Judging Criteria

Primary Criteria:

• Leadership
• Clarity of objectives/ roles
• Project cost control
• Efficient and effective delivery
• Proactive risk management / mitigation
• Overall project quality
• Client and public satisfaction
• Communication
• Value engineering / cost savings
• Problem solving / resolution
• Transferability to other projects and works
• Behaviours / trust and team working
• Delivery of multiple benefits

Primary Criteria:

• Objectives
• Partnership involvement
• Local relevance
• Partnership in finance
• Efficiencies
• Transferability
• Delivery of multiple benefits (including contribution to natural flood management, catchment and coastal cell approaches)

Primary Criteria:

• Sustainability
• Value for money
• Health, safety & welfare
• Environmental Impact
• Objectives and benefits
• Client & public satisfaction
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration
• Knowledge of asset(s)
• Managing above the minimum
• Long term view
• Delivery of multiple benefits

Primary Criteria:

• Quantifying outcomes
• Level of benefits
• Range of benefits
• Transferability
• Application of effort to find a better solution
• Knowledge sharing
• Delivery of multiple benefits (including contribution to natural flood management, catchment and coastal cell approaches)

Primary Criteria:

• Team effort-contribution to efficiencies from across the team
• Pro-activity - actively pursuing efficiencies
• Objective benefits
• Value of savings / additional outcomes as a percentage of budget.
• Both savings and additional outcomes achieved
• Timescale efficiencies
• Resource efficiency
• Transferability
• Delivery of multiple benefits

Primary Criteria:

• Human / natural benefit balance
• Local resource use
• Long term sustainability
• Carbon footprint
• Community engagement
• Material management
• Transferability
• Delivery of multiple benefits

Primary Criteria:

• Clarity of objectives
• Community level leadership
• Community participation & action
• Attraction of funding
• Transferability
• Delivery of multiple benefits (including contribution to natural flood management, catchment and coastal cell approaches)

Projects in this category should demonstrate work completed outside of the United Kingdom contributing to any of the wider categories above.

This year we will be launching a new award for individuals within the first 10 years of their career who have taken a key role in any work contributing to any of the wider categories above. Nominations for the “Inspirational Graduate of the Last Decade” award should be made in writing by e mail to the Flood & Coast 2018 team, FloodandCoast@environment-agency.gov.uk, detailing the reasons for the nomination in no more than 500 words.