Gold Book The stories behind the most innovative, impactful and inspirational civil engineering practices

Contents

6 Overview How the NCE100 Companies of the Year were chosen 8 8 Staff feedback analysis Staff feedback was key to 0% 100% NCE100 award winner choices 57% 11 NCE100 Very Satisfied Top10 The 10 best NCE100 companies in 2018 20 Trending 20 The top 20 up and coming civil engineering firms 22 Trending 20 winner FJD Consulting stood out 93% among the up and comers Satisfied 25 NCE100 winners The 15 greatest stories of 2017 56 NCE100 22 16 listing The NCE100 Companies of the Year 58 NCE100 Judges The 45 judges who assessed the NCE100 firms

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 3 EUROPE’S LEADING MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENT & DESIGN CONSULTANCY

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Welcome to the NCE100 Gold Book. Inside we are recognising some fantastic civil engineering businesses. The companies inside are the most innovative, impactful and inspirational companies operating in the infrastructure sector today. We know this because the NCE100 is the most rigorous and robustly-judged business recognition scheme in civil engineering. To achieve recognition here, firms have had to present their achievements to a panel of 45 judges representing the industry’s leading clients, owner/operators stakeholder groups and change bodies. But not only that, they had to allow us to conduct a comprehensive survey of their staff. We are grateful to the almost 8,000 engineers who responded and provided us with their invaluable insight. These firms also had to answer some key questions designed to eliminate any company that is not meeting the NCE100 criteria of driving our industry forward by doing the right things, in the right way, to deliver outcomes that benefit society. Recognition comes in three ways. We have 15 award categories: five recognise firms innovating The NCE100 is in project initiation, design, delivery and operation; five more recognise firms who are making an impact with industry- the most rigorous change initiatives; and five more recognise firms who serve as inspiration to us all by delivering outcomes for society. and robustly-judged We also give special recognition to the role of the smaller business recognition scheme firms in our industry; the firms often incubating the best ideas but who do not always have the marketing clout to get in civil engineering their voices heard. We recognise these firms through our “ Trending20 – our pick of the small firms with the best stories to tell. But we begin with the top 10 – the firms who, according to the NCE100 judges, their staff and their data, really are standing out – and our ultimate winner, the NCE100 Company of the Year. I hope you find our Gold Book informative.

Mark Hansford Editor, New Civil Engineer

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 5 NCE100 Overview Choosing the cream of the crop

THE NCE100 COMPANIES OF THE YEAR IS THE MOST RIGOROUS ASSESSMENT GOING, MARK HANSFORD EXPLAINS WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE THE GRADE IN 2018.

The NCE100 showcases truly Tideway chairman Sir Neville patents in the process? outstanding civil engineering practices, Simms, Crossrail chief executive Perhaps this is not surprising given consultants and contractors, big KEY FACTS Simon Wright, Highways England that 52 of the 100 have a budget and small. We were looking for the smart motorways programme director for research and development and companies who, in 2018, have got the 24 Shaun Pidcock, Cabinet Office innovation. most inspiring stories to tell. Stories of construction director David Hancock, And on the subject of managing innovation, of changing our industry Number of Innovate UK innovation lead Sarah risk, so important in the post-Carillion for the better, and of making the world staff employed Eager, Heathrow Airport chief world, 72 of the 100 had a risk register a better place through their projects. by FJD people officer Paula Stannett and and a strategy for managing it. The winners of the NCE100 Infrastructure & Projects Authority When it comes to business culture, Companies of the Year 2018 were Consulting senior advisor Keith Waller. it is good to see, for example, that 70 revealed on 23 May at an awards The stories they picked out as of the NCE100 firms have a formal ceremony at the Troxy, London. The £1.5M to outstanding are told in the awards inclusion policy but a shame that winners celebrated with 650 guests section of this Gold Book. only 25 are signed up to Women Into from the UK’s leading civil engineering £1.7M Alongside the judging, data supplied Science and Engineering’s 10 Steps to firms and their peers from across the FJD’s annual to us by these companies about how Gender Equality – just one more than industry’s top companies. turnover they operate was used to help us last year. We recognised the leading firms formulate our top 10. More positively, 60 of the 100 have in 15 specific areas of excellence This data was quite revealing and formal initiatives in ensure that staff before revealing the top 10 NCE100 shows the extent to which the civil are not overstressed or over-tired. Companies of the Year. engineering industry is driving forward. The key sense-check question Each category had a trio of judges For example, when it comes to tech around collaboration was whether a hand-picked for their specific expertise excellence and innovation, would you firm had BS11000 certification – and in the skillset being judged. have guessed that the 100 companies just 22 do. Judges this year included Transport collectively brought 932 innovations Similarly, on low carbon, the key for London commissioner Mike Brown, to market this year, securing 32 question was whether a firm reported

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On staff Nations Sustainable Development Arcadis takes Opus as Gold Medal Winners. Goals and had set targets to help to the stage Interestingly, but perhaps feedback achieve them. after claiming unsurprisingly, smaller firms would There was then one final piece of the top spot claim nine of the top 10 spots if the alone, smaller firms NCE100 assessment jigsaw and it is NCE100 assessment was based on the most important. staff feedback alone. Top of the pile would have filled Worth half the marks when it comes this year – by some distance – would to building our top 10, it is the results have been MJ Rooney Construction, out 16 of the top of a comprehensive staff survey. We followed by Floodline Consulting, “ are massively grateful to the almost London Bridge Associates, Waterco, 20 spots, with only 8,000 who filled in our survey, the Anthony D Bates Partnership and Costain, Mace and findings of which come next. Project Centre. The NCE100 Company of the Year The highest-rated big firm was Arup, Arcadis joining Arup this year was Dutch-owned Arcadis. coming in at number 7 in the staff As well as wowing our judges and feedback rankings. claiming the Smart Operator gong On staff feedback alone, smaller and being highly commended for firms would have filled out 16 of the its carbon footprint – and just 29 do. diversity leadership and making the top 20 spots, with only Costain, Mace When it comes to talent shortlist for innovation in project and Arcadis joining Arup. development, 67 of the 100 have an management and excellence in climate This staff input, sitting alongside the approved ICE training agreement. resilience, it was only a few points views of the judges and the analysis of And finally, what about providing behind Arup in staff scores too. the company data, makes the NCE100 inspiration by seeking to make the It means in three years of NCE100 the most comprehensive assessment world a better place? Well, it really there have been three different of civil engineering firms going. These would be good if a few more than winners of the NCE100 Company of 100 are the companies that have been 22 said they supported the United the Year, with Arcadis joining Arup and making the biggest stir in 2018.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 7 NCE100 Analysis View from Satisfaction Dashboard MY COMPANY IS GREAT AND I HAVE NO DESIRE TO WORK the coal face ANYWHERE ELSE 83% YES 17% NO ONLY THE NCE100 ASKS A FIRM’S STAFF WHAT THEIR BUSINESS IS REALLY LIKE TO

WORK FOR. HERE WE REVEAL WHAT MY FIRM REWARDS ME FOR PARTICIPATING IN INDUSTRY ALMOST 8,000 CIVIL ENGINEERS SAID ABOUT INNOVATION GROUPS WORKING FOR THEIR COMPANIES IN 2018.

