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Our awards

Our awards reflect the diversity of our projects and the positive contribution we have made to a variety of stakeholders and local communities.

2010

Crossrail Health & Safety Award

  • Winner: Capita Symonds C156 contract for North Woolwich and Plumstead portals

Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) 2010 National Awards

  • Highly Commended ‘Environmental’ category: Coldra Roundabout, South Wales
ICE South East England (Thames Valley Branch)
  • Winner 'Engineering Excellence' West Berkshire Waste Site Remediation and Enabling Works scheme

LABC South West Awards

  • Finalist ‘Best Educational Development': Mayflower Community School

BCSE Awards

  • Highly Commended ‘Best Outdoor Learning Environment’: Mayflower Community School

ICE East of England Merit Awards 2010

  • Winner 'Physical Achievement > £2.5m' Award: M25 Bell Common Tunnel

Construction News Quality Awards 2010

  • Winner '‘Best Project Over £50m’ Award: Northern Ticket Hall at King’s Cross St. Pancras
  • Finalist ‘Best Project Under £10m’ Award: Riverside Community Sports Pavilion, Peterborough

British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) AGM Awards 2010

  • Winner 'Rising FM of the Year 2010’ Award: Tony Ashworth, NB Real Estate
  • Winner ‘Best BIFM Region’ Award: BIFM London Region Committee (Saltren Rogers, NB Real Estate) 

North West Regional Construction Awards 2010

  • Winner 'Best Practice' Award: M6 extension, Carlisle to Guards Mill (Capita Symonds, Carillion, Highways Agency)
  • Winner 'Business' Award: M6 extension, Carlisle to Guards Mill (Capita Symonds, Carillion, Highways Agency)

CLAW (Consortium of Local Authorities in Wales) Awards 2010

  • Winner 'Sustainability' category: Ysgol y Graig Primary School, North Wales (Capita Symonds provided structural and geotechnical engineering and landscape architecture services)

Evening Standard Homes Awards 2010

  • Winner: 'Best New Development in the Affordable Homes Sector' category: Mastmaker Road, Canary Wharf, East London (Capita Lovejoy designed public and public realm spaces)

ICE Wales Awards 2010

  • Winner: George Gibby Award for ‘Outstanding Civil Engineering Project’: Llandysul Bypass, West Wales

RIBA Awards 2010

  • Winner: Downe Hospital, Downpatrick

AJ100 Awards 2010

  • Winner 'South West Regional Award': Capita Architecture

Public Private Finance Awards 2010

  • Winner: 'Education Award': Nottingham BSF (Capita Symonds providing strategic partnering, educational, building design and architectural services to inspiredspaces consortium)
  • Winner: 'Projects Grand Prix': Nottingham BSF (Capita Symonds providing strategic partnering, educational, building design and architectural services to inspiredspaces consortium)

RICS South East Awards 2010

  • Winner 'Regeneration Award': John Pounds Regeneration Scheme, Portsmouth 

RICS North West Awards 2010

  • Winner 'Design & Innovation Award':  BAE Systems Reception Building, Samlesbury
  • Commended 'Design & Innovation Award':  #1 The Avenue, Spinningfields, Manchester

ICE Robert Stephenson Awards 2010

  • Highly Commended 'Over £2m' category: Haydon Bridge Bypass project

ACE Engineering Excellence Awards 2010

  • Highly Commended 'Infrastructure (Large Firm) Award': M25 Bell Common Refurbishment

Building Awards 2010

  • Finalist 'Engineering Consultant of the Year'

Crossrail Health & Safety Award

  • Winner: Capita Symonds (currently undertaking the detailed design of tunnel portals at North Woolwich, Plumstead and Royal Oak)

National Outdoor Events Association (NOEA) Tribute Awards

  • Winner ''Best Practice Award': Lambeth Country Show (in conjunction with Lambeth Borough Council)

2009

RTPI Planning Awards 2009

  • Winner 'Arts, Sport and Culture Award': Dorney Rowing Lake, Eton (Capita Lovejoy - landscape design and planning)

The Event Services Association (TESA) Awards 2009

  • Winner: 'Event Industry Award': Richard Limb, Capita Symonds

PfS Excellence in BSF Awards 2009

  • 'Education for All' Award: Lancashire County Council for Pendle Vale College and Pendle High School (Capita Symonds - multidisciplinary design and management services as part of the Catalyst Lend Lease consortium)
  • 'Community Hub' Award: Catalyst Lend Lease for Burnley Campus, Lancashire (Capita Symonds - multidisciplinary design and management services as part of the Catalyst Lend Lease consortium)
  • 'Local Education Partnership of the Year' Award: inspiredspaces Nottingham Ltd (Capita Symonds providing strategic partnering, educational, building design and architectural services to inspiredspaces consortium)

