2022 Winners
Sixteen gold and silver medallists across eight categories, the Rising Star Award, the President’s Award, Client Award, Team Award, Sustainability Award, EDI Company and Individual Awards and one Construction Manager of the Year.
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An evening of entertainment and celebration at one of London’s top venues. Browse images from the big night.
Sixteen gold and silver medallists of CIOB Awards 2022; across eight CMYA categories, the Rising Star Award, the President’s Award, Client Award, Team Award, Sustainability Award, EDI Company and Individual Awards and one Construction Manager of the Year.
Joe O’Connell MCIOB
2022 Construction Manager of the Year
Joe O’Connell understood that this once-in-a-lifetime leisure centre project required management control and passion. His effective, highly organised and enthusiastic leadership delivered the rarely achieved passivhaus standard.Â
St Sidwell’s Point, Exeter
His supplier engagement was remarkably successful. He had the airtightness membrane manufacturer employ an adhesive that could bind the facade’s 250mm-thick insulation ties to its membranes. That eliminated the 5,000 penetrations through the building’s airtightness line – every one a thermal bridge – that would otherwise have been required.
The passivhaus air leakage standard is under 0.4m3/hr/m2, nearly twice as strict as the building regulation requirement. Joe didn’t just meet it, he smashed it, with 0.3m3/hr/m2.
Rising Star
Sophie Leake
 Team of the Year
Kier Construction
St Sidwell's Point
 Client of the Year
Sheffield Hallam University
Sustainability Award
Caron Johnson MCIOB CEnv
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion – Individual Award
Rebecca Lovelace
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion – Company Award
St. Modwen
Gold Winners
RESIDENTIAL & ACCOMMODATION
Stephen Pedro MCIOB
Telford Homes
Stone Studios, Hackney Wick, London
PUBLIC & LEISURE
Joe O’Connell MCIOB
Kier Construction
St Sidwell’s Point, Exeter
HEALTHCARE
Daryl Parker MCIOB
Kier Construction
Somerset Diagnostics Centre
JUNIOR & PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Amy Griffiths MCIOB
Kier Construction
Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Tan-y-lan, Swansea
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Ed Dwight
Kier Regional Building London and South East
Addington Valley Academy, Croydon
Higher Education
Christopher Purchase MCIOB
Willmott Dixon
South Wales Police Learning Centre, Bridgend, South Wales
REFURBISHMENT & RESTORATION
Bill Taylor MCIOB
Beard Construction
Radley College Chapel, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
OFFICE
Conor O’Keeffe MCIOB
Kier Construction
80 Grosvenor Street, London W1
Silver Winners
RESIDENTIAL & ACCOMMODATION
Kevin Larkin MCIOB
JJ Rhatigan Building Contractors
Lu2on phase 1, Luton
PUBLIC & LEISURE
Colin Tilley MCIOB
Willmott Dixon
Aspire @ the Park, Pontefract, West Yorkshire
JUNIOR & PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Adrian Mills MCIOB
ISG
South Point Primary (Llancarfan Primary School), Rhoose, South Wales
HEALTHCARE
Matt Davis MCIOB
Kier Construction
Royal Brompton Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Centre, Chelsea, London
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Mark Turner MCIOB
Willmott Dixon
Royal Liberty School, Romford, Essex
Higher Education
Mathew Friedmann MCIOB
Eric Wright Construction
Manchester Met Institute of Sport, Manchester
REFURBISHMENT & RESTORATION
Francisco Javier Fernandez Nuevo MCIOB
Knight Harwood
British Academy of Film and Television Arts, London W1
OFFICE
John McCarthy
BAM Construction
103 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3
CIOB President’s Award
Chris Richards FCIOB
He has quite simply boosted the careers of hundreds of people who have entered over the years. Giving them the confidence to progress their own careers in directions they previously wouldn’t have believed was possible. Some have gone on to become judges themselves. In doing so, his work has had a larger impact – it has shown what is possible, it has recognised the best of this industry and encouraged others to join it.
He has led the judging process that has scrutinized the people behind some of the biggest projects in the UK, from The Shard in London to the Senedd in Wales and the rebuilding of Windsor Castle, amongst many many others. Billions of pounds-worth of infrastructure have passed through his oversight during his time.
He is in a distinguished class of membership too – as an Honorary Life Member – for his outstanding service to the Institute. Backed up with years of real-world construction experience.
It is with great delight that I award the President’s Medal to Chris Richards for his outstanding contribution to the industry and the CIOB.
