Apprentice & Graduate Programme of the Year

• AtkinsRéalis -  Ground engineering and tunnelling apprentice programme
• Bachy Soletanche -  Plant maintenance technician apprentice programme
• BakerHicks -  Graduate programme
• Bam Ritchies - IOM3 ground engineering training scheme
• Geoquip Marine -  Building a geotechnical engineer: Empowering graduates
• Penguin Recruitment -  GeoFirst graduate recruitment programme
• United Utilities-   Ground engineering graduate development programme

Award for Digital Innovation

• Arup - Fuse & ProjectGPT
• A-squared - A2-engine AI design suite
• Dawson Wam - 4D digital simulation videos
• Delta Membrane Systems - The Delta Pumps app: Delta HLA Plus
  
• Geofem - Using innovative satellite remote sensing technology to create landslide susceptibility maps for California
• Geoquip Marine - The extractor twins
• LSTC - The use of coding to complete factual data searches on energy infrastructure projects
• Macquarie Geotechnical - Digital drill diary
• Robert Bird Group - GeoMotion monitoring digital tool
• VSL - TIO: Tablet Input Output
• VSL - Quick Connect
• Ward & Burke Construction - Excellence in digital visual safety innovation

Award for Equipment Innovation

• Akela Ground Engineering - ABeam precast ground beam system
• Arup, Bachy Soletanche, Canary Wharf Contractors, Premier Concrete Pumping - Camfaud - One North Quay: E-Pump & E-Agitator
• Mabey Hire - Super Bracing Strut 1200mm
• Dawson Wam - Steel mat hire
• Equipe Group -  Rhino cutter
• Casagrande and Expanded Piling - Hybrid piling rig
• Geprode - GeoRISCO
• Jackson Geo Services - Safecut initiative
• JSM Group Services - NICE: Non-Intrusive Cable Extraction
• fibrisTerre, Network Rail, Senceive - Automated rockfall warning solution
• SoilSafe - Validated independent base design approach
• VSL - Electric diaphragm wall trench cutter rig

Award for Technical Excellence

• AtkinsRéalis - Powderham Banks improvement project
• Bam Nuttall - South West Rail Resilience Programme
• Binnies - Blackbrook Dam
• BAE Systems, McLaughlin & Harvey, Amentum & Cementation Skanska - Ground improvement at a nuclear safety case quayside development
• Central Alliance - Slope stabilisation using electrokinetic geosynthetics implications for the observational method
• CGL - PASS mass characterization for thermal resistivity
• Zublin Ground Engineering - Artificial ground freezing trial at Sizewell C
• Fugro - Flexi-deck jack-up barge innovation for complex offshore wind investigation
• Gammon Construction - An innovative double wall retaining system for deep excavation on recently reclaimed land
• GeoSonic Drilling, i3 Decommissioning Partners, Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute and Sellafield - Breakthrough in hydrogeological characterisation beneath the Sellafield nuclear site
• Robert Bird Group - SJWS advance ground movement assessment & monitoring back analysis
• VolkerFitzpatrick - Radlett Strategic Rail Freight Interchange ECI works

Consulting Firm of the Year

• BakerHicks
• Civic Earth
• Dr Sauer & Partners
• Geowynd
• LSTC
• Ternan Energy

Contractor of the Year

• Bachy Soletanche
• Bam Ritchies
• Cognition Land and Water
• Dawson Wam
• Menard
• Soil Engineering Geoservices

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champion

• Arcadis - PARRR programme
• BGA - Early career group: Engaging with the industry
• Binnies - Empowering Talent, Embracing Diversity: The future of geotechnical engineering
• Jomas Associates - EmpowerHER: Inspiring diversity in STEM
• Mine Environment Management - Lead not follow
• Mothers into Work - Mothers into Construction
• Mott MacDonald - Women in STEM
• Systra - Use of QGIS and MerginMaps for field data collection

Excellence in Learning and Development

• Aecom - GEO Grounding: In-house technical training academy
• Cundall - Elevate management development programme
• Fugro - Journey to One Fugro Academy
• Keltbray - NextGen construction leaders
• Ward & Burke Construction - Visuals learning tools

Excellence in Outreach

• AtkinsRéalis - Charlie Pritchard-Gordon
• Bam Ritchies - Angus MacGregor
• EKFB - Geology team education and community outreach
• Jomas Associates - Building the foundations: Inspiring the next generation of ground engineering professionals
• Mine Environment Management - Environmental engineering STEM placements

