Big names make the list across 20 categories

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The finalists for 2025 Building Awards have been announced. 

Several big-name firms and jobs have been shortlisted (see the full shortlist below) for the awards spread across 20 categories.

This year’s awards ceremony is set to take place at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 4 November.

The Retrofit Project of the Year category has been split into two brand new categories – Retrofit Project of the Year (Modern) and Retrofit Project of the Year (Historic & classic) – due to the strength and breadth of the submissions received.

According to editorial director and chair of the judges, Chloe McCulloch, this was done to better showcase the quality and variety of entries.

She said: “It’s been brilliant to see so many strong contenders this year and particularly encouraging has been the big increase in retrofit projects, meaning we have now split the category into modern and traditional projects to be able to showcase the range of challenges project teams have risen to.

“Congratulations to all the companies and projects in the 2025 Building Awards shortlist.”

In the major contractor category, firms in the running include Kier, Mace, Multiplex, Skanska and Willmott Dixon.

Core Five, Currie & Brown and Rider Levett Bucknall are all in contention to be named consultant of the year among firms with more than 100 staff, with last year’s winner CPC Project Services also in the running.

A number of high-profile schemes are in the running for awards, including John McAslan + Partners’ Belfast Grand Central Station, Gilbert-Ash’s The Richard Cairns Building - Brighton College, Burrell Foley Fischer’s York Guildhall refurbishment and Kier Construction’s work at Mulberry Academy London Dock.

Tickets for the event, which is being sponsored by Bellrock, Clement Windows Group, DGP, Fenwick Elliott and SES Engineering, and in partnership with The Climate Group, The Housing Forum and UKGBC, are on sale now.

Finalists for the final two categories, CEO and Construction Client of the Year will be revealed shortly.

Building Awards 2025 shortlist

Architectural Practice of the Year

  1. Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
  2. DB3 Group
  3. LOM architecture and design
  4. Pollard Thomas Edwards
  5. Ryder Architecture

Building Magazine Project of the Year

  1. ASC IPI Alliance Team, Animal Studies Centre
  2. Cundall, Plot 9a First Street
  3. David Kohn Architects, The Gradel Quadrangles
  4. Gensler, ONE Station Hill
  5. Gilbert-Ash, The Richard Cairns Building - Brighton College
  6. GSK, GSK Project Emerald
  7. Integrated Health Projects (IHP), North View, Manchester
  8. John McAslan + Partners, Belfast Grand Central Station
  9. Kier Construction Ltd, Mulberry Academy London Dock
  10. Oxford Brookes University (With Drees & Sommer UK, ADP Architecture and Willmott Dixon), Teaching and Workshop Buildings on the Headington Hill Site

Building’s Good Employer of the Year

  1. Black & White Engineering
  2. Currie & Brown
  3. Gleeds
  4. Kori Construction Limited
  5. MESH Construction Consultancy
  6. Mott MacDonald
  7. Plan A Consultants
  8. RED Engineering Design
  9. Rider Levett Bucknall
  10. Useful Simple Trust

Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (fewer than 100 staff)

  1. Cast Consultancy
  2. Churchill International
  3. Circle Development
  4. Coreus Group
  5. MESH Construction Consultancy
  6. Plan A Consultants
  7. Pulse Consult
  8. Quartz Project Services
  9. RLB Digital
  10. XCO2

Construction Consultant/Surveyor of the Year (over 100 staff)

  1. Bellrock
  2. Core Five
  3. CPC Project Services
  4. Currie & Brown
  5. Drees & Sommer UK
  6. Fulkers Bailey Russell
  7. Gleeds
  8. Mace
  9. Mott MacDonald
  10. Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB)
  11. Soben, part of Accenture
  12. Turner & Townsend

Contractor of the Year (up to £500m), sponsored by Clement Windows Group

  1. Britcon UK Limited
  2. Kori Construction Limited
  3. Speller Metcalfe

Delivering Social Value Award

  1. 76 Southbank: Creating lasting Social Value
  2. Bouygues UK
  3. Dolphin Square
  4. Kori Construction Limited
  5. Mace
  6. Morgan Sindall Construction - Manor Road Quarter
  7. MWJV
  8. QE Facilities

Digital Excellence Award, sponsored by Bellrock

  1. AJ Digital, BuildCompliance
  2. BMW Group, Okana
  3. Canary Wharf, KPF, AECOM, Revizto, Disperse, Dome Group, 40 Charter Street, Canary Wharf
  4. Kori Construction Limited, ProcurePro
  5. Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd, 76 Southbank
  6. Sir Robert McAlpine, National Rehabilitation Centre
  7. Turner & Townsend alinea, Digital Transformation Programme
  8. WSP, Building on a grand scale with kit-of-parts

