Structural Timber Awards 2022: Event Brochure

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As 2022 continues to bring significant changes to the construction industry, the structural timber sector is rising to the challenge of building a more productive, innovative future. Whether through active engagement with the government over the Net Zero Strategy and changes to regulation or testing and manufacturing new products and systems, the goal is clear; to drive confidence in timber as the sustainable, renewable material of choice for the built environment.

Standing at the forefront of the drive to cultivate and demonstrate advances and innovations across the sector, our entrants for this year’s Structural Timber Awards represent the energy, expertise, and forward-thinking helping make significant strides towards improving systems and products. Once again, we were grateful to receive a wealth of entries from companies setting the standard for excellence, making selecting finalists a difficult task. With categories that cover every aspect of the industry - from healthcare and social housing to engineering and installation – the Structural Timber Awards celebrate the design and technology that makes these inspiring projects possible.

In this year’s brochure, you will find details of the inspiring projects, technologies, individuals, and organisations that have made the 2022 shortlist. Our finalists represent people and companies covering a wide range of experience, background, and specialism, as well as recognised business names and promising newcomers to the sector producing outstanding systems and solutions.

As always, we would like to thank our wonderful sponsors, whose kind contributions ensure the continuing success of the awards, as well as extend our gratitude to each organisation that has sponsored the 2022 ceremony and made it, once again, a highlight of the year.

Thanks also to the Structural Timber Award judges, who had the difficult task of selecting our winners from a wealth of worthy entrants. The standard of entries demonstrates just how much competition there is in the timber industry and how pivotal the last year has been. Thank you to our judges for sharing their expertise in evaluating each inspiring award submission.

Finally, our thanks to all the entrants who never fail to inspire with their skill, knowledge, and continued support for our awards and sector – highlighting to the wider industry and beyond, that structural timber offers quality, sustainability, and performance that will lead to a better future.

THE STRUCTURAL TIMBER AWARDS TEAM

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Headline/Key Sponsor Profiles

Housing Project of the Year

Private Housing Project of the Year

Custom & Self Build Project of the Year

Education Project of the Year

Healthcare Project of the Year

Commercial Project of the Year

Retail & Leisure Project of the Year

Low Energy Project of the Year

Project of the Year

Architect of the Year

Engineer of the Year

Client of the Year

Installer of the Year

Project Manager of the Year

Pioneer Award

Product Innovation Award

SIPs Project of the Year

Solid Wood Project of the Year

Timber Frame Project of the Year

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HOW IT WORKS

TABITHA BINDING

ROBERT HAIRSTANS

GARY

MILA DUNCHEVA

ROBIN LANCASHIRE

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ROSI FIELDSON

MARTIN

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HEADLINE SPONSOR: B&K STRUCTURES

BKS is a structural timber frame contractor who specialises in the design, supply and installation of timber and hybrid structures, including Cross Laminated Timber, Timber Cassette Systems, Glulam and Structural Steelwork. They have the ability and experience to handle packages up to and exceeding £10m, incorporating each or all of these materials, and have been delivering outstanding projects for over 45 years. Award-winners in ‘Innovation’ and ‘Sustainability’, BKS are experts in supporting clients to create unique and stunning, low-carbon hybrid schemes.

www.bkstructures.co.uk @BKStructures

HEADLINE SPONSOR: FIREFLY

FIREFLY™ is a pioneering UK specialist manufacturer of flexible fire barriers. Lightweight and easy to install, our products are fully supported with independent certification, covering a variety of substrates and penetrations. FIREFLY™ flexible fire barriers are made with combinations of woven and nonwoven glass substrates and aluminium foils, with solutions specifically certified for use on timber, making them ideal in loft spaces and roof voids with restricted access and working space.

www.tbafirefly.com @fireflyfirepro

HEADLINE SPONSOR: METSÄ WOOD

We use 100% traceable wood from northern forests, a sustainable raw material of the finest quality. Our facilities are surrounded by these forests, which ensures a never-ending, reliable supply. Our primary products are Kerto® LVL (laminated veneer lumber), birch plywood, spruce plywood, machined softwood and machined MDF. Everything we do involves sustainability – from the products all the way to the forest. We always use the best available technology in our production, ensure the safety and well-being of our employees, and create well-being, locally and internationally.

www.metsawood.com @MetsaWoodUK

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HEADLINE SPONSOR: STRUCTURAL TIMBER ASSOCIATION

As offsite timber solutions are gaining traction across the industry, the STA’s mission is to evidence quality and drive product innovation through technical guidance and research, underpinned by a member’s quality standard assessment - STA Assure. This scheme has gained recognition from the NHBC together with six leading structural warranty and building control bodies. By exploiting advanced offsite manufacturing technology to increase capacity, structural timber systems are factory produced to exacting standards for onsite installation, improving resource efficiency - delivering exceptional quality buildings.

www.structuraltimber.co.uk @STAtimber

HEADLINE SPONSOR: WEST FRASER

West Fraser UK (FKA Norbord Europe) is a world-leading manufacturer of engineered woodbased panel products. Our products are Net-Carbon Negative and include OSB, Particleboard and MDF. They are used extensively throughout construction, furniture, and DIY industries, and are made from responsible forestry sources. We have been supplying products to Europe for over 40 years and have a strong customer base. This has been built on their record for excellent service and delivery, along with consistent quality and competitive pricing.

www.westfraser.com @WestFraserUK

TABLE BALLOONS SPONSOR: ARV SOLUTIONS

ARV Solutions are recruitment specialists in engineering, construction, and manufacturing. Our proven record spans over a decade, placing permanent and contract candidates from Graduates and Designers to Directors and Executives across the UK and internationally. We are leaders in recruiting for timber frame, modular building and the wider offsite and construction, and sustainability sectors. We provide tailored and personal recruitment services, with professionalism, innovation, and good communication all intelligently combined. This is backed up by our clients, the majority of whom bring repeat business and/or are referred to us.

www.arvsolutions.co.uk @ARVSolutions

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HEADLINE / KEY SPONSORS

DRINKS RECEPTION SPONSOR: EGGER (UK)

EGGER (UK) Ltd specialises in the design and manufacture of industry leading structural flooring boards for UK housebuilders. It is based on EGGER’s portfolio of structural P5 grade flooring boards

EGGER P5, EGGER Peel Clean Xtra and EGGER Protect. The boards feature enhanced moistureresistant properties and a precise diamond-tipped cut tongue and groove profile, The advanced structural flooring system comes with a unique lifetime guarantee and uses 3 simple steps, our boards, our glue and our fitting guide.

www.egger.com @EGGER_UK

DELEGATE LIST SPONSOR: JORDESON TIMBER

Jordeson Timber have been importing timber into the UK and Ireland for over 175 years. Focused on the successful and professional delivery of softwood timber to our customers. Importing and distributing softwood timber products to customers throughout the UK and Ireland. Whatever your requirements their knowledgeable and professional team are there to help.

www.jordeson.co.uk @JordesonTimber

GIFT BAG SPONSOR: PARAMOUNT STRUCTURES

Structural engineering with emphasis on economy in materials always been our ethos. We design in a multitude of different materials and develop cost effective design solutions for any project. This approach is applied to projects of any scale, from small domestic to large scale commercial developments. Our structural team has expertise in timber projects covering the residential, retail, industrial, education and healthcare sectors and all our clients are valued and provided with full support throughout the design and construction process.

www.paramountse.co.uk @paramountse

WELCOME PAPARAZZI SPONSOR: COGENT CONSULTING

As the UK’s leading offsite construction consultancy offering in-depth knowledge of existing and emerging technologies - Cogent operates exclusively within the built environment and offsite manufacturing sectors. Cogent work with offsite manufacturers, clients, architects, contractors, and project managers to ensure that any project embracing offsite technology, is optimised and involves minimal risk.

www.cogent-consulting.co.uk @cogent_offsite

Anti-slip, moisture resistant and hard wearing structural chipboard flooring that can be exposed to the elements for 60 days. Part of the EGGER Advanced Structural Flooring System, EGGER Protect is suitable for new build, refurbishment, renovation and timber frame construction projects.

For more information visit www.egger.com/protect.

