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| 2009 Structural Steel Design Awards winners announced Wimbledon's striking Centre Court redevelopment is one of five Award winning entries in this year's Structural Steel Design Awards, which were announced at a special ceremony at London's Science Museum. The four other new structures that the judges felt equally worthy to stand alongside the celebrated new Centre Court closing roof are the Cabot Circus Roof in Bristol, the Oxford University Biochemistry Building, Kew Garden's innovative Xstrata Aerial Walkway, and Castleford Footbridge in Yorkshire. The awards are now into their fifth decade, recognising the excellence achievable in structural and architectural design with the use of steel. Judges selected the Award winning entries from a shortlist of 22, all of which scored highly in efficiency, cost effectiveness, aesthetics, sustainability and innovation. Commendations were awarded to six structures; the Ryanair Maintenance and Training Hangar at Stansted airport; No 2 Spinningfields Square, Manchester; the new academic building at the London School of Economics and Political Science; 201 Bishopsgate and the Broadgate Tower in the City of London; Cabot Circus Footbridge at Bristol's Broadmead development; and the A2/A282 Dartford Improvement Scheme in Kent. Certificates of Merit went to the Weather Room at Monken Hadley; Hafod Eryri at Snowdonia National Park; Unilever House, Leatherhead; and Lakeside Energy from Waste Plant at Colnbrook. The 2009 Award Winners are: Cabot Circus Roof, Broadmead, Bristol; Oxford University Biochemistry Building; Xstrata Aerial Walkway, Kew; Castleford Footbridge; Wimbledon Centre Court Redevelopment, London. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |