industry

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    This award goes to a man who has just left full-time employment after a career spent quietly transforming everything that he’s turned his formidable mind to.

  • City Walk, Leeds
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    Contractor of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The cream of Britain’s contractors showed up in this year’s shortlist, and any of them could plausibly have walked away with the trophy. But a mix of innovation, achievement and best practice made it Simons’ year

  • Colchester garrison
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    Major Contractor of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    This is one of the most eagerly awaited categories in the Building Awards, and this year it goes to a contractor that, in a difficult year, has flown the flag for the whole of British construction

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    Specialist Contractor of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    With growing emphasis on the regeneration of brownfield sites, construction is generally preceded by the destruction of the previous job. That’s why this year’s specialist is a demolition firm ...

  • A concert hall at the Yehudi Menuhin school in Surrey
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    Consultant of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Thanks to the strength in depth of the consulting sector, this is always one of the most bitterly contested categories in the Building Awards. This year was no exception – as the following summary makes clear

  • The Oracle shopping and leisure centre in Reading
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    Client of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    We all know the importance of having a good boss, and this award goes to the best of them: the developers and clients who bring forward the great projects, then work with their teams to make sure they’re successful

  • John Dodds
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    Chief Executive of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    John Dodds’ part in Kier’s success story has won him the coveted boss of the year category

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    Integrated Supply Chain

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    In recent times collaboration has been recognised as the way forward, and these six entries certainly make a good case for this style of working, with the winner reinventing the way public sector projects are managed

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    Building Magazine Project of the Year

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Arsenal triumphed this year, despite stiff competition from a selection of buildings that were all functionally outstanding, visually attractive and pushed forward the sustainability agenda

  • Foster + Partners’ Spitalfields market development
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    Constructing Excellence Award

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    The winner of the best of the best category this year goes to a company that combines the dynamism of the high-tech modern contractor with a clear idea of the values that underpin a construction dynasty

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    WRAP Award for Sustainable Construction

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    As the issue of construction waste makes its way up the agenda of government, clients and green lobby groups, the industry is under ever more pressure to sort itself out. Here are the firms that are doing just that