{"id":2556,"date":"2020-12-04T07:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2020-12-04T07:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:41:49","slug":"ita-2020-winners-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"ITA 2020: Winners Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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&#8217;s presentation and the virtual exhibition. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/ita-aites.6connex.eu\/event\/ITAVirtualEvents\/register\"><strong>check <\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for registry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eight categories were the hot topics of this year&#8217;s gathering, among which <strong><em>Overcoming the challenge<\/em><\/strong> in addition to <strong><em>Oddities of the underground<\/em><\/strong> were new. Here you could find the winner&#8217;s list:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>MAJOR PROJECT OF THE YEAR (OVER \u20ac500M)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Holland CPB Ghella Joint Venture Tunnelling and Station Excavation Works for the Sydney Metro City &amp; Southwest Project &#8211; Australia<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>PROJECT OF THE YEAR (BETWEEN \u20ac50M AND \u20ac500M)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chinatown Station of the Central Subway Program &#8211; San Francisco &#8211; United States of America<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>PROJECT OF THE YEAR INCL. RENOVATION (UP TO \u20ac50M)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lower Otta Hydropower Project &#8211; Norway<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>TECHNICAL INNOVATION OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Innovative Automated Geological Forward-prospecting Technique Mounted on Hard-rock TBM &#8211; China<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"5\">\n<li><strong>OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGE<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chengdu-Guiyang High-speed Railway\u2014Yujingshan Mountain Tunnel Crossing Giant Karst Cave and Underground River &#8211; China<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"6\">\n<li><strong>ODDITIES OF THE UNDERGROUND<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tunneling in the service of archaeology &#8211; Israel<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"7\">\n<li><strong>INNOVATIVE AND CONTRIBUTING UNDERGROUND SPACES<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Union Square Market Street Station &#8211; Battered Drilled Shafts as Permanent Ground Support &#8211; United States of America<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"8\">\n<li><strong>YOUNG TUNNELLER OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Josh Barry \u2013 Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s presentation and the virtual exhibition. Please check \u00a0for registry. Eight categories were the hot topics of this year&#8217;s gathering, among which Overcoming the challenge in addition to Oddities of the underground were new. Here you could find the winner&#8217;s list: MAJOR PROJECT OF THE YEAR (OVER \u20ac500M) John Holland CPB Ghella Joint Venture Tunnelling and Station Excavation Works for the Sydney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[98,196,141,105],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-exhibition","tag-ita2020","tag-underground","tag-virtual","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}