Top National Award for Northumbria University's Flagship Campus
Northumbria University's flagship City Campus East has won a prestigious national award for its outstanding design and value.
The new campus development, which opened last year, is now home to over 9,000 students and staff from the Law School, School of Design and Newcastle Business School and it has won the Value Category of the Constructing Excellence Awards.
Northumbria University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Finance Director, David Chesser, oversaw the development and was in London to collect the award at a ceremony held at Lord’s Cricket Ground.
He says: "This award is fantastic news and is a testament to the architect, contractors and all University staff and students who have played their part in this ambitious project."
The Constructing Excellence Awards celebrate the best of construction nationally and are designed to showcase excellence and reward achievement from organisations and project teams that have achieved regional acclaim. In order to qualify for the awards the project team or organisation must have engaged with the Constructing Excellence agenda and adhered to the principles of Rethinking Construction.
Northumbria University’s City Campus East won the North East award at a ceremony held in the region in May and beat off stiff competition from throughout the UK to win the coveted national title.
Jonathan de Souza, Director of Member Services at Constructing Excellence, says: "In the Value Category, the judges looked for projects on which long-term value has been best achieved and they considered how completed projects have been designed and constructed to achieve maximum benefit for owners and end users and helped them accomplish their goals.
“The judges were very impressed with Northumbria University’s City Campus East, which clearly showed how the project team and the University worked together to ensure that achieving the optimum outcome for both Northumbria and its students was a key driver throughout the design and construction process."
Finalists from across the UK included Hillingdon Homes, Mace Ltd for the Three Ways Special School,
Leeds Oncology Project Bexley Wing, Maber Architects for Improvements to Trent Bridge and the New Office HQ at Piccadilly Basin for BDP Architects.
Professor Andrew Wathey, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University, says: "Over the past five years Northumbria University has greatly improved its built estate, with new landmark buildings symbolic of the University’s rising capability and confidence. We are delighted to have won this prestigious award in recognition of the high quality design and value represented by City Campus East."
The development also won a further national award for landscaping design in the 1-5 hectare category at the 2008 Landscape Institute Awards.
Louise Wyman, Chair of the Judges, says: "A small number of projects demonstrated true creativity and the panel were unanimous in their selection of the winner, which exhibited great originality of design approach and innovation in place making.’'
Trevor Thurlow, Director of Estates, who received the award on behalf of the University, adds: "Receiving this award is particularly satisfying in that it acknowledges the University's commitment to the principle that the spaces in and around its buildings are as important as those within them and should reflect the same qualities of design in encouraging their use and enjoyment."
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