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Tuesday 24 June 2025, Manchester Central

Congratulations to the 2025 finalists!

Biodiversity and nature award

  • Reforestation Project – Axis Europe
  • WildE3 – Clarion Housing Group
  • Barking Riverside – Green Roof Shelters
  • Wildflower meadows project – Flagship Group
  • BATCOM – Spacehive
  • Biodiversity Pathway– Southern Housing Group
  • Biodiversity Rooted in Nature – Trustgreen

Climate Champion’s Power List

  • Dr Marcus William Rutherford - 2DHeat
  • Helene Gosden - Arup
  • Becci Taylor - Arup
  • Stephen Thompson - Arup
  • Chris Warner - Castlethorpe Homes
  • Christopher Chinapoo - Chartered Quality Institute
  • Dr Matthew Scott - Chartered Institute of Housing
  • Philippa Birch-Wood -Chetwoods Architects
  • Ahmed Abdullah Al Tawheed - Cudd Bentley Consulting         
  • Emily Braham - Energiesprong UK
  • Matt Tear - Fuse Architects
  • Oliver Mooney-  Fusion21
  • Will Taylor - Gemserv  
  • Sanmukh Bawa - GenVue Technologies
  • Tony Brophy - Green Social Engineering
  • Paul Toyne - Grimshaw
  • Brian Murphy - National Green Specification
  • Pia Honey - No Floor No More
  • Ian Buxcey - Olton Golf Club
  • Jalil Saboor - Stepsoft Coordination Services 
  • Lucy Breeze - Golding Homes
  • Chloe Timperley - Green Finance Institute       
  • Mohamed Gaafar - GRYD Energy 
  • Antoine Pellet - HACT
  • Julius Cook - Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team
  • Liverpool Live Lab Programme Team - Liverpool City Council
  • David Winlo - Mapscape 
  • Tyler Minot - Minot Brothers
  • Sarah Ellenby - Places for People
  • Joey Aoun - Savills Investment Management
  • Andy Sutton - Sero
  • James Williams – Sero 
  • Matt Walker - South Thames College
  • Frank Kibble - Spacehive
  • Tim Meanock - Tallarna
  • Fiona Conor - Trust Electric Heating
  • Angus Kearin – Urbanest
  • Ben Williams - Wates Property Services 
  • Josh Mack - Yorkshire Housing

Collaboration of the year - education and engagement

Sponsored by Fusion 21

  • Renewables Centre - Colchester Institute, Gasway, Samsung and Worcester Bosch
  • Net Zero Careers Accelerator - GoodPeople
  • Better Futures (UK Shared Prosperity Fund) - Greater London Authority
  • The Retrofit Society - Healthy Homes Hub, Sero and Tallarna
  • Essex Embodied Carbon Study - Levitt Bernstein, Hawkins\Brown, Etude, Introba, Currie & Brown and Essex County Council
  • The Big Retrofit Challenge - National Home Decarbonisation Group
  • Retrofit Guides - Enabling Net Zero in the ESSA Conservation Area - ESSA, RBKC, Etude, Levitt Bernstein and Prewett Bizley
  • Sustainable City Charter - Westminster City Council 

Collaboration of the year – innovation

Sponsored by Fusion 21

  • LENZA - Advanced Infrastructure & Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
  • Enabling Structural Timber in UK Logistics - Chetwoods Architects and Evolve Consulting Engineers
  • Urban mining at The Elephant and TBC.London – Civic Engineers, FORE Partnership & Webb Yates Engineers
  • Powering Net Zero -Octopus Energy and Thakeham
  • Planning Application Carbon Evaluation and Reduction (PACER) - Preoptima and Westminster City Council 
  • Let Zero - South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority   
  • Stonewater and Wondrwall
  • Tŷ Gwyrddfai- Travis Perkins Managed Services and Adra
  • Fortis House - A Beacon of Hope - ZED PODS and Ashford Borough Council 

Collaboration of the year - partnership

Sponsored by Fusion 21

  • Greener Herts - B3Living, Settle, Dacorum Borough Council and Watford Community Housing
  • Western Villages - City of Edinburgh Council and CCG (Scotland)
  • Birmingham City Council & Equans SHDF 2.1 - Birmingham City Council & Equans               
  • Retrofit Credits - HACT and PNZ Carbon
  • SHDF Collaboration - Maloney Associates & Livv Housing Group
  • Places for People & Novus Property Solutions
  • Pineapple Homes - Places for People and Pineapple Partnerships 
  • be:ONE partnership – Prosper

