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The Concrete Society Awards
For over 45 years The Concrete Society has awarded companies for excellence in concrete design and construction.
An award from The Concrete Society is one of the most respected and coveted accolades professionals can receive.
Concrete structures ranging from tunnels, bridges and roads, to cathedrals, schools, factories and houses proudly
display the concrete award plaques as a sign of achievement and testimony to the exemplary use of concrete.
The Judging panel
As with previous years our judging panel is made up of industry experts with considerable knowledge and
experience from a wide range of disciplines. This year our judges are:
Principal Judges: Ruth Reed
RIBA (President 2010–2011)
Alan Crossman
IStructE President
Geoff French
ICE Vice-President
Concrete Society Judges:
Paul Browne
Martyn Fear Kathy Calverley Richard Day President, The Concrete Society/Peri
President Elect, The Concrete Society/Specialist Precast Products
Managing Director, The Concrete Society
Technical Director, The Concrete Society
Supplementary Judges:
Richard Barnes Neil Crook Ian Heritage Deryk Simpson Dave Dobson Advisory Engineer, The Concrete Society
Advisory Engineer, The Concrete Society
Advisory Engineer, The Concrete Society
Advisory Engineer, The Concrete Society
The Concrete Society Northern Region/Hope Construction.
Building Category (Mixed Use)
Echoing the Modernist heritage of the
existing 1950s buildings the new
development increases the school’s
capacity by 200. The curriculum buildings
comprise internally exposed in-situ concrete
frame, stair core walls and flat slab. Faceted
cladding panels create a visually interesting
façade, and provide solar shading, with
acid-etched mica fleck black base panels
against acid-etched off-white upper panels.
Certificate of Excellence
This regeneration of a listed Edwardian
Town Hall complex combines council
front line, library and local services. High
quality visual concrete with sculptural
sloping rooflight and ‘floating’ three storey
stepped staircase, executed with attention
to board jointing, flush and chamfered
junctions, tie-bolt locations and formwork
layout.
Burntwood School, London
East Ham Customer Service Centre & Library,
London
Nominated by:
Owner:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Precast Cladding:
Building Frame Contractor:
Nominated by:
Owner:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Concrete Frame Subcontractor:
Concrete Supplier: Specialist Subcontractor:
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Wandsworth Borough Council
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Buro Happold
Land Lease
Techrete Architectural Precast
Mitchellson Formwork and Civil Engineering
Getjar
London Borough of Newham
Rick Mather Architects
Engineers Haskin Robinson Waters
BAM Construction
Getjar
Hanson Concrete
Velta
Category sponsored by:
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Building Category (Mixed Use)
A landmark 4-storey building and adjacent
10-storey residential block in North London
displays high-quality internal in-situ
concrete which rivals the precast external
panels. The mixed use site (tiered piazza, hall
seating 270, cinema, café, restaurant, offices
and studios ) achieves excellent acoustic
performance. The concrete’s thermal mass
provides passive temperature control.
JW3, London
Nominated by:
Owner:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Concrete Frame Subcontractor:
Precast Cladding:
Specialist Services: Category sponsored by:
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2014 Overall Winner
This ultra-green building feature’s
extensive use of high-quality, exposed
concrete both inside and outside as an
aesthetic and functional component
avoiding the need for secondary finishes.
The podium slab is supported by concrete
columns, from the car park below, which
continue to support the internal concrete
mezzanine.
Living Planet Centre, WWF-UK Headquarters,
Woking
AKT II
JCC Ventures
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
AKT II Structural and Civil Engineer
BAM Construction
Getjar
Sterling Services
Norman Disney and Young
Nominated by:
Hopkins Architects Partnership
Owner:WWF-UK
Architect:
Hopkins Architects
Consulting Engineer:
Expedition Engineering
Main Contractor:
Wilmott Dixon
Concrete Supplier: Hanson
CDM:
HCD Management
Specialist Consultant:
Atelier Ten
Concrete Frame Subcontractor: Whelan & Grant
Building Services Consultant: AECOM
Property Consultant:
King Sturge
Quantity Surveyor:
Gardiner & Theobald
Landscape Architect:
Grant Associates
Interior Design:
Hopkins Architects
Building Category (Mixed Use)
A mixed-use development comprising
supermarket, 100 private residential
apartments, retail and kiosk units and 360
car parking spaces. Project programme of
21 months included 32m of 10.2m high
curved walls cast in a single lift, using for the
first time in the UK curved metals shutters.
