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COCCEC Award Winners 2024 - Building Project of the year: R G Carter SME of the Year: Layrd Design. Integration & Collaborative Working: Ingleton Wood. Regeneration & Retrofit: Emerson Critchley
Cambridge Oxford Corridor Constructing Excellence Club Awards Programme 2025
This years COCCEC Awards will cover 3 categories in which the winners selected will go through the Constructing Excellence East of England Regional awards programme. Regional winners will go forward to the national finals held in the autumn 2025.
The categories available for entry this year can be seen below with further details on each category beyond.
- New Build Project of the Year
- Refurbishment Project of the Year
- Community Contribution / Social Value
Please ensure you read the criteria and rules of entry which can be found in the following 2025 AWARDS ENTRY GUIDANCE DOCUMENT.docx
Deadline for entries is Thursday 6th March 2025 and all entries are to be submitted to our COCCEC Judging Panel.
Our Awards Ceremony will take place at our Annual Lunch on Friday 16th May 2025 at Robinson College.
If you have any questions or queries please contact COCCEC Secretary, Nicola Delderfield - nicola.delderfield@doddgroup.com
New Build Project of the Year
New Build Project of the Year delivers outstanding outcomes for all those involved in a construction project. It showcases the benefits achieved through the application of many of the principles described in the other award categories.
The winner is as likely to be an outstanding local project as a high-profile landmark, but whatever it is all parties will be proud of and inspired by it: the clients, designers, constructors, and suppliers. To impress the judges enough to win this award your entry will evidence an outstanding project that:-
1. Demonstrates great team working between the client and entire supply chain; employing collaborative working tools.
2. Was delivered before the programmed completion date, below the approved cost plan and to quality exceeding expectation whilst delivering the highest of health safety and wellbeing standards.
3. Achieved the lowest environmental impacts, particularly minimising carbon, during construction and its planned lifecycle.
4. Delivered outstanding customer satisfaction and may have also received praise from other stakeholders.
5. Demonstrates the highest levels of the application of best practice, innovation and technical achievement to overcome the project’s challenges
New Build Project_of_the_Year_2025_-_entry_form (003).docx
The Refurbishment of old or historic buildings and sites is often an important part of neighbourhood revitalisation, providing physical and psychological focus for the community and creating jobs and investment opportunities. Construction work that involves the conservation and regeneration of historic buildings requires great care and specialist skills and techniques.
Judges will be looking for excellent outcomes and high standards in the repair, re-use and revitalisation of heritage sites and buildings in the region.
Exemplary projects will be able to demonstrate a number of the following attributes:
- 1. Evidence of research and innovation to replace, repair and match traditional methods and materials encountered, together with the evaluation of alternative options.
- 2. Choice of appropriate procurement that reflects the risks in such work.
- 3. Application of well-considered and sympathetic technical solutions, both traditional and innovative.
- 4. Delivery of customer satisfying quality and enduring outcomes.
A clear commitment to the development of heritage skills and training opportunities to sustain heritage related works
Refurbishment Project_Award_2025_-_entry_form.docx
Community Contribution / Social Value
The Community % Social Value Contribution aims to assess the contribution the organisation has made during the past 12 months through their projects. It incorporates elements of economic efficiency, environmental performance, local training and employment initiatives, and social responsibility.
Judges are looking for organisations or projects whose achievements, in relation to the legacy their work leaves, have made a positive impact on society, local communities and demonstrated best practice in triple bottom line effects and social value.
Exemplary community /social value legacies will be evidenced by:
1. Reduction in greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions through design and construction measures, leading to reductions both in the build and operation phases of assets.
2. Waste and carbon emissions reduction during construction, through design and construction innovation.
3. Local training, apprenticeship, and employment initiatives.
4. Construction having a social value impact on its neighbouring business, residential, educational and voluntary communities so that the industry’s image is improved.
5. Assets which evidence their performance matches or exceeds the design modelling and ratings.
Community Social Value_Award_2025_-_entry_form (003).docx
About National Constructing Excellence Awards Programme
Each year the Constructing Excellence Awards are a celebration of everything the UK’s Built Environment has to be proud of. Winners will be put through to the regional awards programme to go forward to our national finals held every year in the autumn.
These prestigious Awards provide a very special showcase of excellence in the built environment across England and Wales, bringing together the regional winners in each of the 13 categories to celebrate the very best of the best.
We bring together a panel of expert judges with significant proven experience in driving and implementing innovation and positive change across the sector.
The best teams and organisations from all over the country apply every year to get a chance to become one of the 100 Awards Finalists to represent their Region in the National Finals and make to the very top of only 13 National Winners! Are you one of them?