HEALTHCARE ESTATES IHEEM AWARDS 2024
Apprentice of the Year
certificates brought to them, while category winners went up to the stage to collect their awards.
Apprentice of the Year
The evening’s second award, for Apprentice of the Year, is open each year to apprentices at intermediate, advanced, higher, and degree level. To present it, Andy Powell welcomed backed to the stage, Louis Hughes, from category sponsor, TB+A, and IHEEM’s CEO, Pete Sellars. Shortlisted this year were: n Andrew Kellett – Mace. n Angus Morris-Howarth – CBRE. n Kai Phillips – Equans UK & Ireland. n Paul Cadman – Barnsley Facility Services. n Sophie Hall – Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
n Stuart Willing – Mitie. Two of the entrants – Sophie Hall from Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, and Andrew Kellett from Mace, were Highly Commended, but the winner, who received his award from Pete Sellars and Louis Hughes, was Kai Phillips of Equans UK & Ireland. According to the citation, the Mechanical & Electrical Maintenance Apprentice at North Middlesex University Hospital is ‘a leading example of how apprentices are instrumental in helping to foster a culture of continuous learning and development’. The entry added that he had ‘already made great strides in his apprenticeship journey’, having won four Equans Apprentice Awards in the past 12 months.
Architectural Practice of the Year
Sponsored by Air Sentry, the Architectural Practice of the Year Award, presented next, recognises an architectural practice that has demonstrated outstanding work in the healthcare sector over the last 12 months. Nominees this year were:
n AHR. n Gilling Dod Architects. n Medical Architecture. n P+HS Architects. Joining Andy Powell to present the award was managing director of Air Sentry, Andrew Carnegie. Gilling Dod Architects was Highly Commended, but the winner in this category was Medical Architecture. A team from the practice went up to the stage to pick up their award. The citation said: ‘Tackling the challenges around aging infrastructure, Medical Architecture has been working with NHS Trusts to create strategic plans for their estate. This has led to prioritised programmes of refurbishment, new build, and often, the two working together effectively, culminating in the delivery of acute, community, and mental health projects.’
Consultancy of the Year
The evening’s fourth award, for Consultancy of the Year, sponsored by Stephen George + Partners, was presented
Architectural Practice of the Year
by the company’s Studio director, Steve Batson. The award recognises a multidisciplinary consultancy or construction consultant – including building or quantity surveyors and project management specialists, that has demonstrated outstanding work in the healthcare sector over the last 12 months. The shortlist this year included: n Currie and Brown. n Curtins. n EDGE PS. n MultiHealth Specialists. The team from Currie and Brown received a Highly Commended certificate, with the winner announced by Steve Batson as Curtins. Its citation read: ‘For over 60 years, Curtins has been at the forefront of developing new and sustainable engineering solutions, designed to enhance the world around us. We are delivering over £2 bn worth of healthcare projects across the UK and Ireland, working with 50 Trusts and Health Boards, to bring lasting good to the people and communities we serve.’
Diversity & Inclusion Award
Championing diversity and inclusion, and seeking to attract a broad spectrum of people into healthcare engineering and healthcare EFM careers, is one of the central tenets of IHEEM’s current strategy. Accordingly, the annual Healthcare Estates IHEEM Diversity and Inclusion Award, sponsored this year by DRLC and IHEEM, recognises ‘the organisation, individual, or initiative, that has made a genuine difference in equality, diversity, and inclusion within the healthcare sector’. Dr Louise Webb, Director at DRLC, and Gareth Longley, Business Development Manager at Sircle UK, and Chair of IHEEM’s Diversity & Inclusion Working Group, took to the stage to present this award, with Andy Powell first showing the shortlisted entrants on screen as: n Amy Francis-Smith, Pinnegar Hayward Design. n Shahid Dosa, Ready2Work by Mitie. n ‘Through Their Eyes’ – Human Conscious Design Virtual Reality Platform (HCDP) by Tarkett.
The winner was Amy Francis-Smith, a ‘multi-award winning’ Senior Architect at Pinnegar Hayward Design, an Accessible Design Specialist, and the outgoing Vice- President of the Birmingham Architectural Association. The practice’s Healthcare project lead and Design Council expert, she advises on policy, design, and campaigns, for legislative change to improve the lives of disabled people. She is also a twice-published RIBA author, a ‘RIBAJ Rising Star’, and ranked number 6 on Shaw Trust’s Power 100 list of the UK’s most influential disabled people.
Estates & Facilities Champion of Champions Award
Asha Devi, a Director at Arup, and Nigel Keery from IHEEM, next presented the Estates & Facilities Champion of Champions Award, sponsored by Arup, which recognises an estates and facilities professional ‘that has gone above and beyond to improve the patient environment’. This year
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