By Lynda Myer
Previous week the crowning ceremony of winners of this year’s NCE Tunneling Awards was held.
Including talks from senior figures at HS2 Ltd, TfL and National Highways (among others), this a daylong conference was followed by the coveted awards ceremony.
The plan was awarding 13 gongs up for grabs with strong contenders in each category.
The final list of winner (per category) are in the below table:
| Category | Company | Project/Initiative |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Contribution to the Industry | Bouygues Travaux Publics | Didier Jacques |
| Carbon & Sustainability Initiative of the Year | Normet UK | Electric tunneling vehicles and sprayed concrete robots |
| Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative | Ferrovial Construction – Laing O’Rourke Joint Venture | FLO – UK first HSE exemption upheld through Covid |
| Innovation in Instrumentation & Monitoring | Senceive and Murphy Geospatial | Regent’s Crescent Redevelopment – Monitoring Jubilee Line Tunnels |
| Innovation in Shaft Design & Construction | Dr. Sauer & Partners, Dragados and London Underground | Bank Station Capacity Upgrade (BSCU) |
| Innovation in Tunnel Construction | Bam Nuttall, Morgan Sindall, Balfour Beatty & Shutterstrip | Thames Tideway Tunnel |
| Innovation in Tunnel Fit-out, Maintenance & Refurbishment | Eurasia Tunnel Pacemaker Lighting (Speed Regulating Moving Lighting) Application | The Pacemaker Lighting System |
| Tunneling Project of the Year (over $500M) | MMC Gamuda KVMRT | The Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit Putrajaya Line Tunnels and Underground Station Works |
| Tunneling Project of the Year (under $500M) | China State International Holdings | Zhengxi Expressway extra-long tunnels |
| Tunneling Specialist Supplier of the Year | Maxwell GeoSystems | Deep Tunnel Sewerage System Phase 2 (DTSS2) Project, Singapore |
| Tunneling Team of the Year | Ferrovial Construction – Laing O’Rourke Joint Venture | Self-delivery SCL tunneling – Tideway Central |
| Young Tunneler of the Year | Ferrovial Construction – Laing O’Rourke Joint Venture | Ignacio Tognaccini Sainz |
| Award for Project Legacy | Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche | Tideway East for The London Design and Engineering University Technical College |
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