Engineering Consultant of the Year

  1. BB7
  2. Cundall
  3. Davies Maguire
  4. FHP Group
  5. IN2 Engineering London
  6. OFR Consultants
  7. Stantec
  8. WSP

Environmental Impact Award, in partnership with the Climate Group

  1. AECOM, GLA Circular Economy Statement Guidance
  2. Alison Brooks Architects and Pollard Thomas Edwards, Knights Park
  3. Cundall, Regenerative Twin
  4. FHP Group, FHP Group
  5. JLL, Purdown View
  6. Magrock Ltd, Lilford Roa, Camberwell
  7. PT Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk, Green Building Pioneer in Indonesia’s State-Owned Banking (Government Banking)
  8. RO Real Estate
  9. Thomas Sinden Ltd, Silbury House, Milton Keynes
  10. Walter Lilly, Urban Nature Project

Housebuilder & Housing Developer of the year

  1. Berkeley Group
  2. Mount Anvil
  3. Thakeham

Housing Project of the Year, in partnership with The Housing Forum

  1. Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, urbanest Battersea
  2. Cross Keys Homes (with Drees & Sommer UK and Willmott Dixon), Indigo development, Peterborough
  3. Dolphin Square, Dolphin Square
  4. Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects (FBM Architects), Bancroft and Wickford Street
  5. Maccreanor Lavington (for Mitsui Fudosan UK, managed by Stanhope for Peabody), 1 & 2 MacFarlane Place
  6. Morgan Sindall Construction, Manor Road Quarter
  7. Pocket Living - Legendre UK - Threefold, Sheepcote Road HA1
  8. Urban Splash and Places for People, Mansion House at Port Loop, Birmingham 

Major Contractor of the Year (over £500m), sponsored by Fenwick Elliott

  1. Kier Group
  2. Mace
  3. Multiplex: Constructing a Better Future
  4. Skanska UK
  5. Willmott Dixon

Manufacturer of the Year

  1. ARC Building Solutions
  2. Lignacite
  3. Protec International Ltd
  4. TMJ Interiors

MMC Award

  1. Cross Keys Homes (with Drees & Sommer UK and Willmott Dixon), Indigo development, Peterborough
  2. HMP Millsike, Kier with Ministry of Justice
  3. Orsett Heath Academy, McAvoy
  4. WSP, Building on a grand scale with kit-of-parts

Net Zero Award, in partnership with UKGBC

  1. Cundall, Regenerative Twin
  2. EPR Architects, OSMO
  3. HB Reavis UK, Worship Square
  4. JLL, Purdown View
  5. Kier Property, 19 Cornwall Street
  6. Kier with Pick Everard and the Ministry of Justice, HMP Millsike - The UK’s Greenest Prison
  7. Stantec, Nebula, Milton Park, Oxfordshire
  8. Trammell Crow Company, Welcome Building®
  9. Turner & Townsend alinea, Embodied Carbon Calculator

Retrofit Project of the Year - Modern

  1. AKT II, The Crick Skylab
  2. Baily Garner, Vivid Homes, Farnborough SHDF Wave 2.1
  3. Bidwells, 316 Cambridge Science Park
  4. Cundall, 5 New Street Square
  5. Kier Construction Ltd, Refinery
  6. Mace, Panorama St Pauls
  7. Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd, 76 Southbank: Reviving an Icon
  8. QE Facilities, Metrocentre CDC
  9. RED Construction Group, 21-25 Bruton Place
  10. Thomas Sinden Ltd, Silbury House

Retrofit Project of the Year - Traditional & historic

  1. Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, TQEC Research Hub
  2. Burrell Foley Fischer, York Guildhall
  3. Core Conservation Ltd, Windmill Retrofit: Waterproofing and Insulation Upgrade using Roman Lime Technology
  4. Feix&Merlin with General Projects and Southwark Council, Walworth Town Hall
  5. Legendre UK and Buckley Gray Yeoman, Arclight Development
  6. MAP Architecture, Porchester Court
  7. MYCO, Bechstein Hall, 22 Wigmore Street
  8. Pillar, Hyde London City
  9. Stantec, Palace Theatre, Swansea
  10. Stolon Studio Architects, The Parks

Small Project of the Year (up to £5m)

  1. Mr Porter Park Lane, Pillar
  2. New Wave House, Thomas-McBrien Architects in collaboration with New Wave London
  3. Refurbishment of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Headquarters, VINCI Facilities Building Solutions
  4. Silbury House, Thomas Sinden Ltd

Specialist Contractor of the Year

  1. Britcon Steel
  2. Carnegie Group Ltd
  3. ESG
  4. SES Engineering Services Ltd
  5. TMJ Interiors

 

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