ProCon Awards Showcasing the best in across 2018 Leicestershire & Rutland

A Leicester Mercury special publication 2 LEICESTER MERCURY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 @leicslive facebook.com/leicestermercury TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 LEICESTER MERCURY 3 PROCON AWARDS 2018

The finalists The Small Residential Scheme Birkett House SEN School, of the Year, sponsored by Wigston, , A&G Showcase of Benefits of ProCon membership Galliford Try Partnerships: Architects and BSP Consulting; The Oaks, Rothley, HSSP Mountsorrel Memorial Centre, Architects; Mountsorrel, Stepnell; roCon is about much more The Shah House, Stoughton, Steris, Watermead, Leicester, than its annual awards. The Corporate Architecture; Stephen George + Partners organisation’s members are The Walnuts, Tilton on the Hill, the invited to a programme of events Peter Wilmot Architects The Regeneration Project of very best each year to learn about new the Year, sponsored by Pdevelopments in property and construc- The Large Residential Scheme Homes: tion in Leicestershire and beyond. of the Year, sponsored by Redevelopment of the former The ProCon website is a great platform Galliford Try Partnerships: Leicester City Council site, New Chevron Court, Leicester, GWH Walk, Leicester, MDA Consulting; for networking, making new contacts and Architects; The Knight & Garter, Leicester, talent in world publicising projects. The Emerging Talent Princess Road East, Leicester, Fusion Electrics; group, launched in 2017, is for young pro- Stepnell; Winstanley House, Leicester, fessionals working in property and con- Waterside Court, Loughborough, MAS Architecture struction roles. brp architects ProCon members can attend the events The Infrastructure Project of for free and bring a guest with them. The Small Non-Residential the Year, sponsored by Pochin: of construction Events in 2018 have so far included: Scheme of the Year, sponsored Charter Street Footbridge, ■ Emerging Talent Walking Tour of by Infrastructure Investments: Leicester, Danaher & Walsh and HE best new, refurbished Rutland will find out on Thursday if Leicester Get Busy Living Centre, Leicester City Council; Burrough on the Hill, Willmott New Lubbesthorpe Sustainable and extended buildings they have won a coveted award. Members were invited to a guided tour of Dixon, MDA Consulting, Urban Extension, Mather Jamie; and the infrastructure More than 620 people will gather famous city landmarks, led by Michael Corporate Architecture, Salus, SuDS at Birkett House SEN around them are in the at Leicester’s King Power Stadium Taylor, former senior building conserva- BSP Consulting, Couch Perry School, BSP Consulting running to be named for the ceremony – the tickets for tion officer at Leicester City Council and Wilkes, CPMG Architects and Twinners in the 2018 ProCon which sold out in less than a minute the author of The Quality of Leicester. Derry Building Services; Leicestershire Awards. when they went on sale in April. The tour started at St nicholas Church New Chimpanzee Eden, The photographers whose Five photographs by two Three corporate sponsors are and took in Jewry Wall, Leicester Castle, Twycross Zoo, MDA Consulting; images are finalists in the photographers are also competing backing the Awards. They are Salus Market Square and the Cathedral. Thrussington Primary School Architectural Image of the in the category for the best Approved Inspectors, Unique ■ Leicester Waterside - New Teaching Block, YMD Year, sponsored by Sturgis Architectural Image of the Year. Window Systems and Countryside ProCon members were welcomed to Fri- Boon Snow and Astill, are: Christopher Terry, Christopher They and the developers, Partnerships East Midlands. The ars Mill to learn about the current and The Large Non-Residential Terry Photography; Jerry architects, contractors and Leicester Mercury is the Awards’ future regeneration on the banks of the ProCon Patrons Scheme of the Year, sponsored Wesley, Jerry Wesley consultants who worked on the media partner. During the event, river Soar and Grand Union Canal. by Infrastructure Investments: Photography projects in Leicestershire and money will be raised for the charity Keepmoat Homes and Charles Brain Tumour Research, in memory Street Buildings described their of Michael Smith who worked at waterside projects delivering new Lambert Smith Hampton and died homes, shops, hotels and work- in 2015 aged 27 from an aggressive places. brain tumour. ■ ProCon Awards 2018 Finalist Hosting the awards ceremony is Showcase the stand-up comedian and actor The finalists in the 2018 ProCon Hal Cruttenden, who has Leicestershire property and con- appeared on Live at the Apollo struction awards were showcased and The Royal Variety These awards celebrate at an event at De Montfort Uni- Performance. A frequent the best that the ProCon Awards host versity’s Vijay Patel Building, itself panellist on TV and radio county’s construction stand-up comedian a winner in 2017. quizzes and comedy shows, and actor Hal ProCon members and the Hal’s acting roles include TV firms have to offer Cruttenden, who has awards sponsors were invited to appeared on Live at dramas, theatre and film. the Apollo and The meet the people behind the suc- ProCon chair Pam Allardice, of Matthew Moore Royal Variety cessful projects at the event spon- the construction law firm Allardice Performance. sored by Fusion Electrics. Associates, said: “In the 16th year of ProCon’s member events are our ProCon Awards it is very supported by its Patrons. The exciting to have such a great crop of 2018 patrons are Allardice Associ- finalists, including in our new Sunil Patel, joint managing director the sense of pride in the achievements ates, Bakers Waste, Berkeley infrastructure category. at Unique Window Systems, said: of local businesses.” Insurance Group, Corporate “We are grateful to our judges for “The ProCon Awards are a brilliant Stuart Power, director at Salus Architecture, Danaher & Walsh, assessing every entrant and visiting opportunity to showcase the very best Approved Inspectors, said: “In what is Diamond Wood and Shaw, Howes those selected. The ceremony will Leicestershire has to offer and the vast our 15th year in business, the Salus Percival, MDA Consulting, Pre- again be a great celebration of the amount of talent in the industry right team are pleased to continue our mier Development Contractors, hard work by so many people and now.” involvement as patrons and corporate Salus, Unique Window Systems organisations in our industry. Glyn Mabey, managing director at sponsors of the East Midlands most and Willmott Dixon. “Our thanks again to our Countryside Partnerships East prestigious construction awards.” For information about becom- corporate sponsors, our new and Midlands, said: “These awards Further details are at procon- ing a member of ProCon Leices- existing category sponsors and all celebrate the best that the county’s leicestershire.co.uk/procon-awards or tershire, see: procon-leicester- our supporters for making the construction firms have to offer and, contact Allyson Jeffrey at HeadStorm shire.co.uk/procon-membership Awards possible.” as a Leicestershire business, we share Marketing on 0116 278 1443. 4 LEICESTER MERCURY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 @leicslive facebook.com/leicestermercury TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 LEICESTER MERCURY 5 PROCON AWARDS 2018 All different, all Innovative housing for every age stylish and all

