BIG Biodiversity Champion 2017 sponsored by
Victoria Pollard
Project nominated for: Mersey Gateway Project
Nominated by: Jill Doyle and Jim Rice from Merseylink Civil Contractors Joint Venture
Find out more about Victoria Pollard our BIG Biodiversity Champion 2017!
Overall winner 2018 prize sponsored by
R G Group
Redhill Quadrant Redevelopment
The building project comprised of the phased replacement of an existing Sainsbury’s Supermarket at Redhill in Surrey. Works include demolition of existing store and building and construction of a new
build store with 2 layers of car parking above.
Client Award sponsored by
Arup for and on behalf of the Crown Estate, Grosvenor Britain and Ireland, The Portman Estate, Shaftesbury, Howard de Walden
Wild West End
Wild West End partnership aims to create a connecting
network of green stepping stones through a combination of green roofs, green walls, planters, street trees, flower boxes and pop-up spaces retrofitted on existing buildings, and installed
within new developments
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Community Engagement Award sponsored by
R G Group
Redhill Quadrant Redevelopment
The building project comprised of the phased replacement of an existing Sainsbury’s Supermarket at Redhill in Surrey. Works include demolition of existing store and building and construction of a new build store with 2 layers of car parking above.
Large Scale Permanent Award
Atkins, City of London and BAM Nuttall
Hampsted Heath Ponds Project
The Flood and Water Quality Management works at Hampstead Heath is a high-profile and complex project – its purpose to virtually
eliminate the risk of dam failure within the two main chains of ponds on Hampstead Heath during extreme rainfall events.
Medium Scale Permanent Award sponsored by
St James Berkeley Group
Fitzroy Gate
Fitzroy Gate is a St James development of family homes and extra care apartments for the over 50’s, located within a conservation area and 7 acres of riverside parkland in the London Borough of Hounslow.
Small Scale Permanent Award
Redrow Homes
Help for Hedgehogs, Glenwood Park Development - Glenwood Farm Nr Devon
Small, square marked holes are being built into the new garden fences in Redrow’s Glenwood Park development, at Glenwood
Farm near Devon. The Hedgehog Highway concept was developed by People’s Trust for Endangered Species and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society as a simple way of making gardens hedgehog-friendly.
Maintenance and Management Award sponsored by
Kier Highways & Sticklepath & Okehampton Conservation (StOC)
Highways England Area 1 Blackhall Farm Management A30 Devon
Blackhall Farm is 1.5 hectares in size of which approximately 50% is grassland and 50% is woodland. In 2014/15 Kier undertook a Habitat Connectivity Study which highlighted the importance of Blackhall Farm on a landscape scale.
Pollinator Award sponsored by
Kier Group: Local Highways Division
Aspen Way - Good Beehaviour
Staff at Aspen Way Highways Depot, Torbay have created a wild garden area within the depot for provide a refuge for nature.
Prior to the implementation of this wild garden, the area was simply overgrown with weeds and had no ecological management for the benefit of biodiversity.
Temporary Award
David Wilson Homes, Nicholsons and RSPB
Spinney Fields
A new commercial office development for client WRBC at the confluence of Lime Street and Leadenhall Street, comprising 35 office storeys, roof plant, 3 basement levels and a new public square. The project includes retail/restaurant areas at ground floor and basement as well as service access and central plant.
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