Call for Concrete Society Award nominations
One of the longest-running awards schemes in UK construction, this event is also the most prestigious competition to showcase the use of concrete as a structural material and express the sheer flexibility in its application.
The competition is open to structures completed between October 2022 and April 2024.
Kathy Calverley, the Society’s managing director, said: “The Society Awards generate extensive publicity for all companies shortlisted. Once again, we are looking forward to receiving many varied entries that demonstrate innovation and excellence through the use of concrete.”
1 New Park Square is the first landmark project for the wider vision of a low-carbon community of working, living and leisure at Edinburgh Park by developer Parabola. The building echoes this philosophy through robust long-lasting materials and low energy in use, supported by the use of an exposed concrete frame. (Photos: Timothy Soar)
Any organisation that participated in a project can enter by completing the nomination forms. Previous winners are wide-ranging and include private houses; bridges; offices; acoustic sound-barring walls; wastewater treatment works; theatres; and innovative or sculptural elements.
Each project will stand on its own merit. The competition is unique in that judges visit all shortlisted structures before making their final decision. They will take into account factors such as:
• visual impression and integration with the surrounding landscape
• functional suitability
• properties of concrete exploited in the design
• innovation in concrete composition, structure or form
• execution and finish
• integration of structure and services
• sustainability credentials
• client satisfaction, value for money.
The early-bird deadline for entries is 22 March 2024, with the final deadline being 24 April 2024. A shortlist announcement will be made in July and the Awards presented at The Society’s Annual Awards Dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London on 13 November 2024.
More information about submitting a nomination, sponsorship opportunities and booking a table at this event can be found at Concrete Awards 2024.
DAMAC Tower is an example where the client’s aspirations, the architect’s vision and the structural engineer’s skill and experience perfectly aligned to achieve a spectacular design. The site of the development adjacent to major infrastructure in Vauxhall was unlocked for planning to build something that previous development teams could not.
This is a field-based pilot project to evaluate the performance of various ecologically enhanced armour units in an intertidal high-energy wave environment. The ecological armour units are designed to encourage the settlement of marine organisms, providing a carbon sink as well as withstanding high-energy wave conditions and thereby stabilising the shoreline.
The Osiers Road façade is a showcase in the richness and variety of finish that can be achieved with architectural precast concrete. This multi-finish unitised system, both stunning and cost-effective, creates a striking aesthetic that is sympathetic to the local history and was achieved through careful modelling, bespoke mouldage, multi-stage casting and innovative fixings.
This is a new flagship five-storey plus basement office, partially embedded into the sloping site and with a large central atrium. Exposed concrete ribbed slabs finished to a high level provide a sustainable, economic, flexible and stunningly attractive space.
Based in Sandhurst, Berkshire, The Concrete Society was founded in 1966 and remains an independent technical organisation with a broad membership base that includes professional engineers and designers; the contracting and material supply industry, academia and client bodies from over 60 countries.
The Society offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to the industry including the highly regarded Advisory Service, which offers prompt and impartial support to industry clients either on-site or by telephone and e-mail.
It is also highly regarded for its magazines and technical reports providing an invaluable information resource.
Additionally, The Society provides increased opportunities for professional development in concrete. It also runs regular day courses on varying subjects for the industry and bespoke training for members. Membership involvement is key to the enduring success of The Society with a strong UK Regional Network providing both social and technical support activities.
10 Lewis Cubitt Square is a key part of the King’s Cross masterplan. Its distinctive aggregated precast concrete façade forms a civic backdrop to the public realm and surrounding buildings. Beyond the façade, multiple concrete technologies are used throughout – from the slipform core to precast plank floor construction and stair flights, and polished concrete blocks as an exposed architectural finish.
This in-situ black concrete spiralled staircase was complex in nature to construct. It is located centrally in the project in a space where most of the apartments are accessed. The concept was to create a feature out of something that had to be functional. Now completed, it showcases the quality of workmanship and the imaginative design by the architect.
Plot H7 forms part of the fifth phase of the Elephant Park development in Elephant & Castle, comprising a 25-storey tower and four nine-storey mansion blocks. The reinforced concrete works include jumpform, in-situ and precast columns and twin-wall, with post-tensioned slabs.
The redevelopment of the Royal College of Surgeon’s headquarters building in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, weaves together the institution’s rich heritage with a modern flexible environment by construction of a major new concrete-framed structure that is carefully stitched into the historic fabric of the original Grade II* listed Charles Barry building.
In a 350m stretch of coastal flood defence, the Southsea Coastal Scheme has used a myriad of concrete properties to achieve: a scheme with a 100-year design life in a harsh marine environment; bespoke precast design sympathetic to the historic setting; and enhancements to the public realm.
The Featherstone Building is an exemplar reinforced concrete framed commercial building close to Old Street station up to 11 storeys in height, with exposed concrete walls, columns and flat slabs, cast in pipework in slabs and using a precast glass-fibre-reinforced concrete brick façade.
Tower Hamlets Town Hall involves the reinvention and extension of the Grade II-listed former Royal London Hospital into the headquarters for the council. The versatility of concrete has been harnessed in a variety of sustainable and innovative ways – both within the historic fabric and in the new build extension.
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