2017 Finalists
Award for Equipment Innovation
- Arcadis Consultung (UK) - Exeter to Newton Abbot resilience works
- Groundforce Shorco - Sheet Master
- Inbye Engineering - Strength monitoring using thermal imaging
- Kier Bam Joint Venture - Hinkley Point C - earthworks and preliminary works contract
- Lankelma - Innovation in cone penetration testing
- Raeburn Drilling & Geotechnical - Welfare Anywhere
- Raptor Anchoring and Rockbit UK - Raptor rock anchors
- Structural Soils - Retrofitted safety bar
Award for Technical Excellence
Sponsored by:
- Arup - The 4G Ground Engineering Model for Offshore Abu Dhabi
- Arup - Smart photo based condition monitoring
- Atkins - A465 Heads of the Valley Section 2 RW04a/b
- FCC Construcción - Bolaños Tunnel
- Ferrovial Agroman Laing O’Rourke Joint Venture - Northern Line Extension
- Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions - Irish rail cuttings and embankment asset management tool
- Hydrock - Using pile installation logs to complement ground investigation information
- OGI Groundwater Specialists - Seaforth Passage widening, Port of Liverpool
Award for Technical Innovation
Sponsored by:
- Arcadis Consulting (UK) - Efficient Design of a Linear Rail Project using LiDAR and Digital GIS Mine Plans
- Arup, Cementation Skanska, Southampton University and Ciria - C760 - Update to embedded retaining walls
- Concrete Canvas - CC Hydro
- Geobond Piling & Foundations and Abtech Basement Systems - Innovative geostructural solutions for embedded retaining walls and basement
- Geon Energy - Geon deep geothermal single well technology
- Jacked Structures Group - Innovations for underbridges, shallow tunnels and tunnels in trenches
- Keltbray Piling - Wireless monitoring of insitu concrete strengths in piles
- Mainmark - Liquefaction mitigation in New Zealand
- Senceive - Flat Mesh
Consulting Firm of the Year
Sponsored by:
- Arup
- Atkins
- Byrne Looby
- Campbell Reith
- ESI Consulting
- Mott MacDonald
Contractor of the Year
Sponsored by:
- Aarsleff Ground Engineering
- Bachy Soletanche
- Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering
- Cementation Skanska
- Keller
- Keltbray Piling
- M J Rooney Construction
- Vibro Menard
- Ward and Burke Construction
Geoenvironmental Project of the Year
- Aecom - Ex-situ remediation on an operational pharmaceutical site
- Arcadis Consulting (UK) - Portslade Beach tar seepage investigation and remediation
- Concrete Canvas - Use of Concrete Canvas at Ullswater
- ESI Consulting - McVitie’s groundwater flooding assessment
- RSK - Former polishing and plating site
Ground Investigation Project with a Geotechnical Value of up to £500k
- Atkins - William Girling Reservoir Willowstick investigation
- Buro Happold - Bristol Arena
- CGL - The Broadway
- Dunelm Geotechnical and Environmental - Milburngate House, Durham
- Geotechnical Engineering and Story Contracting - Eden Brows landslide
- Opus International Consultants - Sinkhole in St Albans - Fontmell Close & Bridle Close
- WYG - Lowestoft flood risk management scheme
Ground Investigation Project with a Geotechnical Value of over £500k
- Aecom, WSP and TfNSW - Sydney Metro City and Southwest
- Arcadis Consultung (UK) - Exeter to Newton Abbott Resilience Study Phase 1
- Bam Ritchies & WSP - East West Rail Phase 2 – GRIP 3
- Concept, Geotechnical Consulting Group and Wanda UK - One Nine Elms
- Fugro, NuGen, Tractebel & Amec FW - Moorside Nuclear Power Station site characterisation
- RPS Consulting Services - HS2 ground investigation
- Structural Soils, Atkins, Arup and Horizon Nuclear Power - Wylfa Newydd South Site onshore ground investigation
- United Utilities and Geotechnics - Castlerigg Tunnel on the Thirlmere Link Raw Water Aqueduct
