2024 Shortlist

Award for Project Legacy & Social Value


  • Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture - Helping Children Develop - Building Forest Schools
  • Hochtief-Murphy Joint Venture - For the Generations Ahead
  • Kier - Faringdon to Blunsdon Pipeline
  • Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture - Social Value
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Carbon & Sustainability Initiative of the Year


  • AtkinsRéalis - Sizewell C Combined Drainage Outfall (CDO) - Detailed Design
  • Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture - CRISP (Community, Resource, Information, Support, Platform)
  • Barhale and Thames Water - Zero/Forty initiative
  • Cemex UK - Vertua Lower Carbon Spray Concrete
  • Mott MacDonald - Reducing carbon through the use of the Observational Method
  • SMR UK
  • Ward and Burke Construction - Royal Oak and Longsight Park Tunnel
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Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative of the Year

  • Align JV and Bouygues Travaux Publics -  KERN Tunnel Services Dismantling Gantry
  • Align Joint Venture -  Emergency Planning
  • Align Joint Venture -  Finishing Safely, Finishing Well
  • Align Joint Venture -  Safety Will Be A Success
  • Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture -  Lithium Battery Electric Vehicles: Risk assessment and competency framework for use underground.
  • Park Signalling -  KT100 Traffic Marshal - The use of Digital Signalling for the Safe Movement of Construction Vehicles
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Innovation in Instrumentation & Monitoring

  • Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture -  Bespoke I&M Solution for Asset Monitoring
  • Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture - LiDAR-equipped UAVs
  • Civil Engineering and Development Department, Hong Kong SAR and Hyder-Meinhardt Joint Venture -  Integrated Use of Remote Sensing Technologies GNSS, InSAR and DFOS in Trunk Road T2
  • Dragados -  SOGUN: Geometric Control System for Sprayed Concrete Lining and other tunneling works
  • Geofem -  Geofem's Satellite Monitoring for Tunnelling-Induced Settlement
  • Larsen & Toubro Construction, Heavy Civil Infrastructure IC Business Group -  GEOFREQ (An Instrument Management System)
  • Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture -  Innovation In The Use Of Real Time Monitoring To Determine Cross Passage Excavation Sequence
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Innovation in Shaft Design & Construction

  • FLI Precast Solutions -  Thames Tideway Carnwath Road Shaft Mass Benching
  • Hewson Consulting Engineers -  DfMA and Offsite Methods for Rapid Shaft Construction
  • Mott MacDonald Systra Design Joint Venture -  Innovative solutions to improve buildability at Bromford tunnel intermediate shaft
  • Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture -  Groundwater Management of the Greenpark Way Vent Shafts
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Innovation in Tunnel Design & Construction

  • Barhale and Thames Water -  Innovation in offline solution
  • China State Construction Engineering, Hong Kong -  Box Jacking Tunnelling Method Under MTRC Airport Express Lane
  • Civil Engineering and Development Department, Hong Kong SAR, Hyder-Meinhardt Joint Venture and Hong Kong Productivity Council -  Autonomous Air-ground Cooperative Tunnel Inspector (AAGCTI)
  • Dragados -  SOGUN: Geometric Control System for Shotcreting and other tunnelling works
  • Mott MacDonald -  ParaRanger - An innovative digital tool for ground parametric analysis
  • Mott MacDonald -  SpeedBot – A tool for rapid tunnel lining structural modelling
  • Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture -  Innovative Cross Passage Construction Using Sprayed Concrete and Ground Freezing Between Two HS2 TBM Driven Tunnels
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Innovation in Tunnel Fit-Out, Maintenance & Refurbishment

  • Align JV -  Tunnel Services Dismantling
  • Arup -  AI and Automated Tunnel Inspections for Fit-out and Maintenance: A Whole Life Cycle Case Study
  • AtkinsRéalis -  Using and adapting available technologies to modernise inspection activities
  • Barhale and Thames Water -  Design and installation of ground-breaking temporary tunnel lining
  • Heathrow -  Adopting Modern Methods of Construction for Tunnel Refurbishment
  • Tunnel Engineering Services UK -  ATRIS (Automated Tunnel Robotic Installation System)
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Tunnelling Specialist Supplier of the Year

  • Cemex UK and Normet UK
  • Geoptic Infrastructure Investigations
  • Joseph Gallagher
  • London Bridge Associates
  • Mapei
  • OTB Engineering
  • Peri
  • Queenswood
  • Renesco UK
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Young Tunneller of the Year

  • Alex Dodd -  Barhale
  • Sarah Duckworth -  Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture
  • Babiker Hamid -  Joseph Gallagher
  • John Kuyt -  Arup
  • David Maddison -  Jacobs
  • Dickson Tang -  Bouygues Travaux Publics
  • Tom Waterhouse -  Strabag UK

Tunnelling Project Team of the Year

  • Align JV and Bouygues Travaux Publics
  • Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture
  • Barhale
  • Dr. Sauer & Partners
  • Joseph Gallagher and Haji Hassan Group
  • Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture
  • The Highways Department of HKSARG, Arup Mott MacDonald Joint Venture and Bouygues Travaux Publics
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Tunnelling Contractor of the Year

  • Active Tunnelling
  • Barhale
  • Hadee Engineering Co
  • Hochtief-Murphy Joint Venture
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Tunnelling Project of the Year (up to $100M)

  • Active Tunnelling -  NOC 23 Culvert Replacement project
  • China State Construction Engineering, Hong Kong -  Three Runway System Project Contract 3801 APM and BHS Tunnels on Existing Airport Island
  • OTB Engineering -  Machynlleth Railway Bridge Redundant Arch - Tunnelling A New Underpass
  • Riverlinx CJV - Silvertown Tunnel Cross Passages
  • Strabag UK - Coire Glas Exploration Works
  • United Utilities, Advance plus and Joseph Gallagher -  Kendal Outfall Recovery project
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Tunnelling Ground Investigation Project of the Year

  • BakerHicks, Morgan Sindall Engineering Solutions, National Grid -  Grain to Tilbury Cable Tunnel FEED Study Ground Investigation
  • Geoptic Infrastructure Investigations -  Muon imaging of rail tunnels
  • Mott MacDonald -  The Ohio River Tunnel
  • Soiltech India Private -  Geotechnical Investigation for Construction of Underground Cavern
  • SSE Renewables, Strabag, Fugro, Stantec, Cowi and BGS -  Coire Glas Ground Investigation
  • United Utilities, Advance plus and Joseph Gallagher -  Kendal Outfall Recovery Project
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Tunnelling Project of the Year (over $100M)

  • Aecom, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Gall Zeidler Consultants -  Grand Central Madison
  • Align JV and Bouygues Travaux Publics -  HS2 Chiltern Tunnels
  • Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture - HS2 Area North - Sublot 1 Tunnels
  • Bouygues Travaux Publics CJV -  Central Kowloon Route - Central Tunnel
  • Hochtief-Murphy Joint Venture -  National Grid’s London Power Tunnels Phase 2 – Package 2 Tunnels & Shafts
  • Larsen & Toubro Construction, Heavy Civil Infrastructure IC Business Group -  Mumbai Coastal Road Project (South) Package IV
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