This years Categories
Enter the 2025 Structural Timber Awards: explore award classes recognising innovation, sustainability and technical excellence in timber construction across the UK.
OUR Categories
This award will celebrate a professional architect or architectural technologist that has used timber as a successful and defining material within a completed building in the UK.
This category looks to reward any client, regardless of size or sector that has shown clear leadership in specifying timber technology on at least one project, system or component.
This award is open to large and small-scale projects – in both footprint, scope and budget – and can include office developments, retail premises, restaurants, ‘to-go’ food and drink outlets and hotels.
This award seeks to find a contractor of any size with the scope and strategy to deliver sustainable, low-carbon, cost-effective contemporary buildings of any type, from conception to completion.
This category seeks to find the best self-build and custom-built properties on an individual or small community basis.
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.
This award will be given to those that have demonstrated an innovative and integrated approach to create a landmark building or developed a project delivery model with any kind of timber technology at its core – CLT, glulam, LVL, SIPS, timber frame etc.
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 clinical care. The facility can be for any type of healthcare, primary care, GP surgery, hospitals, care homes or facilities catering for age related/specialist needs.
This category is open to any individual, team or organisation working in any sector and on any size of building that has been involved in the day-to-day work of specialist installation, fixing, fitting and commissioning of timber.
This category will reward projects that have used timber technology to make a tangible difference in lowering the overall environmental impact of the project and used circular economy principles.
This award will be given to those that have demonstrated an innovative and integrated approach to industrialising construction by creating a manufacturing model that embraces the latest approaches to mechanisation, automation and robotics or that have invested in lean manufacturing operations to increase productivity.
This award will be given to an individual, company or project team that has made – or is making – a major contribution to raising the profile of structural timber or using it as a defining feature of its design and build programme in the UK.
Taking in volume housebuilders, smaller developments and self-build projects, this category is seeking to reward individuals, developers and contractors looking to deliver higher levels of homes via any timber solution e.g. mass timber options, closed and open panel timber frame, SIPS etc.
The entrant must demonstrate the timber-based product/system or emerging technology meets the appropriate UK building regulations, building safety requirements, health and safety standards and is playing an integral role in the structural timber market.
Project of the Year will highlight outstanding examples across the UK construction landscape that have been designed and delivered using timber technology as a major component part of its brief.
Entries can be an individual or a project team and can have worked on single/multiple site, large and small-scale projects – in both footprint, scope and budget. They must display a clear understanding of applying and using timber technology to deliver a smooth, streamlined project,
Entries must display a clear understanding of how to apply timber technologies to deliver a sustainable, energy efficient and cost-effective contemporary building that enables the client to achieve its corporate vision – aesthetically and in a scalable way.
This award will recognise a developer, contractor, single housing association or alliance that has successfully used timber technology and worked within the UK’s affordable homes sector to provide high quality buildings that cater for specific resident and operator needs, homeless/temporary living and enhance local communities to provide comfortable, sustainable living for residents.
For all projects to operate efficiently and reach a successful conclusion/completed building, a huge collaborative effort is required based on industry relationships, reliability, business confidence and understanding the pressures each step of the supply chain operates under.