Winners of the GAGAs 2020

Galvanizing Association Galvanizing Award

The annual Galvanizer’s Association Galvanizing Awards (affectionately known as the GAGAs) took place on Tuesday. This year’s event had to be virtual, but the celebrations were in full swing!

The GAGAs celebrate the use of galvanizing in architecture and art. The GA also celebrated the added use of galvanizing in conservation, innovation and sustainability.

Find out who the winners of the 2020 GAGAs are:

Architecture Award

The Architecture Award celebrates the most innovative and effective use of galvanized steelwork in architectural projects. This year’s Architecture Award went to two joint winners:

Fordham Abbey Dojima Sake Brewery, near Ely in Cambridgeshire by SCABAL & KPTA, and The Hill House Box in Helensburgh by Carmody Groarke.

Engineering Award

The Engineering Award celebrates the most innovative and effective use of galvanized steelwork, but with special attention paid to structural functionality and industrial use of galvanized steel.

The Centre for Dairy Science Innovation at the University of Nottingham, by Haston Reynolds, is this year’s Engineering Award winner.

Sustainable Award

The Sustainable Award celebrates projects where galvanized steel is used mainly for its ecological benefits, which are clearly reflected within the project’s description and the philosophy behind it.

The Listening Station by Beech Architects won this year’s Sustainable Award.

Duplex Award

The Duplex Award takes into consideration projects that use galvanized steel coated with any of the organic coatings i.e. wet paints, powder coating etc. As with the architecture and engineering awards, it includes all sizes of project and the functionality as well as the aesthetics of the structure will be of interest.

This year’s Duplex Award has been won by Surman Weston, for Ditton Hill House in Surbiton.

Detail Award

The Detail Award is granted to projects that display interesting and innovative uses of galvanized steel in elements that are not the main part of a structure. But form a detail, which supports the overall functionality and aesthetics of the architectural or engineering project.

This year’s winner of the Detail Award is MELOY Architects, for Hill House Passivhaus.

Special Mention

Finally, this year’s Special Mention Award went to metal sculptors Bill and Peach Shaw, for their work Peacock.

The judging panel for the 2020 GAGAs consisted of Matthew Wells (Techniker), Isabelle Priest (RIBA Journal), Robin Dryer (chadwick dryer clarke studio) and Iqbal Johal (Galvanizers Association).

Congratulations to all the 2020 winners, and shortlisted entries!

See some of the award winners in a GAGA YouTube film.

SSDA 2020 winners announced! — 52 Lime Street, London

In September we published a story about the shortlisted entries for SSDA the Structural Steel Design Awards. Read it here. As we’ve moved into October, we’re pleased to reveal the SSDA 2020 winners, as announced by the British Constructional Steel Association (BCSA) last week on the Steel Construction website.

The winners are as follows:

Commendations also went to:

Merits went to:

Gravity Bar, Guinness Storehouse, Dublin

Congratulations to all the SSDA 2020 winners! Great achievements!

A special SSDA 2020 brochure (produced by the BCSA and Trimble Solutions (UK) Ltd in association with Kovic Design Limited) is available.

SSDA 2020 shortlist announced — Tintagel Footbridge, Cornwall

The Structural Steel Design Awards is an annual event for people and companies involved in the constructional steel industry.

Jointly sponsored by the British Constructional Steelwork Association and Trimble Solutions (UK) Ltd, the awards celebrate the excellence of the steel construction industry in the UK, with particular reference to cost effectiveness, aesthetics, efficiency, innovation and sustainability.

The award winners will be announced on 1 October 2020, but for now, the shortlist of 22 projects has been announced.

The shortlisted entries are as follows:

A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme
Bath Schools of Art and Design
Barton Square, into Trafford Centre, Manchester
Boeing GoldCare Aircraft Hangar, Gatwick Airport
Bridgewater Place Wind Amelioration Scheme, Leeds
Brunel Building, London
Drake Circus The Barcode, Plymouth
Mary Elmes Bridge, Cork City
National Infrastructure Laboratory, University of Southampton
Scarborough Footbridge, York
The Balfour, Kirkwall, Orkney
The Curragh Racecourse Redevelopment
The Gravity Bar, Guinness Storehouse, Dublin
The Standard Hotel, London
The Wave, Coventry
Tintagel Footbridge, Cornwall
Waterloo Station Roof Infill
52 Lime Street, London
Centre Building, London School of Economics
One Bank Street, Canary Wharf
One Bartholomew Bart ‘s Square, London
The Post Building, London

David Moore, CEO of the BCSA said “Since the Structural Steel Design Awards were launched in 1969 the winning projects have demonstrated sustainability, engineering excellence, innovation and attention to detail. The range and quality of entries for the 52^nd year of the awards are no different. Once again, the entries submitted are exceptional and we have a very strong shortlist. Congratulations to all the projects teams.”

For more information about the projects, click here.

We’ll keep you posted about the award winners later in October!

If you’re a fabricator, constructor, consultant engineer, architect or artist and you’ve completed a project involving hot-dip galvanizing, then this could be the year that you could win a GAGA! But you’ll need to be quick as you have just under three weeks to submit your entry for the 2020 Galvanizing Awards.

The Galvanizers Association is accepting entries for projects (completed after 1 January 2017) which fit into the following categories:

The deadline for entries is 27 March 2020. Further information is available here.

Here are the winning projects from the 2019 awards:

The Rising Path – Galvanizing in Architecture Award

Conservation of Catrine Weir – Galvanizing in Engineering Award

Nine Elms Thames Path Pavilion – Duplex Systems Award

Palas by dePaor – Galvanizing in Detail Award

Wildlife Discovery Centre – Sustainability Award

Cadix – Highly Commended Award

Root Bench – Special Mention Award

The British Constructional Steelwork Association (in association with Trimble Solutions (UK) Ltd) will be hosting the Structural Steel Design Awards this year in October. The awards celebrate the UK excellence of the steel construction industry, with particular reference to cost effectiveness, aesthetics, efficiency, innovation and sustainability.