Civil engineers remain a happily hefty 87% of those responding were employed bunch, with 83% of the professionally qualified or working 7,640 who responded to the NCE100 KEY FACTS towards qualification with the appro- 39% YES NO61% questionnaire agreeing with the priate professional body. statement that their company is 71% But only 23% of them said they “great” and that they have “no desire” actively participated in the work of to work anywhere else. That is quite an Percentage of their professional bodies by sitting on endorsement. NCE100 firm committees or panels. And there is no IN THE LAST YEAR MY WORK So what is it about the 100 great excuse for them not to – of the HAS CAUSED ME UNPLEASANT companies in the NCE100 that makes staff satisfied 23%, 92% said their firm was happy LEVELS OF STRESS them such great places to work? with their sal- for them to do this in work time. ary and other Driving innovation Talent development benefits A hearty 84% said they were satisfied Complaints to New Civil Engineer with their firm’s investment in about the salaries paid to civil engi- 83% innovation, research and development 14% YES 86% NO neers have dropped off in recent years and 86% were happy with the way and the NCE100 survey perhaps ex- Percentage of their firm encourages them to plains why. A big majority of respond- NCE100 firm innovate and push technical and ents, 80%, said they were happy with staff saying technological boundaries. the structured career development that their MY FIRM REWARDS ME FOR and training provided by their firm. company is WORKING WITH SCHOOLS Similarly, 78% said they were satisfied AND COLLEGES with the pace their career is developing “great” 77% said they at and 71% were happy with their salary were aware and other benefits. Valuing technical excellence of initiatives in their Post-Grenfell there has been a firm to help them 24% YES NO76% re-awakening of the way employers value technical expertise. An over- understand the value whelming 93% said they were happy with the way their firm values this. A “ of reducing carbon

8 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Going broader than schools, 76% 83% said they said they were happy with the way Satisfaction Dashboard were satisfied their firm promotes the profession to the wider media but only 24% said with their firm’s lead- they had been supported by their firms in doing promotional or media work HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ership in exploring themselves. THE WAY YOUR FIRM VALUES TECHNICAL EXPERTISE? where technology can Working collaboratively “ Collaboration is an industry take the industry buzzword. But how many people 0% 100% are really collaborating; working in 57% an environment with longer-term Very Satisfied But again, it seems those who take interaction based on a shared mission an active role are in the minority: and goals, with shared decision-makers just 24% of respondents said they and resources? personally participated in industry Looking internally, 61% said they research or innovation groups. were working like that, with 18% going Yet, again, their firms seem happy further and saying they were working to support such activities, as only 8% in a fully integrated environment with 93% of those who get involved in research a fully integrated programme, co- Satisfied and innovation forums have to do so in located teams with combined planning their own time. and funding. Looking externally and how people HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE PACE Technology leadership work with others in other organisations YOUR CAREER IS DEVELOPING? There is much focus right now on the in the supply chain, just 51% said they skillsets that will be required by civil were working genuinely collaboratively 0% 100% engineering firms in the future. Here, and just 15% said they were working in 30% there is trust in the businesses, with an integrated team. Very Satisfied 76% saying they felt their firm was When working collaboratively, 35% developing and recruiting people with said they were aware of doing so within the right skills to drive their company a formal framework such as BS11000. forward. Going further, 83% said they were Reducing carbon satisfied with their firm’s leadership Awareness of the role of civil engineers in exploring where technology can in mitigating climate change through take the industry and 77% said their their work is a major concern right 78% firm’s digital strategy has had a positive now. This year New Civil Engineer has Satisfied impact on the way they work. reported how major infrastructure But slightly worryingly, just 45% funders are challenging the profession said they considered themselves to be about what it is doing to tackle the working at BIM Level 2 – the digital issue. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR skills level that the government has set It seems that employers are FIRMS APPROACH TO ACHIEVING THE for all its projects. responding. In the NCE100 survey, UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS? 83% said their firm is encouraging Building future skills them to consider the carbon 0% 100% There is satisfaction with the way implications of their work and 77% said 13% NCE100 firms engage with schools they were aware of initiatives in their Very Satisfied and colleges: 72% are happy with this. firm to help them understand the value Yet most are happy to leave it others of reducing carbon. Of them 58% to actually do it. Just 29% said they have actively participated in such an personally work with schools and initiative. colleges, and of them just 31% are Overall 63% said they considered trained as science, technology and their firm to be a leader in the drive to maths (STEM) ambassadors or similar. reduce carbon use in infrastructure. It is perhaps understandable to see why That’s a lot of leaders. 55% – of those who work with schools, just Satisfied 24% said their firm offered some kind Developing sustainably of reward for this work. The ICE’s code of professional conduct

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 9 NCE100 Analysis

81% of NCE100 NCE100 LEADING COMPANIES AS SEEN BY THEIR STAFF employees rated their firm as good when it “comes to openness to employing women and treating them fairly

says that all members shall show “due regard” for the environment and for the sustainable management of natural resources. It is arguable whether this statement is tough enough for modern times, Smaller companies flood the NCE100 top 10s for Tech Excellence, Business Culture when so many people worldwide and World View when firms are judged solely by their staff. This makes the achievements live without access to clean water, of Costain and Arup all the more remarkable. But notwithstanding that, these are clearly sanitation, affordable energy, efficient firms that are making their staff feel secure, valued and engaged. transport systems or even safe shelter. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) have TECH EXCELLENCE BUSINESS CULTURE WORLD VIEW been set to improve the lives of those 01 MJ Rooney Construction 01 Floodline Consulting 01 MJ Rooney Construction without those basic human needs. The 02 Anthony D Bates 02 MJ Rooney Construction 02 Floodline Consulting ICE says civil engineers are in a unique 03 Floodline Consulting 03 London Bridge Associates 03 Project Centre and privileged position to help the 04 London Bridge Associates 04 Project Centre 04 Stuart Michael world achieve them. 05 Waldeck Consulting 05 Costain 05 Arup NCE100 company staff clearly 06 Wentworth House 06 Waterco Consultants 06 London Bridge agree, with 90% of respondents saying 07 Design ID Consulting 07 Westlakes Engineering 07 Waterco Consultants their companies will play an important 08 Whitby Wood 08 Anthony D Bates 08 Dr Sauer & Partners role in achieving the UNSDGs. 09 Waterco Consultants 09 Davies Maguire 09 Whitby Wood But just 55% are happy with their 10 Costain 10 Alun Griffiths 10 Westlakes Engineering company’s approach to date, and a only tiny minority, 13% , would say they are “very satisfied”. levels of stress definitely are and 14% Diversity of respondents say they have regularly When it comes to gender equality 91% Health and wellbeing KEY FACTS suffered unpleasant levels of stress in of NCE100 employees rated their firm Much attention today is directed the last year. Overall, 15% said they as good when it comes to openness to towards mental health and wellbeing 13% have had to seek help for stress. But employing women and treating them and NCE100 firms seem to be taking encouragingly of those, 86% said their fairly, with 76% going so far as to say it note. Percentage of company supported them through it. was very good. Three quarters – 76% – of NCE100 respondents This sentiment falls in other diversity company staff feel their firm is who were “very Safety and zero harm areas. concerned with their physical health And what of physical health and When it comes to employing and and mental wellbeing, with 81% feeling satisfied” wit safety? Remembering that the fairly treating ethnic minorities, that they have enough time to do their h their firm’s NCE100 comprises contractors as 86% said their firm was good. For jobs and 85% saying they are happy well as consultants it is good to see people of a mature age, 83% ; with their work-life balances. approach to that only 6% of respondents say they for people of minority religions, 80%; But 64% say they regularly work tackling the are sometimes encouraged to cut for those returning from a career more than 37.5 hours a week and 48% UNSDGs corners because of time constraints break, 74%; for LGBT people, 69%; say that in the last year their work has and that less than 1% say they do this for those with hearing, sight, mobility caused them stress. regularly. or learning impairments, 63%; and Stress, the experts say, is not Less than 3% say they sometimes for those with mental health concerns, necessarily a bad thing. But unpleasant feel they are put at unnecessary risk. just 57%.