 

Collaboration of the year - retrofit projects

Sponsored by Fusion 21

  • Kensa and Clarion Housing
  • LHP, E.ON & Thrift Energy         
  • Delivering the UKs Biggest Heat Pump Retrofit - RPS Group & Together Housing Group
  • Sanctuary Housing and Fortem
  • The Big Retrofit - Skipton Building Society 
  • Stepsoft Coordination Services - Stepsoft
  • Retrofitting homes and building community wealth in South Yorkshire - SY Ecofit CIC and ASSIST Sheffield retrofit

Contractor of the year

  • CT Eco
  • Equans
  • Gasway Services 
  • LivGreen 
  • Morgan Sindall Property Services
  • Seddon Housing Partnerships
  • Thrift Energy Ltd
  • Wates Property Services
  • Zed Pods

Engagement campaign of the year

  • BarNET ZERO - London Borough of Barnet
  • Flagship Group 
  • Electrical Recycling Project - Gravesham Borough Council
  • Customer First Retrofit Campaign - LHP, E.ON & Thrift Energy
  • Keep or clear - No Floor No More
  • Landscape Ambassadors - Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team
  • The Big Retrofit - Skipton Building Society
  • Spacehive and Growing Sudley CIC
  • Sustainable Futures – Stonewater

ESG team of the year

Sponsored by Energy Angels

  • Lincolnshire Housing Partnership
  • McBains
  • Places for People
  • Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team
  • Savills Investment Management
  • Trustgreen

Funding team of the year

  • CT Eco
  • Flagship Group 
  • GRYD Energy
  • Octopus Affordable Housing Team
  • Roam
  • Unity Trust Bank
  • Venn Partners

Innovation of the year - data and knowledge building

  • LAEP+ - Advanced Infrastructure Technology 
  • HomeLINK Case Management - Aico
  • Cadence - City Science Corporation 
  • Wayshaper Sustainable Homes Toolkit- Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH)
  • Asset Manager Workspace - Cotality
  • Innovative methodology to enable the net zero transition of bank’s residential portfolios - Greengage Environmental 
  • Retrofit Recommendation (RR) algorithm - Kestrix.
  • Essex Embodied Carbon Study - Levitt Bernstein, Hawkins Brown, Etude, Introba, Currie & Brown 
  • Planning Application Carbon Evaluation and Reduction (PACER) - Preoptima               

Innovation of the year – technology

  • BioPower Cells - Circular BioEnergy Technologies 
  • GenVue Power Motion - GenVue Technologies 
  • Wind Tunnel Testing Innovation – GIA
  • Net Zero Tree Management - Mapscape 
  • Net Zero Heat programme – Propflo
  • Proxystat and Protostat thermostat technology - Trust Electric Heating
  • Vericon HomeHub: transforming the resident experience through smart environmental management - Vericon Systems
  • The Built Environment Scanning System (BESS) – xRI

Landlord of the year

Sponsored by Fortem

  • Clarion Housing Group
  • Flagship Group
  • Lincolnshire Housing Partnership
  • Platform Housing Group
  • Together Housing Association
  • Watford Community Housing

New build development of the year - Midlands and South

Sponsored by Mira Showers

  • Morriss House - Nottingham, Aliva UK and Unite Students
  • New Kingsland Housing - Bristol City Council with Emmett Russell Architects
  • Cardiff Living , Addison House - Cardiff Council, Wates & Sero
  • Gedling Green – Keepmoat
  • Welcome Building® - Trammell Crow Company
  • urbanest Battersea - urbanest
  • Fortis House - A Beacon of Hope - ZED PODS and Ashford Borough Council

 

New build development of the year - North and Scotland

Sponsored by Mira Showers

  • Tintern Road - believe housing and construction partner RE:GEN Group
  • Willowside Grange - Castlethorpe Homes
  • Tillydrone Affordable Housing - Oberlanders Architects 
  • East Herringthorpe No Gas Housing Development - Rotherham Borough Council
  • Buccleuch Street, Dalkeith - Smith Scott Mullan
  • Western Villages - The City of Edinburgh Council & CCG 

 

Organisation of the year - consultancy/ service

Sponsored by Cydd Innovation

  • Arup
  • Fortem
  • Gemserv
  • LivGreen
  • Haringey Council
  • No Floor No More
  • S I Sealy
  • Sustainable Building Services (UK) 
  • ZE Passivhaus Services 