In 2020 the winners were:

A huge array of stunning projects ranging from the distinctive, to the elegant, to the complex.

If you’d like to try your hand at winning an award, there’s still time to submit an entry for the 2020 awards. Get started now though as the entry deadline is fast approaching: Friday 21 February 2020.

Find out more information on the entry form here.

As we’re nearing the end of 2019, it’s time to look back at all the amazing projects you’ve completed since 2017 and decide if you should submit an entry (or entries!) for the 2020 Galvanizers Association Galvanizing Awards.

If you’re an artist, consultant engineer, constructor, fabricator or architect and you’re particularly proud of any projects that have involved galvanizing, you could be eligible for one of the coveted GAGAs!

Think back through all of your projects and decide if any could fit into the following categories:

Galvanizing in Detail

Galvanizing in Engineering

Galvanizing in Architecture

Duplex Systems Award

Sustainability Award

Galvanizing in Art Award (new)

Projects can be new or refurbished, but they must have been completed after 1 January 2017.

The Galvanizers Association is accepting submissions for projects, so get your entries in now!

The deadline for entries is Friday 27 March 2020. Request an entry form here. (Entries are free.)

The awards ceremony will be held on Friday 26 June 2020 in London.

Here are the winning projects from the 2019 awards:

The Rising Path – Galvanizing in Architecture Award

Conservation of Catrine Weir – Galvanizing in Engineering Award

Nine Elms Thames Path Pavilion – Duplex Systems Award

Palas by dePaor – Galvanizing in Detail Award

Wildlife Discovery Centre – Sustainability Award

Cadix – Highly Commended Award

Root Bench – Special Mention Award

Joseph Ash Galvanizing’s Medway plant is exhibiting at London Build 2019

London Build 2019 is the leading building and construction show for London, and it will be held at Olympia on 27-28 November. Joseph Ash Galvanizing’s Medway team will be exhibiting at stand H10, and we invite you to come along!

London Build is free to attend and will feature 500+ speakers, 350+ exhibitors, and 25,000+ attendees. It’s the perfect event for contractors, developers, architects, and solution providers to attend to find out what’s going on the industry, as well as network extensively with peers.

The event will contain a number of show zones relating to the following fields:

BIM and digital construction
Buildings
Geospatial
Fire Safety and Ventilation
London interiors
Infrastructure.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing will be in the Buildings zone and we’ll be showcasing our skills in hot dip galvanizing, shot blasting, powder coating and duplex coatings.

A full conference programme is also included, as well as a Movember Networking Event. Finally, the event will feature the London Construction Awards on the evening of 27 November at the Novotel West London.

Find out more about the event at www.londonbuildexpo.com. You can also register for your FREE ticket here.

We look forward to seeing you at London Build 2019.

Thank you for attending!

On Tuesday 15 October – in conjunction with the Galvanizers Association – we opened the doors of our Bilston, Chesterfield, Corby, Hull and Medway plants to the public, to showcase how we operate.

The day was a great success and we enjoyed showing people around.

We showed guests how steel is dipped into zinc in the galvanizing baths to protect it from rust and corrosion, we also showed them how the plants operate in terms of Goods In and Goods Out. Guests were also able to meet some of our team members and ask any questions they had about galvanizing, shot blasting, powder coating, duplex coatings and steel protection.

If you attended the Open Days, we thank you for coming along.

It was an absolute pleasure to host the day, and we look forward to taking part again in 2020. Look out for photos of the event on our social media profiles.

Please get in touch if you’d like more information.

It’s a wrap! UK Construction Week is over for another year, and what a week it was!

UK Construction Week takes place at the NEC, in Birmingham, every year and Joseph Ash Galvanizing has exhibited there for the last four years. As the largest construction trade event in the UK, which unites over 650 exhibitors with an audience of over 35,000 trade visitors, it’s always a pleasure to attend.

We were part of the show again this year, and we very much enjoyed the event. It was great to meet so many people – delegates and other exhibitors – and if you were there and stopped by our stand, we thank you! It was great to meet you.

It was also great to share some of our stand space this year with our colleagues from:

Structural Steel Design Award winners announced for 2019: Awards for efficiency, cost effectiveness, aesthetics, sustainability and innovation

On Wednesday 1 October 2019, the 51st Structural Steel Design Awards took place at the LSO St Luke’s in London. The awards, jointly sponsored by the British Constructional Steelwork Association and Trimble Solutions (UK) Ltd, celebrated the excellence of the UK steel construction industry.

The competition was open to completed steel based structures in the UK or overseas that had been built by UK or Irish steelwork contractors. Many entries were received and a shortlist of 20 was created. The judges deliberated at length over these entries – all scoring highly in terms of innovation, sustainability, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and aesthetics. Out of the 20 shortlisted entries, the final five winners announced at the Awards were:

Commendations were also awarded to six projects: Battersea Arts Centre, Chiswick Park Footbridge, Fen Court, London, Ingenuity House, Birmingham, Neuron Pod, London and Royal Academy of Music, London.

Merits were awarded to four further projects: G W Annenberg Performing Arts Centre, Greatham Creek Seal Hide, Middlesbrough, Telford Central Footbridges and The Macallan Distillery.

And this year’s ‘Project of the Year’ award, went to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, New Stadium.

Team members from Joseph Ash Galvanizing were at the Awards to celebrate with the shortlisted entrants and winners. As ever, it was a great night!

Congratulations to the winners and everyone involved in such a great event!