ICE London Civil Engineering Awards 2011 shortlist announced

Winners to be revealed on 4 March at One Great George Street awards ceremony

26 January 2011: The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) today announced the twelve infrastructure and building projects that have been shortlisted for the ICE London Civil Engineering Awards 2011 – the city’s highest honour for civil engineering excellence. The winning London-wide schemes will be announced on Friday 4 March by BBC London newsreader Alice Bhandhukravi and ICE President Peter Hansford at the awards ceremony in the Great Hall of One Great George Street.

Previous winners include the London 2012 Olympic Park, Heathrow Terminal 5A, Hampton Advanced Water Treatment Works, Wembley Stadium and the Sackler Bridge Crossing at Kew Gardens. All entries were required to have been substantially completed during the 2010 calendar year.

Miranda Housden, Director of ICE London, said:

“The ICE London Civil Engineering Awards have celebrated engineering excellence in the London region for over a decade. We received a record number of entries this year and have managed to select the top twelve schemes which we feel represent the best of the best. All of the shortlisted projects highlight the important contribution that civil engineers make to London and I congratulate all involved.”

Winners will be announced at an evening drinks reception on 4 March at the home of the ICE at One Great George Street. BBC London newsreader Alice Bhandhukravi will host the event alongside ICE President Peter Hansford to an audience made up of shortlisted entrants and their project teams as well as over 300 senior figures from across London’s built environment industry.

VINCI Construction UK have been shortlisted for:-

Tottenham Court Road Northern Line Escalator Box, submitted by VINCI BAM Nuttall Joint Venture

This project, part of the £500 million Tottenham Court Road Station upgrades, involved innovative piling works to enable the installation of 3 escalators that will link the station’s new ticket hall to the existing Northern Line tunnels. A piled perimeter wall was constructed to act as a retaining wall facilitating excavation of the box within. As part of this piled wall, 7 over site development piles ranging from 1.43m – 2.03m in diameter and over 60m in depth were constructed including a very unusual “D” shaped pile. Tight construction tolerances were achieved to install piles less than 1.5m from operational Northern line tunnels.

The judging panel for the ICE London Civil Engineering Awards 2011:

Chris Wise (chair): Director, Expedition Engineering
Thomas Lane: Assistant Editor, Building
Andrew McNaughton: Chief Operating Officer, Balfour Beatty
Dervilla Mitchell: Director, Arup
Baroness Jo Valentine: Chief Executive, London First

For more information please visit:- http://www.ice.org.uk

Published: 31/01/2011