10 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Top 10 Making the NCE100 top 10 is a remarkable achievement. These are firms ranked highest by clients, peers and their own staff NCE100 Top 10 01 Arcadis

NCE100 COMPANY OF THE YEAR ARCADIS VALUES ENGAGEMENT WITH END USERS AS A WAY TO ACHIEVE ITS GOAL OF IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE AND MEETING CLIENTS’ NEEDS

Main: Arcadis worked with Network Rail on the London The average London commuter is vital as we move forward in our digital Bridge station redesign used to the highs and lows of public transformation. We’re not just talking Below: Manchester Airport transport: from getting a seat on KEY FACTS on a business to business basis, but transformation programme is trains that arrive every 30 seconds to business to consumer.” another Arcadis project queuing for 15 minutes just to reach 200 It is this conversational approach the platform. Number of which helped the consultant win top However smooth or difficult that place at the NCE100 this year. journey is, Arcadis has used it as a Arcadis Engagement has been crucial to starting point to get transport users partners the firm as it emerges from a period Winner to think about how their city works. of transition and rebranding. Arcadis NCE100 Company In a move virtually unknown for an can trace its roots back almost 300 engineering consultancy, it launched years but, in the UK, it was only in of the Year a consumer advertising campaign on 2015 – following the 2011 merger with — London Underground and in mainline EC Harris and the 2014 acquisition stations, asking travellers questions like of Hyder Consulting – that the Winner “Is London progressive enough for the companies came together under a Smart Operator future of travel?” single Arcadis brand. — It is all part of the conversation “In the UK, you had organisations the firm wants to have with clients which operated totally differently High Commendation and end-users about how it can help – a partnership with EC Harris and Diversity Champion improve quality of life – a driver which shareholders at Hyder,” says Pike. the consultancy says is fundamental to “There were two different business — what it does. models, different types of people – Shortlisted “Working for clients like Network management consultants, engineers Innovation in Project Rail and Highways England, we don’t and designers. The challenge was necessarily have that connection with how to create a leadership team that Management, the end-user; there are several other fosters collaboration.” Excellence in Climate layers they go through,” says UK rail Combining these businesses gave director Chris Pike. “By stimulating Arcadis its four main capabilities: design Resilience conversation, we start to create and engineering, programme and project connections with end-users. This is management, cost and commercial

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it maintains 25%. The approach uses data analytics to pre-empt technical failures, reducing them by up to 64%. Arcadis is a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) which comprises over 200 leaders who are essentially shareholders with a stake in the success of the company. There are also employee forums and working groups for areas including equal opportunities, LGBT+, mental health, as well as cultural groups encompassing elements like religious diversity. Feedback from a staff survey was a key part of scoring for NCE100. We don’t stop. “That engagement helps people feel We want to they don’t just come here to work, but are part of an organisation which values develop and develop them for their contribution,” says Pike. At the NCE100 awards Arcadis quickly received a high commendation in the Diversity Champion category, with its faith-inclusive campaign and refugee traineeships of particular note. “services and business advisory. The firm’s recent projects include “These elements are focused around redesigning London Bridge Station for the full spectrum of how you deliver Network Rail, technical advisory to projects and blend those capabilities Highways England on Lower Thames to provide a service that goes beyond Crossing, designing 80km of the High engineering,” says Pike. Speed 2 Phase 1 route and programme Arcadis is currently working as management for Manchester Airport’s Systems Integration Delivery Partner Transformation Programme. for Network Rail’s digital railway Arcadis is currently looking to programme, managing the roll-out of help Birmingham prepare for the digital signalling on the rail network. Commonwealth Games in 2022 by “The project is about introducing a using data analytics, bots and building system which is part infrastructure, and interactive dashboarding to quickly part transformation and part and clearly build a picture of hotel digital. Bringing that to life provision in the city. It will mean that requires a very different skill set to better decisions can be made about designing bridges or new sections of how to meet demand. railway,” explains Pike. “It is about Pike says that digital transformation people transformation, systems is key for the firm’s future, both in transformation and new process, the UK and globally. “Transformation tailoring infrastructure to take a doesn’t happen overnight. You do the system which exists, but needs to be stuff people expect you to do and adapted to a highly variable operational incrementally improve, but at the same railway environment. Just applying time you take your clients on a journey pure engineering doesn’t work. You of discovery. Digital transformation is need to enable groups – designers, all about collaboration,” says Pike. contractors, infrastructure managers, Pike says that Arcadis is, naturally, operators and end-users – to optimise delighted to have won the NCE100. such a system.” “We had a strategy to get in the Innovation and thinking through top three and someone said to me the full asset life achieved a second afterwards ‘you’ve overperformed. NCE100 success: Arcadis won Smart What are you going to do next year?’.” Operator for its work delivering So what is Arcadis going to do next performance-based maintenance on year? “We don’t stop,” says Pike. “We the Dutch railway system, of which want to develop and develop quickly.”

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Together we help our clients 02 Arup solve their most “complex challenges

ARUP DRAWS ON GLOBAL PROJECT EXPERIENCE TO DELIVER KEY INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE UK, LIKE THE QUEENSFERRY CROSSING IN SCOTLAND AND WATER SUPPLY RESLIENCE PLANNING FOR WELSH WATER

The new Queensferry Crossing opened under budget and on time, but when Arup was appointed the scheme was unaffordable and its timeline extremely ambitious. With its client and JV partner Jacobs, it challenged the project brief, streamlined the bridge design and halved the scheme budget range from £3.2bn to £4.2bn down to £1.7bn to £2.3bn to make the project a reality. On High Speed 2, Arup’s unique role as environmental overview consultant was to secure wide stakeholder acceptance for this controversial scheme. It combined visual and acoustic data to simulate the passenger experience and accurately model the route context during construction and operation. This smoothed progress of the hybrid bills: Phase 1 passed on schedule; it submitted Phase 2a on Arup helped in communities. to halve the time; and Phase 2b is on track. Shortlisted Three mega-projects; three prime Working in collaboration with Queensferry examples of how 13,000-strong Arup Welsh Water since 2015, Arup has Crossing’s Innovation in continues to inspire, innovate and have developed a pioneering resilience budget and get Project Initiation, impact. strategy that will deliver improved the project off Innovation in Design, Established in 1946, it remains water supply protection and create a the drawing an independent firm of designers, board Diversity Leadership, resilient water grid system to safeguard Excellence in Water planners, engineers, consultants the 1.2M people who are at risk and technical specialists, working should an existing water treatment across every aspect of today’s built works fail. Arup drew on its global environment. experience of resilience planning to “Together we help our clients solve identify customer-specific target areas their most complex challenges,” it says. such as affordability, customers in The company earns 60% of its vulnerable circumstances and working turnover outside the UK.

14 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Mental Health Champions (PMHCs), enabling early intervention for staff 03 Jacobs who may have symptoms. Its team of PMHCs covers over 26 countries, includes 1,000-plus staff, Jacobs is now a 74,000-strong and continues to grow. behemoth but is still able to The company has grown rapidly demonstrate great value for clients and through acquisition, latterly CH2M retain the loyalty of its staff. and Aquenta, and is globally This loyalty is driven by initiatives headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It such as its Sustainability+ programme is now of the world’s largest and that empowers staff to drive savings most diverse providers of full- from a low carbon agenda. spectrum technical, professional and Reducing the footprint of its own Jacobs runs construction services for industrial, initiatives and those of its clients saved an award commercial and government client 54.2M.t of CO for clients in 2016 – a organisations globally. 2 Highly Commended winning metal five-fold saving increase in two years. Excellence in Transport health support The CH2M acquisition has opened Meanwhile health, safety and new markets for the firm, particularly in — programme for wellbeing remain core to Jacobs’ DNA staff water and the environment. The prime – it is not just something we do, it Shortlisted example is in London where CH2M says, but who we are at work, home, Health and Wellbeing (now Jacobs) and the Environment and in the community. Its BeyondZero Champion, Low Carbon Agency formed Thames Estuary Asset culture (recently celebrating its 10th Leader, Smart Operator, Management 2100 (TEAM2100). Anniversary) and award-winning As lead delivery partner, it manages Mental Health Matters initiative Excellence in Water the inspection, refurbishment and continue to drive progress and inspire. replacement of tidal flood defence The latter delivers an extensive assets along the estuary, protecting support network, including Positive 1.3M people and £275bn of property.

relieve congestion and help to connect communities in the East of England. 04 Mace Mace was appointed project manager in 2012 to lead an integrated team through the planning, design and Mace started life in London in 1990 as construction of the upgraded road. The a construction manager targeting the project won planning consent in 2016 commercial property sector, but now it and is due to open in 2020. is so much more. It was the first time Highways It is now a 4,800-strong England has used the collaborative international consultancy and development partner approach and construction company, founded the project has set a benchmark for and built on exceptional people, a the speed and efficiency of developing commitment to service excellence and schemes of this scale. a deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit. Mace led Mace’s view was that a single the A14 Mace works internationally on Winner team, with shared goals and shared transport infrastructure programmes, Cambridge to objectives, would deliver the scheme from aviation to highways and rail. It Construction Huntingdon cheaper, faster and more efficiently. aims to work as the delivery partner Improvement Through a process of challenge and Innovation Champion from planning for major infrastructure providers such — review Mace reduced the time from as Highways England and Transport through options consultation to submission of for London, helping to ensure some Shortlisted construction DCO by two years and the cost by of the most complex programmes in Low Carbon Leader, over £100M. the world are managed and delivered Mace is also leading the charge on effectively. Excellence in Transport carbon, in November 2017 becoming The A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon the first UK construction company Improvement Scheme is a £1.5bn to sign up to RE100 and committing upgrade project, involving a total to procuring all of its power from of 294km of new lanes, which will renewables by 2022.

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We as an industry have 05 Ramboll got to do something quite transformational to help decision “makers invest wisely

A COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION AND TECHNICAL CAPABILITY IS ENABLING RAMBOLL TO OPEN UP NEW LINES OF COMMUNICATION WITH CLIENTS AND GIVING THEM ADDED VALUE

Just one of Ramboll’s many digital innovations is its gantry generation system, an automated design and modelling tool. It represents a step change in gantry design. Design now takes hours not weeks with costs falling by 60% on a scheme by scheme basis hundred or more, says Riley. consultancy challenge: how to add real over the life of Highways England’s The core of it is Ramboll’s digital value to clients. current programme. toolkit, effectively a suite of apps, “We as an industry have got to do Ramboll has now taken these tailorable to individual clients that something quite transformational to principles, knowledge and lessons allow designs to be developed in near help decision makers invest wisely to widen the application and adopt real-time, allowing optioneering with in infrastructure, and that’s about it in the design of other structures, real numbers involved. affordability and productivity,” he including culverts and bridges. Riley: Helping Masterplans can be developed and says. “For clients it is about helping clients go structures manipulated in ways that “We know we can knock lumps them go further with design, faster further with show clients how far projects can be off the capital cost of infrastructure so they can make valuable decisions design, faster pushed to maximise returns through through digital design and offsite earlier,” explains UK managing director increased floor plates or better, faster assembly. It’s just about creating the Mathew Riley. Riley’s UK operation is delivery. evidence,” he asserts. now 1,300 strong and leading the way Once into the real detailed design, Ramboll is also broadening its across the 13,000-strong Ramboll components (such as gantries) can be disciplinary capability by using its group when it comes to digital design. designed and sent digitally to an offsite digital design expertise as the lever, “We are a pioneer in the industry manufacturer in moments. with rail a good example. against those client needs,” he It is all part of that crucial Ramboll is, of course, Danish owned asserts. “We have had 60 or 70 client and Denmark is a world leader in conversations that we wouldn’t have ERTMS (digital signalling). So Ramboll had two years ago because of our has teamed up with Dutch-owned technical capability,” he adds. Winner Arcadis (with the Dutch also pushing It is a very clear strategy and a very Excellence in Transport ahead in digital rail) and they have clear direction of travel. Previously, — jointly bid to be Network Rail’s digital this was developing in pockets. Now railway delivery partner. They won. our innovation process is organised Shortlisted “So we have gone from nowhere through a dedicated team, the Design Innovation to the top table. And that is only the challenge now is how we operationalise Diversity Champion start,” says Riley. It all adds up to a this innovation so two years from growth plan that will likely take it to now we could be talking a couple of 2,000 in the UK in next few years.

16 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 ever design-stage rating for an office development (98.5%). 06 Sweco UK Briefed by Michael Bloomberg to “push the boundaries of sustainable design”, its “what if” Sweco UK is an 800-strong approach ensured no idea was off the engineering, environment and design table. Drawing on international best consultancy which combines a multi- practice and through a process of disciplinary approach and international optimisation, its innovations will deliver expertise to deliver sustainable water savings of 73% and energy solutions. savings of 35% compared with an Sustainability is central to Sweco’s typical office. culture. It has backed-up public commitments to reduce infrastructure carbon with decisive action. From the preemptive implementation of PAS2080 and EA Winner climate change regulations on major Low Carbon Leader projects, to innovative approaches to encouraging behavioural change across — the supply chain, it is leading in this Highly Commended crucial area. Excellence in Design It is the NCE100 Low Carbon Innovation leader and there is no better of — its carbon reduction and broader Shortlisted sustainable construction drive than its Bloomberg HQ: Pushing the work on Bloomberg’s new European boundaries of sustainable design Excellence in HQ. It achieved Breeam’s highest Alternative Energy

United States and the UK. Now 16,000-strong Mott 07 Mott MacDonald MacDonald is the UK’s largest employee-owned engineering, management and development The 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, consultancy. New Zealand, hit water and wastewater It describes itself as human in infrastructure every bit as hard as outlook, independent of mind, buildings. connected and confident. Opening Mott MacDonald’s Moata opportunities and delivering outcomes monitoring, modelling and analytics that improve people’s lives is its tool had been fitted to systems to mantra. monitor performance and inform operation. It enabled the consultant to pinpoint damage and restore service rapidly. Winner Six years on, Moata is even smarter and being used internationally for Innovation in Project identifying network problems and Initiation visualising solutions on transport as — well as water infrastructure. In a market waking up to the Shortlisted potential of smart infrastructure, there Smart Operator, Diversity are few asset performance optimisation tools available, and fewer still with long Champion, Low Carbon track records. Leadership, Excellence in Moata has been in use and in The Moata monitoring tool Alternative Energy development for a decade, with clients tracks performance now looking to invest in Singapore, the

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Costain has 08 Costain a sharp focus on talent and is especially focused on ensuring the “development and retention of high potential female employees

Costain says its purpose is to improve Costain has development action plans for high people’s lives by deploying technology- a focus on potential female employees, which based engineering solutions to meet developing Shortlisted outline training, mentoring and urgent national needs across the UK’s and retaining Innovation in Project managed job rotations. energy, water and transportation high potential Further, it has launched a support infrastructures. female em Initiation, Talent network which will ensure women are The emphasis on technology Champion aware of options to make careers with is strategic. Costain has invested Costain more compatible with their significantly to ensure it has the personal lives. Each Costain executive capability to integrate and deliver be shared and innovation developed. board member is personally mentoring smart infrastructure, and is delivering These scientists remain involved during an ELP or SLP member, which includes significant customer savings using project delivery, working closely with at least three high-potential female technology. At the early stage of project teams and customers to push Costain employees. any project, its data science and the boundaries of research to ensure a In the last year, 40% of women on technology experts bring together data pipeline of innovation. the strategic leadership programme in a standard environment. Costain, now 4,000-strong, also has have been promoted to more senior This allows disciplines from a sharp focus on talent and is especially positions, and one is currently being estimating to planning to use a focused on ensuring the development supported by Costain to complete a common data set, reducing the time and retention of high potential female full time MBA at the London School of needed and allowing best practice to employees. It has developed over 50 Business.

18 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 for revenue and infrastructure investment. Local authorities can use 09 WSP the opportunity to provide growth and jobs, already linked to existing public transport hubs. WSP has grown rapidly through WSP has ongoing experience acquisition since its reverse takeover of with overbuild. At Principal Place in Canadian fi rm Genivar, picking up Opus London, it is unlocking the potential and Mouchel in the last two years. It now of a 50-storey residential tower and employs 36,000 worldwide. 60,000m2 of office space which would But it remains predominantly a have been impossible without building technical consultancy. Its roots are in over railway tracks at Liverpool Street commercial property and it has blended Station. those skills with transportation. Today WSP is a leader in designing valuable property assets above challenging railway environments, Shortlisted delivering enhanced public realm, transport connectivity and sustainable Excellence in Design city densification. Its recent study, Innovation, Diversity “Out of Thin Air”, demonstrates the potential for 250,000 homes Champion, Excellence in London by building over rail lines, in Urban Living, satisfying housing needs for five years. Excellence in Transport This approach would create safe, vibrant communities with greater WSP’s roots are in public transport mobility. It offers commercial property owners of railway land opportunities

The scheme design comprises 27km of 6.3m diameter tunnel and 14 large 10 Black & Veatch diameter storage shafts. The project is an example of Black & Veatch’s ability to leverage global It is estimated that 20% of the world’s technical excellence. population served by community Led from the United States, the systems drinks potable water through UK-based design team includes systems designed, constructed or hydraulics and modelling specialists supported by Black & Veatch. who have developed and implemented The consultant says it leverages global a number of innovations to optimise expertise to develop pioneering, the hydraulic design. award-winning solutions. It is designing the City of Toronto Wet Weather Flow Tunnel Scheme; an interception/storage/conveyance Highly Commended system that will improve water quality in Lake Ontario and delist Toronto as Leader in Collaboration an “Area of Concern” in the Great — Lakes area. Shortlisted The scheme covers an area of 270km2 and will benefit 1.3M people Smart Operator, Health by reducing the volume and frequency and Wellbeing Leader, of combined sewage outfall discharges and urban Excellence in Water run-off from 45 outfalls to no more than one spill per year, thus achieving Black & Veatch is designing a considerable environmental, amenity flood alleviation tunnel for Toronto and bio-diversity benefits.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 19 NCE100 Trending 20 Rising Stars

THE NCE100 TRENDING 20 RECOGNISES THE WORK OF FIRMS WITH FEWER THAN 200 STAFF.

FJD Consulting has been crowned sulting was able to save £2M. NCE100 Trending 20 Champion. The first and most eye-catching The Birmingham-based company phase of the project was completed re- TRENDING 20 won the award after receiving top cently. It involves installing the bridge marks from each member of the New to carry the heritage railway over the l Anthony Bates Civil Engineer editorial team. Midland Main Line. l FJD Consulting becomes the inau- All 20 companies will help shape Awcock Ward Partnership gural winner of the award, established New Civil Engineer’s SME profiles and l Bryden Wood to recognise smaller firms with 200 or other articles in 2018 and 2019. l Caley Water fewer staff. l Civic Engineers We are reminded all the time that l Clarkebond (UK) the most innovative, creative and inspi- l Davies Maguire rational firms are often the small ones l but, lacking the corporate firepower of Design ID Consulting the big firms can struggle to get their We are l Design2e story told. reminded l Dr Sauer & Partners The Trending20 recognises the small l Edenvale Young Associates firms with the big stories to tell. all the time that the l FJD Consulting Nominations for the award were l whittled down to 20 last month, from most innovative, Floodline Consulting l an initial longlist of around 40 eligible Hewson Consulting companies. creative and inspira- Engineers FJD Consulting won the award for “ l London Bridge Associates tional firms are often its work to reunite two sections of the l Plandescil Great Central Railway in Loughbor- the small ones but, l Taylor & Boyd ough to create a continuous 30km l long heritage railway (see p30). lacking the firepower Waterco Consultants By introducing innovative “flat- l Webb Yates Engineers packed” bridges to maximise value, can struggle to get l Westlakes Engineering as well as sourcing redundant bridges from other railway projects, FJD Con- their story told

20 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 INNOVATION IN ENGINEERING

Wentworth House Partnership, part of Keltbray Group, is an award-winning engineering design consultancy, which specialises in the safe, effective and imaginative design of temporary Wentworth House Partnership St Andrew’s House, Portsmouth Road and permanent works and geotechnics. Esher, Surrey KT10 9TA From facilitating construction of the Shard to preserving T 020 7643 1050 heritage at the Bodleian Library, Wentworth House F 020 7643 1001 Partnership has successfully delivered some of the most [email protected] technically advanced and innovative design ideas for E leading construction projects across the UK. www.wentworth-house.co.uk Winner Trending 20 Bubbling under

BIRMINGHAM-BASED FJD CONSULTING HAS JUST BEEN CROWNED NEW CIVIL ENGINEER’S NCE100 TRENDING 20 CHAMPION.

