By rosebell
The determined deadline for submiting papers by young tunnellers who are vying for next year’s Harding Prize, is January 10, 2025, and the must submit an original paper relating to any aspect of tunneling which they consider of interest to the tunneling industry.
Entries close at 17:00 GMT on January 10.
While BTS membership is not a requirement, the BTS’s Harding Prize is open to all tunneling engineers aged 33 or younger at the end of the previous year from the submission date.
Review of the papers will be done by the BTS sub-committee, and authors of selected papers are due to be invited to make an oral presentation to the BTS meeting on Thursday March 20, 2025
Additionally, the prize involves two tickets for the Society’s annual dinner, held in May 2025, where they are going to be presented with a certificate. They will also receive £750 and a copy of the BTS’s 50th Anniversary Book.
Moreover, £250 and a single ticket for the annual dinner will be delivered to the finalists whose papers are selected for presentation at the BTS meeting in March. All remaining entrants who submitted a paper to an approved standard as determined by the judging panel, will each receive £100.
Papers not selected for the final presentation may be published in the ICE Proceedings. The BTS encourages entrants to take up this opportunity to make their work visible to the civil engineering community.
Entries must be submitted by email only to:
bts.awards@britishtunnelling.com
Any questions should be submitted to:
bts.awards@britishtunnelling.com and Ken Kwok at ken.kwok@bouygues-construction.com
Christopher Hewett, the delivery manager for ground water management and shaft construction for Costain Group (Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture) on HS2, was the winner of this year’s Harding Prize, whereas his presentation “The construction of large diameter shafts within challenging ground conditions” detailed dewatering, ground condition and monitoring challenges that had to be overcome via technical innovations, a collaborative approach, and an overall positive mindset.
The Harding Prize is named after the BTS’s founder chairman, Sir Harold Harding.
