AWARDS ITINERARY & EVENTS

CEEQA 2012 Winners List
Announced Tuesday 17th April 2012

RealGreen Symposium & Fair
9am-4pm Tuesday 17th April 2012
Warsaw Marriott Hotel
Expert presentations, debate, discussion groups, workshops, exhibition and luncheon examining the business case for green building in emerging Europe
Free access for all CEEQA Gala ticket holders

9th Annual CEEQA Gala & Industry Awards
7pm-Late Tuesday 17th April 2012
Warsaw Marriott Hotel
Emerging Europe’s premier gala dinner & industry awards for business performance & achievement in real estate in 2011

5th CEE Real Estate Quality Awards - Warsaw Hilton Hotel

27th February 2008

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Palladium takes 'Building of the Year' honours at CEE Quality Awards Gala as Jones Lang LaSalle Scores a hat trick of CEEQAs and Arup blushes green.

Grand Awards Winners

The Palladium development in Prague developed by European Property development was the major winner at the 5th Central & Eastern European Real Estate Quality Awards in Warsaw on Wednesday night, taking home CEEQAs for Retail Development of the Year and over all Building of the Year completed for occupation in 2007. The global agent Jones Lang LaSalle was also in the spot light, scoring a hat trick of three Agency of the Year CEEQAs in a row (and four out of the last five years) and Arup also took home two awards - the Green Initiative award for 'mobilising and encouraging sustainability as a standard practice in Central & Eastern European real estate' and for Commercial & Construction Services Company of the Year.

A full house of nearly 600 senior executives from across Europe saluted John Cutts, founder and chairman of retail and industrial developer Parkridge and Vice Chairman Europe of ProLogis, winner of the fifth CEE Lifetime Achievement Award for significant and durable contribution to the sector. The award was presented to him by sponsors Financial Times and the event's first Lifetime Achievement winner Eugene Golub, founder and chairman of Chicago real estate giant Golub & Co and one of the sector's true pioneers.

Television presenter Monika Richardson joined CEE Quality Awards Managing Director Richard Hallward on stage to present the awards for outstanding performance and achievement in real estate across ten countries in Central & Eastern Europe in 2007. A total of 16 awards were presented to the best projects, companies and people, nominated by the sector's professionals and judged by a jury of well known senior industry figures from major investment and finance, development and consulting companies active in the CEE arena.

The event was hosted a the magnificent new Hilton Warsaw Hotel & Convention Centre, which picked up the award for CEE Real Estate Hotel & Leisure Development of the Year, while Romania also scored a notable victory with Baneasa Business & Technology Park taking home the Office Development of the Year award. The award for Industrial & Logistics Development of the Year went to Panattoni Park Lodz in Poland, and Poland also picked up the Residential Development of the Year award with Angel Plaza in Krakow, Poland taking the honours.

In the CEE Company of the Year awards GTC (Developer of the Year, for sustained and consistent delivery and growth) and GLL Real Estate (Investor of the Year, primarily for staking big bets in Hungary in buying 10% of stock while the market was asleep) were also big winners, and Irish investment in the region paid off as AIB/Bank Zachodni WBK walked away with Banking & Financial Services Company of the Year. Salans continued their march across the region as they scooped the Legal & Consulting Firm of the Year award, and Architect of the Year was Chapman Taylor. Eli Alroy, founder and chairman of developer GTC, was on stage for the second time in the evening when he received the award for CEE Real Estate Industry Professional of the Year.

Earlier in the day senior figures in the market gathered for The Green Debate, a CEE Insight Forum looking at ways in which the CEE real estate sector can address the challenges of climate change and urban sustainability. To the sound of chirping birds and "the worlds first zero emissions stage" covered in grass, plants and flowers, leading property lawyer Pawe? D?bowski led a series of headline presentations and panel debates panting a picture of world class sustainability.

The Green Debate audience was welcomed by the City of Warsaw's representative on the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, Leszek Drogosz, and key note speaker Bob Evans' presentation The Future is Green the took the audience on a trip through the cornerstones of the case for rapid progress on the issue. Associate and senior engineer Andy Mace from award winning company Arup gave the audience a clear insight into execution and best practice with a presentation on their renowned Dongtan Eco-city project, the world's zero first emissions city, while investment research and policy head Thomas Beyerle of DEGI told the audience the supply chain was beginning to rattle on the issue.

The large crowd were Lost in Music as an outstanding array of production and entertainment highlights swept through the evening, not least the legendary band Sister Sledge who were flown in from Philadelphia to groove the event into the night with their archive of global hits.

