MoD Joint HQ offices win PPP “Best Operational Project” award 2011

Scott Brownrigg designed scheme awarded highest accolade available to the industry

Article posted: 14 May 2011

Scott Brownrigg's MoD Joint Headquarters offices in Northwood, Middlesex has won “Best Operational Project” at the Partnership Bulletin Awards 2011 held at the Park Lane Hilton this week.

Now in its 13th year, the awards, formerly known as the Public Private Finance Awards are judged by the most respected names in PFI/PPP and are recognised as the highest accolade available to the industry.

For the last ten years Scott Brownrigg has been providing masterplanning, architecture, town planning, space planning and interior design services to Carillion and the MoD Northwood Development team on the regeneration of this key MoD strategic site.

The 170,000 sq ft BREEAM “Excellent” Headquarters building is the new UK Joint Forces Headquarters and Multi National Force Headquarters and is the focal point of the regeneration project.

The building was opened a year ago by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. It provides radically improved, secure and distinctive new accommodation and will enable the implementation of step-change efficiencies in the operational planning and control of UK Joint Forces currently in Afghanistan, Iraq and other locations worldwide.

Delighted with the award, Mike Shand, Architectural Director at Scott Brownrigg who has been responsible for Northwood over the entire 10 year period, said: “The fundamental objective of the regeneration of Northwood, and of the new HQ building in particular, was to give our forces an advantage during any military operation. Our design solution for this complex building has provided the foundation for achieving this objective by providing secure separation, while enabling close physical adjacencies of operational departments along with the capability of rapid response to changing military demands and needs.”

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