Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium has added another accolade to its collection, winning Building Project of the Year at the North West Regional Construction Awards.
The Laing O’Rourke-led team behind the stadium’s construction picked up the prize at the ceremony, held at Liverpool’s Titanic Hotel on 2 July, in front of more than 420 industry guests.
It was one of the night’s three headline awards, and now goes forward for consideration at the national Constructing Excellence Awards in November.
It’s the latest in a growing list of honours for the Bramley-Moore Dock development, which was also named Project of the Year at TheStadiumBusiness Design & Development Awards in December, and picked up Outstanding Development of the Year at the Liverpool City Region Property Awards in October.
Between them, the awards recognise both the Everton stadium’s construction and its wider role in regenerating Liverpool’s northern docklands — a scheme estimated to deliver a £1.3bn boost to the regional economy.
For a club whose move away from Goodison Park was, for some, one of the most difficult chapters in its recent history, the run of industry recognition offers a different kind of validation — proof that the stadium’s reputation now extends well beyond the matchday experience Evertonians know it for.
