Barbican office scoops Greening Grey Britain Award 2016 and Gold Award in the category of window boxes and small containers
BE Offices’ Beech Street business centre was last night the recipient of two awards at the ‘City in Bloom’ Awards 2016 Ceremony which took place at the newly refurbished City Centre and Roman Amphitheatre that lies beneath the Guildhall Yard.
City in Bloom is the annual celebration of all the green spaces in the Square Mile from hanging baskets to courtyard gardens, from green roofs to balcony planters, from hanging baskets to roof top kitchen gardens.
Beech Street Centre Manager, Yasmine Shah, represented BE Offices at the Awards Ceremony and was delighted to come away a double winner with 45 Beech Street first presented with a Gold Certificate in our category for the four flowering troughs and bay tree flowering planters. Gold Certificates were awarded to entries achieving an Outstanding standard, scoring between 86% – 100%.
In addition, Beech Street won The Greening Grey Britain Award 2016 – which was awarded to BE Offices for transforming a cold, grey area into a living, planted up beautiful place, to enrich lives and benefit the environment.
City in Bloom provides the lead for the RHS campaign, ‘Greening Grey Britain’ in the Square Mile and is the foundation of the City’s success in the Royal Horticultural Society’s national competition, Britain in Bloom.