Europe & Africa Property Awards 2009 (part of International Property Awards 2009)

  • Winner: 'Best Marina Development in Cape Verde' – Murdeira Marina Village, Calheta Bay, Sal
  • Winner 'Best Development in Cape Verde' – Boathouse, Baia Das Gatas, Sao Vicente
  • Winner: 'Best Architecture in Cape Verde' – Murdeira Marina Village, Calheta Bay, Sal
  • Winner: 'Best Single Unit in Cape Verde' – Detached Villas at Murdeira Marina Village, Calheta Bay, Sal
  • (Capita Lovejoy - landscape masterplanning and scheme design on all projects)

RTPI South Eastern Region Planning Awards 2009

  • Winner 'Arts, Sports & Leisure' category: Dorney Rowing Lake, Eton (Capita Lovejoy - landscape design and planning)

BCIA Awards 2009

  • Highly Commended: 'Best Practice Award': M6 Carlisle to Guardsmill Extension (Capita Symonds - Principal Designer)

BCO Awards 2009

  • Regional Winner: Commercial (North of England, North Wales and Northern Ireland): 3 Hardman Street, Spinningfields, Manchester (Capita Symonds - Structural Engineer)

ECCS European Steel Design Awards 2009

  • Winner: Wimbledon Centre Court, London (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)

Leading European Architects Forum (LEAF) Awards 2009

  • Winner 'Best Sustainable Development Award': Blue Planet, Chatterley Valley (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)

IStructE North West Regional Structural Awards 2009

  • Winner: 'Medium Project' category: #1 The Avenue, Spinningfields, Manchester (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)

RICS Wales Awards 2009:

  • Winner: 'Project of the Year' category: Ebbw Valley Railway

BCO Awards 2009: London & South East Region

  • Winner: ‘Corporate Workplace’ category: One Wood Street, London for Eversheds (Capita Symonds – cost and project manager)

BCSA Structural Steel Design Awards 2009

  • Winner: Wimbledon Centre Court, London (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)
  • Commendation: #2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)
  • Commendation: Ryanair Maintenance and Training Hangar, Stansted Airport (Capita Architecture)

Architects Journal: AJ100 Awards 2009

  • Winner 'South West Regional Awards' category: Capita Architecture Bristol and Plymouth offices

Excellence Wales Awards 2009

  • Winner ‘Sub-Regional Collaboration’ category: Capita Symonds, Glamorgan (with Rhonda Cynon Taff, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Councils)

Building Awards 2009

  • Finalist ‘Construction / Project Management Firm of the Year’

Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Cardiff Excellence Awards

  • Winner‘Large Commercial’ category: BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

Local Authority Building Control (LABC) West Midlands Excellence Awards 2009

  • Winner‘Apartments’ category: Hemisphere, Birmingham

Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards 2009

  • Commended ‘Infrastructure’ category: Ebbw Valley Railway
  • Commended ‘Planning Consultancy of the Year’ category: Urban Vision

Manchester City Council Built in Quality Awards 2009

  • Winner ‘Built in Quality’ Award: 2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester
  • Winner ‘Technical Innovation’ Award: 2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester (Capita Symonds: structural, civil and geo-environmental engineer)

ICE North West Regional Awards 2009

  • Highly Commended ‘Merit Award’ category: 2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester

Highways Agency Major Awards 2009

  • Winners ‘Cost’, ‘Target Zero’ & ‘Road Safety’ categories: M6 Carlisle to Guards Mill (with Carillion)

2008

LABC 2008 National Built In Quality Awards
  • Winner ‘Best Commercial Project’ category: Wembley National Stadium
  • Winner ‘Supreme Winner Gold Award’: Wembley National Stadium

Contract Journal Construction Industry Awards 2008

  • Winner ‘Environmental Leadership’ category – Aspire Defence (Capita Lovejoy providing landscape design and planning)
  • Finalist ‘Consultancy of the Year’

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Flower Show

  • Gold Medal ‘Show Garden’ category: Urban Vision ‘East meets West’, Tatton Park

Constructing Excellence Awards (London & South East Region)

  • Winner – ‘Project of the Year’: A9 Project
  • Highly Commended - ‘Innovation’ Award: A9 Project

RICS Awards 2008

  • Commended ‘Building Conservation’ category: Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow

