{"id":852612,"date":"2025-06-01T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/judges-shortlist-163-entries-for-cn-specialists-awards-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T09:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:11:50","slug":"judges-shortlist-163-entries-for-cn-specialists-awards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/judges-shortlist-163-entries-for-cn-specialists-awards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges shortlist 163 entries for CN Specialists Awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/05\/emap_CNSpecialistsAwards_FULL-19_1024x683_144dpi.webp\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  alt=\"emap_CNSpecialistsAwards_FULL-19_1024x683_144dpi.webp\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The shortlist for the CN Specialists Awards 2025 has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 163 entries \u2013 a dozen more than last year &#8211; made it through the first round of judging, with 108 companies represented across 23 categories.<\/p>\n<p>Modular builder Zed Pods &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/supply-chain\/cn-specialists-awards-winners-2024-28-08-2024\/\">one of the 2024 award winners<\/a> &#8211; has the most shortlisted nominations with seven.<\/p>\n<p>Five specialists each earned four shortlist places: envelope contractor Lindner Prater; passive fire protection firm CLM Fireproofing; enabling specialist Cognition Land and Water; demolition firm John F Hunt; and structural steel specialist Metek.<\/p>\n<p>Winners in each category will be announced at a celebratory black-tie dinner on 2 September 2025, to be held at the Hilton London Metropole.<\/p>\n<p>The most contested award of the evening \u2013 with a dozen shortlisted entries apiece \u2013 will be Rising Star and Project of the Year by a Specialist Contractor (subcontract up to \u00a32m).<\/p>\n<p>And three other categories will feature 10 or more contenders: Technology Innovation of the Year (Non-Contractor), Specialist Contractor of the Year (turnover up to \u00a325m) and Specialist Contractor of the Year (turnover over \u00a325m)<\/p>\n<p>Entrants have been judged by a panel of 93 judges drawn from a wide variety of disciplines across the whole of the construction industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The full shortlist can be viewed on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/specialistsawards.constructionnews.co.uk\/2025\/en\/page\/shortlist-2025\">CN Specialists Awards 2025 website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"miso-related-article-grid\">\n<p><h3>Related Article<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/supply-chain\/judges-shortlist-163-entries-for-cn-specialists-awards-2023-30-05-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n CN Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for the CN Specialists Awards 2025 has been revealed. A total of 163 entries \u2013 a dozen more than last year &#8211; made it through the first round of judging, with 108 companies represented across 23 categories. Modular builder Zed Pods &#8211; one of the 2024 award winners &#8211; has the most shortlisted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":852613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,27201],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-852612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-judges","8":"category-shortlist"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}