RIDBA Building Awards 2023 shortlist

We are pleased to unveil the highly anticipated shortlisted entries for this year’s prestigious RIDBA Building Awards. These awards, which occur biennially, honour achievements in rural and industrial building design and fabrication. As an added source of excitement, we are proud to mention that our parent company, the Joseph Ash Group, is a premium sponsor for this event.

There are eight award categories in total, and the shortlist for each category is as follows:

Product or service

• Voortman V807, Cutmaster Machines
• Halo Solar, Ash & Lacy
• Innovative pig lift, Designeering (photo from Designeering)
• Tekla PowerFab 2023, Trimble
• STRUMIS e-learning, STRUMIS
• Hybrid Supa Slat, Wolfenden Concrete

Farm storage

• New grain store facility, LF Pearce & Son
• Replacement general purpose building, A.C. Bacon Engineering (photo from A.C. Bacon)
• Sakata UK Ltd, Timmins Engineering
• S. Batty & Son, Colley Farm Buildings
• Forestry workshop, Wareing Buildings
• Sir Richard Sutton Estates, Timmins Engineering

Livestock

• West Midlands Safari Park, Minshall Construction (photo from Minshall Construction)
• Ash Holt Barns, Timmins Engineering
• Ben Pauling Racing, Naunton Downs, D Jones Welding
• Pembertons cattle shed, Wareing Buildings
• Oxey Farm suckler building, M D Anthony
• Sunnylands, Powell & Co Construction

Commercial

• CJ Cox Limited New Workshop, Rose Engineering
• Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Station, A.C. Bacon Engineering
• Franks Ice Cream, Shufflebottom
• Tong Engineering, Timmins Engineering
• Roundhouse Play Area, S&A Fabrications (photo from S&A Fabrications)
• Morgan Sindall Merthyr Bus Station, Shufflebottom

Residential and offices

• Luxury residential property in Poulton-le-Fylde, Wareing Buildings
• Island estates, Shufflebottom
• The Property Hub, M D Anthony (photo from M D Anthony)
• Luda barns, Timmins Engineering

Industrial and production

• Dawson’s Wharf pellet bund, S&A Fabrications
• Cropper Close, Henco International, Wareing Buildings
• Graham & Brown, Wareing Buildings
• McMurrays Haulage, Wareing Buildings
• Bacton Transport, M D Anthony
• Smart Systems, Shufflebottom (photo from Shufflebottom)

Prizes will also be handed out for outstanding workmanship and training.

Please mark your calendars for Friday, 22 September, when we’ll gather in Cambridge to congratulate the winners and runners-up.

Please contact RIDBA directly for ticket enquiries.