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This award recognises a company or project team, who have created a lasting legacy for the local community as a result of a tunnelling project. This legacy can be through improvements to the local community, environment, social infrastructure, career development opportunities for people living in the region or any other significant impact in social value. 

The entry should relate to a project that was substantially completed between January 2024 and July 2025.

This award recognises initiatives introduced or championed within the tunnelling industry which have improved sustainability and reduced carbon emissions and embodied carbon on a project or programme.

The entry should demonstrate how the initiative delivered a positive outcome on issues such as lowering emissions created during the construction phase, using alternative material to reduce embodied carbon in the asset, improving whole life performance in terms or in use carbon emissions or having a positive impact on the environment in terms of sustainability.

The entry should relate to an initiative that was championed between January 2024 and July 2025.

Please note: If you are successfully shortlisted for this category, live judging will take place at the event on the 4 December 

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by a panel of our judges in a presentation session at the Tunnelling Conference in London in December 2025 and feature in New Civil Engineer so you must be prepared to share your concept to a wide audience.

This award recognises initiatives introduced or championed within the tunnelling industry which have enabled a project or programme team to deliver improved performance with respect to health, safety and wellbeing of the workforce.

The entry should demonstrate how the initiative led to increased health, safety or wellbeing on the project and how it managed risk to improve productivity or boosted morale among employees.

The entry should relate to an initiative that was championed between January 2024 and July 2025.

This category recognises projects that are using innovative approaches or pioneering new technology to advance instrumentation and monitoring on a tunnelling project to support advances in design and deliver reliability and insight on the project.

Entrants should use a specific tunnelling or deep excavation to demonstrate the innovation, which can be the application of a pioneering new technology or novel use of an existing solution.   

The entry should relate to an innovation that was used between January 2024 and July 2025.

This category recognises projects that are driving use of innovative methods and smart technologies within the industry to improve design and construction of shafts for tunnelling schemes and other deep excavations.  

The entry should relate to an innovation that was used between January 2024 and July 2025.

This category recognises projects that are driving use of innovative methods and smart technologies within the industry to improve the design or delivery of tunnelling work. The work could reduce risk to the programme, cost or stakeholders during design or delivery or help create a better outcome for the client over the lifespan of the asset.

The entry should relate to an innovation that was used on a specific project between January 2024 and July 2025 and can be focused on either the design or construction of the tunnelling project.

This category recognises projects that are driving use of innovative methods and smart technologies within the industry to improve the final stages of tunnel construction or during the operational phase to maximise the lifespan of the asset.   

The entry should relate to an innovation that was used between January 2024 and July 2025.

This award seeks to recognise organisations driving innovation in tunnel boring machinery and the systems that support them. This can be new products, machinery or technologies used in tunnel boring that help improve efficiency, safety or environmental impacts.

The entry should relate to an innovation used between January 2024 and July 2025.

This category aims to reward an innovative new advancement or concept that has helped a company in tunnelling to improve its performance or delivery of a challenging element of a project in the last 2 years.

Entrants may have achieved a technical innovation through a new approach to design, new techniques or procedures that have significantly enhanced their own organisation’s performance or resulted in safer, more efficient project delivery.

Nominations for this award are sought to find the individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the industry between January 2024 and July 2025.

Judges will focus on the personal contribution made by the individual, who can be involved in any area of the tunnelling industry from project planning to design, construction or maintenance and at any stage of their career.

This is not a lifetime achievement award and judges will be looking for an individual who has made their significant contribution in the last 18 months.

This award is open to any specialist supplier working with companies that design or construct tunnels or deliver tunnelling related infrastructure. You could be providing a specialist product, material, software, app, professional service or advice that supports the tunnelling work itself or the skills needed to undertake the work.

Your company must have supplied your service to a tunnelling project or projects between January 2024 and July 2025. The project or projects need not be complete.

Nominations for this award are sought to find a young tunnelling professional who, while developing and deepening their experience in the tunnelling industry, has made an outstanding contribution between January 2024 and July 2025.

Judges will focus on the personal contribution made by the individual to successfully bring to market innovative ideas or initiatives, challenge normal practices or played a key role in delivery of technically complex work on a tunnelling project.

The individual could also have championed improvements in health, safety and wellbeing, have put significant effort into STEM outreach in the area in which the project is being delivered or play a key part in improve diversity and inclusivity policies within the business they work for.

The entrant must have no more than 10 years’ tunnelling industry experience. The entry must be backed by two independent referees.

This award seeks to recognise a team involved in the construction of tunnels or tunnelling related infrastructure that have excelled in collaboration, delivery and problem solving.

It is open to entire project team or a team focused on a specific area within a project or programme. Team members could be drawn from one company, joint ventures or could it be a multi-company team.

The entry should relate to work that happened between January 2024 and July 2025.

Please note: If you are successfully shortlisted for this category, live judging will take place at the event on the 4 December 

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by a panel of our judges in a presentation session at the Tunnelling Conference in London in December 2025 and feature in New Civil Engineer so you must be prepared to share your concept to a wide audience.

This award seeks to recognise the very best tunnelling contractor and entries should reflect that. Contractors that can demonstrate achievement of clear business milestones will be rewarded in this category. Firms must be able to provide evidence of continued dedication to delivering innovation, quality and value for clients between January 2024 and July 2025.

Entrants must be able to use their tunnelling projects to demonstrate their technical capabilities in delivering projects beyond the expectations of clients, within budget and on time.

Judges will also consider the firms approach to coping with challenges on site and interacting with the supply chain, looking for evidence of commercial and technical success across this period.

Please note: If you are successfully shortlisted for this category, live judging will take place at the event on the 4 December 

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by a panel of our judges in a presentation session at the Tunnelling Conference in London in December 2025 and feature in New Civil Engineer so you must be prepared to share your concept to a wide audience.

This award seeks to recognise the very best tunnelling engineering consultancy and entries should reflect that. Consultancies s that can demonstrate achievement of clear business milestones will be rewarded in this category. Firms must be able to provide evidence of continued dedication to delivering innovation, quality and value for clients between January 2024 and July 2025.

Entrants must be able to use their tunnelling projects to demonstrate their technical capabilities in designing projects beyond the expectations of clients.

Judges will also consider the firms approach to coping with challenges and interacting with partners, looking for evidence of commercial and technical success across this period.

This award seeks to recognise excellence in delivery of a tunnelling project or tunnelling-related element of a project up to the value of US$100M that was completed between January 2024 and July 2025.

Judges will be looking to reward the project that best meets or exceeds the design brief and client expectation but that has also sought to advance industry best practice and used collaborative approaches to deliver the work.

This award seeks to reward ground investigation that stands out for it’s innovation, quality, sustainability and value engineering as part of a tunnelling project between January 2024 and July 2025. Projects entered into this category should have elements within the design and delivery that focus on minimising risk from unexpected ground conditions.

The ground investigation must be completed at the time of entry, but it is not essential for the tunnelling project, for which the ground investigation was undertaken, to have started or have been completed.

This award seeks to recognise excellence in delivery of a tunnelling project or tunnelling-related element of a project up with a value of over US$100M that was completed between January 2024 and July 2025.

Judges will be looking to reward the project that best meets or exceeds the design brief and client expectation but that has also sought to advance industry best practice and used collaborative approaches to deliver the work.