dream homes Large Residential Scheme of the Year Stoughton house built on the site of a OUsInG schemes for stu- 1960s bungalow and a stone and dents and for older people Princess Road East brick house in Tilton on the Hill. who need extra care are The Small Residential Scheme of The Oaks, in Rothley competing for the Large Res- the Year finalists are: idential scheme of the Year Hprize. ■■The Oaks, Rothley, submitted by In the running for the award, spon- The Shah House in HSSP Architects Stoughton sored by Galliford Try Partnerships, Small Residential An existing 1970/1980s style house are two student accommodation pro- Scheme of the Year was remodelled with new extensions jects in Leicester – one a new building to form a Tudor style home in and one a conversion – plus a housing HREE new family homes Charnwood Forest. Oak framing association’s extra care scheme in created in villages are features extensively. Loughborough. competing for the Small The oak is immediately visible The Large Residential scheme of the Residential Scheme of the outside and throughout the property. Year finalists are: Year prize. The wood has been distressed by TIn the running for the award, hand to make it appear aged. Each of ■■Chevron Court, sponsored by Galliford Try the hundreds of oak peg faces has Leicester, submitted Waterside Court Partnerships, are a remodelled and been hand tooled to an off-centre by GWH Architects Chevron Court extended house in Rothley, a finish. A 125-year-old factory built to The details give the house make elastic ■■Waterside not only the look but a real webbing was Court, feel of a Tudor home, converted into Loughborough, including in some parts the accommodation submitted by low levels of interior natural for 58 students at The Walnuts in brp architects light typical of the period. Tilton on the Hill De Montfort Uni- Waterside versity. Court is housing ■■The Shah House, The listed build- association emh Stoughton, submitted by ing, with its Leicester homes’ second Corporate Architecture countryside in a landscaped garden skyline landmark Extra Care facility of A vacant large 1960s bungalow on a retaining as many natural features and chimney, has been self-contained accommo- leafy lane was demolished so a new trees as possible. brought back into use and dation fully supported by a family country home could be built in A key design aim was for the renamed as Chevron Court. range of care and amenity spaces for a semi-rural setting in Stoughton. property to be in harmony with its The iron structural frame has been local older people. The brief was to create an impressive surrounding village, becoming brought to the fore, highlighting the Originally the head office of the entrance hall with a prominent timeless in its setting. building’s historic significance as an Moseley Group, the site was domi- staircase as the hub of the new home, James Warrington, regional exceptional example of Victorian nated by a large building of offices and with a large living and kitchen area managing director at the award’s industrialised pre-fabrication. warehousing. and extensive glazed external wall. sponsor Galliford Try Partnerships, It had become underused, with only The ground floor plan also has a said: “We’re proud to be supporting ■■Princess Road East, Leicester, some of the warehousing operating on boot room to separate the garage from the ProCon Awards, which are such an submitted by Stepnell short-term leases. The site’s promi- the main house. important celebration of the Princess Road East is a new high-end nence, with frontages to both Derby achievements of the property and student accommodation development Road and the Grand Union Canal, lent ■■The Walnuts, Tilton on the Hill, construction industry. of 110 studios plus communal facili- itself to regeneration. submitted by Peter Wilmot Architects “We opened our East Midlands ties. James Warrington, regional manag- Designed to nestle into its landscape office at Leicester’s Grove Park 12 The four-storey block is a five-min- ing director at the award’s sponsor on a raised village location, The months ago as part of our commitment ute walk from the University of Leices- Galliford Try Partnerships, said: “Pro- Walnuts is a new dwelling in the to grow our business across the region ter and within easy reach of De Mont- Con is a wonderful organisation that grounds of an existing property. The and sponsoring the residential awards fort University. thrives on the enthusiastic participa- brief required a traditional, well- is an ideal way to make new Each of the 110 self-contained stu- tion of the businesses which build proportioned, stone and brick house connections and deepen our dio bedrooms has en-suite bathrooms. Leicestershire, and we are very with a natural blue slate roof to partnerships with the members of the There are also a communal area, cin- pleased to be able to show our support overlook the Leicestershire ProCon family.” ema room and gym. for ProCon and the ProCon Awards.” 6 LEICESTER MERCURY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 @leicslive facebook.com/leicestermercury TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 LEICESTER MERCURY 7 PROCON AWARDS 2018 Ideal facilities for learning, rehabilitation... and chimps

