Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Team Build 2010

Last weekend, the finals of the annual Teambuild UK event took place at Eynsham Hall, in Oxfordshire, and ECA employees Scott and Brendan were both part of finalist teams, in collaboration with, among others, our friends at Expedition, Arup, WSP & Grimshaws

Teambuild sees young construction industry professionals form multi-disciplinary teams and pitch to be involved in a major construction project. The winners are invited to Eynsham Hall to present their masterplans, and then take part in several design and contract related tasks to decide on a winner. This year, tasks were centred around the Nirah development, who very kindly allowed competitors to remasterplan part of their site.

It was a fast paced weekend, both around the work tables as teams worked against the clock to complete tasks, and in Eynsham Hall's award winning bar late into the night.

We are proud to announce that one of the ECA teams was selected to win the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects's procurement prize for best performance in the procurement task.

(Images courtesy of Teambuild UK)

Brendan's team presenting their construction task
















Brendan's team collecting their certificates















Scott presenting his team's masterplan

















Scott's team receiving their procurement prize

Monday, 22 November 2010

Public Architect of the Year


Edward Cullinan Architects are this year's AYA Public Building Architect of the Year. The jury admired our concern for sustainability and the buildings' relationships to their landscape settings, including two recently completed buildings at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh (John Hope Gateway pictured above) and Kew (Herbarium, Library Art and Archives) and the future Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre in Newcastle.

Also this November we have won:

Friday, 19 November 2010

Building for Life Award


Last night, the Stonebridge Hillside Hub was one of 10 buildings given a Building for Life Award. At the event, Project Director Roddy Langmuir was on a Panel with Simon Chatfield of Hyde Housing for a question and answer workshop.

Earlier this year the Stonebridge Hillside Hub achieved a Building for Life Gold Standard. Building for Life promotes the real core qualities of good design, rather than surface and form. The Building for Life criteria is a series of 20 questions which are used to evaluate the quality of new housing developments.

Last week the Stonebridge Hillside Hub was also winner of the Best Primary Care Design Category at the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2010.


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