Wood Awards 2023 entries open

 Monday, April 10, 2023

The call for entries for the Wood Awards 2023 is now live! Enter any wood-centric building, furniture or product before June 23, 2023 and participate get recognised as the best in the UK.

Architects, engineers, installers, furniture makers, product designers – or anyone else with an exceptional timber project – can now enter via the Wood Awards website – free of charge – for a chance to receive a highly coveted Wood Award.

Submissions are split into Buildings and Furniture & Product, with categories including ‘Commercial & Leisure’, ‘Education & Public Sector’, ‘Interiors’, ‘Private’, ‘Small Project’, as well as ‘Bespoke’, ‘Production’, and ‘Student’, respectively.

This covers a wide range of projects, alongside one additional category introduced in 2022: ‘Restoration and Reuse’, which will recognise the ways timber is preserving and enhancing our architectural heritage – and importantly – reducing the embodied carbon of construction.

Judging panels are led by Jim Greaves of Hopkins Architects, for Buildings, and design critic, curator and journalist, Corinne Julius, for Furniture & Product.

Jim Greaves, Chair of Buildings judges, said, “This year we have a new ‘restoration and re-use’ category that will recognise the work of designers and constructors who have chosen to restore and adapt existing buildings. We have also asked Neil Smith, of Max Fordham, to assist the judges in their assessment of the environmental performance of the entries. With each year the ambition and breadth of the Wood Awards entries grows, and I would positively encourage everyone involved in an interesting timber project to participate.”

 Corinne Julius, Chair of Furniture judges, comments, “The Wood Awards are aimed at encouraging the use and appreciation of wood by the public, industry, makers and students. We hope that the Awards promote a renewed approach of this beautiful, varied, sustainable and renewable material. Wood is the material of the future.”

Dave Hopkins, CEO of Timber Development UK, comments, “Timber Development UK are delighted to be leading on the Wood Awards 2023 after a stellar first year of organisation for 2022. We want to encourage more people to use wood in all kinds of design projects in order to try and decarbonise the material world – and believe that the first step to doing this is to inspire people with incredible designs.”

Since 1971, the Wood Awards has been the UK’s premier competition in the timber design and construction industries. By recognising and rewarding outstanding timber design, craftsmanship and installation – and showcasing the many ways that timber transforms and enriches our lives – the Wood Awards acts as a vehicle to drive positive change in our built environment.

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