AEROSPACE Bristol has been named as the South West’s Project of the Year.
Over 40 of the South West’s most impressive and community beneficial property schemes battled it out for the title at the 2018 RICS Awards, South West.
Held at the Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol on May 17, the annual Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards, South West celebrate inspirational initiatives in the region’s land, property and construction sectors across eight category awards.
The Aerospace Bristol project, which also scooped the tourism and leisure title at the awards event, is an aviation museum which opened to the public in mid-October 2017.
The museum comprises of a grade II listed hangar housing the historic Bristol Aero collection; containing 8,000 artefacts and a Bristol-built aircraft.
There is also the Concorde building, a new metal mass housing the star of the show; Concorde Alpha Foxtrot, the last to be built and to fly.
The museum aims to tell the story of the shared creativity at Filton through the ages.
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