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CATEGORY SPONSOR

SOCIAL HOUSING PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Category: This award will recognise an organisation or consortia that has successfully worked with the UK’s housing associations and social landlords to provide high quality buildings that cater for specific customer needs, enhance local communities, and provide the best in sustainable affordable housing. Emphasis will be placed on collaborative working, energy efficiency and running costs, speed and quality of construction, affordability of maintenance and overall long-term value-for-money for client and residents.

Sponsor: MiTek specialises in the development of software solutions for structural timber applications and the provision of engineered steel connector products for roof truss and Posi-Joist manufacture. MiTek Services provides a range of design and drafting services to support our customer’s capability and growth, and our automation team provides manufacturing equipment to the engineered timber industry. Our software, services, engineered products and automation enable you to transform the way you design, make and build.

Judge Testimonial

For all general enquiries, please contact: www.mitek.co.uk @MiTekUk

“This is what affordable housing is about, this satisfies the tenure blindness that blights the industry. This is a fabulous looking scheme.”

SOCIAL HOUSING PROJECT OF THE YEAR

CATEGORY SPONSOR

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SOCIAL HOUSING PROJECT OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

BEATTIE PASSIVE + CANNA DEVELOPMENTS: CWRT CANNA FOR NEWYDD HOUSING ASSOCIATION

Newydd Housing Association’s ambition was to deliver a social housing development that would not only achieve architectural excellence in terms of aesthetic appeal but would also deliver outstanding levels of energy efficiency, with a low carbon footprint. The project at Cwrt Canna ticks all the boxes for a contemporary social housing scheme and then goes further still to achieve Passivhaus standards of build quality, thermal comfort and energy efficiency, while also cutting carbon emissions.

PARAMOUNT STRUCTURES: TRE IFANS

The construction of six homes at Tre Ifan for Isle of Anglesey County Council is the product of an experienced design team with a shared vision to deliver high quality, energy efficient, MMC social housing using Welsh timber. Constructed using timber sourced a maximum of 50 miles from site, the project is the first Welsh timber volumetric solution for affordable housing.

RAMBOLL UK: BEECHWOOD WEST

Beechwood West is the first ever Modular Cross-Laminated Timber project from a UK factory. This 251-plot housing development, a mix of 2, 3, and 4-bedroom homes, represents a step towards a more efficient UK construction industry with a focus on quality, safety, and sustainability. Using intricate computational and manufacturing techniques, this project combines the benefits of prefabricated CLT panels with those of modular construction to push boundaries and challenge industry standards.

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PRIVATE HOUSING PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Category: Taking in volume construction and smaller developments, this category is seeking to reward those creating a new generation of sustainable, energy efficient and desirable places to live. Projects can cater for mass market consumption or individuals, but should all display high levels of technical skill, using timber effectively and economically to create places to live and work. The winner will have shown vision in meeting the client and eventual occupiers needs and show a clear understanding of a ‘sense of place’.

Sponsor: James Jones & Sons is the UK’s most diversified, family-owned timber processor. The Timber Systems Division is the UK’s market leading producer of JJI-Joists from its world leading manufacturing facility in Forrest, selling to all the major UK house builders.

Judge Testimonial

PRIVATE HOUSING PROJECT OF THE YEAR

“Bold and innovative scheme, delivering high performance timber homes at scale. Very impressive.”

For all general enquiries, please contact:

CATEGORY

PRIVATE HOUSING PROJECT OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

ADAM KNIBB ARCHITECTS: TARN MOOR

Tarn Moor is an environmentally sustainable family home for a climate scientist. A unique building that capitalises on the fantastic views, which are exaggerated by the butterfly roof that frames the building outlook. This building has utilised a range of sustainable building materials, thermal control, and renewable electricity supply. This was a project not to use all brand-new elements but to prove it is possible to reuse, re-source and reduce impact in construction.

CITU: CLIMATE INNOVATION DISTRICT

The Climate Innovation District is Citu’s flagship development located in Leeds City centre. The Climate Innovation District demonstrates that there is a different and better way to live within in our cities. Once complete, the district will consist of 950 homes, workspaces, retail and a multi generation building. All assembled from our timber frame panel system version 2.0 produced in our manufacturing facility.

DALLAS-PIERCE-QUINTERO: FOREST HOUSES

Located between terraced homes and the edge of Wanstead Flats, Forest Houses revitalise an awkwardly-shaped brownfield plot – once a builder’s yard – to deliver 3 interwoven homes, alongside the refurbishment of a former shop to create another 1-bed home. Seeking to open up views across the Flats and minimise impact on neighbouring properties, the homes’ ‘upside-down’ design combines traditional brickwork with CLT panel construction to deliver a contemporary, sustainable & sitespecific design.

DONALDSON TIMBER SYSTEMS: STONEWOOD PARTNERSHIPS, ORCHARD FIELD

The 88-home Orchard Field development is Stonewood Partnerships’ first timber frame project. Timber frame was the ideal solution to meet the required Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) standards, which demand excellent construction and low energy consumption. The homes used DTS’ Sigma II system to build walls that are 45cm thick once clad and achieve a U-value of 0.13. Following the positive experience, Stonewood has signed up for a second timber frame development with DTS.

EDWARD WILLIAMS ARCHITECTS: CHOBHAM ROAD DEVELOPMENT

The Chobham Road Development is an unusual 900sqm residential scheme for Cliveden Land Ltd, urban regeneration developer. The project inserted four new buildings into the back car parking area of an existing development of 39 homes, to create a landscaped, mews-style development providing a quiet, green, and secure environment for all residents, both old and new. The four new buildings comprise two ‘L shaped’ blocks positioned carefully alongside the existing housing, creating two new courtyards.

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PRIVATE HOUSING PROJECT OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

EURBAN, MAICH SWIFT ARCHITECTS + STORA ENSO: RHOSSILI HOUSE

Rhossili House is a private four bed home in a prominent and dramatic position on the Gower Peninsula - a conservation area and part of the UK’s first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The site is extremely exposed and difficult to access, facing the full force of the south westerly prevailing winds. Use of CLT enabled the house to be built, with Eurban in a race against time to complete the installation and get the building weathertight just days before the first covid 19 lockdown.

FRASER/LIVINGSTONE ARCHITECTS: SIMON SQUARE

An essay in a new timber, Urban Vernacular: a traditional Scottish tenement built in a contemporary way, out of healthy, vapour-open, carbon-locking solid structural timber and with the form embracing light, view, and openness. This is the first commercial developer-led heavy timber residential development in Scotland, with new technology evolved to allow the exposure of the timber internally while exceeding Scotland’s high acoustic requirements.

G-FRAME STRUCTURES, MICAH T JONES ARCHITECTS + STORA ENSO: LAMMASFIELD FARM

Lammasfield Farm is a private four bedroom ‘upside down barn house’ in Somerset. The new dwelling is formed of a masonry ground floor with a CLT upper floor and replaces a dilapidated two storey stone building. The interior fit out features extensive use of CLT which is used for windows, doors, built in furniture and huge concealed sliding shutters that showcase the fine joinery detail it is possible to achieve with this structural material.

NEAT ARCHITECTS: THE CABINS

A cluster of mixed-use timber framed buildings in the heart of Folkestone’s Old Town, supporting creative industries by providing affordable, innovative spaces for studios, workshops, and homes. Formed by a series of timber framed and clad buildings of subtly varying heights, these create the impression is of a casually arranged group, however their internal planning reveals legible carefully and economical use of space.

RAMBOLL UK: BEECHWOOD WEST

Beechwood West is the first ever Modular Cross-Laminated Timber project from a UK factory. This 251-plot housing development, a mix of 2, 3, and 4-bedroom homes, represents a step towards a more efficient UK construction industry with a focus on quality, safety, and sustainability. Using intricate computational and manufacturing techniques, this project combines the benefits of prefabricated CLT panels with those of modular construction to push boundaries and challenge industry standards.

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CUSTOM & SELF BUILD PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Category: Choosing to build your own home and/or employing a company that specialises in unique one-off projects is complicated, exciting and a huge responsibility. This category seeks to find the best custom-built properties on an individual or small community basis. The finished building should comprise of timber in a fundamental structural way timber frame, SIPS or solid wood and should display high levels of technical skill, using timber effectively as an aesthetic, sustainable, energy efficient and reliable way to build a ‘dream house’.

Sponsor: Actis Insulation has specialised in the design and manufacture of innovative insulation and membrane products since 1980. Its CE & UKCA marked Hybrid system can be used on walls, roofs, ceilings and timber floors in refurbishment and new build projects. All products are aimed at eliminating thermal bridging and offer impressive thermal performance. They are quick, clean and easy to install and all products within the range have been certified within the LABC Registered Construction Details scheme.

