2020 Winners & shortlists

Award for Digital Innovation

Sponsored by:

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Winner: ETS: MIRET

Shortlists:

• Aecom: Ground investigation deliverables management system integration
• Arup and Oasys: Automating tunnelling analysis for large infrastructure projects
• Atkins UK: Total digital GI
• Concept Engineering Consultants and ALS Environmental: Collaborative digital data management
• ETS: MIRET
• Graham: Digital by default
• Kier: Holebase SI Extension and Autocad Civil 3D with Repute 2.5 for pile design
• Liebherr: More safety on site
• Mott MacDonald (on behalf of Balfour Beatty Vinci) and Seequent: Linking new ground information within the design and construction
• OGI Groundwater Specialists: Ground engineering modelling service
• RMD Kwikform: Locus 3D Suite
• Strata Geotechnics (part of Van Elle): A428 Black Cat project specific app

Award for Equipment Innovation

Winner: Equipe Training: Rhino Corebox

Highly commended: Liebherr: LB16 unplugged

Shortlists:

• Can Geotechnical: Slope rig
• Central Alliance, Geoptic and AmcoGiffen: Mobile Muon Tomography Detector
• Dywidag Systems International: Elasto-magnestic load measurement
• Equipe Training: Rhino Corebox
• ETS: ARCHITA
• Liebherr: LB16 unplugged
• Novaslice: Novaslice
• Shire Structures: Root Base concrete-free foundation
• Socotec: Transducer Packer Slave Realer
• Structural Soils: Confinement Cells for Class one Samples

Award for Technical Excellence

Sponsored by:

Winner: BMB: The first trapezoidal boltless ring with guide rods built in the world

Shortlists:

• Arup: Asset portal
• Arup: Wylfa Newydd seismic hazard consultancy
• Atkins Global: Trackbed transition design at the approaches to under-bridges and culverts
• BGS: High-resolution geological characterisation of the Lower Thames Crossing
• BMB: The first trapezoidal boltless ring with guide rods built in the world
• CGL: The evolution of the buttress pile propping solution
• Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche JV and Mott MacDonald: Thames Tideway Tunnel - King Edward Memorial Park deep soil mixing
• Fugro GB Marine: Fugro PIMS Model
• Geoptic / Central Alliance / AmcoGiffen: Alfreton Old Tunnel Hidden Shafts Investigation
• OGI Groundwater Specialists: Erskine Bridge Gas Pipeline Replacement - Microtunnel Reception Shaft Groundwater Control
• Tensar International: The use of the Tensar T-value method at Beverley Wastewater Treatment Works
• Wentworth House Partnership and Costain, Vinci and Bachy Soletanche joint venture: Protection of existing underground assets at Greenwich Pumping Station

Brownfield Redevelopment Project of the Year

Winner: Cundall: Harper Road project

Shortlists:

• ABG: Barney Crag Mine
• Aecom: Process waste landfill restoration capping project
• Campbell Reith: North Close former brickpit landslip remediation
• Cundall: Harper Road project
• Graphic Structures: Edwards Recycling
• United Utilities: Broughton Water Treatment Works

Community Engagement Award

Winner: Costain: Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche JV, Tideway, Chambers Wharf

Shortlists:

• Campbell Reith: North Close Landslip Remediation
• Concept Engineering Consultants: HS2 S1/S2 Additional Ground Investigation (Stage One) Central and West London
• Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche JV: Tideway, Chambers Wharf
• Lower Thames Crossing (Highways England project): Lower Thames Crossing ground investigation team
• Sir Robert McAlpine: Ilona Rose House London
• Structural Soils and Atkins: Glasgow Quay Walls ground investigation
• Volker Stevin: Dover Western Docks Revival Scheme

Consulting Firm of the Year

Winner: Mott MacDonald

Highly commended: Cowi

Shortlists:

• Aecom
• Arcadis
• Arup
• Atkins
• Cowi
• Mott MacDonald
• Ramboll
• RSK Group
• Sweco

Contractor of the Year

Winner: Structural Soils

Shortlists:

• Alun Griffiths
• Bachy Soletanche
• Causeway Geotech
• Ground Developments
• Structural Soils
• Vibro Menard

Editor's Award​

Winner: BSI, Aecom, Arup, Blackwell, Cantab Consulting, D Norbury, CSSL, Geofirma, Jacobs, Mott MacDonald and Wood: The UK team for the first European earthworks standard BS EN 16907​

