Our awards

North West Regional Structural Awards 2011

• Winner: Best Medium Project: ‘The Point’ Hospitality and Events facility at LCCC Old Trafford (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)

ICE Thames Valley Engineering Excellence Awards 2011

• Winner: Engineering Excellence Award:  The M4 Junction 11 and Mereoak Improvement Scheme 

Purple Apple Award

•  Winner: Merit - Community Relations category : World Cup Man Creche & Health Campaign

British Safety Council 2011

• Winner: International Safety Award with Merit

NCE / ACE Consultants of the Year Awards 2011

• Finalist: Major Consultant of the Year 

BALI National Landscape Awards.

• Winner:  ‘Land Renewal and Regeneration Scheme’:  Barrow Waterfront project
• Winner:  ‘Hard Landscaping Construction (Cost between £300,000 and £1.5m)’ category: Witton Country Park project

Olympic Development Authority Annual Quality Excellence Award

• Winner: 'Excellence Award': Lot 1 Contract

NCE International Tunnelling Awards

RICS Awards.

• Winner: ‘Community Benefit’: The Scala Cinema and Arts Centre 

Salford Good Design Awards

• Winner: ‘Best Building, Public Sector’ award: Willow Tree Primary School

UK Housing Awards 2010

• Winner: ‘Regenerating Communities’ category: John Pounds Community Centre

• Winner: Best Practice Award: M25 Bell Common Tunnel refurbishment project
• Winner: Small Civil Engineering Project (up to £3m): Temporary Workington Bridge

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Award

• Winner: Brunel Medal: Temporary Workington Bridge

National Rail Awards

• Winner: Civil Engineering Achievement of the Year: King's Cross Northern Ticket Hall

Crossrail Health & Safety Award

• Winner: Capita Symonds C156 contract for North Woolwich and Plumstead portals

Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) 2010 National Awards

• Highly Commended ‘Environmental’ category: Coldra Roundabout, South Wales

• Winner 'Engineering Excellence' West Berkshire Waste Site Remediation and Enabling Works scheme

LABC South West Awards 2010

• Finalist ‘Best Educational Development': Mayflower Community School

BCSE Awards 2010

• Highly Commended ‘Best Outdoor Learning Environment’: Mayflower Community School

ICE East of England Merit Awards 2010

• Winner 'Physical Achievement > £2.5m' Award: M25 Bell Common Tunnel

Construction News Quality Awards 2010

• Winner '‘Best Project Over £50m’’ Award: Northern Ticket Hall at King’s Cross St. Pancras
• Finalist ‘Best Project Under £10m’ Award: Riverside Community Sports Pavilion, Peterborough

British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) AGM Awards 2010

• Winner 'Rising FM of the Year 2010’ Award: Tony Ashworth, NB Real Estate
• Winner ‘Best BIFM Region’ Award: BIFM London Region Committee (Saltren Rogers, NB Real Estate) 

North West Regional Construction Awards 2010

• Winner 'Best Practice' Award: M6 extension, Carlisle to Guards Mill (Capita Symonds, Carillion, Highways Agency)
• Winner 'Business' Award: M6 extension, Carlisle to Guards Mill (Capita Symonds, Carillion, Highways Agency)

CLAW (Consortium of Local Authorities in Wales) Awards 2010

• Winner 'Sustainability' category: Ysgol y Graig Primary School, North Wales (Capita Symonds provided structural and geotechnical engineering and landscape architecture services)

Evening Standard Homes Awards 2010

• Winner: 'Best New Development in the Affordable Homes Sector' category: Mastmaker Road, Canary Wharf, East London (Capita Lovejoy designed public and public realm spaces)

ICE Wales Awards 2010

• Winner: George Gibby Award for ‘Outstanding Civil Engineering Project’: Llandysul Bypass, West Wales

RIBA Awards 2010

• Winner: Downe Hospital, Downpatrick

AJ100 Awards 2010

• Winner 'South West Regional Award': Capita Architecture

Public Private Finance Awards 2010

• Winner: 'Education Award': Nottingham BSF (Capita Symonds providing strategic partnering, educational, building design and architectural services to inspiredspaces consortium)
• Winner: 'Projects Grand Prix': Nottingham BSF (Capita Symonds providing strategic partnering, educational, building design and architectural services to inspiredspaces consortium)

RICS South East Awards 2010

• Winner 'Regeneration Award': John Pounds Regeneration Scheme, Portsmouth 

RICS North West Awards 2010

• Winner 'Design & Innovation Award':  BAE Systems Reception Building, Samlesbury
• Commended 'Design & Innovation Award':  #1 The Avenue, Spinningfields, Manchester

ICE Robert Stephenson Awards 2010

• Highly Commended 'Over £2m' category: Haydon Bridge Bypass project

ACE Engineering Excellence Awards 2010

• Highly Commended 'Infrastructure (Large Firm) Award': M25 Bell Common Refurbishment

