Outstanding Achievement Awards
The Outstanding Achievement Awards are a still-new type of CEEQUAL Award first created in 2011 to recognise and acknowledge projects that have demonstrated pinnacle best-practice performance in any of the key topic areas of their CEEQUAL Assessment, irrespective of the total score achieved for the overall Award. The first two sets of Awards, in 2011 and 2013, were of Version 4-assessed projects and contracts. To accommodate both Version 4 and version 5-assessed projects and contracts, the next Awards, due to be held in 2016, will be categorised by the 16 topic areas included within the 12 sections of Version 4 and 9 sections of Version 5, and against which the weightings for Version 5 are determined. Why were the Outstanding Achievement Awards formed? |
 2013 Winner of the Ecology & Biodiversity Award – Farringdon Station Redevelopment |
For some time, we at CEEQUAL have been exploring ways to extend the benefits to CEEQUAL Assessment users – and to the CEEQUAL Scheme as a whole – by adding extra Awards to our standard end-of-project or term contract certificates. In particular, CEEQUAL wanted to recognise outstanding achievement in each section of the Assessment question set.
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2016 OAAs
The 2016 OAAs will be held in the Spring of 2016 at a venue in central London. Further details will follow.
We have increased the number of categories that a project/contract can enter nominations. These are:
| Project/Contract Strategy | Flood Risk | Restoration of Contaminated Land |
| Effects on Neighbours, Users & the Workforce | Material Use | Waste Management |
| Land & Sea-Bed Use | Transport | Landscape Issues (Rural Llandscape, Townscape & Seascape |
| Historic Environment | Ecology & Biodiversity | Water Environment (Fresh & Marine) |
| Relation with the Local Community & Other Stakeholders | Energy Consumption & Carbon Emissions | Water Resources |
Any further details, contact CEEQUAL: +44 (0) 333 014 7880 | [email protected])
Nominate your project/contract for an OAA now
Download the form below and return it to [email protected]
2016 Outstanding Achievement Awards application form
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2013 Ceremony
CEEQUAL hosted its second Outstanding Achievement Awards on 11 March 2013, at One Great George Street, London. From a total of 45 applications, 15 projects and contracts received awards – a diverse group of projects and contracts chosen by the judges for their demonstration of genuine excellence:
Click here to view the 2013 Winners and Highly Commended projects/contracts
Eric Hughes Award for Outstanding Contribution to Improving Sustainability in Civil Engineering
Additional to the OAAs, the judging panel created an extra Award for Outstanding Contribution to Improving Sustainability in Civil Engineering. Called the Eric Hughes Award in recognition of the contribution to CEEQUAL by its second Chairman, the first recipients were jointly the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and the Olympic Delivery Authority in recognition of their outstanding achievements at the Olympic Park, London.
CEEQUAL also celebrated at the event its 10th Anniversary since the start of operations, and remains the longest running assessment, rating and awards scheme of its kind.
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2011 Ceremony
The first Outstanding Achievement Awards dinner and presentation took place on 14 March 2011 also at the the home of the Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street. Eight infrastructure and civil engineering projects in the UK were presented with an Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA), with a further three projects picking up a total of nine Highly Commended trophies.
Click here to view the 2011 Outstanding Achievement Awards recipients.
No Awards or commendations were given in two categories - Energy & Carbon, and Transport, due to the nature of the Outstanding Achievement Awards: if no project demonstrates outstanding, pinnacle best-practice performance in one of the sections, then no Award is given. As the Chairman of Judges, professor Paul Jowitt explained, CEEQUAL’s OAAs are not just a ‘best in show’ award.