Ground Investigation Project of the Year

Winner: Structural Soils working with Highways England and Aecom: A303 Phase 6 and Phase 7 advanced GI

Shortlists:

• Atkins: A9 Dualling Dalraddy to Slochd Stage 3 detailed ground investigation 
• Aecom, Cascade and GEL: Lower Thames Crossing - package A ground investigation
• Atkins and Structural Soils: Glasgow Quay Walls ground investigation
• BAM Ritchies on behalf of SSE Renewables, Tony Gee and Partners, and Viking Energy Wind Farm: Viking Energy Wind Farm main ground investigation
• Causeway Geotech: Bridgwater Tidal Barrier ground investigation
• CGL: Calverley Square in Tunbridge Wells
• Cundall and Dunelm Geotechnical and Environmental: Training facility in County Durham
• SCSJV and Concept: HS2 S1/S2 additional ground investigation (Stage One)
• Socotec: A465 Heads of the Valley Dualling Sections 4 and 5 Improvements
• Structural Soils working with Highways England and Aecom: A303 Phase 6 and Phase 7 advanced GI
• United Utilities, Socotec and Willowstick Technologies: Torside Impounding Reservoir

Ground Investigation Specialist of the Year

Winner: Structural Soils

Highly commended: Dunelm Geotechnical and Environmental

Shortlists:

• CGL
• Dunelm Geotechnical and Environmental
• Lankelma
• Raeburn Drilling and Geotechnical
• Socotec
• Structural Soils

Health and Safety Award

Winner: Equipe Training and Aecom: LTC GI Audits and Inspections

Highly commended: Liebherr:  More safety on site

Shortlists:

• Arcadis: Digital Hazard Management on the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Dualling Project
• Equipe Training and Aecom: LTC GI Audits and Inspections
• Fugro: Ride 4 Health
• Liebherr: More safety on site
• Roger Bullivant: Safety First+People
• The Compliance & Skills Academy: Safe2Site

International Project of the Year Award

Winner: Spie Batignolles Foundations:  Houphouet Boigny bridge, Ivory Coast

Shortlists:

• Arcadis: Doha Metro Red Line South underground project, Qatar
• Arcadis: Istanbul Airport, Turkey
• Causeway Geotech: Metrolink Dublin preliminary ground investigation
• Ischebeck-Titan: Bray Head Structure C, Republic of Ireland
• Spie Batignolles Fondations: Houphouet Boigny bridge, Ivory Coast

Rising Star Award

Sponsored by:

Winner: Ben Weller: Arup

Highly commended: Jonny Neville:  Mott MacDonald

Shortlists:

• Wesley Dixon: Structural Soils
• Antonella Galliani: CGL
• Saleh Jalbi: Sea and Land Project Engineering
• Tom Jones: Sir Robert McAlpine
• Elpida Katsiveli: Atkins
• Dimitrios Kontogiorgis: Arcadis Consulting (UK)
• John Kuyt: Arup
• David Major: Expanded Geotechnical
• Jonny Neville: Mott MacDonald
• Craig Parry: Atkins
• Tania Santiapillai: Aecom
• Ben Weller: Arup

Specialist Geotechnical Supplier of the Year

Winner: Senceive

Shortlists:

• Dywidag Systems International
• Geobear
• Groundforce
• Ischebeck-Titan
• Oasys
• RMD Kwikform
• Senceive
• Seequent
• Tensar International

Sustainability Award

Winner: Murphy Ground Engineering: The use of Cemfree concrete on the HP11/HP22 gas main diversion project

Shortlists:

• Aecom: Process waste landfill capping project
• Atkins, Cornelsen and Northern Gas Networks: Tar Wars - a new hope
• Cowi UK, Pell Frischmann and Mason Clark Associates: East Riding Infrastructure and Facilities: Anlaby and East Ella Flood Alleviation Scheme
• Equipe Training: Rhino Corebox
• Murphy Ground Engineering: The use of Cemfree concrete on the HP11/HP22 gas main diversion project
• Keltbray: Hollow Pile
• Ramboll UK: Existing foundation reuse and strengthening for the Adidas Flagship Store
• Robert Bird Group: 1 Leadenhall advanced pile-enhanced raft design
• Sanctus: Barnhill Quarry
• Willmott Dixon Construction: Ashton Rise Housing Development for Bristol City Council

UK Geotechnical Team of the Year

Winner: SCS Design House comprising Arup, Typsa and Strabag: HS2 MWCC S1/S2

Shortlists:

