2020 WINNERS & FINALISTS
Award for Digital Innovation
Sponsored by:
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