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Ska Rating Claims Global Industry Excellence Award at the CoreNet Global Awards in Dallas
Announced winners will compete for ultimate Global Innovator’s Awards this Autumn
The Ska Rating assessment, which was created to fill the void of environmental labeling of commercial fit-outs in the UK, has been named among the winners of the CoreNet Global Industry Excellence Awards, announced during the CoreNet Global Summit in Dallas.

Skansen and The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors were jointly awarded for the development of the Ska Rating tool, which provides an assessment, benchmarking and decision-making tool for greener fit-out projects, following a nomination from CoreNet Global’s UK Chapter.

Paul Harrington, President of CoreNet Global’s UK Chapter and Real Estate Director at Pricewaterhouse Cooper, comments, “It is great to see a European project do so well in the global Industry Excellence Awards, and CoreNet Global’s UK Chapter is delighted to have nominated Skansen and RICS for focusing attention on a sustainable approach and measure for fit out projects.

“The system has created an effective tool that enables a sustainable measure for fit out projects to be considered alongside typical cost and programme decisions, providing a quick and simple way of assessing their environmental performance. It was important for it to be usable by even the smallest companies who have previously lacked the tools to do so easily & economically”.

Other IEA winners include:

• Workplace TV, launched in 2008, uses video share knowledge about the evolution of work, the workplace and business leadership with people across the globe. Workplace TV records notable conference performances, interviews and programs globally, then edits and stores all content through an easy to view web portal. They are a winner of the Industry Excellence Award (IEA).
• Johnson Controls who created the Global Workplace Knowledge Center (GWK), which captures, reports and quickly analyzes data to support better decision-making resulting in improved consistency and process improvement.
• MyWork® at Bank of America provides business solutions to promote where and how associates are most productive.

All of the IEA winners will go on to compete for a Global Innovator’s Award, which will be announced at the Las Vegas Global Summit in November.

Those accepting IEA were:

• James Pack, Skansen
• Lynne Rieger, Bank of America
• Dan Boutross, Bank of America
• Dawn Caous, Johnson Controls
• Andrew Mawson, Workplace TV

IEA judges include:

• Chris Hood, Hewlett Packard
• David Nelson, Wells Fargo
• Lana Gosnell, Union Bank
• Dino Piccini, DTZ
• Keith Perske, Group 5 Consulting