Judge Testimonial

SELF-BUILD

What makes Hybris unlike any other insulation? It’s cleaner, with less waste and environmental impact. It’s leaner, with a unique honeycomb structure, saving space and project costs. And it’s thermal performance? Leaves others in the dust. Used on its own, or with the rest of the Hybrid range, Hybris is the future of insulation.

It’s time to make the change.

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CUSTOM & SELF-BUILD PROJECT OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

A’BEAR & BALL ARCHITECTS LLP: PLOT 154 GRAVEN HILL

Plot 154 is a self-build home in Graven Hill with a striking contemporary architectural statement. With a timber frame, the three-storey home was designed with low-energy and Lifetime Home principles. The self-builder wanted to create ‘The Ultimate Bachelor Pad’ through a completely unique home. There has also been significant investment in home automation and future proofing, which has improved the liveability of the ‘forever home’ and will allow changes to be easily made in the future.

GAULD ARCHITECTURE + CONSTRUKTCLT: CHERRY COTTAGE – TINY HOUSE

This small house is on a tight site so was carefully organised to minimise impact on adjacent properties, maintaining privacy and access to daylight. A half storey basement allows accommodation to be over 3 top-lit split levels all with views over the street. The CLT structure is exposed with both the entrance/ kitchen, and the living space level also open to the asymmetric pitched roof panels above. This combination provides great spatial interest and a homely material warmth.

GLOSFORD SIPS: FUGGLES POCKET

Fuggles Pocket is a Unique Self Build Detached 2 Storey Private Residential Dwelling named after a well-known local Hop variety and a vernacular design aligned with the original Hop Kilns. The principal frame and envelope was constructed out of Structurally Insulated SIP panels with Glulam structural beams, structural steel, Timber Frame partitions with intermediate Engineered floors in metal web Posijoists.

HAYHURST & CO: GREEN HOUSE

Green House is a new CLT house off a small back lane in Tottenham, on a site once occupied by orchards and greenhouses. The design is a contemporary re-imagining of a greenhouse, blurring boundaries between inside and outside and re-greening a once-unloved site. The house adopts fabric-first passive design principles; a highly insulated airtight CLT superstructure is exposed internally, a planted façade shades the south elevation, and a riad-style atrium maximises natural light and ventilation.

LOOSEHANGER OAK: OAK FRAMED EXTENSION IN ESSEX

This extension in Essex was constructed from high-quality oak, providing a warm-toned material to complement the reddish roof tiles on the extension and the existing home. Hand-crafted oak structure frames the views through the extensive glazing to the landscaping beyond, and complements the internal kitchen fit out, wood flooring, and dining room furniture.

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CUSTOM & SELF-BUILD PROJECT OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

PAUL ARCHER DESIGN: MILTON PAVILION

Our client, a music producer and DJ, wanted a storage space for a 30,000+ record collection. From this initial request, the brief evolved to create a home office/studio which resulted in a building with three distinct areas – a basement studio, a casual area for listening to music, and an office space with desks on the mezzanine.

RAMBOLL UK: BEECHWOOD WEST

Beechwood West is the first ever Modular Cross-Laminated Timber project from a UK factory. This 251-plot housing development, a mix of 2, 3, and 4-bedroom homes, represents a step towards a more efficient UK construction industry with a focus on quality, safety and sustainability. Using intricate computational and manufacturing techniques, this project combines the benefits of prefabricated CLT panels with those of modular construction to push boundaries and challenge industry standards.

SIP BUILD UK: SELF-BUILD SUSTAINABLE HOME, HAMPSTHWAITE

Hampsthwaite, where this immaculate self-build project is situated is renowned for its listed buildings and distinctive style, with gritstone being the dominant building material prominently used. Whilst the client wanted to ensure this style was included, a modern twist was also desired, not just with the building system and fabric, but also the external finish. A mix of Gritstone and zinc to ground, first floor elevations and roof delivered a stunning contrast to this beautiful home.

SKYHOOKS ENGINEERING: GALSTONES FARM

Galstones Farm reimagines the traditional farmhouse, bringing a modern intervention to a former agricultural site. The large glu-lam portal, which frames the impressive landscape, makes this property ambitious and distinctive at a domestic scale. Inside, glu-lam beams are left exposed throughout the ground floor, retaining a hallmark of the traditional farmhouse with modern materials. The marvel of off-site timber fabrication allowed this stunning family home to be erected in just 12 days.

TONY HOLT DESIGN: GREENANE, HIGHER LANGHAM

Our client was fortunate enough to acquire this site which came with a 1500ft² bungalow in 3 acres of land. The plot was in a rural location with spectacular 360-degree views to the surrounding countryside. The project was for a replacement dwelling which would take full advantage of the open countryside through the use of upside-down living. The contemporary dwelling boasts an impressive 400m² and achieved excellent energy performance with an EPC of 114A.

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EDUCATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Category: Whether new build or refurbishment, this category will celebrate a scheme that has used timber technology to create a vibrant learning space for students and staff this could be a nursery, school, university, college, or facility catering for specialist needs. With collaborative working and tight building timescales of huge importance, the project must prove that it has met its clients and wider public sector expectations in providing a sustainable, energy efficient and costeffective contemporary building.

Sponsor: PEFC is an international non-profit organisation, dedicated to promoting sustainable forest management through independent, third-party certification. We endorse national forest certification schemes developed through multi-stakeholder process, tailored to local priorities and conditions. We believe that forest certification should be local, so PEFC UK is one of 70 national members together forge a global alliance. Our standards provide forest owners with a means of demonstrating good forest management, enabling them to supply the construction sector with responsibly sourced wood products.

Judge Testimonial

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the Future with Sustainable Timber

“A bold and striking building with sympathetic use of timber.”

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EDUCATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

ATOMIK ARCHITECTURE + ECKERSLEY O’CALLAGHAN: THORPE LODGE, LONDON

Grade II listed Thorpe Lodge set in the grounds of Holland Park School has undergone a sensitive £3.2M transformation. It has gone from a dilapidated teaching space into a new art studio, school reception and new timber gallery extension. The new extension formed with exposed engineered timber LVL framing sections has been designed to support ‘heavy’ exhibits internally from its roof level. Externally, the façade has a natural palette of render and timber, complementing the existing fabric.

CARPENTER OAK: RADLEY COLLEGE CHAPEL ROOF

The complex Chapel Roof at Radley College is an octagonal roof, made up of over 1100 sections and over 300 joints. It crowns a new extension to the Chapel at Radley College, an independent boarding school in Oxfordshire. The handcrafted oak roof was made and assembled in its entirety in Devon, then transported to site in Oxfordshire where it was raised at height to sit atop the new extension. It remains one of the most memorable and striking structures that Carpenter Oak has ever made.

CONSTRUCTIONAL TIMBER: HOMERTON COLLEGE – DINING HALL, BUTTERY & SERVERY

Constructional Timber provided the glulam and CLT frames for the three new buildings at Homerton College, Cambridge. These buildings are unique as they were constructed with GL30c Sweet Chestnut glulam. There was concerted effort during the design to minimize the use of steel in the project so almost all timber connections are traditional carpentry joints.

DRMM STUDIO: WINTRINGHAM PRIMARY ACADEMY

dRMM’s Wintringham Primary Academy embraces principles of naturalness to provide an inspirational learning environment that prioritises wellbeing and sustainability. The building’s cross laminated timber frame is exposed throughout, providing a calm, natural environment to aid concentration and learning. The £11million school is a key building in the emerging community at Wintringham Park, a 2800-home greenfield extension to the Cambridgeshire town of St Neots led by master-developer Urban+Civic.

ENGENUITI, KLH + DAVID MILLER ARCHITECTS: CROSFIELDS SENIOR SCHOOL BUILDING

Designed to protect the landscape and provide a rich range of spaces for learning and socialising, this new senior school building combines offsite construction and cross-laminated-timber with a collaborative digital approach. This significantly reduced construction time and disruption to the ongoing life of the school, whilst being exceptionally sustainable and creating bright open spaces with a warm, welcoming feel.

EDUCATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

GLULAM SOLUTIONS: MERKINCH PRIMARY SCHOOL, INVERNESS

Our commitment to deliver Merkinch Primary School and Family Centre as a MASS timber structure brought wide-ranging benefits: from a better-value, lower-carbon project that was quicker to build for The Highland Council, to a healthier, more productive learning environment for schoolchildren and a valuable asset for the community. Together we have successfully created the largest application of a glulam/ CLT structure in a school in Scotland.

INVISIBLE STUDIO + XYLOTECH: WESTONBIRT ABBORETUM COMMUNITY SHELTER

The Westonbirt Community Shelter is an open-sided freeform structure built from oak sourced from the surrounding woodland at the Westonbirt Arboretum. It was designed by Invisible Studio in collaboration with Xylotek, who led its construction with participation from community groups.

PRICE & MYERS + TIM RONALDS ARCHITECTS: THE SPENCER BUILDING, WORTH SCHOOL

This project delivers an exemplar Sixth Form Centre which realises the school’s objectives to increase capacity from 220 to 300 students. The building provides contemporary, inspirational, and sophisticated spaces for students and staff and includes social space, a library, and a multipurpose area. The scheme incorporates a landscaped quad at the heart of the school which gives cohesion and focus to the surrounding teaching buildings.

TATE+CO ARCHITECTS: YORK ST.JOHN UNIVERSITY CREATIVE CENTRE

The Creative Centre at York St John University provides new teaching facilities for creative subjects at their Lord Mayor’s Walk campus. The key concept is that the building promotes cross disciplinary collaboration, so there are a wide variety of departments based in the building including theatre studies, media, creative writing, music, and computing. The building is very important for the future of the university; it creates state of the art teaching facilities that allow students to experience.

WIEHAG GMBH: ETON COLLEGE ESAC

The new Sports and Aquatics Centre (ESAC) at Eton College was built by GRAHAM & designed by Hopkins Architects and Cundall Engineers. It comprises a new 4 court multi-use sports hall, linked to a 25m long swimming pool hall by a central double height space that provides entrances to the venues and garden spaces, as well as natural viewing galleries for spectators. The hybrid structure uses Glulam portal frames, CLT roof slabs, Glulam /steel flitch elements and concrete walls.

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HEALTHCARE PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Category: The pressure on the healthcare sector is huge. This category will celebrate those projects that have used timber technology to create a new facility, upgrade or extension in a seamless way, on-time, and on-budget working in a sensitive, inclusive and collaborative fashion. Patient, staff and visitor experience is at the heart of successful healthcare projects, and the winner must prove that it has met the healthcare provider and/or the NHS Trusts expectations in providing a sustainable, energy efficient and cost-effective contemporary building.

Judge Testimonial

HEALTHCARE PROJECT OF THE YEAR

“An excellent example of innovation and engineering excellence.”

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HEALTHCARE PROJECT OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

B&K STRUCTURES, STORA ENSO + RAMBOLL: ALDER HEY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

The Catkin Centre and Sunflower House are part of Alder Hey in the Park - the first NHS health park for children in the UK at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The twin buildings surround landscaped courtyards with consulting rooms, bedrooms and play spaces to provide a healthcare setting that doesn’t feel like a hospital. B&K Structures (BKS) used engineered timber as an offsite solution, utilising the biophilic, health and well-being benefits of wood to create a landmark healthcare project.

CONSTRUKTCLT, ROBERT MYERS, BOWLES AND WYER + STUDIO ALLEN: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE GARDEN, RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW & ST THOMAS’ HOSPITAL

The Garden is a courtyard evoking the pavilion hospital layouts promoted by Florence Nightingale. The final location being St Thomas’ hospital, providing a courtyard garden for sitting and strolling with shaded places to rest. Lush multilayered greenery and water engages the senses. The Douglas Fir CLT pergola is an integral part of the Garden design creating the shade, sense of calmness and wellbeing. CLT walls contain the Garden on 2 sides with laser jet printing featuring Florence’s letters.

MODULOFT ECO BARN: COUNTRY LODGE NURSING HOME MODULAR ECO BARN

This bespoke modular Eco Barn was a key development for the established Country Lodge residential nursing homes in Worthing. Our customer was keen to expand their residential space to cater for a greater demand for quality nursing care with modern facilities where their experienced team offer a high standard of care to the elderly residents and their families in the area.

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COMMERCIAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR

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Entries must display a clear understanding of how to apply timber technology to deliver a sustainable, energy efficient and cost-effective contemporary building. Projects must explain how they have displayed innovation and worked collaboratively to help the client achieve its corporate vision. Particular note will be given to overcoming restrictive construction sites and working within internal planning guidelines.

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B&K STRUCTURES, HTS + STUDIO RHE: THE GRAMOPHONE WORKS

Situated alongside the Grand Union Canal in West London, The Gramophone Works comprises a mix of refurbished, extended and new-build contemporary office spaces. Retaining the existing concrete elements to the two-storey record factory allowed the project team to integrate the striking property into the historic and social fabric of the surrounding neighbourhood; while at the same time adopting advanced timber technology to help deliver a sustainable and healthy phased development.

B&K STRUCTURES, ENGENUITI + WHITBY WOOD: GREENWICH DESIGN DISTRICT (C2 & D2)

The newly created pedestrian quarter features 16 Architect-designed buildings, intended to establish a permanent home for creative industries. D2 & C2 - Mole’s two unique, highly sustainable buildings - are constructed entirely from timber, conveying the atmosphere of an old warehouse. Inspired by a photo of two scientists in lab coats holding instruments, the buildings play off against each other and utilise the benefits of structural timber to deliver a sustainable addition to the district.

DE MATOS RYAN: THE ALICE HAWTHORNE

The Alice Hawthorn, a critical local meeting point, had come under threat. This community-led project transforms the pub’s sustainability with the addition of 12 guest bedrooms, including 8 around a new courtyard. The design is inspired by the Norse ‘garth’ (‘grassy cloister’), creating a sense of enclosure and a notional extension of the village green: a place of gathering. The timber frame buildings use authentic agricultural materials to suggest that the animals have only recently moved out.

ECKERSLEY O’CALLAGHAN + HYBRID STRUCTURES: THE BLACK & WHITE BUILDING

The 6 storey Black & White Building is Central London’s tallest mass timber office building and one of only a few London projects to have a timber structure and facade. With no structural internal partition walls, the layout can be easily adapted as future demands change. By using largely engineered timber and omitting concrete generally except for in the subterranean level the Upfront Embodied Carbon for the structure accounts for just 165kgCO2e/m2 with most of this concentrated in the basement.

ELLIOTT WOOD: THE DEPARTMENT STORE STUDIOS

The Department Store Studios is a new four-storey contemporary workspace building in Brixton, London. The new development creates a platform for growing businesses with flexible workspaces and serviced social and meeting areas. The crafted red brick building has a robust Edwardian aesthetic with patterned brickwork and contemporary faceted bay windows. Internally, the exposed timber structure and brick finishes establish a stripped-back and honest aesthetic.

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EURBAN, SAUNDERS BOSTON ARCHITECTS + RAMBOLL: OUNDLE SCHOOL SPORTS CENTRE & SWIMMING POOL

Oundle School’s new Sports Centre is the key part of the School’s Masterplan to redevelop their sports campus. The jewel in the crown of the scheme is the new 50 m, six lane swimming pool which is flooded with natural light from large roof lights and features a unique solution of CLT + glulam roof cassettes above it to conceal internal ductwork. The CLT superstructure of the 4,500m2 Sports Centre is largely exposed internally to create a light-filled, warm and calming atmosphere.

HESS TIMBER + TMJ INTERIORS: 1-3 GROSVENOR SQUARE – ARRIVALS COURT

This hybrid glulam ceiling enriches the entrance to a residential development in the heart of London’s West End. The timber soffit design delivers a visually striking feature ceiling as part of the Arrivals Court and main reception - visible though a large metal gate from the street - establishing a welcoming space for the residents and their guests as they arrive at the building.

HEYNE TILLETT STEEL: BRUNEL ENGINE SHED

A sensitive retrofit and engineered timber extension of the previously unoccupied Brunel Engine Shed breathes new life into the historic structure, unlocking 13,560 sq ft of flexible, open-plan commercial space next to High Wycombe station. Commissioned by Buckinghamshire Council, the building forms a key step within the council’s plan to regenerate High Wycombe’s Eastern Quarter.

