RICS Awards, East of England

I was in the rare and exciting situation this evening of attending an awards ceremony for one of my projects at work, as the Longstanton Exhibition Centre was nominated for a Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors or RICS Awards, East of England. The event was being held at Chilford Hall the Cambridgeshire vineyard, but disappointingly I didn't get a chance to same some of their wines, which is perhaps a touch odd as you would have thought that they'd provide their own wines for an event held on their premises.
In any case, the food was fine, if nothing to write home about, being standard mass catering fayre: a salmon terrine to start, chicken breast wrapped in bacon as a main and profiteroles to finish, before the award giving started, presented by Janine Manchin.
Looking through at a selection of the other nominees it was clear that our project was in a minority amongst a sea of multi million pound projects with prestige private clients, so I was absolutely chuffed when we walked away with a Highly Commended Award in the Design and Innovation category - truly impressive to think this little half million pound project could beat some of the big boys on the night. I left very, very proud. And a little bit drunk.