April 23, 20197 yr Has anyone entered any awards with your self-build? Or been entered by anyone else? I do not mean TV; I mean things (picking an example out of the air) like the Brick Awards, run by the Brick Development Association. There are also local awards and the Civic Trust Awards, which are for a "contribution to the built environment". Presumably there are also awards for contributions to ecology etc. What was your experience? Ferdinand
April 23, 20197 yr I've won one: the award for employing the nicest work-experience chappie. I get given pints every time I meet his dad in the pub - yes still - 2 years later! (Here's a link to the series if you are interested)
April 23, 20197 yr @Ferdinand Not personally but through our work as architects we've won a couple inc LABC and Civic Trust awards. I think both of those would be of interest to self-builders. LABC Building Excellence: https://www.labc.co.uk/awards?language_content_entity=en Civic Trust Awards: https://www.civictrustawards.org.uk/
April 28, 20197 yr An architect friend of mine’s build is one of 12 finalists shortlisted for the RIBA awards 2019 He put it forward himself because as a recently self-employed architect it’s a great endorsement of his work but having made the shortlist he’s expected to attend the awards dinner, which is pretty expensive. Not even the winner gets a free pass to that. Awards schemes may be nice, but not always free to take part.
March 13, 20206 yr 35 minutes ago, pocster said: Longest leak ever award .... ffs .... Didn't know you were a gardener. Fair play.
March 13, 20206 yr Not quite but i won a UNESCO - Award of Distinction - built heritage projects over 1million dollars - but it was for a stone walking track I built ! Did take me six years...... but gave me the money to buy my site ! Edited March 13, 20206 yr by Cpd
March 13, 20206 yr 2 hours ago, pocster said: Longest leak ever award .... ffs .... Longest for an item unsold on eBay?
March 13, 20206 yr 1 minute ago, Cpd said: Not quite but i won a UNESCO - Award of Distinction - built heritage projects over 1million dollars - but it was for a stone walking track I built ! Did take me six years...... but gave me the money to buy my site ! You got $1M?
March 13, 20206 yr 1 minute ago, Onoff said: You got $1M? Well no _____ the cost of the project was over one million I was the main contractor. When your using helicopters to bring all your materials in one million + is a tight budget.
March 19, 20206 yr We've been entered by our architects for the RIBA 2020 awards, but all the regional shortlist announcements have been postponed. RIBA are now putting a big emphasis on sustainability for the awards, which is good for us. So finger crossing will be for longer than expected....
March 19, 20206 yr our architect has mentioned that maybe we could think about entering in to awards once the build is finished. I assume from that that he's very happy with the design he came up with (as are we). fingers crossed the planning department like it and we can get it built. then we can think about awards but it's something we hadn't even considered until the architect mentioned it.
March 19, 20206 yr @Thorfun it needs to be occupied and then you have a two year window for the awards. By that time the need for sustainability credentials will really be ramped up - ref the RIBA 2030 challenge.
March 19, 20206 yr 3 hours ago, Eileen said: @Thorfun it needs to be occupied and then you have a two year window for the awards. By that time the need for sustainability credentials will really be ramped up - ref the RIBA 2030 challenge. Thanks. I think our sustainability credentials should be up there, apart from the concrete basement that is! ?♂️
March 20, 20206 yr Author 13 hours ago, Thorfun said: 17 hours ago, Eileen said: @Thorfun it needs to be occupied and then you have a two year window for the awards. By that time the need for sustainability credentials will really be ramped up - ref the RIBA 2030 challenge. Thanks. I think our sustainability credentials should be up there, apart from the concrete basement that is! ?♂️ 12 hours ago, Eileen said: We’ve got a concrete basement too - we couldn’t go up so we had to go down! Make like Hitachi, or .. er .. Albert Speer, you two, and use a 1000 year time horizon in your calculations. Then it is suddenly sustainable. Abracadabra ! Edited March 20, 20206 yr by Ferdinand
March 20, 20206 yr @Ferdinand - coincidentally, 1,000 years is about the same timeline for our energy savings to pay for the project! Edited March 20, 20206 yr by Eileen
March 20, 20206 yr Author 1 hour ago, Eileen said: @Ferdinand - coincidentally, 1,000 years is about the same timeline for our energy savings to pay for the project! Wassail ! Drink Heil (or rather "Drink Ale")! (I won't get a Sieg quip in there and survive Deletion by the Buildhub Cyberman ? ? ?.) Edited March 20, 20206 yr by Ferdinand
June 6, 20206 yr We've now been shortlisted for the RIBA regional awards - so awaiting the jury visit "some time"!
June 11, 20215 yr This was all a long time ago, but we are now one of the 3 "small projects" shortlisted for the Passivhaus 2021 awards, with the shootout being on June 30th. See https://passivhaustrust.org.uk/passivhaus_awards/uk-passivhaus-awards-2021/ We are also finally getting visited by the RIBA jury as they have moved their 2020 awards to 2021.
June 11, 20215 yr I have a yellow stripe for swimming a width of the swimming pool. Think I got a red one for doing a length
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