HYBRID STRUCTURES + RAMBOLL: ELEPHANT AND CASTLE PAVILION

The triangular pavilion is formed by three volumes with an over-sailing roof terrace. The deck of the terrace is centred around an existing mature tree, elevated views across the park. The pavilion is designed to create a seamless flow between park and pavilion, blurring boundaries between inside and outside, enclosure and exposure. A Clever understanding of construction techniques and engineered design meant the structure with members up to 13m in length and 3.2 tonnes in weight.

HYBRID STRUCTURES, RAMBOLL + EXPEDITION ENGINEERING: BRENT CROSS PAVILION

A beautiful new facility, forming the first building of the Brent Cross Town development. This pavilion is elegantly designed with timber at the heart of its form and fully exposed throughout. The Pavilion is not just designed to showcase the future Brent Cross Development, but also creates a facility usable to the local area now, adding a social value. Along with the public café, the space is designed as a gallery for exhibitions and events and support local initiatives.

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LORDS CRICKET GROUND – COMPTON & EDRICH STANDS

Working in collaboration with architectural firm WilkinsonEyre, Constructional Timber were commissioned in refurbishing the Compton & Edrich stands at Lords’ Cricket Ground in London. Famously dubbed the ‘Home of Cricket’, Lords is renowned for its integral part in the cricketing world as one of the oldest grounds, hosting a variety of historical international matches.

CONSTRUCTIONAL TIMBER: ST PHILLIP’S CHURCH

Located in the small village of Dorridge, St Philips church has been designed to provide a glulam frame for their new church, replacing the pre-existing church which dated back to Victorian times. This has created a vibrant environment where people can learn about the teachings of God.

ELLIOTT WOOD: LINCOLN CATHEDRAL CONNECTED

Lincoln Cathedral’s ambitious ‘Connected’ project has transformed the visitor experience at the Grade I Listed cathedral by providing modern facilities and learning spaces alongside the careful restoration of existing historic buildings. The new Interpretation Centre comprises a single-storey contemporary link building featuring an engineered glulam timber roof structure, supported by an innovative raft foundation, that protects and complements the materials of the 11th Century Cathedral.

EURBAN, SAUNDERS BOSTON ARCHITECTS + RAMBOLL: OUNDLE SCHOOL SPORTS CENTRE & SWIMMING POOL

Oundle School’s new Sports Centre is the key part of the School’s Masterplan to redevelop their sports campus. The jewel in the crown of the scheme is the new 50 m, six lane swimming pool which is flooded with natural light from large roof lights and features a unique solution of CLT + glulam roof cassettes above it to conceal services and internal ductwork. The CLT superstructure of the 4,500m2 Sports Centre is largely exposed internally to create a light-filled, warm and calming atmosphere.

G-FRAME STRUCTURES, KINGSLEY HALL CHURCH + COMMUNITY CENTRE, KILO ARCHITECTS, MUF ARCHITECTURE/ ART: KINGSLEY HALL LIVEWELL CENTRE

Kingsley Hall Church & Community Centre’s new Livewell Centre is the culmination of a seven-year vision and a key part of their masterplan to create a thriving, sustainable and welcoming community hub in the heart of the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. CLT forms the superstructure of the building which features a complex 12m glulam diagonal grid ceiling at ground floor, an 8m glulam ceiling at first floor and CLT staircase. Exposed wood throughout creates a feeling of warmth for visitors.

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HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT SCOTLAND: DOUNE CASTLE: ARDOCH BURN CROSSING

The Ardoch Burn Crossing at Doune Castle is an innovative timber pedestrian bridge made from Scottish larch sourced locally in Doune. The configuration for the bridge is a double arch with the main span the longest single span of a timber ‘glue and screw’ laminated arch ever built. This project was funded by VisitScotland’s Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund supporting sustainable, inspiring and collaborative infrastructure to improve the visitor experience in rural Scotland.

HYBRID STRUCTURES, RAMBOLL AND EXPEDITION ENGINEERING: BRENT PAVILION CROSSING

A beautiful new facility, forming the first building of the Brent Cross Town development. This pavilion is elegantly designed with timber at the heart of its form and fully exposed throughout. The Pavilion is not just designed to showcase the future Brent Cross Development, but also creates a facility usable to the local area now, adding a social value. Along with the public café, the space is designed as a gallery for exhibitions and events and support local initiatives.

RAMBOLL: CLIFFORDS’ TOWER

Clifford’s Tower, once the keep of York Castle, is a scheduled monument perched on a man-made motte. Previously it was an empty stone ruin, and the visitor experience did not reflect the site’s significance. This unique project introduced an architecturally stunning, structural timber intervention within the tower, to allow the public to fully access and appreciate the monument whilst demonstrating exemplary conservation practice by respecting the significance of the monument and site.

WEBB YATES ENGINEERS: ELEPHANT PARK PAVILION

At the heart of the regeneration to replace Heygate Estate sits Elephant Park, a new public open space. The new pavilion incorporates café facilities that will be a focal point for the park. The roof is designed to appear as a floating plane to maximise the relationship between the park and pavilion, blurring boundaries between inside and outside. The building has been designed using engineered timber as a lightweight, sustainable product that can be constructed off site.

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Category: Entries in this category should showcase in an understandable, measurable way how timber as a building material either structurally, externally, or internally can be exploited to its maximum potential to drive forward the concept of low-carbon building design. Special emphasis will be placed on measuring embodied carbon and carbon reduction levels, use of certified timber, whole-life costs, the benefits of using Fabric First and Passivhaus principles and employing an integrated approach to sustainable and green building design.

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ADAM KNIBB ARCHITECTS: TARN MOOR

Tarn Moor is an environmentally sustainable family home for a climate scientist. A unique building that capitalises on the fantastic views, which are exaggerated by the butterfly roof that frames the building outlook. This building has utilised a range of sustainable building materials, thermal control, and renewable electricity supply. This was a project not to use all brand-new elements but to prove it is possible to reuse, re-source and reduce impact in construction.

B&K STRUCTURES, ENGENUITI + STORA ENSO: UCL PEARL

The Person Environment Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL) is UCL’s first netzero carbon building, designed to test the effects on people in full scale urban environments. Within the steel portal frame building is a two storey CLT and glulam structure called ‘The Groove’ that provides student labs and office space. BKS delivered this engineered timber structure with a high degree of accuracy, shortening the critical path and helping earn academic acclaim plus a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating.

BEATTIE PASSIVE: PASSIVHAUS PLUS NET ZERO RELOCATABLE HOMES FOR CARDIFF COUNCIL

Beattie Passive has delivered over 400 projects to the Passivhaus standard nationwide. Earlier this year, the company completed the UK’s first large scale Passivhaus Plus ‘net zero’ development for homeless families in Cardiff. The development consists of fortyeight modular homes and two ancillary buildings that all perform to the internationally recognised Passivhaus Plus standard for energy efficiency. The entire scheme is also net zero in terms of carbon emissions.

BEYOND ZERO HOMES: THE COP26 HOUSE

This project was specifically designed for an affordable housing, 12-house development in Boat of Garten in the Cairngorm National Park, but it was also showcased at COP26. The ambition for the design was that it had to be either completely carbon negative, or at least carbon neutral across it’s whole lifecycle, from construction through to operational use – not only making it an environmentally friendly design, but also one that keeps running costs down for tenants and owners.

ENGENUITI, KLH UK + ECD ARCHITECTS: THORNHILL PRIMARY SCHOOL

The building in Linmere, Houghton Regis, has expanded the school from a one-form to a three-form school. It is a Passivhaus school, an approach which has reduced its financial running costs and improved the thermal comfort and indoor air quality of the school community. The project followed the principles of the circular economywith materials selected for their low embodied carbon, including CLT, the building’s primary structural material.

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FOOTPRINT ARCHITECTS:

DURLEY CHINE ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION HUB & VISITOR CENTRE

Durley Chine Environmental Innovation Hub includes the construction of three buildings, connected by a uniting roof. These consist of single-storey public WCs and cafe and a two-storey education and Passivhaus welfare building. The external spaces created under the over-sailing roof provide space for a visitor attraction and installations increasing footfall and awareness of environmental issues. The design has been developed to demonstrate and encourage renewable practices.

