About the Prime Minister's Award
The Better Public Building initiative has been celebrated each year since 2001 by the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award which rewards excellence in both design and procurement from across the public sector.
How to enter the 2010 Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award
Any public sector client, architect, project manager, built environment professional or contractor involved in creating a new public building or space can enter the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award.
To be eligible, projects must have been:
- commissioned by or on behalf of central or local government or by a grant-aided organisation
- completed after 1 January 2009 and come into use by 31 January 2010.
Details of how to enter the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award can be found at British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA).
The closing date for entries is 15 April 2010.
The judges look for high-quality design; efficient procurement; economic and social value; good team work between client, designer and contractor; sound financial management; whole-life value for money; client satisfaction; and sustainability.
The Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award is a special category within the BCIA. When you enter your project for the BCIA, you should indicate its eligibility for the Prime Minister’s Award. All projects shortlisted for other BCIA categories that fulfil the necessary criteria are automatically entered for the Prime Minister’s Award.
The shortlist will be announced in June and the winner in October 2010.
The judging panel for 2010
- Iain Coucher (chair) - chief executive, Network Rail
- Professor Paul Jowitt (deputy chair) - president, Institution of Civil Engineers
- Philip Dilley - group chairman, Arup
- Sir Jeremy Dixon - chair, Dixon Jones
- Paul Dollin - managing director: design and engineering, Atkins
- Katrina Dowding - corporate projects manager, Skanska, and chair, NAWIC
- Hugh Ferguson - deputy director general, Institution of Civil Engineers
- Paul Finch OBE - chair, CABE
- Hanif Kara - partner, Adams Kara Taylor
- Rory Olcayto - features editor, Architects’ Journal
- Antony Oliver - editor, New Civil Engineer
- Jane Priestman - design management consultant
- Philip Singleton - divisional director: major sites, London Borough of Newham
- Mark Stevenson - chief executive, Gifford
- Chris Webster - chief operating officer, Amey
Special advisors to the judges for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award
- John Ioannou - head of commercial delivery, construction, OGC
- Peter Maxwell - head of public buildings, CABE
- Denis Walker - head of construction sector unit, BIS
The Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award is sponsored jointly by CABE, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
Sponsors
CABE is the government’s advisor on architecture, urban design and public space. As a public body, it encourages policymakers to create places that work for people. It helps local planners apply national design policy and offers expert advice to developers and architects. It shows public sector clients how to commission buildings that meet the needs of their users. And it seeks to inspire the public to demand more from their buildings and spaces. Advising, influencing and inspiring, it works to create well-designed, welcoming places.
The Office of Government Commerce is an independent office of HM Treasury, established to help Government deliver best value from its spending. OGC provides policy standards and guidance on best practice in procurement, projects and estate management, and monitors and challenges departments' performance against these standards. It promotes and fosters collaborative procurement across the public sector to deliver better value for money and better public services; and it provides innovative ways to develop Government's commercial and procurement capability, including leadership of the Government Procurement Service.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is building a dynamic and competitive UK economy by: creating the conditions for business success; promoting innovation, enterprise and science; and giving everyone the skills and opportunities to succeed. To achieve this it will foster world-class universities and promote an open global economy.
