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BIG Biodiversity Challenge 2023 Entries
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1. Client-led Project Award entries
2. Community Engagement Project Award entries
3. Habitat Creation Project of the Year Award entries - Large >5ha
4. Habitat Creation Project of the Year Award entries - Medium 0.5 - 5ha
5. Habitat Creation Project of the Year Award entries - Small <5ha
6. Innovation Award entries
7. Construction Phase Award entries
8. Biodiversity Legacy entries
9. Biodiversity Champion Award Early Career nominees
10. Biodiversity Champion Award Established Professional nominees
1. Client-led Project Award sponsored by:
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 Wetland Habitat Creation area - Sizewell CArcadis and EDF SZC |  Biodiversity Net Gain Opportunity CreationNational Highways and Atkins Ltd |  The Cairn DistilleryGordon & MacPhail and Morrison Construction |
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 Great Big Nature BoostSevern Trent |  Parc Coed ElaiWelsh Government / Arcadis |  Peak District East Visual Impact Provision projectNational Grid |
 Par St Blazey Flood Alleviation SchemeEnvironment Agency |
2. Community Engagement Award sponsored by:
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 Growing a Greener EstateTrees for Cities (TfC) for Ealing Council |  Network Rail Community Tree-Planting SchemeNetwork Rail - Scotland Railway and the Tree Council |  Closed ChurchyardsCormac Solutions Ltd for Cornwall Council |
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 Woodgate Wildflower Meadow MazeThakeham |  Hotel Havens: A Design, Cost, and Build Project for Creating Sustainable Bug Hotels in SchoWest Lothian Council / North Lanarkshire Council |  Meadfleet AcademyMeadfleet Ltd |
 Dorset County Hospital Multi Story Car Park – enhancing the local communityWillmott Dixon |  Revealing, Reviving and Restoring Great Linford Manor ParkThe Parks Trust |
3. Habitat Creation: Project of the Year Award (Large scale biodiversity enhancement 5ha and above)
sponsored by:
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 Biodiversity EnhancementArcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd / Trebor Developments |  Northey Island Coastal Adaptation StrategyNorthey Island Coastal Adaptation Strategy |  Parry Lane Enterprise Zone (PLEZ) – Creating lasting habitats to enhance and educate the lWest Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA), City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (CBMDC) and Balfour Beatty (BB) |
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 Meon ValeTyler Grange Group Limited & St Modwen Homes Limited |  The Cairn DistilleryGordon & MacPhail and Morrison Construction |
4. Habitat Creation: Project of the Year Award sponsored by:
(Medium scale biodiversity enhancement 0.5-5ha)
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 Avalon Marshes Centre Phase 4Natural England |  Dorset County Hospital Multi Story Car Park – surpassing BNG requirementsWillmott Dixon |  Parco 8 MarzoPrivate |
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 Wetland Habitat Creation area - Sizewell CArcadis and EDF SZC |
5. Habitat Creation: Project of the Year Award sponsored by:
(Small scale biodiversity enhancement of up to 0.5ha)
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 Living Seawall_editedNorth Sydney Council and NSW Environmental Trust |  KGX1 Vertical MeadowArgent, Google, Lend Lease & Vertical Meadow |  Cadent Gas High Pressure Pipeline Diversions HS2 Phase 2a (HP27 & HP29)Cadent Gas, United Living Energy and High Speed 2 |
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 Friars Walk PlantersEmily Grimes, JLL |  Woodgate Wildflower Meadow MazeThakeham |  WHIP – Woodland Habitat Improvement ProjectHarwell Campus in partnership with Adam Frost Design Ltd & Nurture Landscapes Ltd |
 Greening the Grey: The Creation of a Kiosk Gabion Façade HabitatThames Tideway |  Hamble Harbour – New SeawallRiver Hamble Harbour Authority/Hampshire County Council, WSP, Suttles, Bournemouth University, Artecology |  Shelter ShellsBiomatrix Water Solutions and Groundwork NE & Cumbria: Revitalising Our Estuaries |
 Newlyn Coastal Research and Development ProjectEnvironment Agency, Kier, Atkins |
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6. Innovation Award sponsored by:
 Cadent Gas High Pressure Pipeline Diversions HS2 Phase 2a (HP27 & HP29)HP27: Great Haywood, Stafford (UK) and HP29: Ingestre, Stafford (UK) |  BAM British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Construction Partnership - Antarctic Infrastructure ModVarious Research Centres across the Antarctic Territory (Rothera/King Edward/Bird Island) / The Falklands |  Hamble Harbour – New SeawallRiver Hamble Harbour Authority/Hampshire County Council, WSP, Suttles, Bournemouth University, Artecology |
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 Curry Moor Flood Storage AreaEnvironment Agency, Atkins, Conservation K9 Consultancy |  Reddish ViaductJ Murphy & Sons - Network Rail |  The Wilder Blean ProjectKent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Trust |
 Shelter ShellsBiomatrix Water Solutions and Groundwork NE & Cumbria: Revitalising Our Estuaries |  Newlyn Coastal Research and Development ProjectEnvironment Agency, Kier, Atkins |  Southwaite Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) – Integrated Constructed Wetland (ICW)United Utilities, Advance Plus |
 Parco 8 MarzoPrivate |
7. Construction Phase Award
No entries
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8. Biodiversity Legacy Award sponsored by:
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 Biodiversity EnhancementArcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd / Trebor Developments |  Closed ChurchyardsCormac Solutions Ltd for Cornwall Council |  Aztec West Business ParkNurture Landscapes in collaboration with Workman LLP |
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 Northey Island Coastal Adaptation StrategyNational Trust |  Parc Coed ElaiWelsh Government/Arcadis |  Biodiversity and Population Dynamic Studies Across Dry Forests in ColombiaBiosphere Colombia / Universidad de los Andes |
 Meon ValeTyler Grange Group Limited & St Modwen Homes Limited |  Severn Trent’s Great Big Nature BoostSevern Trent Water |  Revealing, Reviving and Restoring Great Linford Manor ParkThe Parks Trust |
 Biodiversity Net Gain Opportunity CreationNational Highways and Atkins Ltd |
9. Biodiversity Champion Award sponsored by:
Early Career
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 Adele DodgsonBAM Nuttall Ltd |  Emily GrimesJLL |  Victoria IggoSYSTRA Ltd |
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Biodiversity Champion Award sponsored by:
Established professional
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 Brian Beck, nomination #1Network Rail |  Brian Beck, nomination #2Network Rail |  Cathy BurtonSYSTRA |
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 Paul CassidyMeadfleet Ltd |  Niru Neil DorrianMarine Mammal Biologist |  Luke GormanAtkins |
 Naomi NicholsonWillmott Dixon |  Graham OsbornSevern Trent Water |  Melissa RalphCornwall Council |
 Martha Alexandra Rueda EstebanBiosphere Colombia Universidad de los Andes |
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