Tunneling Awards 2017 Shortlist Announced

U.K.-based journal New Civil Engineer recently announced finalists for its 2017 Tunneling Awards. The 8th annual awards ceremony will take place Dec. 7 at Grosvenor House in London. The awards presentation will take place concurrently with the Tunneling Summit, Dec. 6-7.

The finalists are:

Community Engagement Award

• BBMV, BBMV Crossrail Whitechapel and Liverpool Street Station Tunnels
• Bouygues Travaux Publics, NSRU Alliance – Arncliffe Pedestrian Link
• MMC Gamuda KVMRT, Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit Sungai Buloh – Kajang Line (KVMRT SBK LINE) – Underground Work Package
• Tideway, Skilling our Communities for the Future

Contractor Innovation of the Year

• Bouygues Travaux Publics, Liantang Contract 2 – Hong Kong
• Dragages-Bouygues Joint Venture, Saturation Diving Operation of TBM Maintenance
• Dragages-Bouygues Joint Venture, Pipe-jacking TBM Method for Construction of Cross Passage
• LKAB Minerals, Crossrail C610 Floating Track Slab
• M4 East, WestConnex M4 East Walking Scrubber
• Mapei UK, The Glasgow Subway Refurbishment
• McGee Group, Claridges
• Salini Impregilo, Lake Mead Intake N3

Designer Innovation of the Year

• CH2M, Matanza-Riachuelo Basin Sanitation Program: The Design of a Segmentally Lined Tunnel for a Large Sewer Outfall
• Dragages Hong Kong, MTRC Contract 1128 SOV to Admiralty Tunnels
• M4 East, Westconnex M4 East
• Morgan Sindall, Tideway West (Main Tunnel)
• OTB Engineering, Northern Line Extension Step Plate Junctions
• Skira, Eurasia tunnel

Geotechnical Specialist Innovation of the Year

• Murphy Surveys, Monitoring of Moving Plants and Goods
• OTB Engineering, Work on the Northern Line Extension
• FCC Construcción, Bolaños Tunnel

Global Tunneling Team of the Year

• Bouygues Travaux Publics, Liantang Contract 2
• Bouygues Travaux Publics, NSRU Alliance
• germanBelt Systems, Comprehensive Conveyor Belt Service by germanBelt

Health, Safety and Wellbeing Initiative of the Year

• AECOM, AECOM’s Health and Safety in Design – Thames Tideway C410 Central Section
• Dr Sauer & Partners, Dragados and London Underground, Bank Station Capacity Upgrade
• Costain, Vinci, Bachy JV (CVB JV), Mott MacDonald, Thames Tideway East
• Tideway, Employer Project Induction Centre (EPIC)

Outstanding Contribution to a Project

• AECOM, Patchway Tunnels
• BFK, Crossrail – Farringdon Station
• Morgan Sindall, NWCC Morecambe Bay Tunnel Front End Engineering Design (FEED)
• FCC Construcción, Bolaños Tunnel
• Southland Holdings, Jollyville Transmission Main Tunnel
• Salini Impregilo, Riyadh Metro Project – Detailed Design, Construction and Commissioning of Package 2

Specialist Tunneling Project of the Year

• Barhale, Didcot Foul Water Sewer
• LKAB Minerals, Crossrail C610 High Density Floating Track Slab (FTS)
• North Midland Construction, Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA) Rehabilitation Project
• The Public Works Authority ‘ASHGHAL’ and KBR, Dukhan Central Contract – Al Jahhaniya Interchange
• Dragados UK, BSCU Central Line MEP Cable Shaft
• STRABAG, Microtunnel Shore Crossing in Russian Sector

Technology Innovation of the Year

• Bouygues Travaux Publics, THALIA Simulator
• Dragages-Bouygues Joint Venture, Saturation Diving Operation of TBM Maintenance
• Dragages-Bouygues Joint Venture, Pipe-jacking TBM Method for Construction of Cross Passage
• FCC Construcción, Bolaños Tunnel
• LKAB Minerals, Crossrail C610 High Density Floating Track Slab (FTS)
• Mapei UK, The Glasgow Subway Refurbishment
• Morgan Sindall, Thames Tideway West
• MST Global, Unifying Disparate Communication Systems for Efficiencies
• Murphy Surveys, Orwell River Crossing

Tunneling Project of the Year (up to $150m)

• Bouygues Travaux Publics, Arncliffe Pedestrian Link
• Geosysta, Klokova Tunnel – Ionia Odos
• Golder Associates, The Upper Lillooet River Hydroelectric Project
• J. Murphy & Sons, Southwark to City of London Deep Cable Tunnel
• Mapei UK, The Glasgow Subway refurbishment

Tunneling Project of the Year (over $150m)

• Arup, Second Avenue Subway, Phase 1
• Morgan Sindall, Crossrail C510 Whitechapel Station Platform Tunnels
• Salini Impregilo, Abu Hamour (Musaimeer) Surface & Ground Water Drainage Tunnel – Phase 1
• Southland Holdings, New Irvington Tunnel, Sunol, California, USA
• Southland Holdings, Kaneohe/Kailua Sewer Tunnel Project
• STRABAG, Microtunnel Shore Crossing in Russian Sector

UK Tunneling Team of the Year

• ​AECOM, AECOM’s UK Tunnelling team Diverse Multidisciplinary and Collaborative
• Dr Sauer & Partners, Dragados and London Underground, Bank Station Capacity Upgrade
• Ferrovial Agroman Laing O’Rourke JV, Northern Line Extension
• LKAB Minerals, Crossrail C610 High Density Floating Track Slab (FTS)
• Morgan Sindall
• Mott MacDonald, Crossrail C121 Team

Young Tunneler of the Year

• John Arciszewski, Southland Holdings
• Juan Ares, Dragados UK
• Nicolas Ballu, Dragages Hong Kong
• Barry Barnicle, Dragados UK
• Harry Brunton, AECOM
• Chloe Cross, Laing O’Rourke (FLO JV)
• Michael Gaunt, Mott MacDonald
• Morgan Oleron, Dragages-Bouygues Joint Venture

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