The team leading Birmingham-based the new roof of Temple Meads Station. rail engineering firm FJD Consulting This contract was pulled with virtually has set out an ambitious business KEY FACTS no warning. strategy. “The contractor was just mobilising It plans to expand into roads, 24 on site, we had probably about airports and geotechnical engineering, £100,000 of work to start and they and bring in virtual reality as a core Number of got a phone call one morning saying it business offering. At the same time staff employed has been pulled and it has gone,” says Birse Rail, which was subsequently it is gearing up for the mass of tender by FJD director Simon Moon. taken over by Balfour Beatty. opportunities generated by Network Moon, a design engineer who Although they went their separate Rail’s next investment period, CP6, Consulting joined Atkins from university, runs ways professionally, they stayed in and High Speed 2 (HS2). And all that FJD Consulting with his business touch. The two started FJD Consulting is on top of just being crowned New £1.5M to partner Mark Jenner, a construction in 2012, and just a few months later Civil Engineer’s Trending 20 champion, engineer, who runs sister construction Birse’s core design team joined them, the award to the top small firm in the £1.7M management firm FJD Construction. bringing in a stream of contracts. This NCE100. FJD’s annual The two first met when working at was helped by Network Rail having, With this optimism and excitement, turnover at the time, an enhanced spending it comes as a surprise when the programme, meaning it had to spend a company’s executives reveal that they certain amount in a certain timeframe. have just had their toughest year yet. We thought “We knew the quality of work we The 24 strong firm estimates could deliver. We had proven capability rail cutbacks including transport as our own of delivering it in our historical past. secretary Chris Grayling’s decision to We thought as our own business we can curtail the Great Western Main Line business we can deliver that work a lot cheaper than big electrification programme lost it up consultancies because the overheads to £1M in anticipated revenue. This deliver that work a were cheaper,” says Jenner. included around £600,000 worth The firm, which has an annual of work lined up for the scrapped lot cheaper than big turnover between £1.5M and £1.7M, electrification of the Cardiff to “ had experienced year-on-year growth consultancies because Swansea route, and electrification into until now. Bath. FJD had even opened an office our overheads were “Last year we went backwards in in Bristol off the back of a £100,000 terms of turnover as a result [of the deal to do temporary works design for cheaper cutbacks],” says Jenner. “We took a

22 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 We’ve got the new control period starting in eight or nine months and “already seeing tender opportunities around the regions

perceived to be quite high,” says Moon. The project that caught the NCE100 judges’ eye, gaining it the Trending 20 Champion status, was on the Great Central Railway in Loughborough, Leicestershire. The Great Central Railway is a charity and needed two sections of the line to be reunited as a part of its “Closing the Gap” Project. It involved rejuvenating a 400m section of redundant track and infrastructure to provide a continuous 29km length of heritage railway. The donor-funded project was being undertaken on a tight budget, which called for innovation. “We had quite a blank canvas and view to retain all our team. It was an Simon Moon FJD Consulting is starting work with were able to think less like mainline uncertain time, but we knew long term (left) and an archaeologist at Curzon Street in engineers and more like practising the business is sound, the market was Mark Jenner Birmingham, whose work entails an civil engineers and try and find some good and it was sustainable, and it interface between the HS2 site and pretty neat solutions, which weren’t meant us doing a lot more in terms of the West Coast Main Line. FJD will do possession dependant, which is pretty getting other work in.” some assessment works and temporary much the mindset whenever we do any “There’s one individual in particular works design. It has also been working work,” says Moon. we employ and I know the skills they with the National College for High By using BIM Level 2 the team possess are very difficult to find in the Speed Rail (NCHSR) to develop was able to create a digital picture of market,” adds Moon. “Had that one apprenticeships – the only SME to get the design, which the charity could person gone, a lot of our core capability so involved. then use to bring in donations. Design goes, when work comes in again.” FJD’s ethos has not changed over innovations included using “flat And thankfully the work is starting the years: it aims to offer a good packed” bridges to maximise value. The to pick up again, with early HS2 deals product at a decent rate. With market team also sourced redundant bridges and CP6 tender opportunities starting changes, including bigger consultancies from other railway projects, with to come through. expanding and more becoming ambitious Network Rail’s Reading Remodelling Like many small and medium sized about the work they go after, the duo is Project providing two steel bridges, enterprises (SMEs), FJD Consulting optimistic about the future, particularly saving the project approximately £2M. is keen to work on HS2 and its for its Bristol office. Other engineering challenges headquarters in Birmingham are ideally “We’ve got the new control period included the development of placed in Birmingham, but Moon starting in eight or nine months and reinforced earth solutions to make believes that most contracts will not already seeing tender opportunities embankment slopes narrower so the trickle down until there are boots on around the regions. Bristol and the charity did not have to buy land or the ground. He adds that already the South West has historically seen divert utilities. big contractors “have taken a massive underinvestment. The spend in that “We brought modern thinking to grab of it.” area just to make simple upgrades is solve the problem,” says Moon.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 23 “IT’S THE VOICE OF THE CIVIL ENGINEERING INDUSTRY”

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Winner: Mott MacDonald Motts work kick starts road project

MOTT MACDONALD PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN GETTING THE 20 KM NORWICH NORTHERN DISTRIBUTOR ROAD DUAL CARRIAGEWAY SCHEME THROUGH THE HOOPS BEFORE WORK COULD EVENTUALLY START ON SITE.

The mammoth Norwich Northern For funding agencies, it shows Distributor Road (NDR) is much TEAM where investment will do most good, needed to improve safety and journey KEY FACT justifying release of capital and times in this part of East Anglia, but exemplifies enabling informed discussion. It can attempts to get it built had repeatedly 40,000 our belief in looking also be used to identify problems and failed the Department for Transport’s Number solutions for local businesses cost-benefit test. at problems from new and people. Mott MacDonald re-examined of jobs the Mott MacDonald says: “TEAM the proposal in its entirety and in new road is angles and finding exemplifies our belief in looking at its individual components using its problems from new angles and finding Transparent Economic Assessment expected to “value that others fail value that others fail to spot.” Model – or TEAM tool. generate The NCE100 judges said: “In a By doing so the consultant identified to spot category with fantastic innovation social and economic benefits that showcasing excellence in digital, would add £1bn of value, helping the engineering and economic scheme gain approval for phased helped make the case for funding approaches, the judges considered development. after conventional appraisals failed. the winner’s innovation in assessing With a prioritised programme It combines local socioeconomic impacts and outcomes across of works, the scheme got underway data with insight into the knock-on schemes of all types has national in 2016. benefits of a project, such as access significance.” The local council said the road to employment, health, recreation They hailed the tool’s identification project would help accelerate local and education facilities; improved of the total benefits of a scheme as growth and act as a catalyst to deliver environmental and amenity value; “welcome” and “long overdue”. 40,000 new jobs, 37,000 new homes creation of affordable housing; and and a 50% increase in knowledge- land value uplift. l Judges were Crossrail BIM based business. The tool can help unlock specialist Tahir Ahmad, Enterprise The Norwich NDR is one of many government funding, enabling councils M3 chairman Geoff French and infrastructure and regeneration to progress projects of local strategic Infrastructure and Projects Authority projects where the TEAM has importance. senior advisor Keith Waller.

