IBP announce improvements to this year’s Communication Awards

Launching the “Call for Entries” for the 2015 IBP Communication and PR Awards Gerald Bowey, IBP chief executive, also announced the launch of the new IBP website, which has been rebuilt to accommodate a faster more user-friendly Awards entry process that will save time both in preparing material for entry and downloading information to the site, in a simpler pdf format.

Commenting Bowey said: “our sector is now largely driven by electronic delivery of information and it is important that IBP provides a compatible, easy to use entry process to make the experience as painless as possible!”

He went on “I am delighted that CAPSIG are partnering us again this year to ensure that the high standards of entries are maintained and promoted to as wide an audience as possible.”

Paul Wilkinson, chairman of the CIPR’s Construction and Property Special Interest Group (CAPSIG), said: “Judged by their peers and by industry journalists, previous winners of the IBP Communication and PR Awards all demonstrated sector-specific skills, knowledge, creativity and professionalism. This is a unique opportunity for built environment specialists to be rewarded for their expertise and flair.”

Here’s what some of last year’s winners say about the Awards:

The IBP Communication Awards offered me a unique chance to showcase some of my best work across my peer group. I learnt a great deal throughout my experience with IBP, and winning the Young Communicator of the Year has really bolstered my own profile and contacts in the built environment.

Ollie Pratt, FTI Consulting

Having our work recognized by IBP is important to us as an agency. The award judges are leading figures across the built environment so their endorsement of what we do reinforces our reputation in the sector and demonstrates we’re making an impact and adding value to our clients’ business.

Mike Conway, Camargue

IBP President’s AGM Report 2015

I hope all IBP members will join me in feeling proud that over the past 12 months we have retained and enhanced the most valued elements of the IBP’s offer to its members while innovating and evolving as all good organisations must.

The atmosphere at the annual journalism awards at the Four Seasons Hotel in October was competitive and yet warm – a testament to how highly valued these awards are and at the same time how membership of the IBP bestows a real sense of being part of the built environment journalism community. National Housing Federation chief executive David Orr’s keynote speech illustrated just how much housing and the built environment would be hotly debated topics in the run up to the general election and beyond.

Housing was a central topic too at the annual Strategic Land Debate in November. The theme, ‘Whose Land Is It Anyway’ brought forth spirited discussion from the distinguished panellists on the green belt, garden cities, the private rented sector and High Speed 2.

Claer Barrett of the Financial Times chaired her final Futures Group event in May – a thought-provoking panel discussion of the ways digital media have changed and will continue to change the way we all work and the content we produce. On behalf of the board, I’d like to thank Claer for so successfully chairing the IBP Futures Group since its inception. She is succeeded by Nick Duxbury, executive editor, Inside Housing, who brings fresh ideas for a programme of events beginning in September.
I am delighted that we launched the new IBP website this year – it has more video, is more interactive and makes it even easier to get involved.

The PR and Communication Awards in July moved up in the world – this year taking place at the Sky Bar overlooking the rooftops of St Paul’s, a stunning backdrop to the winners’ celebrations.

This year the IBP Journalism Awards will join the PR Awards in offering an online entry process which we hope will attract even more submissions. The entries will be carefully sorted by a number of new judges from across journalism and the built environment who join the prestigious judging panel.

The IBP’s social media presence continues to grow, with a LinkedIn group and an ever growing band of Twitter followers. Twitter is one great way to get in touch to suggest other things we should be doing for our members and to attract new recruits. And, on that note, if you have a colleague who isn’t yet a member, do encourage them to join us. There’s plenty more to come this year!

Rebecca Evans
Editor, Construction News
President, IBP
@CNRebeccaEvans
@mediaIBP

IBP Journalism Awards 2018: Nominations

Please note the nominations are listed alphabetically and the winner in each category will be announced at the Annual Journalism Awards dinner at the Four Seasons hotel on Thursday 29th November. If you have not already done so, please put this date in your diary.

ARCHITECTURE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by BDP

Elizabeth Hopkirk, Building Design
Ike ljeh, Building Design
Manon Mollard, The Architectural Review
Isabelle Priest, RIBA Journal
Rob Wilson, The Architects’ Journal

CONSTRUCTION/INFRASTRUCTURE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Willmott Dixon

Lucy Alderson, Construction News
Binyamin Ali, Construction News
Thomas Lane, Building Design

NEWS REPORTER OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Four Communications

Peter Apps, Inside Housing
Nathaniel Barker, Inside Housing
Luke Barratt, Inside Housing
India Block, Dezeen
Tim Clark, Freelance writing for Construction News and Drapers magazine
Zak Garner-Purkis, Construction News
Will Hurst, The Architects’ Journal
Charlie Schouten, Place North West
Katherine Smale, New Civil Engineer
Richard Waite, The Architects’ Journal

FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by AECOM

Lucy Alderson, Construction News
Peter Apps, Inside Housing
Nathaniel Barker, Inside Housing
Luke Barratt, Inside Housing
Alexandra Goss, The Sunday Times
Thomas Lane, Building Design
Martina Lees, The Sunday Times
Jess McCabe, Inside Housing

BUSINESS/FINANCIAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Colliers International

Luke Barratt, Inside Housing
Judith Evans, Financial Times
Luke Cross, Social Housing
Steve Menary, Freelance
writing for Housebuilder and Highways magazine

HOUSING /RESIDENTIAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Barratt Developments

Peter Apps, Inside Housing
Nathaniel Barker, Inside Housing
Hugh Graham, The Sunday Times
Martin Hilditch, Inside Housing

MULTI-MEDIA JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by IBP

Simon Aldous, The Architects’ Journal
Peter Apps, Sophie Barnes, Nathaniel Barker and Luke Barratt, Inside Housing
Marcus Fairs, Dezeen
Amy Frearson, Dezeen

‘NEW’ JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by The Built Environment Trust

Luke Barratt, Inside Housing
Eleanor Beaumont, The Architectural Review
Ella Jessel, The Architects’ Journal
Jordan Marshall, Building
David Price, Construction News

MAGAZINE (WEEKLY) OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Marley Eternit

Building
Construction News
Inside Housing

MAGAZINE (NON WEEKLY) OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Sidell Architects

New Civil Engineer
New London Quarterly
Planning in London
Social Housing
The Architects’ Journal
The Architectural Review

DIGITAL SERVICE
Sponsored by IBP

Construction News
Dezeen
Place North West
Social Housing
The Architects’ Journal
The B1M

SCOOP OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by FTI Consulting

Peter Apps, Inside Housing
Peter Apps, Luke Barratt and Kate de Selincourt, Inside Housing
Luke Barratt and Sophie Barnes,  Inside Housing
Will Hurst, The Architects’ Journal
Zak Garner-Purkis, Construction News
Dave Rogers, Building

THE IBP JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by AECOM

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