South West Built Environment Awards 2012 - Shortlisted projects
SWBE Awards SWBE Awards 2012 –Short Listed Projects
We have received an excellent response to our call for entries for the South West Region Built Environment awards 2012.
Thank you and well done to all those who submitted entries. We have received entries from a wide variety of organisations, clients, consultants and large and small contractors. They reflect a wide variety of projects from all over the region illustrating the excellent work which has been undertaken during the past year. Again the standard of entries was very high making the judges work very difficult in some categories. Unfortunately we can’t all be winners so the judges have now met and the projects listed below have been short listed. Congratulations to you all.
David Mortimer MD of CS Williams limited celebrates with Tom Haprer after scooping the Heritage Award at the Constructing Excellence National Awards in London on Frday 25th Nov. We congratulate CS Williams for a job well done at the Tyntesfield House Conservation project
Other SW companies and projects were also short listed and will be available on the National Constructing Excellence website soon.
Bristol’s attractiveness as a good place to set up and run a business is highlighted in the new edition of the Bristol Business Guide.
The guide gives details of over 5,000 Bristol companies and promotes the goods and services they provide. It also sets out the advantages Bristol has to offer to prospective national and international companies wishing to do business or invest in the city. Local construction companies are strongly featured.
UK BIM strategy has been launched. See the Constructing Excellence response to the strategy and the strategy download here is here: http://www.constructingexcellence.org.uk/news/article.jsp?id=11787. Adopting an industry-wide BIM process is likely to reveal a significant learning gap in many companies with people left wondering how to implement this into their own practice. In response CE South West and ARCOM, ICE, RIBA, UWE and CIOB organised a successful seminar designed to promote a deeper understanding of the impacts of BIM on your businesses and supply chain organisations.Delegates had the opportunity to voice their views on how a BIM may affect organisation and the preparation for smooth progression towards BIM adoption and use.
For more information click here.
Supported By 
Constructing Excellence South West is proud to be partnering with the National Refurbishment Centre to support the practical delivery of green refurbishment and retrofit, based on evidence gathered from a network of up to 500 refurbishment exemplars.
The National Refurbishment Centre is using performance data held in the largest database of its kind to help industry take an evidence-based approach to delivering mass sustainable refurbishment in the UK.
The National Refurbishment Centre aims to become the evidence hub for sustainable refurbishment and to foster a more joined-up approach to delivering it on a nationwide scale.
To find out more visit www.rethinkingrefurbishment.com
QualityReviewer by HCA:The HCA’s approved practical method for appraising the design quality of development proposals and planning applications.
QUALITYREVIEWER is for everyone involved in the planning and development process: planners, councillors,clients, developers, planning applicants, communities and anyone who helps to shape places and influence design quality. They can help set an effective project brief, steer dialogue about projects, assess design quality based around acknowledged criteria and influence the eventual design quality of the places we shape. It helps us think about design, ask the right questions,obtain the right information/ drawings and challenge projects through informed inquiry. For more info click here.
Health and Safety Films for Designers
Low Cost and Quality CPD that you can achieve in-house
The series of films has been coordinated by CESW in partnership with the BBC, RIBA and Health & Safety Executive, to provide high quality ‘in practice’ CPD material specifically for architects and other industry designers at very low cost. This groundbreaking series of films affirming great design whilst safeguarding people working in construction has now been launched. The films are aimed at architects (including architecture students) and other construction professionals who have a key role in creating safe, sustainable and buildable designs. The series is not-for-profit and can be viewed FREE here.
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