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<\/p>\nBeing known as an international event, the tunneling projects and innovations from around the world have been recognised in the ITA Tunnelling Awards 2024.<\/p>\n
According to the ITA: “These outstanding achievements from across the world demonstrate how each of the projects, innovations and young tunnellers of the 2024 Awards series are changing how underground engineering is shaping the future development and sustainability of cities and global public infrastructure.”<\/p>\n
As Major Project of the Year (\u20ac500m+),\u00a0 London\u2019s Thames Tideway took the Gold Trophy at a gala dinner in Genoa last Thursday, whereas the Silver Trophy went to Grand Central Madison, formerly East Side Access, New York, US, and Bronze to Thomson-East Coast Line Contracts T222 to T310, Singapore. The judges awarded fourth place to the single-bore double-deck Municipal Expressway Tunnel with super-large diameter, China.<\/p>\n
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The winners of the seven categories of the 10th Anniversary series of the ITA Tunnelling Awards are:<\/p>\n
Major Project of the Year (\u20ac500m+)<\/p>\n
Gold: Thames Tideway, London, UK<\/p>\n
Silver: Grand Central Madison, formerly East Side Access, New York, US<\/p>\n
Bronze: Thomson-East Coast Line Contracts T222 to T310, Singapore<\/p>\n
Fourth: Single-bore double-deck Municipal Expressway Tunnel with super-large diameter, China<\/p>\n
Project of the Year (\u20ac50-500m)<\/p>\n
Gold: Brenner Base Tunnel \u2013 Lot H52 Hochstegen, Austria<\/p>\n
Silver: Isarco River Underpass \u2013 Lot H71, Brenner Base Tunnel, Italy<\/p>\n
Bronze: Lyon-Turin Saint-Martin-la-Porte Exploratory Tunnel, France<\/p>\n
Fourth: Musaimeer Pump Station and Outfall Project, Qatar<\/p>\n
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Renovation Project of the Year<\/p>\n
Gold: Manfreida Road Tunnel Renovation Project, Italy<\/p>\n
Bronze: Genoa Railway Junction Capacity Upgrade, Italy<\/p>\n
Silver: Refurbishment of the Heinenoord Immersed Tube Road Tunnel, Netherlands<\/p>\n
Product\/Equipment Innovation of the Year<\/p>\n
Gold: Ultra-small turning radius hard rock TBM, China<\/p>\n
Silver: SOGUN: Geometric control system for shotcreting and other tunnelling works, Spain<\/p>\n
Bronze: Advanced hybrid wireless sensor network system for safety risk sensing in tunnel and underground engineering, China<\/p>\n
Fourth: Type 0-90\u00b0 continuous conveyor equipment, China<\/p>\n
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Technical Innovation of the Year<\/p>\n
Gold: Disc cutter wear sensor package and TBM monitoring system, South Korea<\/p>\n
Silver: MIRET-Tunnel AI, Italy<\/p>\n
Bronze: Advanced tunnelling assistance system, Italy<\/p>\n
Beyond Engineering<\/p>\n
Gold: Modern underground cemetery \u2013 where creativity, sustainability and efficiency meet tradition, Israel<\/p>\n
Silver: City Rail Link goes beyond in Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, New Zealand<\/p>\n
Bronze: Eco-friendly metro construction for challenging coastal geological environments, China<\/p>\n
Fourth: Risk control for safe shield tunnelling through complex strata of the Pearl River System, China<\/p>\n
Young Tunneller of the Year<\/p>\n
Gold: Luigi D\u2019Angelo, project engineer for Italferr on the Naples-Bari high speed railway, Italy, age 34<\/p>\n
Silver: Hanan Samadi, Iran, age 28<\/p>\n
Bronze: Adriano Martoccia, Italy, age 33<\/p>\n
Next year\u2019s ITA Tunnelling Awards will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, in conjunction with the 2025 SETC Southeastern Europe Tunnelling Conference on October 1-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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