Excellence in a Major Project

About this award - entries CLOSED

This award focuses on the lasting impact of innovative thinking. A ‘major’ project is one that makes a significant contribution to almost every aspect of an organisation’s operating style and affects the majority of its employees. Major projects entered into this award may be of any business or building type including schools, hospitals, offices and retail, in either the public or private sector. They can also be primarily concerned in the ‘software’ processes of FM, where changes to organisational culture or environment are most important.

Submitting your entry

For this award, the major project can be located anywhere in the European Union but it must be created by UK-based companies. It must have been operational for at least six months prior to 31 March 2012. Entrants need to show that FMs have participated significantly in change management. Particular attention will be paid to the FM contribution at the beginning of the project and after completion. Entrants must define the strategies they have adopted to achieve a result that is fit-for-purpose, outline the cost and operational benefits that have accrued, and give close consideration to how implemented changes have impacted on customers, the public and the community generally.

Judging criteria

This award attracts a wide range of projects and so not all judging criteria will be applicable to every submission. However, as a guide the following criteria should be demonstrated in each submission. Entrants must present their completed submission via email in the order that addresses the following judging criteria.

1. Determinants of change, including rationale, stakeholder involvement, organisational objectives, and FM input.
2. Project organisation and brief, including assessment of needs, location strategy, project brief and communication strategy.
3. Sustainability, including energy consumption, waste management, influence on procurement, travel policy.
4. Planning and design, including conditions for achievement, flexibility for change, corporate image, individual expression.
5. Quality and cost, including procurement methods, cost-effectiveness, standard of implementation, ease of maintenance.
6. Safety and comfort, including conformity with regulations, individual control, a sense of staff well-being and measurements of staff satisfaction.
7. Shared facilities, including formal and informal meetings, catering arrangements, external landscaping, and after-hours provisions.
8. Project success, including self-esteem and creativity, evidence of innovative thinking, increased productivity, effectiveness of FM.

From the lead judge: Terry Trickett, FBIFM

“Every year, the breadth and variety of submitted Major Projects advances the cause of FM, industry wide. I am anticipating that 2012 will be no exception to this rule.”

Previous winners

2011: Serco, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, see winning case study here
2010: SGP Property and Facilities Management, Project Sunrise, Punch Taverns with SGP
2009: Initial Integrated Services, Johnson and Johnson Medical “The Pinewood Experience”