Awards

Project Allenby/Connaught scooped three major accolades at the Public Private Finance Awards 2008

Public Private Finance Awards 2008

Project Allenby/Connaught scooped three major accolades at the Public Private Finance Awards 2008.

These prestigious awards are sponsored by Public Private Finance Journal and are awarded for innovation and excellence in the Public Private Partnerships industry.

The judges, who included senior executives from the Ministry of Defence, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Audit Office amongst others, awarded Project Allenby/Connaught three titles:

Best Operational Defence Scheme
Best Government Agency Team award
The Grand Prix award ‘Best Operational UK Project’

Peter Smart, Chief Executive of Aspire Defence Limited said: “The three awards are a significant accolade which recognises the excellent work being delivered by Project Allenby/Connaught as well as the working relationship between the MoD and Aspire Defence. This is a huge achievement and a great credit to everyone involved at Aspire Defence, in the MoD team and at our parent companies, KBR and Carillion.”

Minister for Defence Procurement (Min (DP)) Acquisition Award

Project Allenby/Connaught was awarded a Minister for Defence Procurement (Min (DP)) Acquisition Award, acknowledging Excellence and Endeavour in Defence Acquisition.

The Project was also presented with the Min (DP) Special Award for Outstanding Achievement. Project Allenby/Connaught was recognised for the way in which a very complex contract was negotiated, for its innovative approach to partnering and for the way in which a very challenging procurement programme has been initiated.

The Minister of State for Defence Procurement, The Lord Drayson, presented the awards.

Aspire Defence Capital Works Scoops Two Top Sustainability Awards

(l - r) Mr S Muttsinovic from Fulcrum Consulting (sponsors for this award), Nick Kirwan, Jon Atkinson, Lorna Russell, Peter Caddock and Denise Chevin, Editor of Building magazine

Project Allenby/Connaught the £8bn PFI project provides modern, high quality, fully serviced and purpose built living and working accommodation for 20% of the British Army, received a further endorsement of its progress when Aspire Defence Capital Works scooped two awards in the Building Sustainability Awards 2007. The awards gained were for the ‘Sustainable Development of the Year’ and ‘Best Sustainability Initiative for the Public Sector’.

These are the industry’s leading awards recognising outstanding sustainability achievement and environmental excellence and were held at London’s Park Lane Hilton Hotel.

Members of the Aspire Defence team, including Peter Caddock, senior environmental manager together with Steve Arthur, pre-construction director were presented with the trophies by comedian and author Clive Anderson. Aspire Defence has been contracted by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to deliver high quality modern, sustainable living and working accommodation for 18,700 soldiers who are based in garrisons across Aldershot and around the Salisbury Plain area – helping to make soldiers’ lives better.

(l - r) Clive Anderson, Steve Arthur, Mr J Sweet of ILevel Trust Joist (sponsors for this award) and Denise Chevin, Editor of Building magazine

Sustainability covers a wide range of issues and is embedded in the heart of the project in all its design, construction and service delivery elements. Solutions have been developed with local authorities, Natural England and others and include low carbon energy technologies, measures to reduce energy and water consumption; bio-diversity; wildlife protection; encouraging economic regeneration and local employment; ensuring staff are well protected and minimising the impact construction activity has on local communities. Aspire Defence has designed a range of new buildings that are being constructed in energy efficient ways. From modular units, where each block of 36 man flats can be built in just 12 weeks, to installing solar panels to provide energy that will reduce the cost of heating, we have included an array of ways to provide sustainable solutions. The solar panels provided on new buildings will have a floor area equivalent to Westminster Abbey.

Reducing energy consumption is key to Aspire Defence. New buildings are being fitted with rainwater harvesting systems and we manage the UK’s largest energy and water metering programme, with over 800 buildings being monitored. Each year 4.5 million toilets will be flushed with rainwater collected on site. That’s enough rainwater to fill 10 Olympic size swimming pools.

Considerate Constructors Scheme Annual National Site Awards 2010

Aspire Defence Capital Works (ADCW) were recently honoured with Silver Awards for both Tidworth and Bulford construction sites and a Bronze Award for the Aldershot site.

These national site awards are given to around the highest scoring 7½% of sites from around the UK, which have completed their work during the previous year. The awards recognise sites’ excellent standards of consideration towards their workforce, their neighbours and the environment. Some 580 winners were selected to win a Bronze, Silver or Gold Award from over 7,600 eligible sites.

Considerate Awards

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Annual Awards 2010

Aspire Defence Capital Works (ADCW) has won the South West Regional Award in the Sustainability category with what the judges described as “an exceptional sustainable project”.

The RICS Awards recognise and reward outstanding achievement, and in so doing encourage best practice in the conservation and enhancement of our built and natural environment. ADCW has been recognised for its many sustainable initiatives such as: energy monitoring; green energy systems; water efficiency; rainwater harvesting; sustainable urban drainage; and protection of bats, birds and badgers.

ADCW’s winning entry will now go forward to the RICS International Awards which will be announced in October 2010.

European Risk Awards

Run by Strategic Risk magazine, Aspire Defence Capital Works were finalists in the Enterprise-Wide Risk Programme of the Year category. This category received a record number of entries from across Europe including public sector, transport, pharmaceutical, retail, insurance and construction organisations.

Whilst ADCW did not win the category, it was peer reviewed and considered to be one of the top three enterprise risk management programmes in Europe for 2009. This is an outstanding achievement, especially as it is the only construction organisation to make the shortlist and competed directly with candidates from more risk mature market sectors such as pharmaceutical and public sector organisations.

Construction Industry Awards 2008

Construct Industry Awards

Project Allenby/Connaught scooped the Environmental Leadership Award at the 2008 Construction Industry Awards. Sponsored by Contract Journal the awards recognise outstanding business performance throughout the construction industry - companies who have made a step change in their approach to construction through a product, process, innovation, design solution or project, or combination of these.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Corporate Green Awards 2008

WWT Awards

Aspire Defence was highly commended in the Environmental Impact Award category for its environmental initiatives at the inaugural Corporate Green Awards held in October 2008.

Sponsored by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust the awards recognise companies for making a positive impact on the environment in Wiltshire either by sustainable design or construction of the built environment; management or conservation of the land or environment; or corporate environmental behaviours.

Award for Project Redstart

Aspire Defence Services Limited takes the runner-up position in the Sustainability Project category in the Defence Estates' Sanctuary Awards 2008 with Project Redstart, which raises funds for conservation projects from the sale of bird boxes made from recycled construction wood waste.

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