Category: Technical
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Mamma Mia! Why demountable venues are proving a winner
The key factors that make demountable structures attractive to investors and promoters alike is the speed at which the venues can be built and operated, reducing return-on-investment periods, allowing products to come to market quicker. They enable the trial of new products for proof of concept, while also entering new geographies and markets where there…
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CIOB Awards 2025: Renovation & Restoration
Gold Winner: Jason Hunt MCIOB, Willmott Dixon Project: Bristol BeaconScope: Renovation and transformation of Grade II-listed building into a concert hall and performance hub, completed in 235 weeks Client: Bristol City Council Value: £95m Project director Jason Hunt’s solutions-focused leadership, risk insight and determination overcame major historic defects on this ambitious project. These ranged from poorly executed previous…
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CIOB Awards 2025: High Rise Accommodation
Gold Award Winner: David John MCIOB, Willmott Dixon Construction Project: Millwrights Place and Coopers Court, Bristol Scope: Construction of 15-storey and 10-storey blocks with 297 apartments, completed in 168 weeks Client: Cubex Land Value: £57m Handing over a defect-free residential tower is notoriously difficult. David John not only managed the feat, on time and to budget, but delivered…
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CIOB Awards 2025: Healthcare
Gold Award Winner: Dean Williams, Kier Construction Project: Singleton Hospital, SwanseaScope: Replacement of front facade, completed in 155 weeks Client: Swansea Bay University Health Board/Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Bae Abertawe Value: £11m Dean Williams was brought in as operational lead two-thirds of the way through the project, bringing a fresh approach to phased facade replacement. Drawing on lessons learned…
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CIOB Awards 2025: Commercial & Leisure
Gold Award Winner: Graham Mercer MCIOB, Skanska UK Project: Norton Folgate, Shoreditch, LondonScope: Refurbishment, extension and redevelopment of six building plots to create over 300,000 sq ft of office and retail space, completed in 158 weeks Client: British Land Value: £232m Graham Mercer brought 40 years’ construction experience, engineering skills, adaptability and problem-solving to this project. He…
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CIOB Awards 2025: Low Rise Accommodation
Gold Award Winner: Graham Potts, Kier Construction Project: Marylebone Square, London W1Scope: Construction of 79 apartments in nine-storey block, completed in 158 weeks Client: Concord London Value: £124m A constrained site in central London, the entire footprint taken up by the building itself, and surrounded by busy roads, schools and commercial premises, posed a tough construction challenge. This…
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CIOB Awards 2025: Education
Gold Award Winner: Michael Braiden MCIOB, Morgan Sindall Construction Project: Maybole Community Campus, South AyrshireScope: Construction of school campus and community hub, completed in 151 weeks Client: Hub South West Scotland for South Ayrshire Council Value: £59m A succession of storms badly damaged a crucial 100m retaining wall and backfill, on which this project’s structural frame was dependent,…
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CIOB Awards 2025: Public – Construction Management
Gold Award Winner: Steve Fennell MCIOB, Bovis Construction Project: HMP Fosse Way, LeicesterScope: Construction of new prison with eight four-storey house blocks, completed in 149 weeks Client: Ministry of Justice Value: £303m On this mammoth project around 13,000 factory-made concrete components were brought in, alongside 50,000 cast-in elements for the M&E, and the doors and the windows. These…
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CIOB Awards 2025: Rising Star
Winner: Rohit Malhotra MCIOB, AtkinsRéalis Rohit Malhotra’s special quality was evident right from the start, impressing both his employers as well as the judges. In his first permanent role as a planning engineer at McLaren Construction on a project in the UAE, unforeseen delays threatened the schedule. Malhotra swiftly identified the issues and recommended strategies…
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CIOB Awards 2025: Team – Construction Management
The British Land and Skanska team working on the Norton Folgate project Winner: Norton Folgate project execution team, British Land/Skanska This complex project delivered 12 buildings across six plots in a conservation area, which generated considerable acrimony in planning. Some 500 protestors joined hands around the area in 2015, and Tower Hamlets Council rejected the…