HAYHURST AND CO: GREEN HOUSE

Green House is a new CLT house off a small back lane in Tottenham, on a site once occupied by orchards and greenhouses. The design is a contemporary re-imagining of a greenhouse, blurring boundaries between inside and outside and re-greening a once-unloved site. The house adopts fabric-first passive design principles; a highly insulated airtight CLT superstructure is exposed internally, a planted façade shades the south elevation, and a riad-style atrium maximises natural light and ventilation.

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HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT SCOTLAND: DOUNE CASTLE: ARDOCH BURN CROSSING

The Ardoch Burn Crossing at Doune Castle is an innovative timber pedestrian bridge made from Scottish larch sourced locally in Doune. The configuration for the bridge is a double arch with the main span the longest single span of a timber ‘glue and screw’ laminated arch ever built. This project was funded by VisitScotland’s Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund supporting sustainable, inspiring, and collaborative infrastructure to improve the visitor experience in rural Scotland.

OB ARCHITECTURE: SAILOR’S HOUSE

Sailor’s House is a contemporary 3-bedroom property in a quiet coastal sailing town. It is situated centrally within a secluded pocket of land featuring an external structural douglas fir glulam frame at first floor. Sailor’s House demonstrates benchmark sustainable design principles to address the current climate challenges with innovative sustainable technology integration alongside contemporary design complimentary to its immediate surroundings and setting.

WB TIMBER INNOVATIONS: ZERO ENERGY COMMUNITY BUILDING IN OXFORD

Bullingdon Community Centre is a replacement for the well-loved community building in Lye Valley, Oxford, designed with and for its community. It is a low energy, single-storey offsite-manufactured timber-framed building containing new halls, multi-use rooms, kitchen, and other facilities, with landscaping and planting surrounding it. There is extensive use of solar panels and an MVHR system, with minimal need for backup heating due to the highly insulated airtight fabric and careful detailing.

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Category: Project of the Year will highlight outstanding examples of UK construction that have integrated timber technology as a major component part of its success. The winner will have proved that they have used timber with skill and ingenuity to create a sustainable, low-carbon building showcasing the strengths of timber. The focus will be on projects delivering exceptional levels of design, detail and delivery. Particular note will be made of client satisfaction, proof of outstanding energy performance levels and low environmental impact, technical achievement, supply chain management and overall best practice.

Sponsor: Xilonor is new to the mass timber industry with a state-of-the-art factory manufacturing premium quality CLT from local sustainable resources utilising Pinaster and Radiata Pine. Panel options from this high quality CLT manufacturer include sizing formats up to a maximum of 12x3 metres by up to 320mm thickness. Xilonor offers flexibility with size increments of 100mm available. 3, 5 or 7 ply with longitudinal or transversal exterior layers to maximise strength according to the panels orientation and double exterior layers.

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B&K STRUCTURES, HTS + STUDIO RHE: THE GRAMOPHONE WORKS

Situated alongside the Grand Union Canal in West London, The Gramophone Works comprises a mix of refurbished, extended and new-build contemporary office spaces. Retaining the existing concrete elements to the two-storey record factory allowed the project team to integrate the striking property into the historic and social fabric of the surrounding neighbourhood; while at the same time adopting advanced timber technology to help deliver a sustainable and healthy phased development.

BEATTIE PASSIVE: PASSIVHAUS PLUS NET ZERO RELOCATABLE HOMES FOR CARDIFF COUNCIL

As the principal contractor, with a brief to design and build 48 new modular apartments and 2 ancillary blocks, Beattie Passive has pioneered the use of Passivhaus Plus, and all its attendant energy saving and environmental benefits, to deliver the UK’s first large-scale ‘meanwhile’ housing development for homeless families in Cardiff, Wales. The entire project is net zero.

DRMM STUDIO: WINTRINGHAM PRIMARY ACADEMY

dRMM’s Wintringham Primary Academy embraces principles of naturalness to provide an inspirational learning environment that prioritises wellbeing and sustainability. The building’s cross laminated timber frame is exposed throughout, providing a calm, natural environment to aid concentration and learning. The £11million school is a key building in the emerging community at Wintringham Park, a 2800-home greenfield extension to the Cambridgeshire town of St Neots led by master-developer Urban+Civic.

HASSLACHER GROUP + ARTELIA UK: SHELL ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING HUB FULHAM

The market share of electric vehicles is steadily increasing worldwide and, in the UK, as well. Therefore, a conventional Shell petrol station in the London Borough of Fulham has been transformed into a so-called “EV Hub”, a charging station for electric vehicles. The canopy consists of partially prefabricated larch glulam and cross laminated timber components. The “EV Hub” is the first of its kind for Shell in the UK and provides nine high-performance ultra-fast undercover charging points.

HAYHURST AND CO: GREEN HOUSE

Green House is a new CLT house off a small back lane in Tottenham, on a site once occupied by orchards and greenhouses. The design is a contemporary re-imagining of a greenhouse, blurring boundaries between inside and outside and re-greening a once-unloved site. The house adopts fabric-first passive design principles; a highly insulated airtight CLT superstructure is exposed internally, a planted façade shades the south elevation, and a riad-style atrium maximises natural light and ventilation.

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HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT SCOTLAND: DOUNE CASTLE: ARDOCH BURN CROSSING

The Ardoch Burn Crossing at Doune Castle is an innovative timber pedestrian bridge made from Scottish larch sourced locally in Doune. The configuration for the bridge is a double arch with the main span the longest single span of a timber ‘glue and screw’ laminated arch ever built. This project was funded by VisitScotland’s Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund supporting sustainable, inspiring, and collaborative infrastructure to improve the visitor experience in rural Scotland.

HYBRID STRUCTURES + RAMBOLL: ELEPHANT AND CASTLE PAVILION

The triangular pavilion is formed by three volumes with an over-sailing roof terrace. The deck of the terrace is centred around an existing mature tree, elevated views across the park. The pavilion is designed to create a seamless flow between park and pavilion, blurring boundaries between inside and outside, enclosure and exposure. A Clever understanding of construction techniques and engineered design meant the structure with members up to 13m in length and 3.2 tonnes in weight.

OB ARCHITECTURE: SAILOR’S HOUSE

Sailor’s House is a contemporary 3-bedroom property in a quiet coastal sailing town. It is situated centrally within a secluded pocket of land featuring an external structural douglas fir glulam frame at first floor. Sailor’s House demonstrates benchmark sustainable design principles to address the current climate challenges with innovative sustainable technology integration alongside contemporary design complimentary to its immediate surroundings and setting.

RAMBOLL UK: BEECHWOOD WEST

Beechwood West is the first ever Modular Cross-Laminated Timber project from a UK factory. This 251-plot housing development, a mix of 2, 3, and 4-bedroom homes, represents a step towards a more efficient UK construction industry with a focus on quality, safety and sustainability. Using intricate computational and manufacturing techniques, this project combines the benefits of prefabricated CLT panels with those of modular construction to push boundaries and challenge industry standards.

WIEHAG GMBH: SPORTS AND AQUATICS CENTRE, ETON COLLEGE

The new Sports and Aquatics Centre (ESAC) at Eton College was built by GRAHAM & designed by Hopkins Architects and Cundall Engineers. It comprises a new 4 court multi-use sports hall, linked to a 25m long swimming pool hall by a central double height space that provides entrances to the venues and garden spaces, as well as natural viewing galleries for spectators. The hybrid structure uses Glulam portal frames, CLT roof slabs, Glulam /steel flitch elements and concrete walls.

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Category: Open to any size of practice. This award will celebrate a professional architect or architectural technologist that has specified timber and used it as a defining feature within a completed building in the UK. Emphasis will be given to the technical and creative reasons why timber was specified and how this was communicated within the project team. Particular note will be given to the use of leading-edge building techniques and originality to construct inspirational examples for future building design, within a framework of cost, deliverability and timescale.

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ADAM KNIBB ARCHITECTS: TARN MOOR

Tarn Moor’s brief was to create an environmentally sustainable 3-bedroom home that utilises the views. Our client is a climate change scientist, and his environmental standpoint has steered the project towards achieving an eco-friendly home. These goals have driven the use of the glulam structure in addition to other environmentally sustainable materials such as demolition waste foundations, limecrete and local flint stone.