Building Awards 2010

• Finalist 'Engineering Consultant of the Year'

Crossrail Health & Safety Award

• Winner: Capita Symonds (currently undertaking the detailed design of tunnel portals at North Woolwich, Plumstead and Royal Oak)

National Outdoor Events Association (NOEA) Tribute Awards

• Winner ''Best Practice Award': Lambeth Country Show (in conjunction with Lambeth Borough Council)

RTPI Planning Awards 2009

• Winner 'Arts, Sport and Culture Award': Dorney Rowing Lake, Eton (Capita Lovejoy - landscape design and planning)

The Event Services Association (TESA) Awards 2009

• Winner: 'Event Industry Award': Richard Limb, Capita Symonds

PfS Excellence in BSF Awards 2009

• 'Education for All' Award: Lancashire County Council for Pendle Vale College and Pendle High School (Capita Symonds - multidisciplinary design and management services as part of the Catalyst Lend Lease consortium)
• 'Community Hub' Award: Catalyst Lend Lease for Burnley Campus, Lancashire (Capita Symonds - multidisciplinary design and management services as part of the Catalyst Lend Lease consortium)
• 'Local Education Partnership of the Year' Award: inspiredspaces Nottingham Ltd (Capita Symonds providing strategic partnering, educational, building design and architectural services to inspiredspaces consortium)

Europe & Africa Property Awards 2009 (part of International Property Awards 2009)

• Winner: 'Best Marina Development in Cape Verde' – Murdeira Marina Village, Calheta Bay, Sal
• Winner 'Best Development in Cape Verde' – Boathouse, Baia Das Gatas, Sao Vicente
• Winner: 'Best Architecture in Cape Verde' – Murdeira Marina Village, Calheta Bay, Sal
• Winner: 'Best Single Unit in Cape Verde' – Detached Villas at Murdeira Marina Village, Calheta Bay, Sal
• (Capita Lovejoy - landscape masterplanning and scheme design on all projects)

RTPI South Eastern Region Planning Awards 2009

• Winner 'Arts, Sports & Leisure' category: Dorney Rowing Lake, Eton (Capita Lovejoy - landscape design and planning)

BCIA Awards 2009

• Highly Commended: 'Best Practice Award': M6 Carlisle to Guardsmill Extension (Capita Symonds - Principal Designer)

BCO Awards 2009

• Regional Winner: Commercial (North of England, North Wales and Northern Ireland): 3 Hardman Street, Spinningfields, Manchester (Capita Symonds - Structural Engineer)

ECCS European Steel Design Awards 2009

• Winner: Wimbledon Centre Court, London (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)

Leading European Architects Forum (LEAF) Awards 2009

• Winner 'Best Sustainable Development Award': Blue Planet, Chatterley Valley (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)

IStructE North West Regional Structural Awards 2009

• Winner: 'Medium Project' category: #1 The Avenue, Spinningfields, Manchester (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)

RICS Wales Awards 2009:

• Winner: 'Project of the Year' category: Ebbw Valley Railway

BCO Awards 2009: London & South East Region

• Winner: ‘Corporate Workplace’ category: One Wood Street, London for Eversheds (Capita Symonds – cost and project manager)

BCSA Structural Steel Design Awards 2009

• Winner: Wimbledon Centre Court, London (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)
• Commendation: #2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester (Capita Symonds - structural engineer)
• Commendation: Ryanair Maintenance and Training Hangar, Stansted Airport (Capita Architecture)

Architects Journal: AJ100 Awards 2009

• Winner 'South West Regional Awards' category: Capita Architecture Bristol and Plymouth offices

Excellence Wales Awards 2009

• Winner ‘Sub-Regional Collaboration’ category: Capita Symonds, Glamorgan (with Rhonda Cynon Taff, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Councils)

Building Awards 2009

• Finalist ‘Construction / Project Management Firm of the Year’

Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Cardiff Excellence Awards

• Winner‘Large Commercial’ category: BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

Local Authority Building Control (LABC) West Midlands Excellence Awards 2009

• Winner‘Apartments’ category: Hemisphere, Birmingham

Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards 2009

• Commended ‘Infrastructure’ category: Ebbw Valley Railway
• Commended ‘Planning Consultancy of the Year’ category: Urban Vision

Manchester City Council Built in Quality Awards 2009

• Winner ‘Built in Quality’ Award: 2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester
• Winner ‘Technical Innovation’ Award: 2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester (Capita Symonds: structural, civil and geo-environmental engineer)

ICE North West Regional Awards 2009

• Highly Commended ‘Merit Award’ category: 2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester

Highways Agency Major Awards 2009

• Winners ‘Cost’, ‘Target Zero’ & ‘Road Safety’ categories: M6 Carlisle to Guards Mill (with Carillion)

• Winner ‘Best Commercial Project’ category: Wembley National Stadium
• Winner ‘Supreme Winner Gold Award’: Wembley National Stadium

