New awards scheme for summer dinner

A new Awards Scheme covering ‘in house’ publications has been launched by IBP to complement the highly successful Journalism Awards Scheme.

The new Scheme seeks to recognise and reward high standards of writing and design in a wide range of company and membership publications covering the architectural, building and property sectors of the construction industry.

IBP has identified 180 such companies and organisations currently producing ‘in house’ publications and some 50 of them attended the launch hosted by International Art Consultants/Art for Offices in London last month. The first entries for the new Scheme have already been received.

A distinguished panel of judges, chaired by Peter Murray, former editor of Building Design, RIBA Journal and founder of Blueprint, is being assembled and currently includes Rowan Moore, Evening Standard architectural correspondent and Director of the Architectural Foundation and writer and critic, Stephen Bayley.

All entrants qualify for IBP membership (subject to ratification by the IBP Executive Committee) and entries should be made via theform at www.ibp.org.uk/magaward2004.pdf PLEASE NOTE: CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES IS 14 MAY 2004.

Another result of this latest initiative is that the IBP Summer Dinner is being revitalised and switched to a new venue - the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden - where a keynote speaker will present the new Award on Thursday, July 08. Please make a note of this date in your diary. Full details of the Summer Dinner will be sent out with the next mailing.

Gerald Bowey, said: “We want to make our Summer Dinner a really key event in our calendar and the combination of a new Award, important and topical speakers and a magnificent location like the Royal Opera House, a splendid tribute to the skills of our industry, will provide an exciting backdrop in which to meet and entertain journalists and clients”.