The Royal Institute of British Architects highlighted their support of the offsite industry in 2016, through their partnership with the Offsite Management School, in the publication of the overlay for the Plan of Work, which was created to encourage architects to engage with offsite manufactured solutions using Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) techniques.
The support of RIBA, was a clear indicator of the positive and progressive future of the construction industry by increasingly adopting offsite manufactured technology, with the RIBA describing this as ‘an essential driver for the industry to take the next evolutionary step towards ‘assembly’ rather than ‘construction’.’
Along with the backing of RIBA, the increased media attention surrounding offsite manufacture is a clear indicator of these new offsite technologies gaining traction and becoming less of a niche within the construction industry.
Are you an architect who has utilised offsite manufacture and construction in the past 18months? If so, we want to celebrate your success by encouraging you to enter the 2017 Offsite Construction Awards.
The Offsite Construction Awards in 2017 will be bigger and better than ever – with phenomenal levels of interest. Being shortlisted for an Offsite Construction Award and ultimately winning an award is your chance to significantly enhance the profile of your practise and demonstrate a market-leading position.
Categories within the 2017 Offsite Construction Awards include: Best Use of Concrete, Best Use of Timber, Best Use of Steel, Best Hybrid Construction Project, Best Use of Volumetric Technology, Best Use of MEP Prefabrication, Housing Project of the Year, Commercial/ Retail Project of the Year, Infrastructure Project of the Year, Product Innovation Award, Offsite Professional of the Year and, three new categories for this year; Healthcare Project of the Year, Education Project of the Year and International Project of the Year.
The Awards will celebrate outstanding examples of prefabrication and factory-based methods, products, systems and disciplines that increasingly strive to develop a sustainable, streamlined and cost-effective way to deliver a better built environment.
If you have an outstanding project, innovative product application and/or dynamic people promoting excellence in offsite construction across the UK (and now overseas), then you should be entering the Offsite Construction Awards and receiving the recognition that you deserve.
The reward for well done work is the opportunity to more and by winning an award, or being shortlisted, you will be able to highlight your success in embracing offsite technology to potential clients. All shortlisted projects, products and people will be profiled throughout 2017 via a comprehensive marketing campaign, which includes feature articles in Offsite Magazine, Explore Offsite speaker opportunities and profiling in the Project Gallery of the Offsite Hub.
The entry deadline is 31 March 2017. Entry in to the Offsite Construction Awards is FREE and can be done online by visiting: www.offsiteawards.co.uk – where a user account can be registered. There is no maximum limit on how many projects or categories you can enter. Each category requires only five questions to be answered, plus supporting information and images can be uploaded too.
