Meet the winners of the 2026 IWFM Impact Awards

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Nearly 1000 professionals from across the workplace and facilities management industry gathered in London on Thursday to celebrate the 2026 IWFM Impact Awards. The awards recognise the people, partnerships and projects making a lasting difference across the profession.

Hosted by broadcaster and comedian Patrick Kielty at JW Marriott Grosvenor House London, the ceremony presented awards to this year’s winners, who represented the breadth and growing influence of workplace and facilities management. Their achievements ranged from improving workplace experience, wellbeing and social value to developing talent, strengthening partnerships, applying technology and responding to environmental challenges.

Opening the ceremony, IWFM Chair Andrew Hulbert highlighted the value created by workplace and facilities professionals focusing on the people who deliver outstanding work every day: ‘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.’

Chair of Judges Sarah Hodge congratulated the winners and finalists, and spoke of the profession’s potential to impact wider society: ‘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.

Here are the winners of the 2026 IWFM Impact Awards

1. Workplace Experience: Office/Corporate Environment sponsored by BaxterStorey
Winner: The 1BA Experience Blueprint – Standard Chartered and JLL

2. 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 Stabilize Frontline Performance – King Fahd Causeway Authority

3. Social Value sponsored by Equans
Winner: Social Mobility Partnership: Standing Tall – ISS and Barclays CRES

4. Excellence in Customer Experience sponsored by Fusion21
Winner: LBG Travel – Lloyds Banking Group
Highly commended: WPS

5. Wellbeing
Winner: Wellbeing Friday – Westminster City Council

6. People Development and Talent Retention sponsored by Premier Technical Services Group
Winner: Women in Leadership Programmes Driving Real Change – ISS and Learnmore

7. Positive Climate Action: Towards Net Zero sponsored by City Electrical Factors (CEF)
Winner: Journey Towards Net Zero – Gratte Brothers

8. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative
Winner: Project Search – ISS and UBS

9. Product or Service Development sponsored by Yesss Electrical
Winner: Water Treatment: Remote Temperature Monitoring at Scale – Premier Technical Services Group

10. Technology sponsored by Jones FM
Winner: Task Digital Operations Platform – Bidvest Noonan

11. Best New Collaboration
Winner: Knight Frank Promise and Kitt Medical

12. Best Partnership Progression sponsored by  Yesss Electrical
Winner: Beyond Hard FM – From electrical technicians to community heroes – St Johns Shopping Centre and NG Bailey

13. Team of the Year: Public or Third Sector
Winner: Manchester City Council Public Buildings Team – Equans UK & Ireland

14. 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

15. IWFM Armed Forces Veteran in FM sponsored by BAM UK & Ireland
Winner: Craige Hutchinson, Ascot Services UK

16. IWFM Newcomer of the Year
Winner: Rachael Peacock, CBRE Managed Services

17. IWFM Manager of the Year sponsored by Edmundson Electrical
Winner: Kirsty Deeley, CBRE

18. 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

19. IWFM Everyday Excellence sponsored by expansive
Winner: Philip Olawole, Bidvest Noonan and The Mall Wood Green

For further coverage of the evening, here's Facilitate Magazine.