The Awards Breakfast in Pictures
The winners of the CoreNet UK Chapter Awards 2013 are announced
Corporate Real Estate Executive Award sponsored by Penson
Mark Anderson, Whitbread
Mark has shown how corporate property can be used for the positive growth of a business. He has personally positioned Whitbread as a thoughtful client of the CRE industry, has built up his stakeholder contacts expertly and established internal processes to deliver a highly aggressive business expansion. More than anything, he has shown how a CRE Director can be keenly commercial, operating at the heart of the business.
Corporate Real Estate Partnership Award sponsored by GVA
ITV and Corporate Property Advisers
CPA and ITV have worked imaginatively and creatively to transform the way in which real estate supports the ITV business so that it can compete in its marketplace. The partnership is highly flexible and allows ITV to be very nimble in their approach to property with the ability to bring in key industry experts to order. The working relationship between CPA and ITV’s CFO was outstanding.
Innovation Award sponsored by PwC
Astra Zeneca and Jones Lang LaSalle with iWork
Astra Zeneca - with support from JLL - has taken on the difficult challenge of attracting world class scientific talent to innovative workplaces while controlling space demand in their R&D laboratories. The senior scientists have been encouraged to help design outstanding laboratories that take up 25% less space. The concept is now being piloted further at AZ’s new 2,000 person Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Young Leaders Award sponsored by Turner & Townsend
Ben Luvaglio, CBRE
Out of an outstanding short-listed group of young leaders, Ben shone through with his excellent ideas, a highly effective communication style, an impressive relationship with a senior client and with his overall vision. Still under 30, he already leads a team of 28 people and has a mature understanding of what he and the industry need to do to improve. He displays every sign of becoming a future industry leader.
Significant Contribution
Mark Dixon, Regus
There can be few people in the property industry who have moved the occupier business forward as much and as individually as Mark. Despite some reversals, Regus is now a truly international brand offering occupiers an outstanding and distinct choice of flexible workspace options with 1,605 centres round the world and 1.45 million members. This has allowed customers to rethink how they work and has allowed them impressive speed to market.
Young Person’s Essay Award sponsored by DTZ and Property Week
Elliot Blatt, Nationwide
The winning essay addressed the question “How is new technology driving behavioural change in the corporate real estate arena? Is it a good thing?” The essay was well argued and well written. It did not focus on just one sector of property, but addressed in turn how technology would impact the office, industrial and retail sectors, giving it a real breadth of scope. It used research well to back up its ideas, and looked at how specifics technologies would impact property. While it did not come down and say technology would be good or bad for property, it did have a strong message: technology will change property whether the sector likes it or not, so learn to adapt.
Of the two runner up essay, the judges felt that Andy Jefford’s essay, also on the subject of technology, was elegantly written, and put property’s current situation into an interesting historical context.
Andrew Brenninkmeijer’s essay on the question: “How important is a global presence in effective corporate real estate management? Is there still a place for niche expertise, or is integrated services a greater priority” mapped out an interesting template for how global giants and niche firms can coexist and work together.
Judging Panel
Christopher Hedley, IPD (Chair)
Shelley Frost, JLL (Vice-Chair)
Chris Richmond, PWC
Jason Peckmore, Shell
Krystyna Grzesiki, Pepper Europe
Martin Laws, Deloitte
Mike Gedye, CBRE
Paul Garlicki, Oracle
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