{"id":15932,"date":"2017-06-24T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15932"},"modified":"2017-06-24T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T15:15:13","slug":"girdwood-community-hub-takes-top-honours-at-northern-ireland-rics-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15932","title":{"rendered":"Girdwood Community Hub takes top honours at Northern Ireland RICS Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>More than 30 of Northern Ireland\u2019s most impressive and community-beneficial property schemes battled it out for top honours at the RICS Awards 2017, Northern Ireland with North Belfast\u2019s Girdwood Community Hub claiming the overall \u2018Project of the Year\u2019 award.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RICS writes:<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious annual ceremony \u2014 held at the luxurious La Mon Hotel near Belfast \u2014 celebrates inspirational initiatives in the land, property and construction sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcaster Paul Clark was the host for this year\u2019s sell-out ceremony, which attracted more than 200 property professionals from across Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The highly acclaimed Project of the Year title is presented to the scheme which demonstrates overall outstanding best practice and an exemplary commitment to adding value to its local area. Delivered by VB Evans and Co, Michael Whitely Architects and O\u2019Hare and McGovern for Belfast City Council, the site of a former British Army Base has been transformed into a vibrant community resource. The judges praised the project for creating a \u2018positive ripple effect impacting the built environment dramatically and positively.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Category winners included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building Conservation &#8211; John Bell House, Belfast<\/li>\n<li>Commercial &#8211; Waterfront Hall, Belfast<\/li>\n<li>Community Benefit &#8211; The Junction, Dungannon<\/li>\n<li>Design through Innovation &#8211; Main site tower and Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen&#8217;s University, Belfast<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure &#8211; Stoneyford Integrated Constructed Wetland (ICW)<\/li>\n<li>Regeneration &#8211; North Queen Street, Belfast<\/li>\n<li>Residential &#8211; The Gallery, Belfast<\/li>\n<li>Tourism &amp; Leisure &#8211; Bishop\u2019s Gate Hotel, Derry~Londonderry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several projects were also Highly Commended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rics.org\/ie\/news\/news-insight\/press-releases\/girdwood-community-hub-takes-top-honours-at-rics-awards-2017-northern-ireland\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 of Northern Ireland\u2019s most impressive and community-beneficial property schemes battled it out for top honours at the RICS Awards 2017, Northern Ireland with North Belfast\u2019s Girdwood Community Hub claiming the overall \u2018Project of the Year\u2019 award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15933,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions\/15933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}