This competition was managed by Caroline Cole and Louise Harrison while working at the RIBA Competitions Office.
Winners
Foster and Partners and HOK Sport
Process
Expression of interest followed by invitation to three teams to attend a competitive interview.
Our involvement
- Designing the right competitive process
- Researching and identifying potential competitors to alert to the competition
- Writing the competition rules
- Appointing an architect assessor to write the competition brief
- Planning the competition timetable and budget to meet client requirements
- Acting as point of contact for the competition
- Ensuring a clear and ethical process
- Briefing the jury panel
- Briefing competitors
- Managing the competition through a complex approval process involving many different stakeholders and presentations to senior decision makers.
- Advising on and then managing the scoring/evaluation procedures
- Arranging and facilitate interviews, presentations, and project visits
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Creating an audit trail
- Assisting with press and media enquiries and coverage
- Competition administration
- Debriefing and follow up
Facts
- A large, high profile competition that, once announced, was very much in the public eye.
- While the ENSDC was the client for the competition, the users of the project were various, including the Football Association and other influential stakeholders.
- The client wanted a high profile, international design team, capable of creating something pioneering and new.
- As part of the competition process the client visited past projects to assess the quality of the competitors’ built work, and gather views of end users.
- As a high profile project, management of press was paramount and we worked closely with the client’s press team to effectively manage the process.