Tell us how your firm has changed over the past 12 months, what your most innovative and exciting projects have been, and how you’ve solved problems and developed solutions. Whether you’re defining living and working space or the way we interact with our buildings, this award celebrates the best architectural practices in the UK.

The architectural practice award is open to all UK registered architectural firms.

Why does your firm deserves to win this award in 2019? How have things changed in your firm in the last 12 months?

One of the most hotly contested categories, this category is open to all members of the project team for a project in the UK that has been completed (or at least one major phase has been completed) between April 2018 and April 2019. The award is open to all types of construction firm that helped to deliver the project. Projects will be judged on design, sustainability, innovation and construction performance and procurement and team work with the client.

This category is open to any type of construction consultancy with 100 staff or more. This includes all types of multi-disciplinary practices and any other type of construction consultant, including building or quantity surveyors and project management companies.

Why does your firm deserves to win this award in 2019? How have things changed in your firm in the last 12 months?

This category is open to any type of construction consultancy with fewer than 100 staff.

This includes all types of multi-disciplinary practices and any other type of construction consultant, including building or quantity surveyors and project management companies.

Tell us why your firm deserves to win this award in 2019. How have things changed for your firm in the last 12 months?

How have things changed for you in the last year? Has your approach changed? What are the markers of success for your firm, and how have you embraced innovation?

This contractor category is aimed at firms with up to £300m turnover who have demonstrated outstanding work over the past 12 months.

How have things changed for you in the last 12 months? Has your approach changed? What are the markers of success for your firm, and how have you embraced innovation?

This contractor category is aimed at firms with over £300m turnover, working as main contractors.

This category is open to any organisation that has pioneered new ways of working in a digital and BIM enabled environment to make project design, delivery and operation more effective. Initiatives can include software development, collaborative tools and processes, data mining and management and new ways of working. The initiative must have commenced between April 2018 and and April 2019.

This category is open to firms who offer a variety of services from an engineering-led base.

Firms working in all branches of engineering within the built environment are eligible to enter- make sure it’s you.

This category is designed to recognise and reward the stand out achievements of women working in construction, in an effort to identify and highlight positive role models who can enhance the sector’s appeal to other women. It also seeks to reward those who are working to encourage other women to develop careers in the sector.

This category is open to any woman working in construction in a leadership role, in any of the industry’s disciplines, who has made a significant contribution to the success of her organisation, and to the interests of women in the sector, over the past year. Entries should be submitted by a company director, with the signed consent of the nominee.

This category is aimed at all sizes of firms building homes as either a standalone developer or as a partner with a public sector authority or housing association, for which the entrant has a financial stake of at least 50%. Past winners have demonstrated impressive levels of community engagement, dedication to sustainability both in both business operation and project delivery, and delivering quality, design and innovation throughout.

This award is open to house builders, housing providers, developers or members of their project teams who have completed a large development in the UK of at least 15 new units between April 2018 and April 2019.

(For large phased developments, at least one major phase must have been completed during this timeframe). It is very important to include photographs of the completed development.

The category is open to all members of the project team for an international project that has been completed (or at least one major phase has been completed) between April 2018 and April 2019.

The project must be located outside the UK, and at least one UK-headquartered firm must have been involved in its delivery.

The award is open to all types of construction firm that helped to deliver the project. Projects will be judged on design, sustainability, innovation and construction performance and procurement and team work with the client.

The category is open to all members of a project team involved in a project constructed using offsite construction techniques. The project must be substantially constructed from elements fabricated offsite with the majority of site work restricted to assembly.

Entries will also be considered for projects where one major element of the project has been constructed using offsite techniques, for example the building services. The project must have been completed between April 2018 and April 2019. This award is open to all firms, including manufacturers that have been involved in the offsite elements of the project.

This category is open to companies who have launched an innovative product between April 2018 and April 2019. This can be a new product launch or an innovative reworking of an existing product.

The judges will be looking for clear evidence of genuine, industry changing innovation. This could include a step changing improvement in the following areas:

• Sustainability
• Materials utilisation
• Ease of use
• Speed of construction
• Cost savings

The judges will also be looking to see how the product addresses market need and measures of success. This can include sales figures, client feedback including monitoring of in situ product performance.

Now in its second year, this category is open to all members of the project team involved in remodelling an existing structure in the UK that has been completed (or at least one major phase has been completed) between April 2018 and April 2019.

The award is open to all types of construction firm that helped to deliver the project. Projects will be judged on design, sustainability, innovation and construction performance and procurement and team work with the client.

There are many small projects deserving of not just our attention but recognition too.

The category is open to all members of the project team for a project within the UK, with a construction value of up to £5m, that has been completed between April 2018 and April 2019. The award is open to all types of construction firm that helped to deliver the project.

Projects will be judged on design, sustainability, innovation and construction performance and procurement and team work with the client.

The specialist contractor award is aimed at specialist sub-contractors – but not specialist divisions of main contractors that undertake, for example, housing refurbishment work. Specialist firms owned by large contractors are able to enter.

NB please note that a specialist firm that operates principally as a main contractor should be entered into the relevant main contractor category rather than the specialist contractor category.

For the first time, the Building Awards are celebrating the Building Performance Award.

This category is for any building project 2019 where building performance has been a primary focus for the project team. Buildings performance exemplars entered into this category should include the use of low environmental impact materials and processes for construction and feature low energy and water consumption in use.

Judges will also be looking for measures to ensure optimum building performance after handover including features to enhance the wellbeing of building occupiers, ongoing monitoring of resource use and the satisfaction of building users. Buildings should be completed in the UK between March 2018 and April 2019. Entries will also accepted for older buildings where post occupancy monitoring programmes have been concluded in the year March 2018 – April 2019 and are included in entries to demonstrate building performance.

The award is also open to any initiative that promotes building performance. This could include design tools and monitoring and reporting mechanisms and tools that are focussed on improving building performance. We are also looking for evidence of how the initiative has enhanced building performance.

For the first time, the Building Awards are celebrating the Building Performance Award.

This category is for any building project 2019 where building performance has been a primary focus for the project team. Buildings performance exemplars entered into this category should include the use of low environmental impact materials and processes for construction and feature low energy and water consumption in use.

Judges will also be looking for measures to ensure optimum building performance after handover including features to enhance the wellbeing of building occupiers, ongoing monitoring of resource use and the satisfaction of building users. Buildings should be completed in the UK between March 2018 and April 2019. Entries will also accepted for older buildings where post occupancy monitoring programmes have been concluded in the year March 2018 – April 2019 and are included in entries to demonstrate building performance.

The award is also open to any initiative that promotes building performance. This could include design tools and monitoring and reporting mechanisms and tools that are focussed on improving building performance. We are also looking for evidence of how the initiative has enhanced building performance.