Highlighting the Winners of the CABE Built Environment Awards 2024
Chartered Association of Building Engineers
A unifying voice within the construction sector
Throughout the built environment?opportunities are?arising,?and positive progress is being?made by building engineers, surveyors, designers, and construction professionals that are leading the way forward. CABE believes it is imperative that these initiatives and individuals are recognised, highlighted and celebrated for their ingenuity.
And so, on Friday 9 February 2024, industry professionals, colleagues and friends came together to bestow the CABE Built Environment Awards, shining a spotlight on the very best of work taking place throughout the sector at the moment.
Bigger and better for 2024, the Built Environment Awards were host to over 15 different categories and were presented to building engineers who continually work to demonstrate their competence in every day working and the projects they produce.
With a strong focus on the principal areas of the sector where some of the most crucial work is taking place, these awards provided building engineers with an opportunity to showcase what they are capable of, and the role they play in delivering exceptional construction projects.
Categories included:
New Build Award – Project Awards
Winner – Morgan Sindall Construction
Project – The Jo Cox ‘More in Common’ Community and Prayer Rooms
The Jo Cox Foundation was formed after the tragic murder of the MP in 2016.?It seeks to make meaningful change within three areas: nurturing stronger communities, championing respect and advocating for a fairer world.
Morgan Sindall was appointed to create a new multi-faith centre at the University of?Huddersfield that felt aligned with these values. The Jo Cox More in Common Community and Prayer Rooms harness a sense of community, inclusion, and commitment within an outstanding new building that provides a bespoke space for reflection for all faiths and none, allowing generations of students the chance to explore their spirituality and general wellbeing.
What resulted was a project that addressed the needs of its users and provided a sustainable environment for the community within it to thrive. Students have praised the building, the peaceful environment, the spacious rooms, the landscaping and its location.
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Building Engineer of the Year Award – Individual Awards
Winner – David Humphreys, Director at Architectural Conservation Professionals (ACP)
David Humphreys has worked within the global built environment sector for more than 30?years.?Since 2000, as Director of ACP in Ireland, he has been dedicated to promoting best construction methods within historical structures while supporting traditional building techniques. ACP has now worked on more than 950 historical structures. David’s attention to traditional crafts and commitment to CPD led him to train under a master blacksmith for ten years to fully understand ironwork and its repair.
David, a CABE Fellow, has worked tirelessly to promote best conservation practice, raising standards in Ireland and internationally. He also continues to hone his own skills to aid in the positive development of his colleagues’ skills to achieve the best for building engineers and our built environment.
New Product or Technology Award – Organisation Awards
Winner – PartB Group
Product – FRAEW (Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls) App
PartB is a fire engineering consultancy dedicated to fire safety design, fire risk management, forensic fire engineering and fire safety training.?
It created an app to draft FRAEWs (Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls) – a comprehensive assessment process designed to evaluate the fire safety performance of external walls in buildings – to hasten the resolution of the current building safety crisis.
The FRAEW app uses logic-based code to ensure engineers can describe the conditions found at a building and arrive at the correct rating as described in PAS 9980. This digital technology promised to increase the productivity of an engineer writing an FRAEW by five to ten times.
For more information on the Built Environment Awards or the winning projects, visit the?official awards website.
CABE Interim Chief Executive, Richard Harral, commented on the awards: "Events like these are a fantastic opportunity for us to come together and celebrate the excellence within our sector, and it's really important that we take the time to do this. They allow competent individuals and organisations to demonstrate to the industry their impressive accomplishments, and gain recognition for them."