Awards
We are very proud of the established track record we hold. Nearly 50 years of delivering building projects has translated into many success stories. This is never more apparent than when our work is recognised by the construction industry and beyond, through winning awards.
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- BCI Awards 2008
The Young Vic won the BCI Building Award (Haworth Tompkins architects); the Royal Festival Hall won the Conservation Award (Allies + Morrison) and the Royal Hall Harrogate (Burrell Foley Fischer) the Conservation High Commmendation.Link: The BCI Awards …
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- BCO Innovation Award 2006 - Heelis, National Trust Hq, Swindon
The British Council for Offices have awarded their innovation prize for 2006 to Heelis, National Trust Hq, Swindon. Describing the scheme as 'blessed with a most ingenious and successful strategy for naturally ventilating and cooling the building'. The Judging Panel visited on what was one of the hottest days of the year and 'it was clear the strategy was a proven success'.For more on the award please use the link below.Link: British Council for Offices website…
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- Better Public Building Award - City of London Academy
City of London Academy, has won the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award for 2006. The comprehensive school in Bermondsey, designed by architects Studio E and with services by Max Fordham LLP, beat off strong competition from 13 other shortlisted schemes to clinch the prestigious prize.Now in its sixth year, this annual award is jointly sponsored by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). Unlike the Stirling…
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- Building magazine's Good Employer Guide 2008
Max Fordham LLP was rated among the best employers in a survey of 30,000 building industry staff conducted for Building magazine's Good Employer Guide.According to Building's Good Employer Guide, Max Fordham were 'the outstanding consulting engineers' in the survey.'Max Fordham was also the only firm to give women a significant representation at the top level, with 18 female equity partners out of 156 staff'.Link: Building Magazine …
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- Civic Trust Awards Commendation 2006 - 241, The Broadway
This office development used an existing building and an adjoining unused site. The form of the new extension, a two-level design studio housing 60 staff, evolved from the need to provide high levels of internal daylight while maintaining neighbours’ privacy. The building is highly insulated and includes a number of low-energy features. Fresh air is supplied to the space at low level via a series of clay pipes buried beneath the building. By coupling these pipes to the ground, fresh air is…
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- Civic Trust Awards Commendation 2006 - Hackney Empire
The redevelopment of Frank Matcham’s Grade ll* listed theatre included the provision of an orchestra pit, backstage facilities, disabled access, refurbished dressing rooms, education workspace and improvements to front-of-house, support and social facilities. A new air handling plantroom on the roof recirculates some extract air to reduce energy. To preserve the opulent interior decoration, the services design made use of existing fortuitous voids for distribution routes.Tim Ronalds…
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- Crown Estate Conservation Award 2005 - Isokon Flats, London
The Isokon (Isometric Unit Construction), a 1934 Grade l listed modernist block of flats designed by Wells Coates, has been restored for Notting Hill Home Ownership to provide 25 shared ownership flats for key workers and 11 for private sale. The flats are 25m2 with listed interiors, and careful negotiation with statutory authorities and manufacturers was required to permit discreet modern services installations. Measures to satisfy aesthetic and planning considerations include the use of novel…
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- Project of the Year, QICA 2006 - City of London Academy
The winning entry in a competition to design a £22 million school for Southwark. A publicly funded, independent school for 1,200 pupils of all abilities, it is also intended to aid regeneration of the area. Facilities include a sports hall, all-weather pitch, hard-surface play area and tennis courts. The brownfield site offered a considerable challenge to the design team: it is long and narrow with changing levels and divided by a bridge. The four-storey building snakes along the site,…
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- RIBA Awards 2008
Two Max Fordham LLP projects have won 2008 RIBA National Awards: the Royal Festival Hall (with Allies + Morrison architects) and the North Wall Arts Centre, St Edward's School, Oxford (with Haworth Tompkins)Link: RIBA Awards 2008…
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- RIBA Sustainability Award 2006 - Heelis, National Trust Hq
In many ways this is the most straightforward of the four schemes shortlisted for the RIBA Sustainability Award, but it is also the project with the most transferable lessons. It is primarily the most basic of building types – a developer-built office block (The National Trust then leases the building.) That it can then raise the sustainable stakes as high as it does is the real achievement. It is built by a developer at standard Class A costs, with the additional costs for the sustainable…
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- RICS Regional Sustainability Award 2005 - Beaufort Court
A picturesque former egg farm was developed as energy-integrated offices and a visitors centre for Renewable Energy Systems Ltd. The main building was renovated and extended, and a new building constructed to house elements of the integrated energy system. Surrounding agricultural land is used for the energy crop miscanthus to fuel a biomass boiler. Electricity is generated on site from a wind turbine and PV array. Due to the need to seal the building against noise, natural ventilation was not…
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- Sustainable City-Adapting to and Mitigating Climate Change Award
MFLLP won the winning place at the Sustainable City Awards in the "Tackling Climate Change" category.We won the category for our work on CSR & Zero Carbon Rotunda.The judges were particularly impressed by our monitoring and analysis, and consequent changes in behaviour (they also liked the attention paid down to the level of detail of changing our milk supply in the London office from plastic pint bottles to using local milkman to deliver re-usable glass milk bottles instead).Link:…
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- Sustainable Engineer of the Year Award 2008
MF's Bill Watts and Adam Ritchie receive the practice's Sustainable Engineer of the Year Award 2008 from Building editor Denise Chevin at a ceremony in London on 18th November.The awards are an industry leading event which aims to set the benchmark for environmental excellence in the built environment. Chairman of judges Guy Battle described the awards:“We aim to cut through greenwash and show which companies are serious about sustainability”.The other contenders for the…
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- The Queen's Award for Enterprise 2004
Max Fordham LLP has won the UK’s most prestigious business award, the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in the category of Sustainable Development. The Award confirms the practice’s reputation as leading environmental and building services engineers who are at the forefront of the promotion of sustainability in the construction industry.It is the practice aim that services should be integral with the building design and that buildings should make as little environmental impact as…
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- The CIBSE Low Carbon Performance Awards 2010 - The City Academy, Hackney
The City Academy, Hackney has won New Build Project of the Year.Tom Bentham; the Project Engineer, accepted the CIBSE award at a ceremony in London on 3rd February.The practice was also a runner-up in the Consultancy of the Year category.CIBSE President Mike Simpson said: "CIBSE believes that changing buildings and cities is the first and fastest step to a less carbon intensive world. All the engineers, contractors, facilities and energy managers recognised here tonight are united in their…