NEWS

North West Awards - Murrays' Mills
Appleyard & Trew were involved in the major shell repair of Murrays' Mills for Ancoats Buildings Preservation Trust as Quantity Surveyors (Now Heritage Works Preservation Trust). The scheme was successfully completed in Summer 2006. It has been nominated for several awards, and has been successful in achieving the following:-

• The 2007 RICS North West Awards - Award in the Building Conservation category.
• The 2007 Insider Property Award North West - Regeneration Award for Heritage Works Building Preservation Trust (formerly ABPT.
• The 2007 North Regional Stuctural Awards - Award for the Best Sustainable Project.

RIBA Awards - East Midlands
Projects on which the Nottingham office of Appleyard & Trew provided quantity surveying services were well represented at this years East Midlands RIBA Awards winning three of the fourteen awards made.

Principle awards went to Attenborough Nature Reserve Visitor Centre, Nottingham and Sacrista Prebend, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

• The Attenborough Nature Reserve Visitor Centre (Architect: Groundworks Architects) is built on stilts above the flood level of the River Trent and accessed by a footbridge. The principles of sustainable construction were utilised on every aspect of the building resulting in a very energy efficient building with a light environmental touch.
• Sacrista Prebend (Architect: Alan Mulcahy) is a high quality refurbishment of a semi-derelict house and derelict outbuildings to provide new residential accommodation and a chapel to a community of nuns within the grounds of Sacrista Prebend, the official residence of the Dean of Southwell Minster.
• A Conservation Award was also made to the St.Georges Centre, Netherfield, Nottingham (Architect: Allan Joyce Architects) a purpose built community resource and meeting facility in a deprived area of Nottingham constructed to provide maximum energy efficient and to form a focal point on a corner site in the Netherfield area.