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If you need help with your entry or require any clarification, please contact Courtney Jenkins on +44 (0) 203 953 2069 or email courtney.jenkins@emap.com.
The final entry deadline for the AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards is 23 February 2024. The winners will be announced at an award ceremony at The Brewery on 11 September 2024.
New for 2024: Live-judging at AJ Retrofit Live!
Shortlisted practices of three categories - Climate resilience and Adaption, Deconstruction and Reuse and Private/individual Renovation - will present at AJ Retrofit Live to a panel of judges and a live audience. This takes place during the day on 11 September 2024. All finalists for the three live judged categories will receive one free ticket to AJ Retrofit Live for their chosen presenter. Practices will be able to purchase one additional ticket at a 25% discount to bring a colleague.
The AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards are open to projects in the UK only.
Categories
Adaptive Reuse
The conversion and repurposing of an existing building to new uses other than that for which it was originally built.
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Climate Resilience and Adaption
Projects with a focus on adaptions/additions intended to deal with or mitigate environmental change and weather extremes including increased shading, incorporation of green roofs, landscaping SUDS strategies etc
*Live judging
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Conservation and Historic
The restoration or careful upgrade of ancient, historic or listed buildings and structures.
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Decarbonisation
Projects involving the environmental upgrade of fabric and services of large or multi-occupancy buildings or multiple buildings across a property portfolio. For example: Council schemes to upgrade housing stock etc.
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Deconstruction and Reuse
‘new-build’ or retrofit projects demonstrating circularity and the reuse of building components, materials and structural elements from previous buildings.
*Live judging
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Fit-out
Projects focused on the rework and refresh of interior spaces, including shop and commercial fit-outs, employing low-carbon and circular economy principles.
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Future Reuse
Planned and future projects on the drawing board, in particular those looking to push the envelope in terms of retrofit and reuse.
Entry criteria: buildings completed after 1 January 2025
Grassroots Projects
Neighbourhood-based and community-initiated and/or led projects, including the upgrade and retrofit of shared or communal spaces.
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Net Zero Retrofit
Data-driven projects that have specifically or demonstrably targeted net zero benchmarks during their upgrade.
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Positive Addition
Projects that combine old and new and involve the renovation of the existing with a new build addition that together extend the useful life of the whole. NB existing needs to be larger in sqm than new build element.
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Private/individual Renovation
From domestic renovations and home extensions to other personal projects designed to improve private houses or properties.
*Live judging
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Projects under £500k
Retrofit on a budget and for smaller renovation or adaptive reuse projects.
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Retrofit Revisited
Open to retrofits over five years old and previous Retrofit Awards winners and celebrating proven long-life/long-lasting projects.
Entry criteria: buildings completed before December 1 2018
Saved from Demolition
Retrofit and reuse projects where the scheme has demonstrably saved or given new life to buildings that were no longer fit for purpose and slated for demolition.
Entry criteria: buildings completed between February 1 2022 and January 31 2024
Non-enterable Categories
Client of the Year
Drawn from other entries / not enterable.
Practice of the Year
Drawn from other entries / not enterable.
Retrofit of the Year
Drawn from other entries / not enterable.