Organisation of the year – product

Sponsored by Cydd Innovation

  • Ambue
  • GRYD Energy
  • GTC
  • Spacehive
  • Trust Electric Heating

Product innovation of the year – construction

  • Totally Awesome High Powered Infrared - 2DHeat 
  • GRYD Energy
  • Novel Low Power Graphene Underfloor Heating System - Haydale 
  • MevoCem - Material Evolution
  • Mira Advance Heatloop - Mira Showers
  • Recoup HeatDeck - Recoup Energy Solutions
  • M-Dock – Sano
  • Stonewater and Wondrwall 
  • WholeHouseⓇ - Travis Perkins

 

Product innovation of the year – tech

  • AirEx Floorvent - AirEx Floorvent, AirEx Technologies 
  • Heat3D - Build Test Solutions 
  • Mould sensor - Iris-iot Solutions 
  • Passiv Smart Thermostat – Passiv UK
  • Radbot - Secure Meters UK 
  • AI-Powered Heat Pump System – Wondrwall

Project innovation of the year - community retrofit

  • Retrovit Revisit - 10 Design
  • Low Carbon Development - Cudd Bentley Consulting 
  • Barking Riverside - Green Roof Shelters
  • No Floor No More
  • Places for People and Kestrix
  • The Big Retrofit - Skipton Building Society
  • Walsall LEAD Project - Walsall Council

Project innovation of the year - large-scale retrofit

  • Electrical Recycling Project - Gravesham Borough Council
  • MapMortar - London Borough of Barnet 
  • ORP - Maesyfelin - R&M Williams LTD - Cynon Taf Community Housing Group
  • Retrofit Guides - Enabling Net Zero in the ESSA Conservation Area - ESSA, RBKC, Etude, Levitt Bernstein and Prewett Bizley
  • Streamlined Retrofit Management Solution - Ridge and Partners LLP
  • Retrofit Skills Task Force Pilot - SY Ecofit CIC

Retrofit project of the year - London and South

  • SHDF Wave 2 Collaboration – Abri and Low Carbon Exchange
  • Barnet SHDF Scheme - EWI Pro - Quinn London Ltd
  • Retrofit Programme - Flagship Group
  • Sutton Dwellings Central London Retrofit - Kensa and Clarion Housing
  • Clean Air, Green Air - Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team
  • Parish Centre project - Libtek Heating and Renewables
  • Wright Lane Retrofit - Paradigm Housing Group
  • Manoj House Retrofit - PH Jones (part of British Gas)
  • Adamson Court - Places for People & Novus Property Solutions

Retrofit project of the year - Midlands and Wales

  • SHDF - Birmingham City Council
  • Maesteg and Oaklands projects – LivGreen
  • Amplius Retrofit Programme - Morgan Sindall Property Services
  • ORP - Maesyfelin - R&M Williams LTD - Cynon Taf Community Housing Group
  • SHDF Wave 2.1 - Sustainable Building Services and Rykneld Homes
  • DESNZ Heat Pump Ready Stream2 Scheme - United Living Property Services
  • Wates Property Services and Wolverhampton Homes
  • SHDF Wave 2.1 - Broxtowe Borough Council – Westdale

Retrofit project of the year - North and Scotland

  • Bowhill Housing, ECD Architects & Ore Valley Housing Association
  • Church Lane North - Equans & Beyond Housing
  • EWI Project - Lincolnshire Housing Partnership, E.ON & Thrift Energy
  • Plus Dane Housing SHDF Wave 2 - Next Energy Solutions 
  • The Big Retrofit - Skipton Building Society
  • Transforming East Lindsey Through Strategic Retrofitting - Sureserve Energy Services UK
  • Scaling up Retrofit - Together Housing Association
  • UKs Largest Heat Pump Retrofit - Together Housing Group & RPS Group

Skills and training award

  • Flagship Group
  • FOR Our Future - Fortem
  • Net Zero and Renewables Centre - Gasway & Colchester Institute
  • DEA Academy: Building the retrofit workforce - Greenworkx
  • Rising to the Retrofit Challenge - South & City College Birmingham
  • South Thames Colleges Group
  • Sustainable Building Services (UK) 
  • The Carbon Literacy Project
  • Empowering Net Zero Through Biodiversity Education - Trustgreen 

Supply chain partner of the year

  • Axis Europe 
  • Building Energy Experts
  • Chirpy Heat
  • EWI Pro
  • Fusion21
  • Greatwell Homes and Fortem
  • Sero

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