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Awarded to a consultancy firm with fewer than 10 employees that has achieved the most impressive overall business performance during 2019.

1. Describe your company’s overall business performance in 2019. Please also reference your performance over the prior three years (or as long as you have this information available), and provide the number of UK based staff, turnover, profitability, and staff turnover figures.

2. Share your company’s specific achievements in the 2019 calendar year, which demonstrate balanced performance against the triple bottom line of people (your staff and wider stakeholders including society), planet (environmental impact of your firm) and profit (sustainable financial business performance).

3. In conclusion, outline why 2019 was such a stand-out year and relate your achievements to past performance or wider industry norms.

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Awarded to an ACE member firm with more than 10 employees but fewer than 250, that has achieved the most impressive overall business performance during 2019.

1. Describe your company’s overall business performance in 2019. Please also reference your performance over the prior three years (or as long as you have this information available), and provide the number of UK based staff, turnover, profitability, and staff turnover figures.

2. Share your company’s specific achievements in the 2019 calendar year, which demonstrate balanced performance against the triple bottom line of people (your staff and wider stakeholders including society), planet (environmental impact of your firm) and profit (sustainable financial business performance).

3. In conclusion, outline why 2019 was such a stand-out year and relate your achievements to past performance or wider industry norms.

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Awarded to an ACE member firm with more than 250 employees that has achieved the most impressive overall business performance during 2019.

1. Describe your company’s overall business performance in 2019. Please also reference your performance over the prior three years (or as long as you have this information available), and provide the number of UK based staff, turnover, profitability, and staff turnover figures.

2. Share your company’s specific achievements in the 2019 calendar year, which demonstrate balanced performance against the triple bottom line of people (your staff and wider stakeholders including society), planet (environmental impact of your firm) and profit (sustainable financial business performance).

3. In conclusion, outline why 2019 was such a stand-out year and relate your achievements to past performance or wider industry norms.

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Awarded to a consultancy firm that has demonstrated the most innovation in supporting clients to better understand and meet the needs of thriving communities.

1. With up to three examples, please explain how your company assesses the economic, environmental and social needs of an area and its unique community.

2. In each example, please describe how your company applied its expertise, tools and utilised data to develop a high-quality design solution for the community. Include how you worked in partnership and engaged with them to achieve the best outcome.

3. Provide evidence of the impact of your placemaking work, describing the immediate and long-term benefits and how they have been measured. This should include a mixture of qualitative and quantitative measures of success.

For more information on strategic planning and placemaking, please refer to our Future of Consultancy strategy which includes case studies.

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Awarded to a project team that has successfully integrated capability from across the supply chain while working in close collaboration with the ultimate asset owner.

Entry is open to multiple organisations acting as an integrated project team but must include at least one consultancy firm.

1. Through examples, please explain how the project team successfully formed a relationship with the asset owner, understood their requirements and the outcomes sought.

2. Describe, with examples, when the project team acted as the project integrator, bringing together a range of disciplines (project controls design, production and construction) to deliver outstanding performance while mitigating risk in the development and delivery of the project.

3. Demonstrate how the project team provided direction and governance in the successful integration of wider project stakeholders, including supply chain management.

4. In conclusion, please summarise why the project team should win this award, supported by qualitative and quantitative measures of success.

For more information on integrated project teams, please refer to our Future of Consultancy strategy which includes case studies. 

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Awarded to a consultancy firm that has demonstrated leadership in digital design – whether an optimisation focused on value, a design simulation for construction, or the creation of digital tools/twins.

1. Through examples, please explain how your company demonstrated leadership in digital design.

2. Supported by qualitative or quantative measures of success, please indicate the positive impact that your digital design delivered for the project.

3. Share what lessons have been/can be applied to other projects.

For more information on digital design, please refer to our Future of Consultancy strategy which includes case studies.

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Awarded to a consultancy firm that has applied data and technology to improve the performance of a client’s existing asset base and/or evaluate the effectiveness of new projects and/or policy decisions.

