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Rewarding Work
Cel ebr ating t he achie v emen ts of t he Science Pa rk
a nd wider innovation mov emen t in t he UK
T
he UKSPA Awards
complemented the S-Labs
Awards Programme at the
UKSPA/S-Lab Conference
at York Racecourse
Conference Centre in May. The winners
were announced at the Gala Dinner on
the Tuesday. Entertainment was provided
by Vocalarity, a musical comedy act who
delivered comedy and sophisticated
wit through songs written specifically for
the evening. Following the presentation
of the S-Lab awards by its Director Peter
James, Dr David Hardman, the UKSPA
Chairman, presented the winners of
two joint UKSPA/S-Lab awards and the
UKSPA awards.
JOINT S-L AB AWARDS
The S-Lab Awards were established
in 2012 to encourage university and
other laboratory owners to improve
their performance. In 2017, two joint
awards were presented.
The Innovation Building
Winner: University of Strathclyde TIC
Knowledge Exchange at Strathclyde’s
Technology and Innovation Centre (BDP)
is an £89m, 25,000m² building for the
University of Strathclyde which hosts
research and knowledge exchange.
Laboratory Effectiveness
Winner: Open IRIS Equipment-Sharing
Platform (Friedrich Miescher Institute)
Open IRIS is a free, non-commercial
platform for science resource sharing
that allows researchers to discover,
access, share and manage small to
medium scale equipment and services.
U K S PA A W A R D S
Environmental Sustainability
Sponsored by Innovation Birmingham.
Winner: BDP – The Enterprise Centre,
University of East Anglia (UEA)
Awarded for BDP’s engineering and
lighting work on the UEA Enterprise
Centre. As a result of the BDP team’s
innovative and collaborative solutions,
the Enterprise Centre pushes the
boundaries of the UEA’s established
approach to energy-efficient buildings.
Most Successful Project
Winner: Creative Places
For its role in the development of The
Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC) –
a leading location for Biomedical R&D in
Europe. The Campus is truly outstanding
and continues to deliver extraordinary
results for its promotional stakeholders
and end user businesses.
Setting the Pace
Sponsored by Future Fusion.
Winner: Sci-Tech Daresbury
Sci-Tech Daresbury successfully assists
companies in tackling business-critical
issues of access to market, investment
and funding, people and skills, and
technologies and technical facilities.