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Enniskillen’s Erne Earns RICS Awards Grand Final
The UK’s most outstanding recent building projects went head-to-head for top national accolades at the RICS Awards Grand Final, where the Erne Campus of South West College in Enniskillen, Fermanagh, won the RICS UK Project of the Year title.
Erne Campus is the world’s first educational building to achieve the highest international standard in environmental construction,
Positive impact
The prestigious annual contest – hosted by Helen Fospero, journalist and broadcaster, and held at the The Londoner Hotel, Leicester Square, on Friday 21 October – celebrates the UK’s most inspirational built projects that are having a significant positive impact on the communities they serve.
Category winners of all sizes and budgets from each of the 12 regional RICS Awards competed in the Grand Final for the chance to win their respective category. Four new national categories were introduced at this year’s awards; Infrastructure Team of the Year, Environmental Impact, Outstanding Large and Small surveying firm/team. 10 category winners were announced as well as the overall winner and the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Two wins
Erne Campus at South West College won this year’s UK Project of the year title, as well as winning the Public Sector Project category.
Nominated by Hamilton Architects, Erne Campus, which was completed earlier this year, was chosen by the judges as the overall winner based on its impressive sustainability credentials which will see it yielding an anticipated 90% reduction in energy costs for the college.
BREEAM
Accommodating 800 full-time students, 2,000 part-time students and 120 staff, the campus is one of the world’s most sustainable educational buildings, having secured both PassivHaus Premium and BREEAM Outstanding accreditations.
“The vision and subsequent delivery of the Erne Campus is a fascinating story in itself. Suffice to say that given local, regional, national and international difficulties over the development period it got built as a result of strong, local and later regional support.”
– Judges
Project of the Year, RICS UK
At 8,000sq.m and representing an investment of £34m, the project has been recognised as one of 26 UN Centres of Excellence for High Performance Buildings, ranking alongside the Apple 2 campus in California.
Social value
“More importantly for our awards, it represents an exemplar of how despite many obstacles that it needed to overcome, the project also scores highly in the social value,” added the judges in their comments. “Not only has it generated a centre for excellence for local students of the built environment as a core curriculum subject, it has also raised the profile and the pride in all its inhabitants and neighbours in an area that has suffered much in recent times.”
The winners of the ten national RICS Awards are:
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Commercial Development Project – Hylo, London.
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Community Benefit Project – The Wilds, Barking Riverside, London.
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Environmental Impact Award – St Sidwell’s Point, Exeter.
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Heritage Project – Seaton Delaval Hall, Whitley Bay.
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Infrastructure Team of the Year – North West Multi Modal Transport Hub Project Team, Northern Ireland.
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Outstanding Large Surveying Firm Team - Investors and Insurers Team, Arcadis Lenders.
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Outstanding Small Surveying Firm/Team - Modus Construction Consultants Ltd.
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Public Sector Project - Erne Campus, South West College, Northern Ireland.
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Refurbishment/Revitalisation Project - Buxton Crescent Hotel and Thermal Spa Project, East Midlands.
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Residential Project - Perry Barr Regeneration Scheme, West Midlands.
Picture: The Erne Campus in county Fermanagh has won the RICS UK Project of the Year title.
Article written by Cathryn Ellis
06th November 2022