Isaac Galiana, architecture student from La Salle-URL, winner of the Catalunya Construcció 2016 award

The Executive Project for a floating house in Amsterdam, from Isaac Galiana, student of School of Architecture La Salle-URL,  was awarded Best Final Project in Catalunya Construcció Awards 2016, delivered last June in Barcelona. Galiana was ex aequo along with Andrea Fernandez Albizuri, from UPC Barcelona, who participated with a rehabilitation project of 127 buildings located in Boulevard Didouche Mourad of Algeria.

In the category of Final Degree Awards, which were given for the first time in this 13th edition, a total of 16 applications from different schools in Catalonia were presented, five of which were finalists. Throughout the contest 96 nominations were presented, divided into five different categories corresponding to works completed between 2014 and 2015.

Catalunya Construcció 2016 Awards were presented on Thursday, June 30 at Night of the Construction of the College of Quantity Surveyors of Barcelona. With professionals and entrepreneurs in the construction sector the event was attended by over 500 people. The awards ceremony was chaired by Josep Rull, Minister of Territory and Sustainability of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and Jordi Gosalves, President of the College of Quantity Surveyors of Barcelona (CAATEEB).

These awards, which have the support of the College of Quantity Surveyors of Catalonia and Arquinfad, aim to recognize the efforts of professionals and companies in the construction process and reward people who, through their work, contribute to improving the quality, management, sustainability, innovation and safety in construction.