06 Oct JGA wins four design awards

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In an incredible milestone for the practice, we are elated to announce that over the past 2 weeks, we have won awards for 4 different projects!

  1. Glentrool Hive: The Dumfries and Galloway Design Award
    Glentrool Hive is a retrofit project adapting an old school in the rural village of Glentrool to a community centre providing a function hall, gallery and shop, meeting spaces, and community garden allotments. Works also included fabric upgrades to improve the building’s energy efficiency and reduce fuel costs for the local community.
    This project was commissioned by Glentrool and Bargrennan Community Trust, delivered in association with Community Entrprise and constructed by Broatch Construction.
  2. Castle Crescent, Closeburn: The Dumfries and Galloway Design Award
    Completed in 2021, Closeburn is a terrace of Scotland’s first community-owned homes. The project aimed to tackle fuel poverty and provide affordable housing, two main issues that currently face rural communities. Our response was three new-build family homes, designed to the Passivhaus Standard.
    This project was commissioned by Nith Vally LEAF Trust, in association with South of Scotland Community Housing and delivered as part of the Passivhoos initiative.
  3. 107 Niddrie Road: The Herald Property ‘Green Housing’ Award
    This ambitious project is the first of its kind in Scotland, retrofitting a traditional Scottish tenement to Enerphit Standard. Preliminary Post Occupancy Evaluation results from the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence indicated that the tenants had seen a significant improvement in the indoor temperature and air quality of their homes.
    This project was commissioned by Southside Housing Association, and delivered by CCG (Scotland) along with NBM Construction Consultants and Design Engineering Workshop.
  4. Lune Walk Halton: Inside Housing Award’s Best Affordable Housing Development – less than £5M
    Built on a brownfield site on the River Lune, Lune Walk Halton combines sustainability and placemaking with 16 two-storey terrace houses and 4 cottage flats built for a mixture of social let and shared ownership. Designed to the Passivhaus Standard, the houses are arranged on either side of a pedestrian street, creating a central space where community activities such as street parties and events, children’s play, and community growing can take place.
    This project was commissioned by South Lakes Housing Association working in collaboration with Lune Valley Community Land Trust, constructed by R.P. Tyson Construction with Elliott Associates, R.G. Parkins and Lancaster City Council.

We are very proud of the dedicated work our team has put into these projects, and it is especially rewarding to see how our buildings continue to touch people’s lives positively. Sustainability and social value go hand in hand, and these projects are the perfect example of that, addressing communities’ needs, bringing people together, tackling fuel poverty, and addressing the climate emergency. We aim to continue bringing these aspirations into our future projects, but for now, we will be enjoying a quadruple celebration!