2026 IWFM Impact Awards Celebrate Excellence Across Workplace and Facilities Management
Nearly 1,000 professionals from the workplace and facilities management sector convened in London on Thursday for the 2026 IWFM Impact Awards, an event recognising outstanding contributions within the industry.
The ceremony, held at JW Marriott Grosvenor House London and hosted by broadcaster and comedian Patrick Kielty, honoured individuals, partnerships, and projects that have made significant and lasting impacts across the profession. Winners demonstrated achievements in areas including workplace experience, wellbeing, social value, talent development, partnership strengthening, technological innovation, and environmental response.
Opening the event, IWFM Chair Andrew Hulbert emphasised the importance of the people behind the profession’s success: “Tonight, we celebrate achievement, innovation and excellence. But above all, we celebrate people. The people whose competence and skill make our workplaces work better, our organisations strong and resilient and our profession more respected with every passing year.”
Sarah Hodge, Chair of Judges, congratulated the winners and finalists and highlighted the broader societal impact of the profession: “Together, we can help solve our own skills crisis while also becoming a critical part of the solution to some of society’s biggest challenges, reducing the number of young people not in education, employment or training, creating pathways to long-term prosperity and improving social mobility. Together, we can [show that] in addition to transforming organisations, better facilities management can transform lives, strengthen communities and power economic growth.”
The winners of the 2026 IWFM Impact Awards are as follows:
- Workplace Experience: Office/Corporate Environment (sponsored by BaxterStorey)
Winner: The 1BA Experience Blueprint – Standard Chartered and JLL - Workplace Experience: Non-office/Corporate Environment (sponsored by Eric Wright FM)
Winner: Wharfedale Hospital New Surgical Hub – BAM
Highly commended: Enhancing Workplace Experience in Extreme Heat to Stabilise Frontline Performance – King Fahd Causeway Authority - Social Value (sponsored by Equans)
Winner: Social Mobility Partnership: Standing Tall – ISS and Barclays CRES - Excellence in Customer Experience (sponsored by Fusion21)
Winner: LBG Travel – Lloyds Banking Group
Highly commended: WPS - Wellbeing
Winner: Wellbeing Friday – Westminster City Council - People Development and Talent Retention (sponsored by Premier Technical Services Group)
Winner: Women in Leadership Programmes Driving Real Change – ISS and Learnmore - Positive Climate Action: Towards Net Zero (sponsored by City Electrical Factors (CEF))
Winner: Journey Towards Net Zero – Gratte Brothers - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative
Winner: Project Search – ISS and UBS - Product or Service Development (sponsored by Yesss Electrical)
Winner: Water Treatment: Remote Temperature Monitoring at Scale – Premier Technical Services Group - Technology (sponsored by Jones FM)
Winner: Task Digital Operations Platform – Bidvest Noonan - Best New Collaboration
Winner: Knight Frank Promise and Kitt Medical - Best Partnership Progression (sponsored by Yesss Electrical)
Winner: Beyond Hard FM – From electrical technicians to community heroes – St Johns Shopping Centre and NG Bailey - Team of the Year: Public or Third Sector
Winner: Manchester City Council Public Buildings Team – Equans UK & Ireland - Team of the Year: Private Sector (sponsored by Premier Technical Services Group)
Winner: Two St. Peter’s Square Dream Team – CBRE
Highly commended: Security Team – Bidvest Noonan and centre:mk - IWFM Armed Forces Veteran in FM (sponsored by BAM UK & Ireland)
Winner: Craige Hutchinson, Ascot Services UK - IWFM Newcomer of the Year
Winner: Rachael Peacock, CBRE Managed Services - IWFM Manager of the Year (sponsored by Edmundson Electrical)
Winner: Kirsty Deeley, CBRE - IWFM Leader of the Year (sponsored by Premier Technical Services Group)
Winner: David Stevens, East London NHS Foundation Trust
Highly commended: Ryan Pearce, Eric Wright Facilities - IWFM Everyday Excellence (sponsored by expansive)
Winner: Philip Olawole, Bidvest Noonan and The Mall Wood Green