Ground Investigation Project of the Year

• Arcadis - A30 Lanivet
• AtkinsRéalis, CCGI and St William Homes part of Berkeley Group - Beckton Riverside, part of the former Beckton Gasworks
• Bam Ritchies - Berwick Bank onshore cable GI
• Central Alliance - Faray wind farm ground investigation
• CGL - Ewer Street, Southwark: A pragmatic approach to investigating railway viaduct foundations
• CGL - Digital risk reduction of the Argyll OHL ground investigation
• SSE Renewables, Stantec, Cowi, and Strabag - Coire Glas underground ground investigation
• Geoquip Marine - Gennaker OWF site investigation
  
• Mott MacDonald - ABP future Port Talbot
• Mott MacDonald - River Tyne restoration facility GI
• LEAP Environmental part of RSK Geosciences - Former MOD site investigation
• Soil Engineering Geoservices - Glenmuckloch energy
• Soil Engineering Geoservices - Spiorad na Mara

Ground Investigation Specialist of the Year

• Central Alliance
• Fugro
• Geoquip Marine
• GeoSonic Drilling
• Igne Group
• Marshall Drilling
• Soil Engineering Geoservices

Lifetime Achievement Award

• This distinguished award will be judged by the GE editorial team, with assistance from key industry figures. Please note that a shortlist will not be published for this award. The winner will be informed in advance of the award ceremony and will be invited to give a short acceptance speech at the event.

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Health and Safety Award

• Bam Ritchies - Transforming safety: Eliminating manual handling for a safer workplace
• Equipe Group - Rhino cutter
• Geobear - Bespoke designed drill stand
• Geoquip Marine - Dina Polaris puts safety first
• Royal Eijkelkamp - ManipAll rod and casing loader
• Bachy Soletanche and Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering JV - Concrete blow out training
• Bachy Soletanche and Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering JV - One year programme to improve health, safety, environment, sustainability and wellbeing for our staff
• Ward & Burke Construction - Transforming construction operation with visualise best practice

International Project of the Year Award

• Aecom - EEFIT geotechnical assessment of the Mw 6.8 Al Haouz Morocco earthquake
• Fehily Timoney, John Sisk & Son and Ramboll - Dunkettle interchange upgrade scheme
• Fugro - Dunkerque offshore wind farm complex ground investigation
• Geocomp - Rail line sinkhole risk management
• Langan - TSX Broadway
• Terra Firma - Ports of Jersey
• VSL - MTR1201 Tung Chung west station

Rising Star Award

• Ademide Adewunmi - Balfour Beatty
• Jola Brown - WSP
• Rebecca Calderon - Robert Bird Group
• Korin Cross - Binnies
• David Foo - Arup
• Nina Kemp - BakerHicks
• Freddie Linley - Geoquip Marine
• Ahmed Saadeldein - Bachy Soletanche
• Oliver Savill - AtkinsRéalis
• Sam Taylor - Arup
• Jacques Tott-Buswell - SLPE

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Specialist Geotechnical Supplier of the Year

• Altrad RMD Kwikform
• Delta Membrane Systems
• Marshall Drilling
• Primely
• Soil Engineering Geoservices

Sustainability Award

• Carbon Zero Consulting - Open-loop GSHP district heating scheme
• Civil Water Management - Sustainable modular drainage systems: Greener cycle path structures
• Fehily Timoney, John Sisk & Son and Ramboll - Dunkettle interchange upgrade scheme
• Fugro - Sustainable practices in Falmouth fabrication workshop
• LK Group - Sustainable transformation of a contaminated brownfield site: Carter House Way
• Marshall Drilling - Hurst Farm carbon capture and habitat bank
• Skanska, Costain, Strabag, Arup and Typsa - HS2 Copthall Tunnel
  
• SMP Alliance and Dawson Wam - Reusing steel sheet piles for sustainable highway construction
• Soil Engineering Geoservices - Sharing our homework
• Subterra Group - The Daubeney Project: Oxford Science Park
• VolkerFitzpatrick - Radlett Strategic Rail Freight Interchange ECI works

