10 Built Environment Awards to Enter
If you are in the built environment sector, you probably already know the importance of submitting your projects for the awards. By receiving an award, you set yourself apart from your competitors. Awards are considered a quality mark and winning one, or even being shortlisted for one, earns you external validation within the industry and amongst your target clients.
Recognised as benchmarks for your performance, entering for award categories helps you establish trust with your current and prospective clients, strengthen your relationship with your stakeholders, and helps with retaining and acquiring talent for your business. Awards are great PR and comms opportunities for your business, and your communications team or agency should capitalise on them to create further business opportunities for you.
To help you get started, we have compiled a list of 10 important awards pertaining to architects, developers, designers, and firms within the built environment sector.
1. The Stirling Prize
The RIBA Stirling Prize is the UK’s most prestigious architecture award. The award is given to the architect of the building thought to be the most significant of the year for the evolution of architecture and the built environment.
The short list consists of 6 buildings, and this year's contenders are already announced. The winner of the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize will be announced on Thursday 13 October 2022 at RIBA, 66 Portland Place in London.
Learn more about the award here.
2. The CABE Built Environment Awards 2022
The CABE Built Environment Awards 2022 will shine a spotlight on excellence. Honouring the industry’s finest projects and individuals and will recognise recipients for their hard work and achievements.
The categories include: New Build Award, Facilities Management or Refurbishment Award, Preservation and Conservation Award, Digital Transformation Award, Sustainability Award Winner, and more.
This year's winners will be announced during the prestigious Gala Dinner at the Embedding Sustainability Conference on 13 October 2022, Newport.
Learn more here.
3. The RIBA Awards
Having celebrated outstanding work for over 180 years, The RIBA awards and prizes are regarded internationally as a mark of excellence, recognising the best architecture, architects, research and students.
The RIBA awards cover national and regional projects, and include categories such as: House of the Year, Client of the Year, Stephen Lawrence Prize (given to projects with the construction budget of less than £1M) and Neave Brown Award for affordable housing.
To enter a UK project, you must have a current individual RIBA Chartered Membership number or RIBA International Fellowship. The lead architect of the scheme must be a current RIBA Chartered Member.
Learn more about the RIBA Awards here.
4. BIID Interior Design Awards
Celebrating the very best of British design, the BIID Interior Design Awards will showcase the best interior design projects completed across the UK.
You can enrol your projects across 10 award categories in total, along with acknowledgements of Highly Commended. The awards offer 8 regional categories, from the largest commercial project to the smallest residential dwelling. They also have introduced two new landmark prizes – the Interior of the Year Prize, which will be awarded to the best interior design project in the UK, and the Anna Whitehead Prize, which will be awarded to the best achievement in sustainable interior design.
Learn more: here.
5. FX International Interior Design Awards
The prestigious FX Awards are open to both British and international design talent from all over the world to enter the very best of interior products and projects. Organised by FX Magazine, these coveted awards are one of the highlights of the design industry calendar, taking place just before the run-up to Christmas. Each year, a different panel of more than 20 committed judges are invited to judge your submissions.
They cover varied projects, such as bars, restaurants, build to rent spaces, graphic design, hotels and leisure centres, exhibition spaces, public venues, and more.
Find out more here.
6. The Pineapples Awards for Place
The Pineapples Awards are dedicated to the celebration of the very best in placemaking. With an exciting programme, the Pineapples Awards and a commitment to recognising projects that make a positive social, environmental and economic impact.
It was founded in 2019 by The Developer in partnership with Design Council. Categories include Place of the Year, Place in Progress, International Future Place, Winner of Place in Progress, Activation: Re-Store, Creative Retrofit, and more.
Discover more about the Pineapples Awards here.
7. New London Awards (NLA)
Supported by the Mayor of London, New London Awards seeks the outstanding new projects across every sector; recognising both built and unbuilt schemes - those that are making and will make a positive contribution to their surroundings. The built and unbuilt projects are judged separately for each category.
Each year winners are selected in 14 categories with 6 special prizes including the prestigious Mayor’s Prize. Categories include Conservation, Culture, Education, Healthcare, Homes, Housing, and more.
Find out more about New London Awards here.
8. UK Passivhaus Awards
For the last few years, sustainability has become undeniably an inseparable part of projects in the built environment. Passivhaus buildings provide beautifully comfortable internal environments and help deliver net-zero targets by drastically slashing energy and subsequent carbon emissions from buildings. The judges select the projects that have demonstrated to play a crucial role in occupant health and wellbeing, from shielding against fuel poverty to providing reliably comfortable and hygienic spaces all year round.
You can compete in the two main categories of Small Projects and Large Projects. The judges also reserve one space for a Highly Commended project.
Find out more here.
9. The UK Dev Awards
The UK Dev Awards focuses on all things digital. They are a celebration of the teams that communicate digitally to grow business – the UX people, the technical SEO/PPC teams, the content writers and the marketers. The Awards celebrate those of you who are optimising user experiences, improving accessibility and smashing technological limitations.
Award categories celebrate work across websites, apps, CMS systems, and coding and recognise agencies, teams and individuals achieving success in digital.
Learn more about UK Dev Awards here.
10. Property Marketing Awards
Organised by the Chartered Surveyors’ Company and judged by an independent panel of leading marketing professionals, the PMA recognise the projects that provide life-changing opportunities which would otherwise not exist, and which enhance diversity in the real estate industry.
Categories include the best marketing campaigns for various sections, such as Offices, Industrial and Logistics, Placemaking, as well as Website, Best Use of Films, Best Use of Social Media, and more.
To learn more and enrol, please visit here.
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