2025 Awards

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Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2025

The Biodiversity Challenge Awards encourage the construction industry to ‘go BIG for nature’ by putting biodiversity at the centre of projects to deliver beyond normal business practice and compliance with applicable legislation such as BNG in England.

Entries for the Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2025 are now closed!

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2025, recognising some of the most inspiring and impactful contributions to biodiversity within the built environment.

This year’s entries reflected a wide variety of scales, sectors, and approaches from innovative green infrastructure in dense urban areas to nature-based interventions along coastlines, infrastructure networks, and water systems. Each submission demonstrated a strong commitment to integrating biodiversity into the planning, design, and long-term management of spaces where nature and people thrive together.

Join us at WWT London Wetland Centre on Wednesday 24 September 2025 for the Biodiversity Challenge Awards ceremony, a special event celebrating the people, projects, and innovations driving meaningful change for nature in the built environment.

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Whether it’s a biodiversity intervention  where space is limited, or which is supporting nature recovery in existing low biodiversity value greenspaces or along infrastructure assets, or it’s biodiversity professionals who are championing the multiple benefits these interventions can bring, we want to hear about them!

Award Categories:

Placemaking for Nature Award: Single Building
Placemaking for Nature Award: Multi-property sponsored by GreenBlue Urban
Placemaking for Nature Award: Mixed Land Use and Ownership sponsored by Trustgreen
Biodiversity Feature Award: Nature Recovery sponsored by National Highways
Biodiversity Feature Award: Coastal Eco-engineering sponsored by Cormac
Biodiversity Feature Award: Infrastructure Networks sponsored by Ecology and Habitat Management (EHM)
Biodiversity Feature Award: Water Management sponsored by Kier
Innovation for Nature Award sponsored by Heathrow
Biodiversity Champion Award: Early Career Professional
Biodiversity Champion Award: Established Professional

There will also be one Overall Winner (prize sponsored by Wildflower Turf) for the enhancement

demonstrating an outstanding commitment to biodiversity.