Gold: Christopher Purchase - Willmott Dixon
Project: South Wales Police Learning Centre, Bridgend, South Wales: redevelopment of headquarters building as a learning centre, completed in 208 weeks
Client: South Wales Police
Contract: NEC option A
Value: £49m
On a difficult brownfield site, Chris Purchase scored the big victories in the ground. Pockets of contaminated land meant either removing 19,000 tonnes of subsoil, or covering the pockets with a geomembrane and capping them. That was until Chris suggested a cheaper and easier alternative: sustainable reuse.
By planting more than 20,000 low-maintenance native trees, shrubs and bushes, he was able to have the land certified as a site of importance for nature conservation, allowing the soil to be remediated and retained.
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