Carmarthenshire in running for building awards
Carmarthenshire County Council is in the running for a hat-trick of national building awards. Two modernised primary schools and Carmarthen Indoor Market have been shortlisted in the prestigious Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Wales awards. Ysgol Y Dderwen in Carmarthen, has been shortlisted in two separate categories – sustainability and community benefit. Llanelli’s Ysgol Maes Y Morfa, joins Y Dderwen in the community benefit category. Carmarthen Indoor Market has been shortlisted in the restoration category. All three developments were amongst 28 chosen by an independent judging panel as worthy of site visits, which took place last week. They have since been named on the shortlist where only four projects from across Wales will compete in each category for the coveted awards, which are seen as the Oscars of the construction industry. Winners will be announced at a prestigious ceremony in Cardiff on May 13, and those that win a Welsh award will be put forward to a UK-wi...