We are delighted that Suyanto Mahdiputra has won this year’s Xcel Built Environment Student of the Year award. Suyanto won the award for his outstanding achievements whilst studying for his PhD at Northumbria University.Suyanto went on  to pass his PhD at category A with no amendments needed on his paper, which is an extremely rare occurrence.

Despite his achievements Suyanto remains modest, “I am very lucky” he says “It’s great that somebody else sees what I have done and that it’s a good thing to do”.