TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT The judges
Last year’s winner of the IHEEM Special Award,
Vaishnavi Rudra, on stage at Healthcare Estates 2025.
Tania Davies, chief operating officer, IHEEM
“This is my second year as a judge for the IHEEM Special Award and I am delighted to have the opportunity to engage with so many brilliant more ideas and creative healthcare solutions. The Institute is proud to sponsor this award and I hope it offers as much inspiration and enjoyment to all of our entrants as much as it does to those of us reviewing the projects.”
Steven Heape, program manager, Carbon & Energy Fund
“I’ve been a lifelong engineer, passionate about how engineering projects come together. The Big Bang Competition is a fantastic platform that opens young people’s eyes to the diversity and excitement of engineering. It showcases how many different skills and minds are needed to make big ideas work and I’m proud to be part of that as a judge.”
Mohammud Haji, estates and facilities graduate, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
“I really valued being part of the judging process and seeing firsthand the creativity, innovation and enthusiasm of the students. The competition is a brilliant platform for
Judges remarked on the powerful focus of this year’s students on tackling challenges particularly faced by different demographics and those from a range of sociocultural backgrounds.
young people to showcase their ideas and build confidence in STEM.”
Thomas Bailey, estates officer, NHS Humber Health Partnership
“My role is based at Scunthorpe General Hospital as a mechanical estates officer where I am responsible for the management of our new boiler house. I look forward to seeing all of the competition submissions and what interesting ideas everyone has come up with.”
The finals judging for the IHEEM Special Award is set to take place on 1 May, with the following panel joining Tania Davies in meeting all finalists to learn more about their proposals:
• Paul Fenton MBE, business development director at
IHEEM.
• Karen Blay, associate dean for equity diversity
and inclusion & senior May 2026 Health Estate Journal 17
lecturer in digital construction at the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering at Loughborough University.
• Moein Choudaray, estates graduate engineer with
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The winner of the award will benefit from a grant from the Institute of £5,000 towards further study or professional development, as well as an invitation to speak at IHEEM’s flagship Healthcare Estates Conference and Exhibition later in the year. The winner of the Innovation in Wellbeing and Healthcare Engineering Award will be presented, alongside all other category awards comprising The Big Bang Competition, on the first day of The Big Bang Fair, at the NEC Birmingham on 9 June 2026.
To find out more about The Big Bang Competition and Fair, visit
www.thebigbang.org.uk.
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