Previous Capital Projects

The Estates Directorate has a distinguished record of achievement in the area of capital projects.

Click on the table below for more information about specific projects.

Capital Projects

Building Awards

The Estates Directorate has won a number of awards for its capital projects.


Date of award Award Building Architect/Contractor
2011 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate OMPI Make Architects/Mace Plus
2011 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate New Earth Sciences Building Wilkinson Eyre/Laing O'Rourke
2011 Oxford Preservation Trust Award Sheldonian Theatre EW Beard Ltd
2011
ACE Engineering Excellence Award
New Earth Sciences
Pell Frischmann
2010
Small Projects - Grotesques award
Bodleian Library
Alec and Fiona Peever
2010
New Building - Letter of Commendation
Extension to 3 Mansfield Road
Hawkins Brown and Longcross
2010
New Building - Oxford Preservation Trust
Ashmolean Museum
Rick Mather and BAM
2010
Building Conservation - Letter of Commendation
Bodleian Library railings
Eura Conservation
2010
Building Project of the Year
Ashmolean Museum
Rick Mather and BAM
2009
Commendation from the Concrete Society
Old Road Campus
Mace Plus
2009 Construction Project Manager of the Year Biochemistry (Phase 1) Mike Morris (Laing O'Rourke)
2009 RIBA Biochemistry (Phase 1) Laing O'Rourke
2009 Structural Steel Design Awards Biochemistry (Phase 1) Laing O'Rourke
2009 Oxford Preservation Trust Plaque Sheldonian Theatre (Ceiling Conservation and Repair) International Fine Art Conservation Studios Limited
2009 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate Pitt Rivers Museum Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects
Beard Construction
2009 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate Radcliffe Science Library Link Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects
Beard Construction
2008 Oxford Preservation Trust Plaque Parks Road Railings and Gates Terrence Clark (designer)
Alan Dawson Associates Ltd (contractor)
2008 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies Van Heyningen and Haward Architects
Mace Plus (contractor)
2008 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate Museum of History & Science – Stonework Restoration OUED
J Joslin Contractors Ltd
2007 RIBA Richard Doll Building Nicholas Hare Architects LLP
2007 Oxford Preservation Trust Plaque Botanic Garden Ticket Office and Staff Building McLennan Architects
2007 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate Ashmolean Museum and Taylor Institution Library OUED
Beard (contractor)
2007 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate Re-surfacing of Radcliffe Square Colin Davis Associates
C S Pearce (contractor)
2006 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate Clarendon Building OUED
Benfield & Loxley (Oxford) Ltd (contractor)
2006 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate New Bodleian Library OUED
Leadbitter Construction (contractor)
2005 RIBA Chemistry Research Laboratory RMJM
2005 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate Information Engineering RMJM
2005 Oxford Preservation Trust Certificate Keble Gate, University Park OUED
GT Smith
2005 Civic Trust Award - Mention Oxford Centre for Gene Function RMJM
2003 RIBA Rothermere American Institute Kohn Pederson Fox Associates
2002 RIBA Saïd Business School Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones
2000 Europa Nostra Old Bodleian Library Tuffin Ferraby & Taylor
2000 RICS Award Winner – Building Conservation Old Bodleian Library Tuffin Ferraby & Taylor