Contract Journal Construction Industry Awards 2008

• Winner ‘Environmental Leadership’ category – Aspire Defence (Capita Lovejoy providing landscape design and planning)
• Finalist ‘Consultancy of the Year’

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Flower Show

• Gold Medal ‘Show Garden’ category: Urban Vision ‘East meets West’, Tatton Park

Constructing Excellence Awards (London & South East Region)

• Winner – ‘Project of the Year’: A9 Project
• Highly Commended - ‘Innovation’ Award: A9 Project

RICS Awards 2008

• Commended ‘Building Conservation’ category: Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow

RICS Scotland Awards 2008

• Winner - ‘Building Conservation Award’: Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow

RICS Wales Awards 2008

• Winner – ‘Regeneration Award’: Blackwood Interchange

ICE Wales Awards 2008

• Winner - ‘Roy Edwards (Civil Engineering) Award’: Blackwood Interchange

Institution of Highways & Transportation (IHT) Awards 2008

• Winner – ‘Young Professional of the Year’: Graeme Wheelhouse, Kendal

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Wales Transport Awards 2008

• Winner - ‘People Development’ Category: Transport Skills Development Group, Capita Symonds Cwmbran

Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Awards 2008

• Winner - ‘Public/Private Partnership of the Year’: Salford Construction Partnership (Urban Vision / Salford City Council)

British Association of Communicators in Business (CiB) Awards 2008

• Winner ‘Film’ Category - ‘Missing Matthew’ Road Safety DVD

Sustainable City Awards 2008

• Highly Commended - Sustainable Building category - Academy of St Francis of Assisi, Liverpool

• Major Consultant of the Year 2006

British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA) 2006

• Winner ‘Civil Engineering’ category – The Paddington Bridge Project

Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards 2006

• Winner Improved Public Education category - Mosque Marshalling Scheme, Blackburn

Public Private Finance Awards 2006

• Judges’ Award for Innovation: Argyll & Bute Schools project. (Capita Symonds - Technical Advisor)

Evening Standard Homes & Property Awards 2006

• Winner 'Best Apartment' category
• Highly Commended 'Best Conversion' category - Orwell Studios, Oxford Street, London

RICS South East Region Awards

• Community Benefit for the John Pounds Centre, Portsmouth

Blackburn Civic Pride Awards 2006

• Winner: Refurbishment Project: The Pavilions, Church Street, Blackburn
• Winner: Landscape Project: Barbara Castle Way Extension, Blackburn
• Highly Commended: Fleming Square
• Joint Winner: Public Art Project: Beehive Roundabout and Town Hall Street Gates, Blackburn
• Highly Commended: 'Transitions', Church Street, Blackburn

Highways Magazine Excellence Awards 2006

• Winner: ‘Urban Traffic Scheme of the Year’ -Poulton Homezone

FX Magazine International Interior Design Award

• Winner -‘Best entertainment or leisure venue’ category – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

EAST Awards

• Highly Commended ‘Environmental and Sustainable Management’ category

Institute for Transport Studies (ITS)

• Transport Planner of the Year - Chris Gent

• Winner – ‘Structural’ Category: Marlowe Academy, Ramsgate

British Constructional Steel Association (BCSA) Awards 2007

• Winner - Sheppey Crossing, Isle of Sheppey

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Regional Award

• Winner - A249 DBFO Project

Building Exchange (BEX) Awards 2007, Valencia

• Winner – ‘Antony Hunt Award for the Most Promising Engineer’: Richard Peers
• 2nd Place - Project Collaboration category: Paddington Bridge Project, London
• Highly Commended – ‘Sustainability’ category: Academy of St Francis of Assisi, Liverpool
• Winner - Best Overall Project: Paddington Bridge Project

Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Clancy Prize 2007

• Winner - Andrew Hallum, Capita Symonds

Highways Agency Award

• Winner - M25 Junction 25 Improvement and Holmesdale Tunnel Refurbishment Scheme (for safe hours worked – 1.7m hours)
• Zero Target Award - A428 Caxton Common to Hardwick Improvement scheme (for completion without serious injury to road workers)
• Best Project award - A428 Caxton Common to Hardwick Improvement scheme (for excellent local safety initiatives and ‘Design for Maintenance’ concept)

CLAW (Consortium Local Authorities Wales) Building of the Year Award

• Winner - Blackwood Interchange, Blackwood, S Wales

• Sustainable Building of the Year – OpTIC Technium, St Asaph

National Eisteddfod of Wales 2005

• Gold Medal for Architecture - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

RICS Wales Award 2005

• Winner Sustainability category – OpTIC Technium, St Asaph
• Winner Regeneration category - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

RICS South West Region Award 2005

• Regeneration category - Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), Tremough

RIBA Award 2005

• Winner - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

MIPIM Awards 2005

• Winner ‘Hotels & Tourism’ category - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff