AJ exclusive: BCIA finalists announced
Hawkins\Brown’s Corby Cube and Make’s Cube in Birmingham are among a number of high-profile projects to have been shortlisted for this year’s British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA) despite missing out on the RIBA Awards
Other BCIA finalists which failed to win with RIBA include Pringle Richards Sharratt’s West Ham bus garage, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ One Hyde Park and Pollard Thomas Edwards’ Arundel Square in Islington, north London.
The shortlist is billed as the ‘most rigorously judged in the construction world’, and features RIBA Award winners including AHMM’s Angel Building (AJ 10.02.11) and Sandal Magna School, Wakefield, by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects (AJ 07.10.10).
Chosen from more than 120 entrants, the 47 finalists are divided into seven categories, from the Small Building Project prize for those under £3 million, to the Major Civil Engineering Project award for projects over £50 million.
The winners will be unveiled at a gala presentation dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 12 October.

Small Building Project - up to £3 million
Sports Canopy, The National Tennis Centre, Roehampton by GS-CA
Well Street Surgery, Hackney, London by Stock Woolstencroft
Acacia Centre, Merton, London by Curl La Tourelle
Theatre Royal, Bath by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Grahame-White Watchtower Building, RAF Hendon, London
Building Project - between £3 million-£50million
Charles Carter Building, Lancaster University by John McAslan & Partners
No.1 Smithery, Chatham by van Heyningen & Haward Architects
Anne Mews, King William Street Quarter, Barking, Essex by AHMM and Maccreanor Lavington
Sandal Magna Community Primary School, Wakefield by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Woodland Trust Headquarters, Grantham by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Ravensbourne College, Greenwich, London by Foreign Office Architects
Bourne Hill Offices, Salisbury by Stanton Williams
Corby Cube, Northamptonshire by Hawkins/Brown
Arundel Square, Islington, London by Pollard Thomas Edwards
Wales Institute of Sustainable Education, Machynlleth, West Wales by Pat Borer and David Lea Architects
Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton, London by Zaha Hadid Architects
West Ham Bus Garage, London by Pringle Richards Sharratt

Source: Mak Hadden Photography
Sandal Magna Community Primary School, Wakefield by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Major Building Project - more than £50 million sponsored by Arup
The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge by Stanton Williams
Project Allenby/Connaught, Tidworth, Wiltshire by Scott Brownrigg
Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres Transformation, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire by Bennetts Associates
BSkyB Harlequin 1, Hounslow, London by Arup Associates
One Hyde Park, Knightsbridge, London by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, London by Populous
Angel Building, Islington, London by AHMM
Velodrome, Olympic Park, London by Hopkins
The Cube, Birmingham by MAKE
Small Civil Engineering Project - up to £3 million
LUL, Bridge D83A Replacement, Hammersmith, London
Cardiff WwTW Digestors
Redhayes Bridge, Exeter
Royal Terrace Gardens, Torquay by Mark Luck et al
Far Moor Bridge, Selside, North Yorkshire Moors
Civil Engineering Project - between £3million-£50million
High Knocke to Dymchurch Sea Defences, Kent
Humber Coast Defence Package, Lincolnshire
Marylebone Station Roof Renewal, London
Rosyth CVF Infrastructure Upgrade, Scotland
Central Park Footbridge, Olympic Park, London by Henegham Peng
Major Civils Project - more than £50 million sponsored by Harsco
Anglian Water AMP4 biosolids programme, Great Billing, Northamptonshire
Spen Valley WwTW Strategy, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
A421 Improvements M1 Junction 13 to Bedford
Broadland Flood Alleviation Project, Norwich, Norfolk
Church Village Bypass, Rhondda Cynon, South Wales
International Project
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA by Rick Mather
Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Dubai by Zaha Hadid Architects
Samuel Beckett Bridge, Dublin by Santiago Calatrava
Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center, Kazakhstan by Foster + Partners
Khalifa Port Marine Structures and Reclamation, Abu Dhabi
Aviva Stadium, Dublin by Populous
The judging panel for the 2011 Awards is as follows:
UK JUDGES
Martin Baggs Chairman of the Judges; Chief Executive Officer, Thames Water
Peter Hansford Deputy Chairman; President, Institution of Civil Engineers
Simon Allford Partner, AHMM
Keith Bradley Feilden Clegg Bradley
Philip Dilley Group Chairman, Arup
Katrina Dowding Business Development Director, Skanska, and Chair, NAWIC
Hugh Ferguson Formerly Deputy Director General, Institution of Civil Engineers
Paul Finch OBE Chairman, Design Council CABE
Hanif Kara Partner, AKT
Alan Kay Managing Director Environment, Costain
Michelle McDowell MBE Chair, Civil & Structural Engineering, BDP
Rory Olcayto Features Editor, Architects’ Journal
Antony Oliver Editor, NCE
Graham Reid Regional MD – UK, Hyder
Philip Singleton Director, Facilitate Urban
David Tonkin UK MD, Atkins
SPECIAL ADVISORS TO THE UK JUDGES
John Ioannou Head of Commercial Delivery - Construction, OGC
Tony Mulcahy Construction Sector Unit, BIS
INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Alan Crane CBE 3Cs Consultants
Bob McGowan Independent Consultant, former Chairman Scott Wilson
Hugh Ferguson Formerly Deputy Director General, Institution of Civil Engineers







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