The resultant walls, with no horizontal
construction joints and with a high quality
of finish, were ready for painting.
A site specific contemporary family
home that responds sensitively to the
site, creating a high-quality architectural
solution carefully integrating three
stepped ‘wings’ following and cut into
the contours of the landscape. Exposed
concrete throughout provides longevity,
whilst providing a raw, honest aesthetic
appropriate to the exposed site.
Category Winner
London Road, Barking
Stormy Castle, Near Swansea
Nominated by:
Bouygues UK
Owner:
Bouygues Development
Architect:
David Miller Architects
Consulting Engineer:
Terrell
Main Contractor:
Bouygues UK
Concrete Frame Subcontractor: Bouygues UK
Concrete Supplier: McGrath
Concrete Supplier:
Hanson Concrete
Formwork/Falsework:
Hünneback (formerly Harsco Infrastructure)
Reinforcement:Kierbeck
Reinforcement:
Arcelor Mittal
Nominated by:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Concrete Supplier: Concrete Frame Subcontractor:
Waterproofing / tanking:
Precast Concrete:
Quantity Surveyor:
M&E Consultant:
Landscape Architect:
Loyn & Co. Architects
Loyn & Co. Architects
Vale Consultancy
Dawnus Construction
Hanson Concrete
HOS Civils
Fosroc
Specialist Precast Products
RPA
Gallese Design
Camlins
Category sponsored by:
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Building Category (University Buildings)
Constructed for St Hugh’s College, the
building’s facilities are arranged around a
sunken courtyard, in a series of three linked
pavilions exploiting exposed concrete, with
natural oak timber for ceilings with coffers,
numerous columns and stair cores. The
building includes office and research space,
study rooms, a lecture theatre, library,
a state-of-the-art language laboratory,
student accommodation and a dining hall.
The use of visual concrete has created this
five storey post graduate medical research
facility that engenders creativity, harmony
and collaboration. The slim, exposed
concrete columns create a backdrop to a
space which can host public exhibitions
and demonstrations of world-leading
research. An impressive feature is the selfsupporting, cantilevered in-situ reinforced
concrete stairs.
Dickson Poon China Centre, Oxford
Hadyn Ellis Building, Cardiff
Nominated by:
Owner:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Concrete Frame Subcontractor:
Concrete Supplier: Quantity Surveyor:
Project Manager: M&E Consultant:
Material Supplier:
Material Supplier:
Nominated by:
BAM Construction
Owner:
Cardiff University
Architect:
IBI Nightingale
Consulting Engineer:
BDP
Main Contractor:
BAM Construction
Concrete Frame Subcontractor: Thames Valley Construction and Civil Engineering
Concrete Supplier: Hanson Concrete
Building Services Consultant: AECOM
Category sponsored by:
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Galliford Try Construction
St Hugh’s College
David Morley Architects
AKS Ward
Galliford Try Construction
Ground Construction
Hanson Concrete
Davis Langdon
Gleeds Management Services
CBG Consultants
South London Timber
Arnold Laver
Building Category (University Buildings)
The building makes extensive use of precast
lattice planks and twin wall construction,
to high quality smooth and textured in-situ
areas. The structural materials are integral
to the appearance and environmental
performance. Highlights are the ‘floating’
board-marked in-situ concrete, lecture
theatre, the complex precast ‘cut-through’
between the main central courtyard and the
monolithic in-situ library coffers.
Category Winner
A multifunctional 9 storey student facility
with a large venue, learning café; activity,
media, careers and interfaith prayer
centres; pub, offices, gym, dance studio,
social space and roof terrace. Downstand long-span ribbed slabs provide
column-free space. Exposed concrete
soffits throughout with recessed lighting,
2 feature spiral staircases with grit-blasted
concrete balustrades and granolithic floors.