"This is now indisputably a world class event for an increasingly world class sector, and we want our audience to see what world class is in every aspect - from bricks and mortar to vocal projection. By all accounts we achieved that this year, it was wonderful to see so many of the sector's leaders here and more than a few European and global industry leaders to boot. It was a fantastic evening and well done to all the winners!"

A charity raffle with prizes offered by Hilton Hotels, IBB Andersia Hotels, MaMaison Hotels, MS Fashions, Whirpool and Mielzynski Wines, Spirits & Specialties raised 11,000 euros for housing and shelter charity Habitat for Humanity but private donations and pledges raised the total to over 142,000 euros, including a donation of 100,000 euros by a single anonymous donor.

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CEEQA 2012 GALA DINNER & PARTY in pictures. Nearly 600 guests were present at the sector's flagship annual event in Warsaw to celebrate the outstanding business achievements & achievers in emerging Europe real estate in 2011 and were treated to four course dinner and dazzling array of production and entertainment.

CEEQA 2012 AWARD WINNERS in pictures. A total of 23 awards were judged by 30 jury members for the ninth edition of the CEEQA Gala & Industry Awards.

CEEQA 2012 LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD in pictures. This year's award for Lifetime Achievement in Real Estate was presented to Richard Clare, Group Chairman of EC Harris for 15 years. On hand to assist with the presentation was last year's recipient of the award, Carol Panattoni.

REALGREEN 2012 in pictures. The CEEQA Gala was preceded by a full day symposium and fair focusing on the business case for green building in the region, four new CEEQA RealGreen awards were presented for achievement in development, investment, green building services and the green building of the year.

CEEQA 2012 JURY DINNER in pictures. A total of 23 awards were presented at the ninth edition of the CEEQA Gala & Industry Awards.

CEEQA GALA RAISES MORE THAN €10,000 FOR CHARITY: Guests at the CEEQA Gala helped raise a totla of €10,300 on behalf of Budapest based charity Bator Tabor Foundation, which organises therapeutic holiday camps for seriously sick children across Central Europe. The money raised at CEEQA2012 will be spent on the maintenance and the development of the charity's high-ropes course program, the only wheel-chair accessible high ropes course in the region.

CEEQA@MIPIM 2012 PHOTOS: More than 200 guests attended the awards short list announcement cocktail in Cannes on the opening night of MIPIM and were treated to an electric live show by soul disco legend Gloria Gaynor.

8TH ANNUAL CEEQA GALA: A packed house of 530 business leaders from more than 40 countries gathered at the Warsaw Marriott Hotel on 1-March 2011 to celebrate the sector's achievements in 2010. The crowd paid tribute to a fallen soldier, Marcin Kania, with a minute of applause.

8TH ANNUAL CEEQA GALA IN PICTURES

THE GREEN DEBATE 2: The second Green Debate insight forum in the morning preceding the CEEQA Gala focused on the business case for green building on emerging Europe real estate - Demand for green buildings is on the rise, but what are the funds thinking?

8TH CEEQA JURY DINNER: The jury for the eighth annual CEEQA Awards welcomed participants active in the Southeast Europe as well as CEE markets, judging real estate projects and business achievements across eighteen countries.

7TH CEEQA GALA IN PICTURES

The 7th CEEQA programme commenced with a CEE Insight Forum event on 21st October ‘Through the Looking Glass’ discussing the new shapes and patterns in the post-crisis CEE market place and launch of the 2009 awards, presented by Polish TV presenter Monika Richardson and CEE Insight Forum director Richard Hallward.

The 6th annual CEE Quality Awards Gala in February 2009, presenting awards for performance and achievement in in Central & Eastern European real estate in 2008, provided some benchmark victories and a few surprises in the award categories. Television presenter Monika Richardson hosted the awards ceremony among a stellar line up of entertainment through the evening including exceptional performances by 80s legends Bananarama, young Polish stars Aufiofeels and contact juggler Kamil Dzilinski "Dzielny"

The CEE Insight Forum event preceding the awards gala (TROPICAL STORM2: Global economic crisis and the CEE property markets) attracted more than 150 guests, regional investors, developers, financiers and consultants were joined by Anatoli Annenkov (EBRD) and Jan Cienski (Financial Times) in a powerful debate on challenges and opportunities for the market chaired by George Leslie (KPMG).

CEE Insight Forum V: Tropical Storm2 IN PICTURES

Bananarama had the shoes tapping as and kilts twirling as they reeled out all the old classics

In October 2008 finance, investment and real estate business leaders joined IMF regional head Christoph Rosenberg at the Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal in Budapest to discuss the impact of the escalating financial and economic crisis on the CEE property markets

CEE Insight Forum IV Tropical Storm IN PICTURES