Grand Central and New Street station sweep the board at RICS Awards

The regenerated New Street station and Grand Central shopping centre have swept the board at the 2016 RICS Awards.

The £750 million revamp of the station and the old Pallasades shopping centre above was crowned overall project of the year at the trade body's West Midlands awards last night after picking up three other category prizes.

Judges praised the project's attention to detail, environmental considerations and the way it had been integrated into the region's infrastructure.

Chair of the panel Richard Moxon said: "The project also demonstrates innovative solutions for complex demolition and construction problems while maintaining operations and integrating a variation of professional skills gives this project its commercial vitality.

"Logistics, collaboration and innovation combining to build a futuristic design with a concourse five times larger than London Euston while maintaining a fully operational service.

"Creating such a visually striking yet practical 'International Gateway' to Birmingham makes it a worthy winner."

The awards are run by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and celebrate inspirational initiatives in the land, property and construction sectors across Birmingham, Black County, Herefordshire, Coventry, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire.

Also taking home prizes at last night's awards were the second phase of The School Yard in Harborne by EDG Property - its second award in three weeks - and the conversion of the former Central Fire Station next to Aston University into student accommodation (above).

Referring to latter, Mr Moxon added: "Facing many challenges, the end result is a vibrant development maximising the use of space by building up into the roof spaces, down into the basements and adding a new build block in step with the original characteristics of the building and previous use."

The full list of categories winners is below and click through to see which projects made the final shortlist:

Building Conservation

Winner - The Master's House, Herefordshire

Highly Commended - The Old Fire Station, Birmingham

Commercial

Winner - Grand Central, Birmingham

Community Benefit

Winner - Stirchley Baths, Birmingham

Highly commended - Rose Manor Extracare & Oleander House, Telford

Design through Innovation

Winner - The Old Fire Station, Birmingham

Highly commended - Curzon Building, Birmingham City University