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The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineering has Awarded Agar Grove 1b its Project of the Year 2025.

In a competitive field, the judges praised Agar Grove 1b for its exemplary application of design best practice on a large scale. They highlighted the focus on building performance and commitment to the local community. The project, part of the UK’s largest Passivhaus housing scheme, includes 34 council and 23 private homes.

Our design partners Max Fordham adopted a passive-first M&E design, achieving 70% energy efficiency. Resident surveys showed high satisfaction, and the design considered overheating risks, passive ventilation and noise mitigation for optimal comfort.

The judges said it was important to recognise Agar Grove 1b as a trailblazer for large, complex housing projects. ‘It’s precisely in these more challenging, larger-scale environments where our industry’s most meaningful progress can be made,’ they said.

Daventry House has been shortlisted for the RIBA London Awards 2025.

RIBA Regional Director of London, John Nahar said the shortlisted projects "capture and celebrate the city’s diverse cultural identity, contributing to inclusive and sustainable communities" and "not only improve the physical environment but also enhance the quality of life for all of us".

All projects shortlisted for RIBA Awards will be visited by a regional jury, and the winning projects will be announced later this spring.

Agar Grove has been shortlisted in the Healthy Homes category of The Pineapples 2025. The awards are in their 7th year, having launched in 2019 by The Developer and having grown to recognise excellence in every stage of the development, design and delivery of placemaking. They are the only awards that celebrate the very best in placemaking and place-led initiatives. The pineapple is an historic symbol of welcome in UK architecture, a fact that inspired the awards and its iconic golden pineapple trophy. Winning projects will be announced and presented at The Pineapples awards party, in April 2025.

Daventry House, has won the Mixed-use Project (up to £75million) Award in the AJ Architecture Awards 2024. The project delivers 60 homes for later living above a 1300sq.m business enterprise centre. It was praised by the judges as a 'great example of human-centred design'.

‘Westminster City Council and Mæ show this is a new standard that social housing can strive to be,’ The project was praised by judges as a ‘visceral embodiment’ of the borough’s corporate strategy to promote a fairer economy across this central area of the capital, which is characterised by great inequality and rich diversity. They went on to say ‘This is an example of a local authority really putting their money where their mouth is.’

Both Harriet Hardy House and Daventry House have been Commended in the NLA Awards 2024.

Supported by the Mayor of London, the New London Awards celebrate all scale of projects, from community-led to large-scale mixed-use developments, both built and unbuilt, that contribute to the creation of a more sustainable, civilised, and egalitarian London.

The New London Awards were presented during our Annual Lunch at Guildhall on Thursday 21 November.