The CoreNet Global UK Chapter Awards Presentation Breakfast took take place on Thursday 27 November at the Plaisterers' Hall.
The prestigious CoreNet Global UK Chapter Awards represent tremendous achievement, leadership and innovation within the industry.
The winners of the CoreNet Global UK Chapter - recognising excellence in UK corporate real estate - have been announced at the organisation's annual Awards Presentation Breakfast held on Thursday 27 November at the Plaisterers' Hall, One London Wall
Neil Austin, Global Head of Asset Management at RBS and Chairman of the Awards Judging Panel, said “We had a great response and I’d like to thank everyone who has taken part in this year’s awards. I’d like to congratulate the winners and those shortlisted who reflect some of the best and most innovative work in UK corporate real estate today and whose recognition is well-deserved.”
“The CoreNet Awards are a great event and demonstrate its strengths in best practice, innovation and partnership in corporate real estate – as well as offering a chance for
members to meet and network.”
Awards
Winners announced:
- Corporate Real Estate Executive Award Sponsored by Turner & Townsend
Jonathan Turner, Honeywell
– for his transformation of the company’s EMEA and India real estate portfolio, contributing to its success and outperformance in a slow growth economy. Jonathan has driven productivity in developed markets by reducing Honeywell’s portfolio by 2.3m sq ft creating cost savings of $77m; while supporting growth in developing markets with transformation capital projects creating 3m sq ft of new space with an investment of $189m.
Runners up were: Roger Taylor of UK SBS and David Mirmelli of BMC Software.
- Corporate Real Estate Partnership Award
McGraw Hill Financial, Inc and CBRE – for the seamless nature of the relationship and high level of trust that has been developed over 11 years, which has allowed them to work interchangeably when engaging with the business stakeholders. The strong partnership has clearly enabled the delivery of consistently high quality service levels, supported the realisation of sustainable cost savings, and facilitated the introduction of a range of best practices and innovative solutions across the working environment, which is now beginning to drive productivity and marketing advantages to the benefit of the wider business.
Runners up were: JLL and Hogan Lovells and Royal Mail Group and DTZ.
- Innovation Award Sponsored by Jones Lang LaSalle
DTZ Global Occupier Metrics Tool – for providing a new tool that stands alone from other tools in the market and allows the occupier to solve their space problems independently, providing them with more power to deliver solutions with fewer resources. It provides real time data that matters most to occupiers, benchmarks portfolios against DTZ’s best practices and identifies real savings by modelling and comparing total occupancy costs. Not only that it is simple, cost effective and requires limited new learning.
Runners up were; Shell, The Segmentation Matrix and Diego Interactive Workplace Design Guidelines.
- Young Leaders Award (35 years old and under) Sponsored by Cushman & Wakefiled
Zoe Ford-Callender, London Estate Manager for UK SBS Limited (Shared Business Services) – for her successful management of the first Government Leasehold Liability Transfer of 22 surplus properties for the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). Her focus and coordination between the real estate and financial teams for a number of government departments demonstrated her strength of character, commerciality and her ability to coordinate different interests to drive the project to its successful completion.
Runners up were: JLL’s Anna Fairclough and DTZ’s Toby Ogden.
- Young Person's Essay Award (selected by separate panel) Sponsored by DTZ
Libby Humphreys of Peppergroup, who wrote a comprehensive response to “Are CRE teams effective managers of change?” What are the current limitations and how could these be overcome? Libby’s essay stood out as the most creative, using the collective nouns of birds to describe the various stakeholders in corporate real estate. A ‘murder of crows’ is the CRE team – a death omen for the status quo, ‘An exaltation of Larks’ the HR team, The IT department a ‘Murmeration of Starlings,’ all reporting into the wise CSuite – a ‘Parliament of Owls.’ She set out some of the CRE team’s key challenges such as getting buy-in and planning for unknowns, and said with some empowerment, CRE teams could be effective managers for change. Her conclusion: “Embrace the murder of crows, a bit of status-quo killing is a minor offence in the court of the birds.”
Runners up were: Amy Etchells of Cushman & Wakefield and Jessica Brook of HM Treasury.
Neil Austin, RBS (Chair)
Mike Gedye, CBRE (Vice-Chair)
Michael Evans, JLL
Chris Richmond, PWC
Jason Peckmore, Shell
Krystyna Grzesiki, Pepper Europe
Paul Garlicki, Oracle
Peter Copley, CPA / ECH
Ronen Journo, Cisco
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