By lyndamyer
A committee of 16 industry judges has selected the winners for the ITA Awards 2020. The virtual awards ceremony took place on December 3rd and 4th; however, ITA offers their audience two-week access free of charge to the finalist’s presentation and the virtual exhibition. Please check for registry.
Eight categories were the hot topics of this year’s gathering, among which Overcoming the challenge in addition to Oddities of the underground were new. Here you could find the winner’s list:
- MAJOR PROJECT OF THE YEAR (OVER €500M)
John Holland CPB Ghella Joint Venture Tunnelling and Station Excavation Works for the Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project – Australia
- PROJECT OF THE YEAR (BETWEEN €50M AND €500M)
Chinatown Station of the Central Subway Program – San Francisco – United States of America
- PROJECT OF THE YEAR INCL. RENOVATION (UP TO €50M)
Lower Otta Hydropower Project – Norway
- TECHNICAL INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
An Innovative Automated Geological Forward-prospecting Technique Mounted on Hard-rock TBM – China
- OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGE
Chengdu-Guiyang High-speed Railway—Yujingshan Mountain Tunnel Crossing Giant Karst Cave and Underground River – China
- ODDITIES OF THE UNDERGROUND
Tunneling in the service of archaeology – Israel
- INNOVATIVE AND CONTRIBUTING UNDERGROUND SPACES
Union Square Market Street Station – Battered Drilled Shafts as Permanent Ground Support – United States of America
- YOUNG TUNNELLER OF THE YEAR
Josh Barry – Australia
