The Building Centre is to sponsor the New Innovation of the Year Award at the Emirates Glass LEAF Awards in 2008 for the second year running. Now in their fifth year, the Emirates Glass LEAF Awards have rapidly become one of the most prestigious global architectural prizes, recognising excellence in the international architectural, design and build fields. The Building Centre is an independent forum dedicated to providing information and inspiration to all sectors of the built environment. It is a recognised impartial source of information for construction, design and architecture that combines a showcase of innovative products with an information resource, online product directory - specifinder.com and market research. It is also host to a variety of interesting and inspiring exhibitions throughout the year. John Gibson, Commercial Director at The Building Centre, commented: ‘Here at The Building Centre we continuously try to encourage and support new and exciting innovations, so we are delighted to be sponsoring this award. The Emirates Glass LEAF awards recognise excellence within our industry and we are proud to be a part of this event.’