Apprentice of the Year
The award invites entries from apprentices at intermediate, advanced, higher and degree level. The 2025 nominees are:
- Jonathan Day — Degree Apprentice, DSSR Consulting Engineers
- Michael Kane — Belfast Health & Social Care Trust Trainee Engineer 2024/25
- Lois Riley — Quantity Surveying Apprentice, Equans UK & Ireland
- Frankie Taylor-Smith — Medical Engineering Apprentice, Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management
Architectural Practice of the Year
This award recognises an architectural practice who have demonstrated outstanding work in the healthcare sector over the last 12 months: May 2024 — 2025. The 2025 nominees are:
- 10architect
- AHR
- Murphy Philipps Architects
Consultancy of the Year
This award recognises a multi-disciplinary consultancy or construction consultants (including building or quantity surveyors and project management companies) who have demonstrated outstanding work in the healthcare sector over the last 12 months: May 2024 — 2025. The 2025 nominees are:
- Capita
- CCL Solutions
- RFL Property Services
Diversity and Inclusion Award
This award recognises the organisation, individual or initiative that has made a genuine difference in equality, diversity and inclusion within the healthcare environment. The 2025 nominees are:
- Vincent Hart — Head of Estates at Broadgreen Hospital, NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group
- Hive Projects
Estates & Facilities Champion of Champions
This award recognises a member of the Estates & Facilities team that has gone above and beyond their job specification to improve the patient environment. The 2025 nominees are:
- Chris Hodgson — Director of Estates & Facilities, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Aidan Shaw & Gerard McCallan — 2 Lifetimes of Service in Healthcare in Belfast
- Michelle Waddicor — Transforming Emergency Care at Stepping Hill Hospital
Estates & Facilities Team of the Year
This award is made to a team working in the healthcare sector who can demonstrate outstanding achievement, performance and delivery of estates and facilities services: May 2024 — 2025. The 2025 nominees are:
- Barnsley Facilities Services — Portering Team
- BHSCT Encompass Enabling Works Programme
- Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust — Estates Department
- Greater Manchester MH NHS Foundation Trust — Capital, Estates and Facilities Team (CEF)
- Mitie & UCLH
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust — Capital Projects Team
Healthcare Supplier of the Year
This award recognises the individual, team, or company that has been supplying an NHS, or private healthcare facility successfully, and reliably over the past 12 months: May 2024 — 2025. The 2025 nominees are:
- Bender UK
- CBRE’s Health Business Unit
- Morris & Spottiswood
- Vital Energi
New Build Project of the Year
This award recognises the project team that has successfully delivered a new build project in the past 12 months: May 2024 — 2025. The 2025 nominees are:
- Hellesdon Rivers Centre
[Client — Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Entry submitted by Murphy Philipps Architects on behalf of Castons, Ingleton Wood, Integrated Health Projects (IHP) — the joint venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine, Hospital Rooms, JP Chick and Partners, Murphy Philipps, Relabond and Sheils Flynn]
- The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital — High Impact National Isolation Unit
[Client — The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin. Entry submitted by Asgard Controlled Environments]
- Midland Metropolitan University Hospital
[Client — Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. Entry submitted by Gleeds, on behalf of Arup, Balfour Beatty, Gleeds, Stride Treglown, WT]
- Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at West Cumberland Hospital
[Client — North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. Entry submitted by DSSR Consulting Engineers, on behalf of Bowker Building Services Engineers, Curtins, DSSR Consulting Engineers, Gilling Dod and GRAHAM]
- Tussac House, Falkland Islands
[Client — Falkland Islands Government (FIG). Entry submitted by ONE Creative Environments (ONE) on behalf of FIG’s Public Works Departments, ONE and RSK Falklands Ltd]
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), Newmarket
[Client & Project Manager — West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WSHFT). Entry submitted by WSHFT on behalf of Artelia Group, Castons, JSH, KLH Architects, Morgan Sindall, Sweco and WSHFT]
Product Innovation of the Year
This award recognises the best new product brought to market within the last 12 months: May 2024 — 2025.
The 2025 nominees are:
- Hygienic waste without water level — Delabie
- Telelift Unicar system for bulk laboratory sample transformation — Quirepace Ltd
- Water Flushing App — Birmingham Community Health Care Estates Team & Zeta Safe
Refurbishment Project of the Year
This award recognises the project team that has successfully delivered a refurbishment project in the past 12 months: May 2024 — 2025. The 2025 nominees are:
- Bigbury Orthopaedic Surgical Suite
[Client — University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. Entry submitted by Stride Treglown]
- Rooftop Outdoor Play Area and Sensory Garden, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
[Client — Manchester Foundation Trust Charity / Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Entry submitted by 10architect]
- The Stonebow Unit, Hereford
[Client — Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. Entry submitted by Galliford Try]
Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year
This award recognises an initiative or programme introduced within a Trust to ensure the wellbeing and mental health of its team. The 2025 nominees are:
- AFL Architects — Wellbeing Garden at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
- Barnsley Facilities Services — ‘Year of People’ Initiative
- The University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) Health and Safety Department — Fire Safety Apprenticeship Initiative Enhancing Staff Wellbeing and Career Development
Sustainable Achievement
This award recognises the organisation, team, or product that has made the best use of innovative technology and sustainable practices to reduce the estates carbon footprint. The 2025 nominees are:
- Equans — Decarbonising Healthcare: Equans’ Scalable Model for Net Zero NHS Estates
- Mitie & UCLH
- North View — Gilling Dod Architects, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust et al.
- Mohammed Sajard — Energy and Sustainability Manager at Barnsley Facilities Services
- Victaulic — Sustainable Pipe Joining Solutions: Reducing embodied carbon in Healthcare Infrastructure