Small Non-Residential Scheme of the Year

UIldIngS for learning, study and rehabilitation are competing for the Small non- Residential Scheme of the Year prize. BIn the running for the award, sponsored by Infrastructure Investments, are a zoo’s new facility for its family of chimpanzees, a facility for those who have suffered life-changing injuries through sport and a primary school’s extension that has boosted its roll. The Get Busy Living Centre The Small non-Residential Scheme Thrussington CE Primary School of the Year finalists are:

■■Get Busy Living Centre, Burrough on the Hill, submitted by Willmott Dixon, MDA Consulting, Corporate Architecture, Salus, BSP Consulting, Couch Perry Wilkes, CPMG Architects and Derry Building Services The get Busy living Centre, brainchild of the Matt Hampson Foundation, is a state-of-the-art facility for those who have suffered life-changing injuries through sport. It is somewhere for injured athletes and their families to spend time together and meet others in similar situations, as well as offering services The New Chimpanzee like physical rehabilitation. Eden at Twycross Zoo Established by Matt Hampson, the former England Under-21 rugby player who suffered a life-changing injury new habitat allows all of the in a conservation area, ready for during sport, it provides a place for chimpanzees to live together under the September intake. beneficiaries to spend time in a one roof. James Boyle, director of the supportive and well-equipped Twycross Zoo worked with the award’s sponsor Infrastructure environment. University of Birmingham to design a Investments, said: “To succeed in bespoke home that best mimics the delivering a building that has ■■New Chimpanzee Eden, Twycross chimpanzees’ natural environment. reception area, a group space and managed to address the numerous, Zoo, submitted by MDA Consulting other facilities. often conflicting design The new Chimpanzee Eden has been ■■Thrussington Primary School – New The OFSTED-rated outstanding considerations, such as sustainability, designed to provide a larger, more Teaching Block, submitted by YMD school, which previously had 75 energy, environmental and cost complex space for Twycross Zoo’s Boon students has now welcomed a further factors, is no mean feat. chimps to interact in together. The new extension at Thrussington 30 students. “To do that and produce a building The Zoo’s dedicated expert team has Primary School provides pupils and The challenge was to provide vastly people also really want to use is spent several years ‘re-wilding’ the staff with three additional classrooms, improved, fit for purpose facilities, something only the very best in the chimps into larger social groups. The a library, ICT room, staff facilities, a within a tight budget and on a live site business can achieve.” 8 LEICESTER MERCURY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 @leicslive facebook.com/leicestermercury TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 LEICESTER MERCURY 9 PROCON AWARDS 2018 Practical and elegant

