{"id":5544,"date":"2021-12-06T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2021-12-06T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:08:11","slug":"the-2021-winners-of-ita-tunneling-awards-7th-edition-have-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5544","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 Winners of ITA Tunneling awards\u2019 7th Edition have been Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From 2015, \u2018the ITA Tunneling and Underground Space Awards\u2019, the international competition, searches and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunneling and underground construction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a result of the recent global Covid-19 pandemic which affected international travel, ITA Tunneling 7th edition was held online &#8211; from 29\/11\/21 to 02\/12\/21 &#8211; via a dedicated platform and awarded the best achievements in the industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through 7 categories, this competition has the purpose to determine the most significant ongoing underground works and technologies that assist cities to change and allow habits and ways of life to evolve in order to construct smart and sustainable urban areas.   <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The winners of the 2021 edition are as follow: <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Major Project of the Year (over \u20ac500M)<\/b>:  Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) Putrajaya Line Tunnels and Underground Station Works \u2013 Malaysia <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Project of the Year (between \u20ac50M and \u20ac500M)<\/b> &#8211; 2 winners: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South extension of the metro Line 14 in Paris \u2013 France <\/li>\n<li>Large-diameter shield tunnel engineering project in karst strata of sea area \u2013 China <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Project of the Year (up to 50M\u20ac) including renovation<\/b> \u2013 Relocation of Shatin Sewage Treatment Works into Caverns \u2013 China <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Technical Innovation of the Year<\/b> \u2013 Riachuelo Lote 3 \u2013 Innovative method for the construction of sea outfall projects \u2013 The Risers Concept \u2013 Argentina <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Beyond Engineering \u2013 Making underground works projects even better<\/b> \u2013 Is shield tunneling spoil a waste? A novel solution says no \u2013 China <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Innovative and Contributing Underground Spaces<\/b> \u2013 Lefdal Mine Data Center, where scale and flexibility meet resiliency \u2013 Norway <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Young Tunneller of the Year<\/b> \u2013 Michael Mains \u2013 Canada <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For extra details, you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/awards.ita-aites.org\/winners-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2015, \u2018the ITA Tunneling and Underground Space Awards\u2019, the international competition, searches and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunneling and underground construction. As a result of the recent global Covid-19 pandemic which affected international travel, ITA Tunneling 7th edition was held online &#8211; from 29\/11\/21 to 02\/12\/21 &#8211; via a dedicated platform and awarded the best achievements in the industry. Through 7 categories, this competition has the purpose to determine the most significant ongoing underground works and technologies that assist cities to change and allow habits and ways of life to evolve in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}