{"id":29304,"date":"2019-10-02T14:26:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=29304"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:26:12","slug":"winners-announced-at-51st-structural-steel-design-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/winners-announced-at-51st-structural-steel-design-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners announced at 51st Structural Steel Design Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nSSDA1707.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"362\" \/>Five projects were Award winners at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Structural_steel_design_awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Structural Steel Design Awards<\/a> held this week at LSO St Luke\u2019s in London.<\/p>\n<p>The five winning projects at the 51st annual SSDA were Tombola HQ, Sunderland; Coal Drops Yard, London; Wimbledon No.1 Court; Taplow Riverside Footbridge; and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, New Stadium, which also received the Project of the Year accolade.<\/p>\n<p>From an initial shortlist of 20 projects, all of this year\u2019s entries once again scored highly in terms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sustainability<\/a>, cost-effectiveness, efficiency and innovation, with six schemes getting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Structural_steel_design_awards#Commendations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commendations<\/a> and four collecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Structural_steel_design_awards#Merits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Judges, Chris Nash said: \u201cThis year there has been a greater variety in the types of projects entered for the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScales of entry range from the largest sports building projects, through prestige city and regional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Multi-storey_office_buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">office buildings<\/a>, to smaller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Education_buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">educational projects<\/a>. While there are no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Residential_and_mixed-use_buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">residential projects<\/a> this year, we see an increase in high-quality leisure sector projects and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Design_of_steel_footbridges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">footbridges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are jaw-dropping achievements here, and beautiful gems. I believe everyone involved in the steel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Construction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">construction<\/a> industry should be proud of what has been achieved, and I trust that the SSDAs reflect the quality of the achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British Constructional Steelwork Association President Tim Outteridge said: \u201cAs with many of you, I really look forward to these awards. They show how vibrant and innovative our sector is, and they reinforce the UK\u2019s position as a world-leader in steel construction. And how fantastic is it that they\u2019ve been going for 51 years?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuge congratulation, to all of tonight\u2019s winners and finalists. Every single one of them really showcased expertise and a passion for steel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks, must go to our awards sponsor Trimble Solutions UK, who again this year has partnered with BCSA to deliver a superb awards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five projects were Award winners at this year\u2019s Structural Steel Design Awards held this week at LSO St Luke\u2019s in London. The five winning projects at the 51st annual SSDA were Tombola HQ, Sunderland; Coal Drops Yard, London; Wimbledon No.1 Court; Taplow Riverside Footbridge; and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, New Stadium, which also received the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SSDA.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-7CE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29305,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304\/revisions\/29305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}