Birkett House SEN School Mountsorrel Memorial Centre Steris, Watermead

neW school, a new hall and the new home for a busi- ness are competing for the Large non-Residential Scheme of the Year prize. Large Non-Residential AIn the running for the award, spon- Scheme of the Year sored by Infrastructure Investments, are a new Special educational needs space, two shops and a crèche, as well school, a village’s memorial hall and a as a music and arts performance and purpose-built base for a leader in its practice room plus meeting rooms. field of engineering. The new building incorporates tra- The Large non-Residential Scheme ditional materials including the well- of the Year finalists are: known local granite. It also features large areas of high-specification glaz- ■■Birkett House SEN School, Wigston, ing, a striking zinc-clad tiered roof and submitted by Willmott Dixon, energy-saving solar panels. A+G Architects and BSP Consulting ■■Steris, Watermead, Birkett House School Leicester, submitted is a new (Sen) by Stephen George + school, with places Partners for 175 young peo- We sincerely salute the The project is a ple aged between winners and near purpose-built base four and 19. winners, who have all for Albert Browne, a The project saw world leader in the school’s main created something decontamination building relocated to exceptional. and sterilization Wigston Academy’s James Boyle monitoring systems. Station Road campus. All of its products are The school was designed designed and manufactured around the idea of using sensory in, and distributed from, Leic- simplicity to impact positively on the ester. comfort and behaviour of the pupils, The 5,900 square metre building who have a wide range of disabilities. includes a warehouse, factory and offices at the Watermead Business ■■Mountsorrel Memorial Centre, Park. Mountsorrel, submitted by Stepnell The facility showcases Albert The new Mountsorrel Memorial Cen- Browne’s product quality and high tre replaced an existing well-used level of quality assurance in its pro- facility that no longer met the duction methods. demands of the growing village. James Boyle, director of the award’s Commissioned by the Mountsorrel sponsor Infrastructure Investments, War Memorial Trust and Mountsorrel said: “We sincerely salute the winners Parish Council, the new multi-pur- and near winners, who have all cre- pose facility contains a theatre, a café ated something exceptional.” 10 LEICESTER MERCURY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 @leicslive facebook.com/leicestermercury TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 LEICESTER MERCURY 11 PROCON AWARDS 2018 Buildings given a new lease Knight & Garter, in Hotel Street, Leicester of life

Redevelopment of the former Leicester City Council site, Winstanley House New Walk, Leicester in Braunstone

mAjOR new addition to Leicester’s city centre is competing against two refurbishments of historic buildings for the Regenera- Ation prize. In the running for the Regeneration Project award, sponsored by Keepmoat Homes, are the redevelopment of the of the Year former City Council site on New Walk an outside terrace. Now welcoming plus a refurbished pub and a Georgian more than 2,000 customers per week, mansion reinvented as a hotel and the Knight & Garter is encouraging a wedding venue. new clientele to the area, encouraging The Regeneration Project of the Year a better atmosphere and a safer envi- finalists are: ronment for visitors.

