BIG Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2022

Meet the winners of the BIG Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2022 across eight hotly contested categories and discover who scooped the Overall Winner of this year’s Challenge. View the gallery of photos from the Awards ceremony held in London on 14 September 2022.

The BIG Biodiversity Challenge is an initiative which aims to raise awareness of the need for biodiversity to become a key component within the construction and development industry, ensuring it becomes an integrated part of planning and projects.

Now in its ninth year, the Challenge is recognised as a leading industry initiative for delivering biodiversity within construction and the built environment. Since its launch in 2013, the Challenge continues to demonstrate that, year on year, the industry excels in going that extra mile to “do one thing” to enhance biodiversity.

CIRIA Biodiversity Community of Practice
This year’s BIG Biodiversity Challenge and Awards are steered by the newly created CIRIA Biodiversity Community of Practice (CoP), focused on growing support for the implementation of Biodiversity Net Gain principles within our industry. This new CoP will foster collaboration and knowledge transfer to assist the management of biodiversity across transport, utilities, housing and development sectors. This network of academia, private and public entities will provide the thought leadership which could lead to key guidance resources for the built environment. For more information and to get involved in the CIRIA Biodiversity Community of Practice, please contact Adrien Baudrimont.

CIRIA Biodiversity Community of Practice members

• Arc Biodiversity & Climate
• Arcadis
• BAM Nuttall
• EHM
• Heathrow
• Kier
• Marshalls
• National Highways
• Thames Water
• Trustmgt
• Vertical Meadow
• Wildflower Turf