1. Describe the service you have developed which combines data, expertise and technology, and where this has been successfully applied to deliver value to a client through improved asset performance.

2. Please include qualitative and quantitative evidence of the impact it has had in influencing decision making, through the opening-up of new markets, successfully trialling an innovative technology, or other notable achievements.

3. In conclusion, please summarise why your company provides stands out above the rest in this area.

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Awarded to public or private sector asset operators in the built environment who have demonstrated industry-leading practice in their dealings with consultants and the wider supply chain.

1. Through examples, please describe how your clarity of scope, vision and the outcomes you wished to achieve were communicated across the supply chain.

2. Provide a short description outlining how your collaborative approach and willingness to engage in dialogue with consultants, led to improvements within a project, or from project-to-project.

3. Highlight how your policies, organisational behaviours when it comes to contracting, payment practices and risk management are both fair and transparent and clearly communicated.

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Open to both ACE and EIC members, this award recognises an initiative or technology which has innovatively and effectively helped society move towards its net zero goals.

1. With specific details and examples, please explain which environmental challenges the initiative or technology targeted, and how your company’s work enhanced natural capital or helped society move towards its net zero target.

2. Please demonstrate how the initiative was innovative in achieving this, and how applicable to future projects it could be, through qualitative and quantitative evidence of its actual or potential impact. 

3. Describe how the initiative takes into account future scenarios which might impact on its application, such as climate or technological change.

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Awarded to any consultancy firm to recognise commitment to the continual development of its workforce.

The entry criteria was developed in conjunction with ACE's Emerging Professionals group who will also judge award entries.

1. Describe how your organisation's strategy and policies support staff development, paying particular attention to:

- Clear pathways for career progression with genuine commitment to supporting individuals both inside and outside of work; and
- Agile working both in terms of location and hours.

2. Demonstrate how your organisation has a culture which empowers and enables staff to develop, paying particular attention to:

- Culture and values;
- Recognition for individual achievement; and
- Empowerment of emerging professionals by senior management in seeking development opportunities, both for project responsibility and for training.

3. In conclusion, please demonstrate why your company should win this award. This should be supported by short (fewer than 100 words) testimonials from two different members of staff.

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Recognising a talented 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 2019.

1. Provide a summary of specific projects or initiatives in which you have been involved since January 2019 which demonstrate the range of your achievements and why you should be considered for the award.

2. With reference to named projects, please explain how you have used your technical skills to solve problems and provide better solutions for clients?

3. With reference to the projects shared, please explain how you have demonstrated and developed your management and leadership skills over the last year

4. Finally, please outline how you have contributed to the development of thinking in the industry through involvement in industry groups, company career development activities, or outside interests.

** Important information: Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend face-to-face interviews at the judging panel day (in person in London, or via Skype) on Monday 27 April between 9am-3pm. More details will be shared in due course. **

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Open to an apprentice who has shown outstanding progress and commitment to their own personal development, are progressing on a recognised training scheme with an organisation working in the built and natural environment, and who has made a positive difference to that company.

1. Please provide specific projects or initiatives in which you have been involved which demonstrate the range of your achievements, how you have progressed whilst on your apprenticeship and why you should be considered for award.

2. With reference to named projects, please explain how you have applied your technical skills to develop solutions.

3. Outline how you will inspire others to follow apprenticeships in STEM subjects.

4. In conclusion, please summarise why you believe you should win this award.

** Important information: Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend face-to-face interviews at the judging panel day (in person in London, or via Skype) on Monday 27 April between 9am-3pm. More details will be shared in due course. **

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Entry is open as follows:

Categories 1, 4, 6, 7, 10 – Any consultancy firm.

Categories 2, 3 – ACE member firms only (fully-paid at time of entry).

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

Category 8 – A client organisation nominated by a consultancy firm or firms.

Category 9 – ACE or EIC member firms (fully paid members at the time of entry).

Categories 11 and 12 – please see entry form for details.

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 diagrams specified.

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.