John Henry Brookes Building & Abercrombie
Extension, Oxford
LSE Saw Swee Hock Student Centre,
London
Nominated by:
Owner:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Concrete Frame Subcontractor:
Concrete Supplier: M&E Consultant:
Jointly Nominated by:
Owner:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Concrete Frame Subcontractor:
Concrete Supplier: Precast Concrete:
Structural Design Consultant:
Specialist Subcontractor:
Reinforcement:
Reinforcement detailing:
Expanded
Oxford Brookes University
Design Engine Architects
Ramboll UK
Laing O’Rourke
Expanded
Lafarge Tarmac
Grontmij
Osborne, O’Donnell + Tuomey Projects and
Foundation Developments
LSE Estates division
O’Donnell + Tuomey Projects
Horganlynch Consulting Engineers
Osborne
Foundation Developments
London Concrete
Oran Precast
Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners
Sandblasting Services
Midland Steel
PGCS
Category sponsored by:
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Building Category (University Buildings)
Certificate of Excellence
The robust five storey concrete structure
with a two storey basement compliments
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s 1909
building. It captures natural light through
three cylindrical “Driven Voids” of smoothfinished in-situ concrete tubes that punch
through the building. Exposed geometric
patterned concrete feature walls give
a striking and consistent appearance
throughout.
The Exeter and Falmouth Universities
shared facility is organised over three
levels, the interiors designed to encourage
collaboration in educational and cultural
life and creates an exciting space.
Extended library facilities augmented by
teaching, learning and social spaces are
arranged around a meandering “riverine”,
that offers exhibition and informal
gathering environments.
Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art,
Glasgow
The Exchange, Cornwall
Nominated by:
Owner:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Concrete Supplier: Concrete Frame Subcontractor:
Specialist Subcontractor:
Nominated by:
Owner:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Concrete Frame Subcontractor:
Precast Concrete:
Formwork/Falsework:
Formwork/Falsework:
Concrete Supplier:
Recycled Aggregates Supplier:
M&E Consultant:
Category sponsored by:
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Cidon Construction
The Glasgow School of Art
Steven Holl Architects
Arup
Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons
Lafarge
Cidon Construction
Simpson Patterns
Burwell Deakins Architects
Exeter and Falmouth Universities
Burwell Deakins Architects
Halcrow Group
Leadbitter
Farrells Construction
Creagh Concrete Products
Hünneback (formerly Harsco Infrastructure)
RMD Kwikform
Aggregate Industries
Bardon Aggregates
Method Consulting
Building Category (University Buildings)
Certificate of Excellence
This higher education hub provides the
Universities of East London and Birkbeck
with flexible, teaching, performance and
administrative spaces, lecture theatres,
a café and learning resource centre. An
exposed concrete “plinth” visually links
the first and ground floors, and holds a
generous staircase which leads to the openaccess gallery and an L section 10m span
bridge across the atrium.
University Square, Stratford,
London
Nominated by:
Make Architects
Owner:
University of East London and Birkbeck University of London
Architect:Make
Consulting Engineer:
AECOM
Main Contractor:
VolkerFitzpatrick in Association with AWW Architects
Structural Engineer:
Fluid Structures
Project Managers:
Gardiner & Theobald
Concrete Frame Subcontractor: Whelan & Grant
Planning Consultant:
GL Hearn
Cost Consultant:
Gleeds
Category sponsored by:
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Civil Engineering Category
Category Winner
An innovative Design for Manufacture
and Assembly approach for 2 Aeration
Tanks 120m x 90m x 8.5m deep, divided
into 3 lanes, and 16 conical-floored
45m diameter Final Settlement Tanks
(FST). Aeration tanks consist of precast
twin-wall system, the first use in this
application. FTS’s walls consist of post
tensioned precast panels with in-situ
ring beams.
The scheme replaced a failing seawall
with a 500m-long seawall and
promenade along a new landward and
more sustainable curved alignment.
