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News Release from: Council for Aluminium in Building (CAB)
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 December 2006
Aluminium in Renovation Awards
The Building Centre in London recently hosted the press launch of the 'UK Aluminium in Renovation Awards' which is to take place early in 2007.
'Aluminium in Renovation Awards' The Building Centre in London recently hosted the press launch of the 'UK Aluminium in Renovation Awards' which is to take place early in 2007 The awards are the initiative of the European Aluminium Association and the UK is one of currently thirteen countries who are co-ordinating entries which will be judged and awarded on a country basis and then entered into a wider European competition
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 24 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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UK Aluminium in Renovation Awards for the CAB
The Council for Aluminium in Building announce launch of new award in UK for specifiers of aluminium in construction.
Keynote speaker at the launch, Stephen Weller, Communications Manager for the European Aluminium Association, based in Brussels, commented, "We are delighted that there has been a good uptake across the European Community for this awards initiative and we hope to have Poland and Greece join the Awards in the next few weeks".
"These Awards are on a wider scale than those normally undertaken and it hoped that it will showcase some of the excellent work being undertaken by smaller practices across each of the European countries".
Awards will be split into 6 categories with the most innovative in the eyes of the panel of Judges, chaired by Bill Gething, receiving a first prize of GBP5000.
The date for the last entries will be the 2nd of February 2007 and any refurbished building completed after the 1st of January 2005 is eligible for entry.
Up to 10 entries in the UK will be entered into the European Awards under the same categories and it expected that the European awards will take place in Paris in early November 2007.
The event organisers in the the UK are the Council for Aluminium in Building and Justin Ratcliffe, Chief Executive of the CAB stated, "We have recently officially launched the awards to our membership at our member's meeting at Stirling Castle and have already identified 12 entries within the first few days".
"We hope that the spirit of the award, which is aimed at smaller architectural practices, will attract a high number of good quality applications".
"In order to keep the application process as simple as possible to encourage busy small practices to enter we are asking for electronic entries only".
The UK award ceremony is to take place at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on the 22nd of March 2007 where is is expected to have over 300 building professionals and press present.
Application forms are being circulated in the press and are also available from the CAB website.
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