■■Redevelopment of the former ■■Winstanley House, Leicester, Leicester City Council site, New Walk, submitted by MAS Architecture Leicester, submitted by MDA Originally built in the 18th century and Consulting home to the Winstanley family for The mixed use development that more than 150 years, Braunstone Hall replaced the former Leicester City has been reborn as Winstanley House Council HQ on New Walk includes – a wedding venue, banqueting hall, offices, apartments, retail and new hotel and restaurant. The original public space. The development has buildings are now linked by a one sto- given the site a new lease of life and rey extension, inspired by the famous encouraged further regeneration 1929 Barcelona Pavilion, creating a nearby. The 50,000 square feet of reception area. The project restored offices is in one building. more than 50 original features complemented by apartments and 10,000 square feet of modern additions that honour the ground floor retail are in a second grace and grandeur of Braunstone Hall. structure. The two buildings are very Andy Spencer, head of land & part- different, with their materials chosen nerships at award sponsor Keepmoat to complement each other and the Homes, said: “As a top ten house- surrounding area. builder who specialise in housing-led regeneration projects, sponsoring the ■■The Knight & Garter, Leicester, Regeneration Project of the Year Award submitted by Fusion Electrics was a natural fit for our business. The Knight & Garter is a new luxury “Having been involved in the judg- pub and restaurant that has regener- ing process, we are aware of the high ated the former molly O’Grady’s site quality of applicants for this award, on Hotel Street. Contributing to the demonstrating this is an exciting time wider regeneration in Leicester city to be involved in the regeneration of centre’s Lanes area, the Knight & Gar- the city; something we are looking for- ter has exploited the demolition of the ward to contributing to through our indoor market, including by creating Waterside development.” 12 LEICESTER MERCURY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 @leicslive facebook.com/leicestermercury TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 LEICESTER MERCURY 13 PROCON AWARDS 2018 Enterprising developments footbridge, a road ■■SuDS at Birkett House SEN School, drainage system for the new buildings bridge connecting new submitted by BSP Consulting and the site. housing and the drainage the Learning with Water: SudS at david Pochin, managing director of for a new school are com- birkett House SeN School is an educa- the award sponsor Pochin, said: peting for the infrastructure tional Sustainable drainage System “excellent new infrastructure is essen- Aprize. (SudS) created as part of a new build- tial to making Leicester and the coun- in the running for the award, spon- ing to relocate birkett House School to ty’s towns and villages work better for sored by Pochin, are the footbridge share a campus with Wigston Acad- people, communities, business and over the grand Union Canal, a hous- emy. the public sector. ing development next to the M1 and a Infrastructure Project birkett House is a school for 175 “it enables Pochin and our custom- drainage scheme that is also a learning of the Year pupils aged four to 19 with special ers and their clients to better connect, environment at a special educational educational needs and the SudS move around and enjoy our public needs school. cyclists during the first six months scheme was designed to provide a spaces. We’re very pleased to again the infrastructure Project of the after its opening. safe, inspirational, life-enhancing out- support the ProCon Awards. Year finalists are: door facility for the pupils. “Congratulations to the finalists and ■■New Lubbesthorpe Sustainable At the same time, it had to create a we look forward to seeing which wins ■■Charter Street Footbridge, Leicester, Urban Extension, submitted by sustainable, extensive and effective the infrastructure Project of the Year.” submitted by Danaher & Walsh and Mather Jamie Leicester City Council the £40m New Lubbesthorpe is a the 50 metre long, five metre wide Sustainable Urban extension which pedestrian and cycle bridge across the will eventually have 4,250 homes. grand Union Canal is a key part of the its infrastructure includes a new city’s Connecting Leicester pro- bridge over the M1, new road network gramme. connecting beggars Lane to Meridian the bridge leads from outside the Way, foul drainage system including Leicester riders Morningside Arena pumping stations, sustainable urban on Charter Street to the open space of drainage scheme including swales and Abbey Park. ponds, and public open space. designed to be an elegant structure, the first homes have been built, seamlessly blending into its surround- with 150 already occupied, and con- ing environment, the bridge was used struction of a new primary school has Charter Street Footbridge, Leicester New Lubbesthorpe SuDS at Birkett House School by 47,000 pedestrians and 6,400 begun. facebook.com/leicestermercury TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 LEICESTER MERCURY 15 PROCON AWARDS 2018 Helping to build Leicestershire

for 50 years Christopher Terry’s image of the STEM Lab Another of Christopher at Loughborough Terry’s images of the STEM Lab at Loughborough

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