Wood Awards 2023 announces call for entries
11 April 2023The Wood Awards 2023 has announced its call for entries in what is regarded as the UK’s premier competition in the timber design and construction industries.
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 & Reuse’, which will recognise the ways timber is preserving and enhancing our architectural heritage – and importantly – reducing the embodied carbon of construction.
The prestigious Gold Award is given to the standout project that the judges deem to be the overall winner-of-winners.
Judging panels are led by Jim Greaves of Hopkins Architects, for Buildings, and design critic, curator and journalist, Corinne Julius, for Furniture & Product.
“The Wood Awards are aimed at encouraging the use and appreciation of wood by the public, industry, makers and students,” said Corinne Julius, chair of furniture judges.
“We hope that the Awards promote a renewed appreciation of this beautiful, varied, sustainable and renewable material. Wood is the material of the future.”
Dave Hopkins, CEO of Timber Development UK, said it was important to encourage more people to use wood in all kinds of design projects in order to try and decarbonise the material world. “We believe that the first step to doing this is to inspire people with incredible designs.”
Visit the Wood Awards website for more information and to enter https://www.woodawards.com
