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Education Project of the Year
Entry Criteria
The pressure on the public purse to deliver better, higher quality and more cost-effective buildings for staff and students is huge.
This category celebrates those projects that have used timber technology to create a newbuild facility, a retrofit/refurbishment or extension in a streamlined way, on-time and on-budget reducing impact on term times. The facility can be for all age-levels, nursery, primary or secondary school, university, college or facility catering for special educational needs (SEN).
With collaborative working and tight building timescales of huge importance, the entrant must prove that it has met local education authority/public sector client expectations in providing a sustainable, energy efficient and cost-effective contemporary building, whilst demonstrating how quality, cost-predictability, budget constraints, speed of installation and high levels of sustainability have been achieved.
Entry Questions:
1. Describe the reasons behind the specification of timber technology as the central construction material or key element of the project and why this approach was chosen when compared to other materials/systems.
2. Explain how the use of timber technology has provided a major element in the delivery of the final project – e.g. reduced disruption for staff and students, cost and budget-predictability, speed of installation, long term value, overall sustainability, energy efficiency and building performance.
3. Evidence how the final building/project has been judged by the education sector client, local education authority and/or awarding body. Please include testimonials from staff or students if appropriate to support the projects ambitions and outcome.
4. How has the project provided a unique and innovative solution when benchmarked against other materials, e.g. quality, speed of delivery, installation, planning concerns, circular economy principles, ease to extend/deconstruct, health and safety and long-term maintenance.
5. Describe the collaborative working methods across the timber supply chain and involvement with the education client/board/teaching team or other stakeholders – did they play a leading role in choosing timber as a key construction material and would they specify it again?
