Ecobuild latest: Projects in London, Wigan, Durham and Dumfries and Galloway among the winners
David Chipperfield鈥檚 One Pancras Square and Hopkins Architects鈥� Brent Civic Centre were among the winners at the annual BREEAM Awards, held in London on Tuesday evening in partnership with Ecobuild.
More than 50 of the highest-scoring BREEAM buildings from across Europe were shortlisted for the project awards, which cover the 12 categories of the sustainability certification scheme.
The winners included eight projects from the UK and two each from France and Norway:
- Offices New Construction: One Pancras Square, Kings Cross, London
- Offices In-Use: Washington Plaza, Paris
- Offices Refurbishment & Fit Out: Morelands Rooftop, London
- Retail New Construction: Fornebu S, Oslo
- Retail In-Use: La Caserne de Bonne, Grenoble
- Retail Refurbishment & Fit Out: 107-109 Charing Cross Road, London
- Industrial: Armstrong Point, Wigan
- Mixed Use and Other 好色先生TVs: Brent Civic Centre, London
- Education: Brandon Primary School, Durham
- Healthcare: Dumfries and Galloway Acute Mental Health Unit
- Residential: 119 Ebury Street, London
The panel of judges included architect Bill Gething, Claudine Blamey of the Crown Estate, Alan Cole of the Home Office, Mike Smith of BSRIA, Louise Sunderland of the UK Green 好色先生TV Council and Thomas Lane of 好色先生TV. Their decisions were based on the specific circumstances, challenges and achievements of each development, as well as the very high BREEAM scores achieved.
In the Your BREEAM award category, which is voted for by the public, Oslo鈥檚 newest shopping centre, Fornebu S, pipped 119 Ebury Street by just a handful of votes out of the several thousand cast.
Other high-scoring projects commended by the judges included the Diageo Guinness Brew House in Dublin, DC1 Prologis Park in Dunstable, the WWF-UK Living Planet Centre in Woking, BLOX in Prague and 10 Burlington St and 18 Hanway Street in London.
GreenBuild Consult was announced as BREEAM 2015 Assessor Company of the Year and three people received BREEAM 2015 Assessors of the Year Awards: Amanda Gallagher of Easl谩r, Yasmina Mikhael of RES Design Long & Partners, and Barry Rankin of GWP Project Services.
BREEAM Country First Awards are given to the assessor who undertakes the very first BREEAM assessment in a particular country. They were presented to Zsombor Barta of the Sentient Kft for the first BREEAM assessment in South Korea, Zane Sauka of IB&P Konsultacijas, for the first Latvian assessment, Natalya Naumova of Drees & Sommer for Kazakhstan and Anna Foden of Max Fordham for the first assessment in Iraq.
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