Award-winners have been announced for this year’s Bath & North East Somerset Council Building Control Awards for Building & Design Quality, sponsored by the Bath Stone Group.
The awards are run annually to promote and reward builders and designers undertaking work within the Bath and North East Somerset area who excel in their achievements.
Cllr Tim Ball (Lid-Dem, Twerton), Cabinet Member for Homes & Planning, said: “This is the fifteenth year we have run the awards and the judges have once again been impressed with the high quality of the entries.
“It is excellent that the Council’s Building Control Section can use this scheme to promote high quality in building construction and design in our area.
“The Building Control team received over 1,100 building regulation applications last year so the winners have done very well to succeed against all the potential competition.
“We would also like to thank the Bath Stone Group once again for kindly sponsoring this year’s awards.”
One of the award winning buildings this year is the new academic building, ‘Commons’ constructed by Skanska for Bath Spa University’s Newton Park campus.
Commons is a world class development which features state-of-the-art teaching and learning spaces as well as the best broadcast ready digital studios and editing suites in the South West. All three floors of the building provide study space, social learning space and bookable group working rooms.
Professor Christina Slade, Vice-Chancellor at Bath Spa University, said: “I am delighted that Commons has won this award. This new building is a significant part of a long-term investment in the student experience at Bath Spa.
“The high quality facilities provided by Commons will help ensure our graduates are well prepared to meet the needs of the growing creative industries as they go on to work across the creative economy, both in the UK and abroad.
The award ceremony will be held on Friday, 13th February in the Banqueting Room of the Guildhall, Bath where Don Foster MP will present the awards which include an inscribed Bath Aqua glass bowl and framed certificate.
