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About Awards

Awards are given for works where clients, designers and contractors go beyond the legal and environmental minima to achieve high and distinctive environmental and social performance in their work.

CEEQUAL Awards are given to projects and contracts that have been assessed against detailed and specific environmental and social criteria by a CEEQUAL-trained Assessor and verified by a CEEQUAL-appointed Verifier.

For Projects, whether in the UK or elsewhere, five types of Award are available:

• Whole Project Award (WPA) - the normal Award, applied for jointly by the client, designer and principal contractor(s)

plus four part-team Awards are available for projects where not all project partners can take part or where individual members of the team would like to have their role assessed and recognised separately:

• Client & Design Award - for a joint application by the client and designer
• Design Award - for principal designers only
• Design & Build Award - for a joint application by the contractor and their designer
• Construction Award - for principal contractors only.

In addition, the Whole Project Award with Interim is available where a Client & (Outline) Design Award is integrated into the process en route to a Whole Project Award.

For Term Maintenance or Multiple Small Works Contracts, just one type of Award is available to recognise the achievement of the whole contract team, with Awards in the first and last years of the contract and at least every other year in between.

What level of achievement merits a CEEQUAL Award?

CEEQUAL assesses the extent to which the project or contract has exceeded the statutory and regulatory minima. It is not possible to achieve a 100% score due to conflicting environmental or social issues in the assessment. The Award thresholds, based on the maximum possible score for the work, as scoped by the Assessor and Verifier, are:

• more than 25% - Pass
• more than 60% - Very Good
• more than 40% - Good
• more than 75% - Excellent (with the actual score being given on the Award Certificate)

For Term Contracts, the scores until the final year are given only as a percentage.

The different levels of awards should not be seen as inferior to each other when comparing a Pass to an Excellent, for example, as they are both beyond the legal minimum of environmental and social performance in the industry. Also some levels of achievement may be unreachable with certain types of projects.

How much will a formal verified CEEQUAL Assessment and Award cost?

The fees vary depending on the CEEQUAL scheme, civil engineering value and type of project applied for (in the case of CEEQUAL for Projects schemes). Click here to download CEEQUAL feescales.