UK Geotechnical Team of the Year

• Aecom and the EEFIT team - EEFIT mission to Morocco
• Amey Consulting -Trackbed design team
• Arcadis - Guildford STW
• Arup Typsa Strabag JV, HS2 and Skanska Costain Strabag JV - HS2 Northolt Tunnels West: Asset protection team
• AtkinsRéalis, Network Rail and Octavius Infrastructure - Crewkerne cutting emergency works: One team Wessex
• Bam Nuttall - South west rail resilience programme: Dawlish to Holcombe cliff resilience phase 4 project
• British Land, Cementation Skanska, Ramboll and Sir Robert McAlpine - 2 Finsbury Avenue
• Robert Bird Group - Wet Dock Hall, Govan
• Soil Engineering Geoservices - The landslip, Leeson Road, Ventnor
• Soil Engineering Geoservices - Northumberland Park station grouting

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UK Project with a Geotechnical Value of up to £500K

• Aecom - Derbyshire countywide landslide susceptibility assessment
• Arcadis - A30 Lanivet
• AtkinsRéalis - Powderham Banks improvement project
• Bam Ritchies - Battscombe Quarry
• Binnies - Blackbrook Dam
• Enviromesh - Dover Grammar School for Boys
• CGL, Geoterra and SatSense - Stallingborough rock-armour emplacement remotely-sensed pre and post-construction dilapidation study
• CGL - Putting theory to the test in aeolian loess deposits at Collaton St Mary
• United Utilities - Rough Crag, Thirlmere: Innovative slope stability remediation
• Van Elle - Whorlton Bridge
• VolkerGround Engineering - Rother Tidal Walls

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UK Project with a Geotechnical Value of between £500K and £1M

• AtkinsRéalis, Isle of Wight Council, Ringway Island Roads, Socotec, Soil Engineering Geoservices - The landslip, Leeson Road
• Ayesa, Geobear, Murphy and Network Rail - Grange-over-Sands embankment repair
• Bam Ritchies - Wall 23 TRU
• Bam Ritchies -Trench lane
• Menard - SmartParc Spondon: Greggs
• Mott MacDonald Bentley and Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water - Llyn Celyn Reservoir: PMF flood conveyance remedial works
• QTS Group, Network Rail and MHB Consultants - Ratho rock cutting
• LEAP Environmental part of RSK Geosciences - Former MOD site investigation
• Tony Gee and Partners - Midlands Mainline embankment cutting during possession for the Radlett jack-box push
• Walsh - Cecil Avenue development
• WSP, Walters and Somerset Council -  B3224 Roundwaters retaining wall

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

• Albion Drilling Group, CPE Consultancy, Jacobs and Scottish Borders Council & SBC Contracts - Hawick FPS WS22
• Alun Griffiths Contractors - Rhigos Road remediation
• Arcadis - Guildford STW
• Arup, Bachy Soletanch, Canary Wharf Contractors and Red7Marine - Eden Dock Bridge marine piling
• CGL and McAleer & Rushe - 65 Crutched Friars, Aldgate
• Fairhurst Group, Network Rail and QTS Group - Ulverston emergency works
• Menard - Larne: Port of entries
• Mott MacDonald Bentley and United Utilities - Bolton WwTW, AMP7 environmental upgrades
• VolkerGround Engineering - New Wear footbridge
• Ward & Burke Construction and United Utilities - Astley Bridge/Dunscar Bridge CSO and detention shaft scheme

UK Project with a Geotechnical Value over £3M

• Arup, Bachy Soletanche and Canary Wharf Contractors - One North Quay: Piling
• Bam Nuttall - South west rail resilience programme: Dawlish to Holcombe cliff resilience phase 4 project
• Cementation Skanska - South Clyde Energy Centre EfW
• Zublin Ground Engineering - Artificial ground freezing trial at Sizewell C
• Jacobs - Birtley to Coalhouse
• Keltbray and Wentworth - Salisbury Square development
• Pell Frischmann Consultants - Stabilisation of East Coast Mainline embankment at Browney Curve
• Roughan & O’Donovan Consulting Engineers, Bam-Farrans JV, H&H, Norfolk County Council and WSP - Herring Bridge, Great Yarmouth
• SMP Alliance, Dawson Wam and Van Elle - Smart motorway NEAR piled retaining structures
• SSE Renewables, Stantec, Cowi, and Strabag - Coire Glas exploratory works
• Graham and Sweco - M2 Junction 5 improvements
• Ward & Burke Construction and United Utilities - Royal Oak & Longsight Park wastewater detention tunnel