A total of 93 highly professional, skilled and versatile construction managers have been shortlisted by the judging panel for this year’s CIOB Construction Manager of the Year Award.
The gold and silver medal winners in each of 11 categories will be named at the gala awards evening on 31 October, along with the new holder of the overall Construction Manager of the Year title.
This year, all managers who reach the final of the CMYA will have the opportunity to apply directly for CIOB membership (MCIOB).
This move could benefit around two-thirds of the longlist, which includes several associate and incorporated members along with 32 members and fellows.
Managers have been shortlisted for delivering projects that make up a cross-section of the industry’s workload: from a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Pontypridd (Kier’s Richard Bunn MCIOB) to London’s Emirates Airline cable car (Matt Randall of Mace); a prison gym complex in Sussex (Tony Daly of Wates) to Southampton’s new Sea City museum (Kier’s Jonathan James).
Mace’s Gareth Lewis FCIOB is a finalist for his work on the Shard, and Colin Clark MCIOB of Sir Robert McAlpine has been singled out for the Emirates Arena and Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow.
The shortlist also includes a former overall winner – Shepherd’s Neil Matthias MCIOB, winner in 2010, has been included for his work on a wind-turbine testing facility for the National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth.
Contractors with a strong showing in the longlist include Willmott Dixon with nine finalists; BAM with five; Miller Construction/Miller Homes with seven; and Balfour Beatty/Mansell and Skanska with four each. Lend Lease, Kier and Wates all have three finalists.
But the list demonstrates that senior site management is still a male-dominated profession with just two women among the finalists.
Wates’s Julia Howard MCIOB is a finalist in the under £4m category for her work on the Royal Hill School in Greenwich, and Artelia’s Marion Bagnall, a French national, is a finalist in the £10m-19m category for Shell’s New Generation Shop Format project.
