Get Sust! Issue 36

Innovation and Research Awards winners

Sustainability themes featured high in the minds of this year’s winners of the Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) International Innovation and Research Awards:

Hussain Chizari from University College London won the Undergraduate Dissertation Award for his work on ‘Skill Shortages within the UK Construction Industry’; while John Begg from the University of Westminster came a close second with his dissertation ‘Climate Change and CO2 Emissions from Existing Housing in England.’

Carl Ferguson from the University of Wolverhampton won the Master’s Dissertation Award for ‘Road Recycling: A Sustainable Construction Solution for the UK Highways Sector.’

The PERA prize, which is worth €55,000 of business consultancy has not yet been awarded. This prize is still available and submissions can be sent to the CIOB’s research manager at research@ciob.org.uk .

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Details are at www.ciob.org.uk/events/irawards.