26 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Mott MacDonald’s innovation in assessing impacts and outcomes across “schemes of all types has national significance

EXCELLENCE IN PROJECT INITIATION

HIGHLY COMMENDED Costain advanced pipe and cable detection equipment CampbellReith Delivered a range of services to mobilise enabling the client to negotiations with the Developed a methodology to treat investment in strategically important vendor with an accurate assessment of the site. geotechnical hazards at the site of the 2,500- road schemes for Highways England including home Kilwood Vale scheme near Gatwick the £192M A556 improvement project. Peter Brett Associates airport. CampbellReith used a process of The firm has also worked with the British Played a pivotal role in initiating Junction 25 surcharge and forensic inspection to assess gas Standards Institution on Smart Cities and Nexus, a strategic employment scheme in risk and avoid the need for some protection the Internet of Things. Taunton. Peter Brett presented at a profile measures. raising event, setting out plans for unlocking DesignID and delivering the scheme and receiving press FINALISTS Developed an innovative piled raft foundation coverage. West Somerset Council said the Arup solution to deal with challenging ground consultant “brought experience, dedication The consultant was part of the joint conditions on the site of a 16-storey residential and enthusiasm to the entire process”. venture that designed and managed the tower in Salford Quays. The raft slab used was construction of the Queensferry Crossing significantly shallower than the pre-tender Project Centre ​ across the Firth of Forth in Edinburgh for scheme, reducing the amount of breaking-out Identified opportunities for a scheme in Transport Scotland. Arup project of existing foundations required. Crouch End that met all the requirements manager Mike Glover led the for Transport for London’s healthy streets development of the technical and Glanville Consultants criteria. The firm then wrote the funding funding case for the Queensferry Produced a site investigation scoping submission for the scheme, which set out to Crossing, securing support by reducing the document for a brownfield site in Oxfordshire. improve cyclist and pedestrian conditions budget from a minimum of £3.2bn to a Detailed assessment of below-ground services and make it a greener, healthier and more maximum of £2.3bn. included utility record searches and use of attractive public space.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 27 Tech Excellence Design Innovator

Winner: Edenvale Young Associates So ware aids Sri Lanka  ood modelling

EDENVALE YOUNG ASSOCIATES HAS DEVELOPED INNOVATIVE HYDRAULIC MODELLING SOFTWARE FOR SRI LANKA

Bristol-based Edenvale Young aims the Green & Ampt infiltration model. to provide a cutting edge service to Edenvale Young created bespoke clients in a range of environmental KEY FACT software for assessing flood damage sectors including maritime, coastal and within the country. Hydraulic fluvial engineering. 3,200km2 modelling was initially validated for Sri The consultant says it develops, tests Lankan catchments using measured and uses next generation hydraulic Size Sri Lanka rainfall and flow data for the Kelani modelling software. catchments Ganga basin upstream of Colombo. It claims to have pioneered the used in the The use of catchment scale development of direct rainfall modelling and new software techniques and soil infiltration hydraulic TUFDamages had a significant positive procedures that represent a step modelling impact and increased the reliability of change in hydrological analysis. the business case for the optioneering. Edenvale Young was commissioned work The techniques used for this project to lead the hydrological and hydraulic were the culmination of a decade of modelling aspects of a World Bank research and development undertaken project for six river basins in Sri Lanka. by Edenvale Young. Work included providing the first The judges said: “They have taken detailed flood mapping to inform the off-the-shelf software, applied their national risk register; assessing the They have passion and inventive skills, then given impact of climate change; evaluating it out for industry use. With low cost economic damage caused by flooding; taken o - they can make a huge impact and and testing flood alleviation measures. can save lives in countries where it is The consultant created a new the-shelf software, needed most.” hydrological modelling approach using direct rainfall data for catchments up applied their passion G Judges were consultant Lewis to 3,200km2. and inventive skills, Blackwell, BIM Academy chair The firm also developed new ways of John Lorimer, BDP chair of civil translating soil texture data gathered “then given it out for and structural engineering Michelle by the Soil Science Society of Sri McDowell and Network Rail civil Lanka into the parameters required for industry use design group programme manager

28 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Almost a third of Edenvale Young’s income was eligible for research and development tax “credits, confi rming its innovative approach

EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN INNOVATION

HIGHLY COMMENDED Arup that incorporates analysis software, Sweco UK As environmental overview consultant 3D visualisation and 40 years of experience Sweco’s collaborative thinking and through all phases of High Speed 2, to slash timescales and costs on smart scenario-modelling was used on Bloomberg’s Arup has developed immersive visualisation motorway projects. Design costs are new European HQ in the City of London. tools to reassure people about the impacts of expected to fall by more than 50%, with the This achieved a record 98.5% Breeam the mega-project. It combined firm saying it now spends “hours rather than rating at design stage. visual and acoustic data to simulate the weeks” on a job. The consultant’s “what-if” approach passenger experience and accurately ensured no idea was off the table. Its model the route context during construction WSP innovations will deliver water savings of 73% and operation. At 220m high, the 62-storey Newfoundland and energy savings of 35% compared with development at Canary Wharf will be one a typical office. A vacuum drainage system Dr Sauer & Partners of the UK’s tallest residential buildings and combined with water harvesting will save The consultant worked with London straddles Jubilee Line tunnels. A diagrid 25M.l of water each year. Underground and Dragados on the structure is being used to limit weight and size, Bank Station Capacity Upgrade, during while a tuned slosh damper will absorb vibration FINALISTS which primary and secondary tunnel energy. WSP increased the stability of the AKTII linings were used in combination. This building, maximised the floorplate, and cut 15 The consultant has developed software significantly reduced excavation and concrete weeks from the construction schedule. and design techniques which helped it volumes minimising dust, increasing breakout add 11 storeys to the South Bank Tower times, reducing noise and vibration and meant WYG in London. Digital wind tunnels, that fewer resources were used. WYG created a virtual reality model of the advanced analysis techniques, fabric and ground 500ha site for relocation of five post-primary investigations and latent capacity mapping tools Ramboll schools in Northern Ireland. This allowed the allowed the firm to forensically assess the Its gantry generation system is a constantly client and other stakeholders to experience the existing building. evolving automated design and modelling tool facilities before construction began.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 29 Tech Excellence Construction Innovator

