6 JUNE 2019
Royal Lancaster Hotel, London

This award is made to an ACE member firm with less than 10 employees that is judged to have achieved the most impressive overall business performance during 2018.

This award is made to an ACE member firm, with more than 10 employees but less than 250, that is judged to have achieved the most impressive overall business performance during 2018. 

This award is given to an ACE member firm, with more than 250 staff, that is judged to have achieved the most impressive overall business performance during 2018.

This award is given to an ACE member firm that is judged to have demonstrated the most innovative and integrated use of Placemaking principles during 2018.

This award is given to a project team that is judged to have best demonstrated the principle of the integrator function to support their clients in delivering their project. 

This award is extremely wide-ranging and is being given to acknowledge outstanding achievement in technology applied to an organisation working in the build and natural environment. It will recognise exceptional achievement by a company, and that achievement could encompass a major contract or the opening up of a new market within the consultancy and engineering sector, outstanding financial success or other notable achievements.

This award is given to a firm that is judged to have demonstrated best practice in the design and simulation of project materials with off-site manufacturing partners.

This award recognises an initiative or technology which has most innovatively and effectively delivered environmental value to society.

Open to Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) and Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) member firms.

This award is open to an organisation working in the natural and built environment to reward their investment in training and commitment to the continual development of their workforce. The initiative entered must have a clear aim and positive, measurable outcomes and demonstrable impact on the staff involved, the business, and either clients or the industry.

This award is open to all Private Sector asset operators in the built environment who have shown exemplar qualities in their dealings with their consultants and supply chain. Clients can be acknowledged for a variety of commendable policies:  clarity in their project briefings, proactive collaboration processes,  prompt payment, etc...

This award is open to all Public Sector asset operators in the built environment who have shown exemplar qualities in their dealings with their consultants and supply chain. Clients can be acknowledged for a variety of commendable policies:  clarity in their project briefings, proactive collaboration processes, prompt payment, etc...

This award is open to an apprentice who has shown outstanding progress and commitment to their own personal development, and their progression on a recognised learning scheme with an organisation working in the built and natural environment and have made a positive difference to that company.

This award will recognise and reward a talented professional individual working in consultancy or engineering in the natural and built environment, who has played a significant role in the design, delivery, maintenance or management of a project or projects throughout 2018.

Entry is open to the awards categories as follows:

• Categories 1 to 3 – ACE member firms (fully paid members at the time of entry)

• Category 4 – any consultancy firms

• Category 5 – a group of organisations acting as an integrated project team (including at least one consultancy firm)

• Categories 6 and 7 – any consultancy firm

• Category 8 – ACE or EIC member firms (fully paid members at the time of entry)

• Category 9 – any consultancy firm

• Categories 10 and 11 – a client organisation nominated by a consultancy firm or firms

• Categories 12 and 13 – see entry form
  
  

Award rules:

1. Entrants must stay within the word counts stated in each section of the entry criteria

2. Up to five images or diagrams may be included to support each entry. Entrants should ensure that the material provided is suitable for black and white photocopying, as judges will make their assessment on the basis of b/w copies. Entries must not exceed the maximum number of supporting images or diagram specified and must be minimum 300 DPI.

3. The judges have absolute discretion and without recourse against them to reject any entry which does not comply with the requirements of the rules.

4. The judges’ decision is final and binding and no discussion or correspondence regarding the decision will be entered into.

5. By making an entry, the entrant assigns to ACE the right to publish the entry. Without seeking further permission, ACE may publish the entire entry or an edited version, at all times honouring confidentiality of specified information, and assign their publication rights to a third party.