DRMM STUDIO: WINTRINGHAM PRIMARY ACADEMY

dRMM’s Wintringham Primary Academy embraces principles of naturalness to provide an inspirational learning environment that prioritises wellbeing and sustainability. The building’s cross laminated timber frame is exposed throughout, providing a calm, natural environment to aid concentration and learning. The £11million school is a key building in the emerging community at Wintringham Park, a 2800-home greenfield extension to the Cambridgeshire town of St Neots led by master-developer Urban+Civic.

HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT SCOTLAND: DOUNE CASTLE: ARDOCH BURN CROSSING

The Ardoch Burn Crossing at Doune Castle is an innovative timber pedestrian bridge made from Scottish larch sourced locally in Doune. The configuration for the bridge is a double arch with the main span the longest single span of a timber ‘glue and screw’ laminated arch ever built. This project was funded by VisitScotland’s Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund supporting sustainable, inspiring, and collaborative infrastructure to improve the visitor experience in rural Scotland.

STUDIO RHE: THE GRAMOPHONE WORKS

The former Headquarters of Sanderson Fabrics and subsequently of Saga Records at the epicentre of reggae music in London, The Gramophone Works is a new canal side commercial scheme constructed using the latest in timber technology to create a sustainable and healthy workplace environment. The distinctive design takes it’s cues from the industrial heritage of the site as well as historic links to the music industry, creating a vibrant and characterful waterside working campus.

TATE+CO ARCHITECTS: YORK ST.JOHN UNIVERSITY CREATIVE CENTRE

The Creative Centre at York St John University provides new teaching facilities for creative subjects at their Lord Mayor’s Walk campus. The key concept is that the building promotes cross disciplinary collaboration, so there are a wide variety of departments based in the building including theatre studies, media, creative writing, music, and computing. The building is very important for the future of the university; it creates state of the art teaching facilities that allow students to experience.

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Category: The Engineer of the Year can be an individual or team. They need to have demonstrated an innovative and integrated approach to create a landmark building with timber technology at its core, or in developing an engineered timber product. This can encompass using timber as a base material to overcome site or projectspecific challenges, using products and systems in a different way to the ‘norm’, taking timber and/or particular species to new performance levels, or employing BIM and LEAN techniques to meet the challenges of designing any type of building.

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ECKERSLEY O’CALLAGHAN: THE BLACK & WHITE BUILDING

Eckersley O’Callaghan has varied established experience delivering pioneering structural timber solutions working on projects at the cutting edge of the mass timber industry in the UK and worldwide. They are providing the structural engineering solution for the net zero Black and White building. This six-story building delivers an all-timber approach and consists of a timber frame, façade and core. The engineering solution is pioneering and demonstrates the limitless possibilities of timber.

ENGENUITI: CROSFIELDS SENIOR SCHOOL BUILDING

Designed to protect the landscape and provide a rich range of spaces for learning and socialising, this new senior school building combines offsite construction and cross-laminated-timber with a collaborative digital approach. This significantly reduced construction time and disruption to the ongoing life of the school, whilst being exceptionally sustainable and creating bright open spaces with a warm, welcoming feel.

FAIRHURST WITH GEOFF FREEDMAN RURAL BRIDGES: DOUNE CASTLE - ARDOCH BURN CROSSING

The Ardoch Burn Crossing at Doune Castle is an innovative timber pedestrian bridge made from Scottish larch sourced locally in Doune. The configuration for the bridge is a double arch with the main span the longest single span of a timber ‘glue and screw’ laminated arch ever built. This project was funded by VisitScotland’s Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund supporting sustainable, inspiring and collaborative infrastructure to improve the visitor experience in rural Scotland.

HYBRID STRUCTURES + RAMBOLL: ELEPHANT AND CASTLE PAVILION

The triangular pavilion is formed by three volumes with an over-sailing roof terrace. The deck of the terrace is centred around an existing mature tree, elevated views across the park. The pavilion is designed to create a seamless flow between park and pavilion, blurring boundaries between inside and outside, enclosure and exposure. A Clever understanding of construction techniques and engineered design meant the structure with members up to 13m in length and 3.2 tonnes in weight.

PARAMOUNT STRUCTURES: FALCON HOUSE

The aim was to create an upside-down house using CLT to create two cabins that merged with the surrounding area and provided an energy efficient and striking design through its 45 degree offset layout. The concept of the upside-down home intends to maximise the views of the surrounding nature from the living spaces. The upper floor creates the feeling of living within the trees, whilst the lower floor was designed to accommodate more intimate and cosy spaces.

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CROSFIELDS SCHOOL: CROSFIELDS SENIOR SCHOOL BUILDING

Designed to protect the landscape and provide a rich range of spaces for learning and socialising, this new senior school building combines offsite construction and cross-laminated-timber with a collaborative digital approach. This significantly reduced construction time and disruption to the ongoing life of the school, whilst being exceptionally sustainable and creating bright open spaces with a warm, welcoming feel.

ENGLISH HERITAGE: CLIFFORD’S TOWER

Clifford’s Tower, once the keep of York Castle, is a scheduled monument perched on a man-made motte. Previously it was an empty stone ruin, and the visitor experience did not reflect the site’s significance. This unique project introduced an architecturally stunning, structural timber intervention within the tower, to allow the public to fully access and appreciate the monument whilst demonstrating exemplary conservation practice by respecting the significance of the monument and site.

HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT SCOTLAND: DOUNE CASTLE: ARDOCH BURN CROSSING

The Ardoch Burn Crossing at Doune Castle is an innovative timber pedestrian bridge made from Scottish larch sourced locally in Doune. The configuration for the bridge is a double arch with the main span the longest single span of a timber ‘glue and screw’ laminated arch ever built. This project was funded by VisitScotland’s Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund supporting sustainable, inspiring, and collaborative infrastructure to improve the visitor experience in rural Scotland.

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INSTALLER OF THE YEAR

Category: Have you truly excelled in the

and installation of a structural timber solution? This category is open to any team or organisation working across any size of building or development that has used timber as a key structural system or building component. This can range from erecting a solid wood structural frame and timber frame/SIPS installation, to roofing systems, doors and windows, cladding solutions or even flooring. The winner will have demonstrated their full understanding of timber as a material and a technology, the ways timber can function in different building types and have shown an outstanding level of overall expertise and customer service.

Judge Testimonial “Very aesthetically pleasing use of timber.”

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PROJECT MANAGER OF THE YEAR

Category: Adopting collaborative working methods plus effective people and supply chain management skills at its core, the Project Manager of the Year category can be entered by an individual or a project team. The UK project(s) undertaken can be of any size and value, private or public sector and can be in any market area of the built environment. The winner will have displayed a wide-ranging set of abilities including product/system technical knowledge, team management skills, organisational and problem-solving expertise and the ability to direct and deliver a successful project/scheme to completion to achieve client objectives.

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Judge Testimonial “A unique engineering solution for a creative project.”

PROJECT MANAGER OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

CHRIS WEBB, MORGAN SINDALL: TRINITY COLLEGE, ROUND CHURCH STREET, CAMBRIDGE

On a site in central Cambridge adjacent to a busy pedestrian and bus route Morgan Sindall worked on two projects with adjacency, one for the Cambridge University and the other for Trinity College. The work for Trinity College provides new student accommodation, restaurant and retail units over six storeys, designed in CLT with a mixed palette of external cladding. Choice of materials for the scheme was cognizant of the sites limitations and the restrictions for lifting and delivery of materials.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOMES: KINGSLEY HALL LIVEWELL CENTRE

Kingsley Hall Church & Community Centre’s new Livewell Centre is the culmination of a seven-year vision and a key part of their masterplan to create a thriving, sustainable and welcoming community hub in the heart of the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. CLT forms the superstructure of the building which features a complex 12m glulam diagonal grid ceiling at ground floor, an 8m glulam ceiling at first floor and CLT staircase. Exposed wood throughout creates a feeling of warmth for visitors.

R PICKERING: THE ALICE HAWTHORN

The Alice Hawthorn, a critical local meeting point, had come under threat. This community-led project transforms the pub’s sustainability with the addition of 12 guest bedrooms, including 8 around a new courtyard. The design is inspired by the Norse ‘garth’ (‘grassy cloister’), creating a sense of enclosure and a notional extension of the village green: a place of gathering. The timber frame buildings use authentic agricultural materials to suggest that the animals have only recently moved out.

