| Lend Lease INDUSTRY RECOGNISED we did at The Braggs.” Shortly before officially opening, The Braggs was awarded the highest honour at the South Australian Architecture Awards, which went to architects BVN Donovan Hill and HamesSharley. Later, Lend Lease also received their own recognition for it, winning a High Commendation at the 2014 Australian Institute of Building (AIB) Professional Excellence Awards, in the category for Commercial Construction $50 to $100million category.Lend Lease also won the MBA excellence in a Commercial / Industrial Building over $50 million – Landmark Project Award. “We appreciate that recognition very much,” says Gary. “These are prestigious awards, and the company takes them seriously.” The project was also highly acclaimed by the client – who have since awarded Lend Lease more work inin Adelaide – as well as other industry officials. For example, Minister for Innovation Senator Kim Carrsaid that The Braggs was a “fitting home” for industry-leading IPAS researchers. “Here we have outstanding researchers, led by an outstanding scientific leader in Professor Tanya Monro, working across disciplines on projects whose applications are endless,” he said in a statement.“It follows that their headquarters is a state-of-the-art building, the likes of which this country has not seen before.” The building was also praised by University of Adelaide Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Warren Bebbington. With The Braggs, he said the University can “continue the legacy” of two of their greatest alumni – the 1915 Nobel Peace Prize winners Sir William Henry Bragg and his son Sir Lawrence Bragg, for whom the project
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