• Atkins, British Geological Survey and Morgan Sindall: Dig to Share
• Bam Ritchies: Hinkley Point C laboratory team
• BSI, Aecom, Arup, Blackwell, Cantab Consulting, D Norbury, CSSL, Geofirma, Jacobs, Mott MacDonald and Wood: The UK team for the first European earthworks standard BS EN 16907
• Highways England, Aecom, Amageo, Arup, Atkins, Coffey, Jacobs, Mott MacDonald, TRL and Winter Associates: Resilience of the strategic road network to ground-related hazards
• Lower Thames Crossing: Lower Thames Crossing ground engineering team
• SCS Design House comprising Arup, Typsa and Strabag: HS2 MWCC S1/S2

UK Projects with a Geotechnical Value of under £500,000

Winner: Scottish Borders Council, SBC Contracts, Albion Drilling Group, MHB Consultants, Maccaferri:  A72 widening at Dirtpot Corner

Shortlists:

• Aarsleff Ground Engineering: Gibraltar Rock emergency retaining wall repairs
• Bam Nuttall: Newhaven Port Access Road
• Campbell Reith: North Close, Dorking landslip remediation
• Cundall: Training facility slope failures in County Durham
• FWS Consultants: Neasham Road in Darlington
• Geobear: Seaton Delaval Hall
• Hewson Consulting Engineers: Luton Dart underpinning
• Remedy Geotechnics and Foundation Piling: Zig Zag Road, Ventnor
• Scottish Borders Council, SBC Contracts, Albion Drilling Group, MHB Consultants, Maccaferri: A72 widening at Dirtpot Corner

UK Projects with a Geotechnical Value of between £0.5M and £1M

Winner: Foundation Piling, Renaker Build and Booth King:  Chester Road in Manchester

​Highly commended: Aecom: Crystal Palace Subway - East Courtyard retaining walls

Shortlists:

• Aecom: Crystal Palace Subway - East Courtyard retaining walls
• Arcadis: Guide Bridge access ramp in Greater Manchester
• CGL: Potters Lea in Kingsteignton
• Contractors Design Services and Lifestyle Projects: Putney
• Fairhurst: Glen Tarras slope stabilisation
• Foundation Piling, Renaker Build and Booth King: Chester Road in Manchester
• Graphic Structures: Edwards Recycling
• Ramboll UK: Tintagel Footbridge
• Ramboll UK and Keller: 425 Oxford Street - existing foundation reuse and strengthening
• Van Elle: Highland Enhancement Project - Don Viaduct
• Structural Soils and Atkins: Glasgow Quay Walls ground investigation
• United Utilities: Earnsdale Service Reservoir landslip and slope stabilisation

UK Project with a Value between £1M and £3M

Winner: Sir Robert McAlpine: Conisbee and Realtime, Royal Albert Hall

Highly commended: Ramboll UK:  Mountain Ash Southern Cross Valley Link

Shortlists:

• ByrneLooby: Waste bunker at Earlsgate Energy from Waste
• Can Geotechnical: Arley Tunnel cutting stabilisation
• CGL: Station Square
• Deep Foundations Specialists, Sheppard Piling and Taylor Wimpey UK: Greenhill Gardens in Haywards Heath
• Network Rail Works Delivery Scotland: Ecclefechan landslip remediation
• Ramboll UK: Mountain Ash Southern Cross Valley Link
• Sir Robert McAlpine, Conisbee and Realtime: Royal Albert Hall
• Van Elle: Amberwood House, London

UK Project with a Value over £3M

Winner: Skanska and Engenuiti: St Giles Circus

Shortlists:

• Bauer Technologies: Woodsmith Mine, North Yorkshire
• BWB Consulting and Jones Bros Civil Engineering: A49 Goose Green
• Can Geotechnical: Scarborough Spa slope stabilisation
• East West Rail Alliance: East West Rail Phase 2 - Bicester to Bedford
• J Murphy & Sons, Cadent, and Cowi: Harefield to Southall Pipeline Diversion
• J Murphy & Sons, Coffey Geotechnics and Network Rail: Parton emergency landslide repair in Cumbria
• Ramboll UK: Dover Western Docks Revival
• Sir Robert McAlpine, Tier, GCG and Cantillon: Ilona Rose House
• Skanska and Engenuiti: St Giles Circus
• Tony Gee & Partners: Luton Dart Project
• Vibro Menard, Galliford Try, Highways England and Arup: M49 Avonmouth new junction