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The Wood Awards: 2017 call for entries is open
» » THE WOOD AWARDS:
Excellence in British Architecture
and Product Design has launched its
2017 call for entries. Those involved
in a UK-based wood project are
invited to enter and have until 26th
May to submit their applications.
Established in 1971, the Wood
Awards recognises, encourages
and promotes outstanding design,
craftsmanship and installation
using wood in projects throughout
the UK. The Wood Awards’ elite
independent judging panel not only
judges all submitted entries but also visits the shortlisted projects in
person, making the Wood Awards a
uniquely rigorous competition.
The Wood Awards shortlist
will be announced in July and the
winners will be announced at the
Wood Awards ceremony on 21st
November 2017 at Carpenters’ Hall
in London. The shortlisted projects
will be on display at the ceremony
and during the London Design
Festival in September.
With permission from the owner,
anyone associated with a building
or product completed in the last
Maggie’s at the Robert Parfett
Building by Foster+Partners
Arnold Laver Gold Award &
Structural Award Winner 2016 The TWIST - Emergent
Technologies and Design,
Architectural Association
Small Project Winner 2016
two years, can enter. Buildings
must be located within the UK
whilst furniture and other products
must have been either designed
or manufactured in the UK. The
competition is free to enter and
entrants may submit more than one
project. There are no restrictions on
the size or budget of a project.
The 2017 categories will be
confirmed at the shortlisting.
Building categories are likely to be
Commercial & Leisure, Education
& Public Sector, Interiors, Private
and Small Project. The Furniture &
Product competition will be split
into Bespoke, Production Made and
Student Designer which is open to
anyone currently in education or
who has left education in the past
12 months. Within the Student
category there are two cash prizes
(£1,000 for the Winner and £500
for the People’s Choice). Other
awards, such as Structural and
Wood Awards ceremony 2016
Existing Building awards, can be
given at the judges’ discretion. The
Arnold Laver Gold Award is winner
of winners, chosen from the winners
of all the categories.
“Winning a Wood Award gives
prospective customers confidence
in our abilities and has helped us
grow as a company. Unlike many
other competitions, the Wood
Awards is free to enter so there’s
nothing to lose and potentially lots
to gain,” Ben Naylor, Jack Badger
Ltd (Judges Special Award 2014 &
Bespoke Winner 2016)
www.woodawards.com
INVESTING IN BIM FOR COMMERCIAL CONVENIENCE
» » PVCU SYSTEMS SUPPLIER THE VEKA
UK Group has demonstrated its commitment
to the commercial sector once again. The
Burnley-based company has invested a
significant amount in creating highly
intelligent, data rich, parametric, three
dimensional models of its most popular
systems for the Building Information
Modelling (BIM) sector in order to benefit
architects, specifiers, engineers, designers and
developers.
These new models are hosted on bimobject.
com, arguably the World’s best known content
platform of this kind. This makes them easily
accessible to all, along with the relevant, up-
to-date technical spec information, meaning
that a commercial user can drop these
products into designs and plans quickly and
simply.
The VEKA UK Group’s Head of
Commercial Richard Garland explains: “The
VEKA UK Group has always invested heavily
in research, development and testing so that
our high quality systems meet all the relevant
specification requirements you would expect
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from a World-leading brand. This makes
our products absolutely ideal for commercial
applications.
“We’ve now made it even easier for our
commercial clients to drop the appropriate
products into their designs, by investing in
BIM content for VEKA’s M70 profile system,
and Halo’s System 10 - both 62mm and
70mm variants.
“From a manufacturer’s point of view, these
models and associated data are BIM Level 2
compliant and meet the requirements set out
in PAS 1192-2:2013.
“These 3D objects are intelligent pieces of
data that maintain their proportions when
resized for various project plans and can help
streamline information sharing and informed
decision making when it comes to the final
specification process. The information-rich
models improve the quality of information
provided at the design and construction
phases to save costs by eliminating waste.
“The VEKA UK Group has always been
committed to investing in plant, people
and technology in order to support our
customers, and this is the latest in a long line
of investments in our commercial offering.
We are one of the founding members of
the BIM4M2 which forms part of the UK
Government’s BIM Task Group and our
staff have the relevant training carried out
in conjunction with the BRE. We are also
proud to support architects, engineers,
designers and developers with a host of
services.”
The new BIM models can be viewed and
downloaded from https://bimobject.com/en/
veka and https://bimobject.com/en/halo