Ground Investigation Specialist of the Year
- Arcadis Consulting (UK)
- Central Alliance
- Concept Engineering Consultants
- Fugro
- Geotechnical Engineering
- RPS Consulting Services
- Structural Soils
Health and Safety Award
Sponsored by:
- Arcadis Consultung (UK) - Reducing driving risks through improving positive behaviours
- Bachy Soletanche - BAC App
- Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering - Hands-free splicing
- Central Alliance - CA at Work app
- Lithos Consulting - Man Down Mobile Phone App
- Raeburn Drilling & Geotechnical - Welfare Anywhere
- Structural Soils - Manual handing solutions
- Ward and Burke Construction - Rebar truss supporting system
International Project of the Year Award
Sponsored by:
- Arup - The 4G ground engineering model for offshore Abu Dhabi
- Atkins - Riyadh Metro - lines four and six
- Cementation Skanska - European Spallation Source, Sweden
- City of Rotterdam - Historic railway bridge foundation adaptation
- FCC Construcción - Bolaños Tunnel
- Maccaferri - Rockfall mitigation measures at Saptshrungi Gad Temple, India
- Mainmark - True Blue mineshaft rehabilitation project, West Wyalong
- Mott MacDonald - Doha Metro major stations
Rising Star Award
Sponsored by:
- Riccardo Corti - Arup
- Aliki Kokkinou - Aecom
- John O'Donovan - Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions
- Frank O'Leary - Arup
- Martin Plant - Atkins
- Joseph Slattery - CGL
- Matt Walpole - Simplex Westpile
Sustainability Award
Sponsored by:
- Atkins, Erith and National Grid Property Holdings - Isle of Grain drainage rising main refurbishment works
- Bam Nuttall - Hove Tunnel rock cutting
- Hewson Consulting Engineers, Balfour Beatty and Network Rail - Edinburgh Interchange Station
- Maccaferri - M40 acoustic barrier, Banbury
- Network Rail - Enhancing rail asset service lifeusing under sleeper pads
- Network Rail - High output ballast cleaning system
- Ramboll Skanska - Bermondsey Dive Under
- United Utilities - Water course reinstatement and provision of storm resilience
UK Geotechnical Team of the Year
- Aecom - Thames Tideway Tunnel Central Section
- Fugro, NuGen, Tractebel & Amec FW - Moorside site characterisation team
- QTS Group, Network Rail IP, Fairhurst and Cowi - RCDP Collaborative Works – Scotland, Earthworks
- McAlpine Design Group
- United Utilities - AMP6 Capital Investment
UK Project with a Geotechnical Value of up to £1M
- Cowi UK - Provost Driver Court
- Network Rail - Tebay Emergency
- Pell Frischmann - Manningtree Station Lifts
- Senceive - Pudding Mill Lane trackbed monitoring
- United Utilities, Amey, Donegan Civil Engineering and Manchester City Council - Mancunian Way sewer collapse and remediation
- Walsh and CGL - 5 Miles Street, London
UK Project with a Geotechnical Value of between £1M and £3M
Sponsored by:
- Bam Nuttall - Hove Tunnel rock cutting
- Cementation Skanska - Bridgwater - Burnham Jetty
- CGL, Galliford Try and Furness Partnership - 1-9 Seymour Street, London
- CH2M and Raymond Brown Construction - Pines Hotel cliff stabilisation scheme, Swanage
- Costain - Tovil Embankment
- Dawnus Ferrovial Agroman JV - A4232 Cardiff Eastern Bay Link
- Ramboll - Tate Modern extension
UK Project with a Geotechnical Value of over £3M
Sponsored by:
- Arup Geotechnics and Sir Robert McAlpine - 10 Fenchurch Avenue
- Bauer Technologies - Principal Place Residential, London
- Bauer Technologies - M8/M73/M74 Improvements
- Bicester to Oxford Collaboration - East West Rail Phase 1
- Expanded Geotechnical - Nine Elms Station Box, Northern Line Extension
- Ramboll Skanska - Bermondsey Dive Under
- VolkerGround Engineering - Ipswich Tidal Barrier