WELCOME TO THE BCO AWARDS 2025

One of the BCO’s primary objectives is to define excellence in office space. As part of this objective our annual Awards Programme provides public recognition for top quality design and functionality and a benchmark for excellence in workplaces. The programme acknowledges innovation and focuses external attention on examples of best practice.

Our digital entry guide is available to download and will take you through the submission process step by step. Please make sure you read the entry guide, to ensure that you give your project the best opportunity to stand out from the crowd.

Projects for the 2025 Awards must have been completed between January 2020 and 1st November 2024. The deadline for entries is Friday 6 December 2024.

Please note: The BCO Awards registration is separate from the BCO website and therefore you will need to set up a new account with separate login details specifically for submitting a BCO Award.

Terms & Conditions

1. Entries will only be accepted for schemes developed in the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland). Due to logistical considerations, we regret we cannot accept schemes based in the Channel Islands or Outer Isles.

2. The entry may be submitted by the owner or occupier or by any member of their respective teams; the Award will be made to the client for the project.

3. All projects for the 2025 Awards must have been completed between 1st January 2020 and 1st November 2024 and the significant use of the building should be for offices. Only the office area will be judged.

4. The project must be over 2,500sqm of net office area, except for the Projects up to 2,500sqm category where projects should be below this size.

5. There is no limit to the number of schemes that may be submitted but projects may be submitted for a BCO Award in a particular category only once. Phased projects may have separate phases submitted in appropriate years.

6. Each category entry must be accompanied by an entry fee of £400 plus VAT (£480), with cheques made payable to the "British Council for Offices". Entry fees are non refundable.

7. The Board of the British Council for Offices, on the recommendation of the panels of judges, may grant Awards in each of the categories and regions. The BCO reserves the right not to grant an Award in any region or category if, in the opinion of the judges, no scheme submitted reaches the standard considered necessary.

8. Judges reserve the right, without prior consent of the entrants, to move entries to different categories if it is more appropriate.



9. Winners of the Awards will be presented with a trophy which will become the property of the client. Certificates will be available to the organisation entering a winning scheme whose name is entered in the submission form. Additional trophies, certificates and plaques will be available at cost.

10. The presentation of the Awards will take place at a BCO Event. Winners may be asked to make a special presentation of the project at a subsequent BCO meeting or visit.

11. BCO reserves the right to use material submitted in published form.

12. Whilst you (or your licensors) continue to own the copyright in all works forming part of your entry, by submitting an entry you consent to our use of your entry in any electronic or hard copy publication, whether or not connected to the BCO Awards, and consent to us editing or adapting the entry for such publication as necessary (including, but not limited to, cropping or resizing an photograph or image). You agree to waive all moral rights in your entry including those in photographic works. We may allow third parties (e.g. journalists) to use the works comprising your entry for BCO purposes. If a third party owns the copyright in such works, you confirm that you have obtained their consent to our use and a waiver of their moral rights for these purposes.

13. The BCO accepts no liability for any inaccurate information contained within the submitted entry as it is the responsibility of the applicant to provide accurate information.

14. Neither the Board of the BCO, nor its Awards Committee or panels of judges, will be responsible for lost submissions.

15. The decision of the Awards Committee will be final and no discussion or correspondence will be entered into.

16. Full submissions must be submitted no later than 5pm on Friday 6 December 2024.


Legal notice

Entrants shall grant to the BCO an irrevocable royalty-free sublicensable licence to copy and use any documents submitted in relation to a building for all purposes related to the BCO Awards and any other BCO activities. The BCO reserves the right to use material submitted in published form for the benefit of members.


Open Entry Guide

Login (or Register to enter the BCO Awards)

Privacy & Data protection

At the BCO we take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your awards entry and arrange the judges’ visits. We will also contact you with helpful information on how to make your application stand out from the crowd and to remind you of the entry deadline.
We may also contact you to arrange a tour of your project, to participate in BCO research projects and to make you aware of opportunities related to your awards entry, such as the Test of Time Award (an award open to past award winners from five years ago).

Your personal details will only be viewed by BCO administrators, Createvents, who are the BCO awards administrators and the appointed BCO judges.

Please note, it is the applicant’s responsibility to gain permission from project team members to be contacted by the BCO. If this permission has not been obtained, only the company name should be completed.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that the data we hold is secure.In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have in place procedures to safeguard and secure all data we collect.