RICS Scotland Awards 2008

  • Winner - ‘Building Conservation Award’: Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow

RICS Wales Awards 2008

  • Winner – ‘Regeneration Award’: Blackwood Interchange

ICE Wales Awards 2008

  • Winner - ‘Roy Edwards (Civil Engineering) Award’: Blackwood Interchange

Institution of Highways & Transportation (IHT) Awards 2008

  • Winner – ‘Young Professional of the Year’: Graeme Wheelhouse, Kendal

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Wales Transport Awards 2008

  • Winner - ‘People Development’ Category: Transport Skills Development Group, Capita Symonds Cwmbran

Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Awards 2008

  • Winner - ‘Public/Private Partnership of the Year’: Salford Construction Partnership (Urban Vision / Salford City Council)

British Association of Communicators in Business (CiB) Awards 2008

  • Winner ‘Film’ Category - ‘Missing Matthew’ Road Safety DVD

Sustainable City Awards 2008

  • Highly Commended - Sustainable Building category - Academy of St Francis of Assisi, Liverpool

2007

Wood Awards 2007
  • Winner – ‘Structural’ Category: Marlowe Academy, Ramsgate

British Constructional Steel Association (BCSA) Awards 2007

  • Winner - Sheppey Crossing, Isle of Sheppey

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Regional Award

  • Winner - A249 DBFO Project

Building Exchange (BEX) Awards 2007, Valencia

  • Winner – ‘Antony Hunt Award for the Most Promising Engineer’: Richard Peers
  • 2nd Place - Project Collaboration category: Paddington Bridge Project, London
  • Highly Commended – ‘Sustainability’ category: Academy of St Francis of Assisi, Liverpool
  • Winner - Best Overall Project: Paddington Bridge Project

Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Clancy Prize 2007

  • Winner - Andrew Hallum, Capita Symonds

Highways Agency Award

  • Winner - M25 Junction 25 Improvement and Holmesdale Tunnel Refurbishment Scheme (for safe hours worked – 1.7m hours)
  • Zero Target Award - A428 Caxton Common to Hardwick Improvement scheme (for completion without serious injury to road workers)
  • Best Project award - A428 Caxton Common to Hardwick Improvement scheme (for excellent local safety initiatives and ‘Design for Maintenance’ concept)

CLAW (Consortium Local Authorities Wales) Building of the Year Award

  • Winner - Blackwood Interchange, Blackwood, S Wales

2006

NCE/ACE Consultant of the Year Awards
  • Major Consultant of the Year 2006

British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA) 2006

  • Winner ‘Civil Engineering’ category – The Paddington Bridge Project

Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards 2006

  • Winner Improved Public Education category - Mosque Marshalling Scheme, Blackburn

Public Private Finance Awards 2006

  • Judges’ Award for Innovation: Argyll & Bute Schools project. (Capita Symonds - Technical Advisor)

Evening Standard Homes & Property Awards 2006

  • Winner 'Best Apartment' category
  • Highly Commended 'Best Conversion' category - Orwell Studios, Oxford Street, London

RICS South East Region Awards

  • Community Benefit for the John Pounds Centre, Portsmouth

Blackburn Civic Pride Awards 2006

  • Winner: Refurbishment Project: The Pavilions, Church Street, Blackburn
  • Winner: Landscape Project: Barbara Castle Way Extension, Blackburn
  • Highly Commended: Fleming Square
  • Joint Winner: Public Art Project: Beehive Roundabout and Town Hall Street Gates, Blackburn
  • Highly Commended: 'Transitions', Church Street, Blackburn

Highways Magazine Excellence Awards 2006

  • Winner: ‘Urban Traffic Scheme of the Year’ -Poulton Homezone

FX Magazine International Interior Design Award

  • Winner -‘Best entertainment or leisure venue’ category – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

EAST Awards

  • Highly Commended ‘Environmental and Sustainable Management’ category

Institute for Transport Studies (ITS)

  • Transport Planner of the Year - Chris Gent

2005

Sustainability Awards 2005
  • Sustainable Building of the Year – OpTIC Technium, St Asaph

National Eisteddfod of Wales 2005

  • Gold Medal for Architecture - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

RICS Wales Award 2005

  • Winner Sustainability category – OpTIC Technium, St Asaph
  • Winner Regeneration category - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

RICS South West Region Award 2005

  • Regeneration category - Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), Tremough

RIBA Award 2005

  • Winner - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

MIPIM Awards 2005

  • Winner ‘Hotels & Tourism’ category - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff