Scottish Structural Awards and Celebration Evening

Scottish Structural Awards & Celebration Evening

About this event

This will be an informal evening and is an opportunity for the Structural Engineering community in Scotland to meet and celebrate its achievements. We can't wait to see you!

We will be presenting a range of IStructE membership certificates and announcing the winners of the 2024 Scottish Structural Awards (enter here!). This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your practice and projects and to receive recognition for excellence in Structural Engineering.

Award categories

The awards will be made in the following categories:

· Best Project in Education & Research

· Best Public Sector Building Project (outwith Education & Research)

· Best Project in Leisure

· Best Historical (pre 1960) Building Refurbishment Project

· Best Modern (post 1960) Building Refurbishment Project

· Best Commercial (e.g. Office, Retail, Laboratory) Building Project

· Best Residential Building Project

· Best Clear Span Structure Project (e.g. bridges, grandstands and other non-building structures with longer spans)

· Best Small Structural Project (project construction value less than £1 million)

· Best Specialist Structural Project (e.g. temporary, off-shore, tower or artwork structures)

You should find all the information you need to enter a project for the Scottish Structural Awards 2024 in this guide. If you have any questions, please email admin@istructescotland.org

The Drygate brewery is an industrial style space that reflects the building’s rich history, bearing traces of all its previous incarnations: box factory, print works, bottling plant and storage unit. Ticket price includes a delicious buffet dinner created by the Drygate kitchen, and one free drink on arrival.

Doors open 6:15, for a 7pm start.

Accessibility statement:

Building Entrance Car Parking

Drygate Brewery has a sizable free car park, consisting of 70 spaces and 5 blue badge spaces. The car park is located to the left of the main entrance. Additional paid on street parking is available on Wishart Street to the north. The car park has a gentle slope up to it and is 20m from the front entrance.

Drygate Brewery is a two-floor venue.

Access is on the Ground and First Floor. A gentle slope takes you from the front gates to the

restaurant entrance on the Ground Floor. An external wooden staircase and deck structure allows access to the First Floor.

If you have any special access requirements, please let us know in advance.

Getting Around

Once inside the building there is level access throughout the ground floor. There is an accessible platform lift to take customers to the first floor from the ground floor. The First Floor has level access throughout.

Seating

Seating within the restaurant is a mixture of soft banquette, hard chair and hard bench type seating.

All table arrangements are non-fixed, allowing easy access for wheelchair users throughout.

Seating in the Peaks Bar is non fixed bench type seating. Seating on the deck is non fixed picnic bench style seating. The Peaks Bar also has a lowered bar area for bar service.

Seating in the events space varies according to the event but is generally hard plastic non fixed seating.

Public Telephone & Wi-Fi

There is no public telephone on site. The phone on the bar can used is an emergency or book taxis for disabled visitors. Highspeed Wi-Fi is free throughout the building to customers.

Venue Plans

Standard venue plans are available on request.

Dogs

Dogs are always permitted on our wooden terrace, in the Peaks Bar and in the ground floor Brasserie restaurant. We do ask that they stay on leads and that we have a three-bark rule, for the consideration of all our guests visiting our venue.

Toilets and Accessible Toilets / Baby Changing Facilities

All customer toilets are on the First Floor and can be accessed via the internal stairs or the accessible lift. Male and Female facilities are separate. There is one separate unisex accessible toilet which also contains baby change facilities. Additional separate male and female toilets are located in the events space.

Fire Alarms

The fire alarm gives an audible warning only. There is no visual display. A member of staff will assist in the event of a fire.

If you are unlikely to be able to hear alarms or will need assistance to exit the building if the fire

alarm sounds, please tell a member of staff on your arrival.

Fire escape routes are indicated on the fire plans posted in each area and are clearly indicated by illuminated fire escape signs.

Wheelchair refuge areas are in 2 locations on the first floor and are connected to the ground floor by intercom.

Staff are trained in carry down procedures in the event of a fire.