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CATEGORY SPONSOR

PIONEER AWARD

Category: Given to an organisation or individual that has made or is making a major contribution to raising the profile of timber usage across the UK. The Pioneer Award will recognise achievements that show a step-change forward for the material, ranging from improving system and product development, to promoting the image of timber in the media, or maintaining a certified legal and sustainable supply of timber to the sector. All entries must impress the distinct difference, progressive methodology and/or ground-breaking accomplishments that have been made.

Sponsor: STEICO offers its customers ecological construction products from renewable raw materials and has been able to position itself in its thirty-fiveyear history as a system provider for ecological house building and innovation drivers. As the industry’s only manufacturer, STEICO offers an integrated timber construction system that complements insulation materials and structural components.”

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PIONEER OF THE YEAR

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STEICO

veneer lumber

“A great innovation and something that will really be needed in the future.”

Window lintel with STEICO LVL R

Floor / Roof joists with STEICO LVL R and drop beams with STEICO GLVL R

Large format decking with STEICO LVL X

Bespoke structures using STEICO LVL X

Rafter strengthening with STEICO LVL R

ENGINEERED BY NATURE

Constructive building elements

made from natural wood

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DRMM: DRMM / ALEX DE RIJKE

Alex de Rijke co-founded dRMM in 1995. His innovations include Tulipwood cross-laminated-timber (CLT) a world-first hardwood composite used to construct Maggie’s Oldham, the world’s first hardwood CLT building. Alex has raised the profile of timber in the national press, construction industry and on prime-time television with ‘Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker. As an architect / educator he has persuaded emerging architects to adopt timber as a healthy, sustainable material for over 30 years.

PIONEER AWARD SHORTLIST

LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY + THE FORESTRY COMMISSION: HOME GROWN CABIN

The Home-Grown Cabin is a research programme funded by the Forestry Commission and London Metropolitan University. The cabin demonstrates the regenerative, circular and scalable use of locally sourced coppiced hardwood in construction. Coppiced sweet chestnut timber was used to make the first ever green / unseasoned structural insulated panels (SIPS). The panels were lined internally with Ash affected by dieback and clad externally with a cleft sweet chestnut rainscreen.

NORDIC CLT: RECYCLED CLT

Green product is getting greener. Recycled CLT put CLT back to long CO2 lifecycle products. In CLT production significant amount of large size cut-offs are being generated that usually are being chipped and burned (CO2 emitted back into atmosphere). We have developed a technology that helps to bring these cut-offs back into long CO2 cycle products and structural use.

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STA SPECIALIST INTEREST GROUP ON MASS TIMBER ENCLOSURE FIRE BEHAVIOUR

The Structural Timber Association Special Interest Group has been formed to address challenges in the sector, through a series of work packages to provide both guidance and evidence to support the fire safe design of mass timber High Rise Residential Buildings (HRRB) and commercial buildings.

WOOD PRODUCTS LATVIA: NORDCABIN

We are the first cabin producer to provide a full Recycled CLT base structure option Concept Cabins. Available 2 sustainable Concept Cabin options by using ReCLT: 1) Full ReCLT - Both in exposed and covered version with plastered interior surfaces. 2) CLT+ ReCLT hybrid - We use ReCLT only for the parts that are not exposed and will be covered with other materials.

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CATEGORY SPONSOR

PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD

Category: A wide ranging category open to innovative new products and systems, or older items on the market used in a fresh and inventive way. The winner must demonstrate the product or emerging technology, meets the appropriate UK building regulations and health and safety standards. This can be a physical product designed specifically for timber usage or a general building product that reveals a new dimension when used in conjunction with timber technology. Evidence must be provided of where real value has been added to the timber sector.

Sponsor: Timber Development UK (TDUK) is the largest, most comprehensive supply chain body for timber in the UK; committed to growing your business, knowledge, connections, and influence. Founded through the merger of the Timber Trade Federation and TRADA in 2021, TDUK brings together more than 1500 businesses which span from sawmill to specifier, and all points in between.”

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PRODUCT

INNOVATION AWARD

productivity gains for sites among our skills crisis and productivity stagnation.”

PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD SHORTLIST

AKUSTAK: ACOUSTIC MODULAR WALL SYSTEM

Akustak® is a patented, acoustic modular wall system. Designed for materials optimisation & off-site construction, it minimises waste during manufacture & installation, whilst it’s unique, demountable form, facilitates recovery & reuse. Prefabricated & portable, Akustak® accelerates construction timescales, with configurations installed from 15 m2 / per hour, ready for plastering &/or decoration, whilst the ‘Forest’ & ‘Chroma’ range come pre-finished, eliminating the need for wet trades.

INNOVARÉ SYSTEMS: PSI-FAST – NEXT GENERATION PANELISED SYSTEM

Psi-FAST is an evolution of Innovare’s award-winning patented i-FAST structural timber system which uses increased panel thickness and staggered timber stud detailing to reduce U-values and psi-values whilst offering the capacity to include Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) elements such as factory-fitted vapour control, windows, and cladding. With U-values as low as 0.10 W/m²K, Psi-FAST can be used as loadbearing, wrap or infill panels. All components are recyclable, CE Marked or BBA Certified.

JAMES LATHAM: THE JAMES LATHAM CARBON CALCULATOR

The James Latham Carbon Calculator is a free, online tool allowing users to accurately measure the carbon impact of the products they use. Providing data on both Carbon Footprint and Biogenic (stored) Carbon attributed to timber-based construction materials, it allows specifiers, designers and end users to select products that will help achieve low carbon goals. The addition of confidence rankings by product allows users to compare similar materials, achieving peace of mind.

MEDITE SMARTPLY: SMARTPLY MAX FR B

Smartply MAX FR B is a flame retardant, structural, moisture resistant OSB/3 panel with outstanding and reliable reaction to fire properties. This panel is ideal for use where strength, moisture, and improved flame retardance are paramount. Smartply MAX FR B is sustainably manufactured using advanced resin technology that results in a higher performance, with no added formaldehyde. This makes it safer for contractors and fabricators to work with and helps create safer and healthier environments.

ROTHOBLAAS: ALUSTART – PROFILE FOR CONNECTING CLT AND TIMBER FRAME CONSTRUCTION TO CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS

The product presented, Alustart, is the one of the latest launched in the market product from Rothoblaas to meet designers’ needs and to help the contractors during the installation on site of timber buildings. The Alustart presented has been used on a 2 storey Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) house in Surrey, UK.

SIP S PROJECT OF THE YEAR

SIP S PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Category: The Best SIPs Project will be awarded to the overall highest scoring entry for a project built using SIPS technology. Structural Insulated Panels (SIPS) are an advanced method of construction, exploiting composite panel techniquesdelivering excellent structural and thermal characteristics in one system. SIPS have two parallel faces - usually Oriented Strand Board (OSB) - sandwiching a rigid core of Polyurethane (PUR) foam. The result is a lightweight system which is quick to erect and free from the complications surrounding compression shrinkage and thermal bridging, that is often associated with other forms of construction.

Judge Testimonial “This project has a degree of engineering optimisation.”

SOLID WOOD PROJECT

SOLID WOOD PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Category: The Best Solid Wood Project will be awarded to the overall highest scoring entry for a project built using Solid Wood technology. Solid Wood technology has seen diverse and ground-breaking application in recent years. It is now extensively used across the commercial, leisure and education construction sectors and the benefits have been widely acknowledged. While innovation in the Solid Wood sector is rife, demand for ever more sophisticated solutions is growing.

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FREETOACCESS

“Extraordinary project with impressive productivity gains for sites among our skills crisis and productivity stagnation.”

CATEGORY SPONSOR

TIMBER FRAME PROJECT OF THE YEAR

TIMBER FRAME PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Category: The Best Timber Frame Project will be awarded to the overall highest scoring entry for a project built using Timber Frame technology. Modern timber frame structures are precision-engineered, strong and durable. The build method relies on a factory manufactured timber frame as a means of structural support – carrying the loads imposed by the floors and roofs, before transmitting them to the foundations, which can be built at a lower cost due to the buildings being lightweight.

Sponsor: ARC Building Solutions is an award-winning manufacturer of cavity fire barriers and cavity closers, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Established in 2008, ARC specialises in bringing unique and innovative products to market. Designed to solve real world on-site challenges, ARC’s products help to deliver safer and more sustainable homes and buildings. With Certifire third-party certification, along with ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, you can be assured that all ARC products are manufactured to the highest of standards.

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Judge Testimonial “Innovative construction delivering clear programme and sustainability benefits.”