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The Master’s Year

and guests at the Installation Dinner in Carpenters’ Hall where the Immediate Past Master’s Consort,
Lee, passed the Consort’s badge to Victoria’s husband, Steve.
The next formal dinner was the Livery and Awards Dinner, which was held in February at Drapers’
Hall. This is the Dinner where we formally present our military awards and scholar’s prizes. It was
attended by 157 members and guests who witnessed the award of the prizes and awards for 2014.
Three civilian prizes were awarded – the Constructors prize, the David Tong Cup and the Royal
Charter International Research Award. Three military awards were also presented – the HMS
Lancaster Prize, the Shafting and Shoring Cup and the Air Commodore Dow Trophy.

James Shiner BSc(Hons) was awarded the Constructors Prize 2015. He
graduated from the University of Westminster in 2014 with a first class
honours degree in Construction Management having studied for five
years part-time whilst employed by SCD Builders Ltd. To achieve such
results is exceptional, but to do it whilst in full-time employment showed
the exemplary nature of his attitude to his studies while meeting the
demands of his employment and made James a worthy recipient of the
Constructors’ prize.

Harold Gilder BSc(Hons) was awarded the David E Tong Cup 2015. He
studied part-time at London South Bank University, graduating with a
first class honours degree in Quantity Surveying from London South
Bank University having previously completed their HNC in Construction
course. Harry worked for an interiors subcontractor where he quickly
climbed the ranks within the company and commercially managed their
first contract to exceed £1m. This was extremely challenging as he
carried on studying part-time for his degree.
The quality of the candidates meant that there were joint winners for the Royal Charter
International Research Award.
The first winner was Vera Bukachi, of Arup and UCL, for her proposal on
the evaluation (using a systems engineering based framework) of the
viability of replicable and scalable ICT based decision support tools for
use by local authorities in the provision of safe and sustainable water
and sanitation service delivery in informal settlement in Kenya.
Following her trip to Kenya in the early part of the year Vera has now
completed much of the fieldwork and data gathering and is now working
on the analysis stage, expecting to reach the conclusion stage in October.
The second winners were Richard Look and Caroline Field of Buro Happold, for the development of
a diagnostic programme to support more
resilient cities. Buro Happold have now
developed a framework of measures and
have tested the validity of the proposed
measures through a comparative study of
12 major developing conurbations (including
London) in an international context.

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