Domestic Garden Construction

Open to Accredited Contractor and Group Members

Domestic Garden Construction

A domestic scheme which may include any or all aspects of landscaping including hard and soft elements – the judges are looking for good design, build and workmanship - quality is the key here! Cost bandings are a guideline for where to enter your scheme.

Please note that category 1F has no cost banding limits and the judging is based purely on soft landscaping regardless of cost. Examples could include skilful ground modelling, precise contouring, sculptured turf features or conventional planting executed to an exemplary standard.

Banding’s are excluding VAT

1A Under £30K

1B Between £30K - £60K

1C Between £60K - £100K

1D Between £100K - £250K

1E Over £250K

1F Soft Landscaping Criteria

* We must receive both the online entry and digital submission pack by the respective dates. Should both not be received by the early bird deadline then the full fee will be charged. • Only Accredited Contractor and Group members can enter categories 1A – 1F

• Construction schemes that have won a National Landscape

Award within the last two years may not be entered

• The entered scheme must have achieved practical completion within 12 months of date of submission, 1 June 2022

• Only complete contracts should be submitted for an Award. No partial schemes of larger schemes will be accepted, unless part of a clearly defined contracted phase of works

Entry fees and deadlines

Early Bird Discount Deadline*:

4 May 2022 – Fee £215.00 per entry (Additional Entries: £190.00 per entry)

Final Deadline:

1 June 2022 - Fee £250.00 (Additional Entries: £225.00 per entry)

First Time Entrant: £145.00 per entry

How to enter

Step 1 - Enter

Visit baliawards.co.uk and follow the links to register and start your online entry. The online entry consists of the following:

• Entry questions

Want to collate all the material prior to registering? Simply download the entry questions from our FAQ page on the website.

• Digital submission pack

This must contain the following items and must be uploaded as one document.

- A clear, informative description (max 1 side A4), explaining the clients brief, scope of the contract and how you have met/ exceeded client expectations

- Evidence of practical completion date (sign off sheet, formal Architects completion certificate, proof of payment, defects schedule or similar)

- A detailed scheme specification and/or tender specification

- Include details of any unusual features, problems with access, site constraints, ground conditions, unexpected problems and how they were overcome - Evidence of any underground work that can’t be seen after completion such as top and subsoil, sophisticated drainage schemes or application of adhesives

- A clean copy of the scheme plan. If submitting a partial scheme include plans that clearly define phases

- Identify all work carried out by unrelated third parties

- Financial summary/bill of quantities/ invoices. Please note the scheme value must fit within category bandings. These values exclude VAT

- Location map of scheme (preferably online map e.g. Google Maps

- Sensitive sites must have a letter of introduction or pass for the judge to gain admission without delay

• Photographs

A minimum of 5 representative photographs of completed work must be supplied and numbered in order of preference, clearly labelling the top two favourites.

These 5 images must be landscape orientation and a minimum of 300 dpi in either jpeg/tif/png format.

Before and during images are desirable. Where lighting is used to enhance a scheme, night photos are necessary for evidence.

Additional images may also be provided after the deadline date, until 16 September 2022.

Video and drone footage may also be submitted.

Step 2 - Judging

Once the final deadline date has passed your allocated judge will contact both yourself and your client to arrange an appointment to visit between late June and mid-August 2022.

Where possible, it is preferrable that both yourself and the client is able to meet onsite with the judge. During this site visit your allocated judge will discuss the scheme with you and the client, take photographs and a report will be completed after the visit.

Your allocated judge will present your submission and their recommendations to the judging panel at a deliberation meeting at the end of August 2022.

During this three-day deliberation meeting entries in all categories will be reviewed and winners will be selected and announced the week commencing 5 September 2022 with feedback for each scheme being given at that time.