Coloured high quality concrete finishes,
including exposure of the decorative
aggregate, acid etching and bespoke
public art were used to transform the
beach, promenade and sea defences
along this South Shields seafront.
Beckton Sewage Treatment Works Extension,
London
Littlehaven Promenade and Seawall,
South Shields
Nominated by:
Owner:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Concrete: Precast Concrete:
Precast Concrete:
Twin Wall Designer:
Aereation Tank Designer:
Precast Concrete Installation:
Nominated by:
Owner:
Architect:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Specialist Subcontractor:
Material Supplier:
Concrete Supplier:
Category sponsored by:
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Tamesis (Laing O’Rourke/
Imtech Process JV)
Thames Water Utilities
Hyder Consulting
Tamesis JV
Hanson
Explore Manufacturing
Bison
Arup
Halcrow Group
Expanded Structures
Aggregate Industries
South Tyneside Council
OOBE Landscape Architects
Royal HaskoningDHV
Galliford Try
Alan Davey Contractors
SLP Colourtone
Aggregate Industries
Civil Engineering Category
Presenting a number of environmental
challenges, the STW is within the
Severn Estuary flood plain, a designated
Special Protection Area, Special Area of
Conservation and Site of Special Scientific
Interest. Works consisted of replacing the
existing submerged biological contactors
with a more efficient activated sludge
plant, combined with increased final
settlement capacity.
Western-Super-Mare STW, North Somerset
Nominated by:
Owner:
Consulting Engineer:
Main Contractor:
Formwork/Falsework:
Concrete Frame Subcontractor:
PERI UK
Wessex Water
Halcrow
Dean & Dyball
PERI UK
Thames Valley Construction & Civil Engineering
Category sponsored by:
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British Precast
Creativity in Concrete Award
British Precast Creativity in Concrete Award is given for outstanding creativity in pushing the boundaries in the design
and use of precast concrete. It is awarded by the Council of British Precast annually. It may be awarded to an individual
or to a client, a design firm or company. Previous winners include:
2011
2012
2013
2014
For the design of the Dover Esplanade.
For the façade designs for the London
2012 Olympics, Athletes’ village.
For a body of work including the
Neues Museum reconstruction in
Berlin and the Ciutat de la Justicia in
Barcelona.
For a body of work spanning seven
decades including the Minute Men
sculptures at Salford University,
Manchester and the carved Stations
of the Cross at Clifton Cathedral.
Tonkin Liu
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Niall McLaughlin
Sir David Chipperfield
William Mitchell
The Structural Concrete Alliance
Repair & Refurbishment Award Shortlist
The Structural Concrete Alliance Repair & Refurbishment Award is presented in recognition of exceptional work to the
repair or refurbishment of an existing structure. The judging panel considered each entry in terms of complexity, quality
of service and client satisfaction.
Winner
Balvac
BAM Ritchies
Mott MacDonald
For repair and refurbishment of the
Silver Jubilee Bridge Complex,
Widnes.
For works on the Hooley Cutting
Stabilisation project.
For works on the Ryde Pier
Refurbishment.
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MPA British Ready-Mixed Concrete Association
Excellence in Customer Services Award Shortlist
The British Ready-Mixed Concrete Association Award for Excellence in Customer Service is presented in recognition of the
exceptional efforts of a ready-mixed concrete producer in meeting their customer’s needs. The judging panel considered
each entry in terms of complexity, quality of service and client satisfaction.
Winner
Dawlish Railway
The storm-struck Dawlish railway
demanded unsociable hours and
provided unpredictable site conditions.
The project was delivered ahead of
schedule.
Hanson
Gatwick Airport, North
Terminal
This project and site were particularly
challenging - noise restrictions, security,
limited access and passenger safety
in an airport that was operational 24
hours a day.
Lafarge Tarmac
brmca
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One St Peter’s Square
The construction of this fair-faced
concrete, slip-formed core relied
on technical expertise to achieve
consistency of finish, workability,
strength and setting times.
Hanson
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