Winner: Mace Jumping factory speeds tower projects

MACE’S JUMP FACTORY IS AN INNOVATIVE RESPONSE TO DEMANDS FOR INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY-LED SOLUTIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Mace’s Jump Factory was devised in for the workers, it minimises noise and response to the UK Government’s dust for the surrounding environment, challenging Construction 2025 targets KEY FACT we can’t be rained off and the factory for 50% faster delivery, 50% lower is rated up to a force 12 gale,” says emissions and 33% lower costs. 15 weeks Mace project engineer James Rushton. Mace gave the system its UK debut “Once we’ve jumped, the process on a dual-tower residential project in Time it took starts again. We lay the rebar, pour London. East Village Building No 8 to build a 30 the slab, then we start putting in twin involves creating structures which are storey tower walls, standing columns then we come 30 and 26 storeys high. in with the bathroom pods and heating, Using the system, Mace was able to ventilation and air conditioning units. construct an entire floor – including 40 hours Everything is modularised so it all walls, columns, bathroom pods, utility comes fully fitted.” cupboards, risers and cladding – in Time it took to Jamie Dredge, development under 40 hours. build and fit To ensure speedy fit-out, the firm out one floor developed a production line with a set sequence of 13 trades following one They had a another. The Jump Factory used on East Village contained four 15t cranes. real money- It was an enclosed temporary structure erected around the outside of the top where-their-mouth-is of the building structure and jacked up using hydraulics as each floor was attitude, the factory completed. Mace says the jump factory has is challenging the a water and wind-proof working “status quo and the environment, minimising health and safety risks and preventing the weather delivery of buildings affecting the construction programme. “You get repeated quality, it’s safer for the future

30 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 EXCELLENCE IN CONSTRUCTION INNOVATION

FINALISTS Kier Van Elle Davies Maguire A £1.4m resurfacing project A piling system designed from Its buttress proposal helped on the M6 was completed in scratch based on screw pile a contractor successfully one night. Kier and Aggregate technology, and an attachment bid for a central London Industries developed an inline developed to enable its efficient commercial project that was paving technique called Hot installation, were used on a originally tendered as a cross- on Hot that involved using two project to stabilise a sinking site propped scheme. Its 20 pavers to provide compaction, railway line. The system brought separate buttresses supported interlocking asphalt without the installation time down to 200m of piled retaining walls separation of layers. three minutes per pile. and allowed excavation that did not require additional propping. Robert Bird Group Wentworth House A top-down construction Partnership Interserve Construction sequence allowed early Design of a temporary An innovative 8m wide paving release of the tower core for a steelwork façade restraint machine allowed completion 40-storey commercial tower system for a 50m by 13m of a road resurfacing job scheme. The core was built building frontage cut the close to Stansted Airport in from plunge columns at upper construction programme by three weekends rather than basement level with the pile cap two weeks. Steel tonnage five, reducing the impact on cast later and core walls infilled required to retain the facade travellers. A centre joint was as construction progressed. Six was reduced by a quarter after eliminated in 4km of road, months were shaved from the thorough research into wind prolonging the road’s life baseline programme. loading on façades.

manager at East Village Building This has made a great difference No 8 client Qatari Diar says: “Mace to productivity during the delivery has developed a unique, innovative phase and has made a significant approach to maximising offsite pre- improvement to the programme.” manufacture and assembly such that The NCE100 judges were impressed it has been able to deliver 30 storeys with Mace’s ability to bring the supply over 15 weeks on two towers at our chain with it on what they described as East Village project. a “very complicated journey”. “This approach has significantly “They had a real money-where- reduced the number of deliveries and their-mouth-is attitude,” added the the amount of waste generated, has judges. “The factory is challenging the driven faster and safer production, status quo and the delivery of buildings delivered exceptional quality and has for the future.” They said that Jump optimised the delivery process. Factory was an “outstanding example” of innovation to replace traditional construction methods and significantly This has improve productivity through “factory thinking”. They were impressed made a with Mace’s willingness to invest in innovation and take a chance on a live great difference to project. They hailed the company’s invitation to the rest of the industry to productivity during learn from its experiences.

the delivery phase and l Judges were EDF Energy Hinkley “has made a significant Point C innovation manager Maggie Brown, Network Rail head of risk and improvement to the value management Kevin Shelton and New Civil Engineer technical reporter programme Katherine Smale.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 31 Tech Excellence Innovation in Project Management

Winner: Kier Highway maintenance costs slashed

KIER HAS HELPED SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL IMPROVE ITS HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE EFFICIENCY SAVING IT £20M IN THE PROCESS

Kier is contracted to deliver repair and E ciency Programme’s 2014 minister for efficiency Chloe Smith improvement works on roads across Supply Chain Collaboration Toolkit and said: “Project Horizon is the way the Surrey. Its partnership with the county KEY FACT as a trial project case study for industry should, in the future, be council, dubbed Project Horizon, the Government Construction Strategy. working together.” has been widely hailed as exemplary 200 Savings beyond the targeted 15% Kier has adopted a collaborative collaborative working. are shared between the council, Kier, approach with other local authority The framework, recently extended Number Aggregate Industries and Marshall clients and water companies. to run until 2021, has reduced time- of Surrey Surfacing under the arrangement. The judges hailed the level of to-site by an average of four weeks schemes Surrey County Council made innovation in the Project Horizon per commission; slashed costs by 16% contract savings of up to a fifth, arrangement, which they said was through deeper integration of the supply completed enabling almost £20M to be reinvested demonstrated by the wide range chain; and improved whole life values, by Kier in its assets, effectively increasing its of approaches and “significant including giving a 10-year warranty for road maintenance budget. improvement in outcomes”. material and pavement design. without The improvement plan resulted in They praised technical innovation Kier’s work in Surrey has supported reportable works on the worst 500km of Surrey’s in recycling and sustainable a number of apprentices. The firm has safety roads and more than 1,200 schemes. approaches to waste management. completed 200 schemes without a Surrey County Council cabinet “Reduced time, more efficient reportable safety incident. incident delivery, cutting out the waste, no Initial workshops were run before man marking – these are all easy to the start of the programme of works, say but difficult to put into practice to determine the type of collaborative in a consistent way,” said the judges. environment desired. Surrey County “This team has demonstrated that Individuals used a scoring system to it is possible with its focus identify what they considered to be Council made on the fundamentals, and innovative critical elements of the relationship, practices where appropriate, leading so there was a common understanding contract savings of to significant value improvements.” of areas where teams were working up to a fi fth, enabling effectively together, and those where G Judges were Crossrail programme development was needed. almost £20M to be director Simon Wright and Major Project Horizon was used as a case Projects Association executive study in the Highways Maintenance “reinvested in its assets director Denise Bower.

32 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Almost a third of Edenvale Young’s income was eligible for research and development “tax credits, saying this confi rmed its innovative approach

PROJECT MANAGEMENT INNOVATOR

FINALISTS of tunnels and more than 35km of Opus International upgrade. The water client Arcadis street and road rearrangements. Consultants described the technology as “a As programme manager for the The plan featured a communication Uses its own project management step ahead of where some £1bn, 45-project Manchester and coordination protocol to ensure accreditation framework on a job of the others are within the Airport transformation scheme information and decision-making was to inspect stations and canopies marketplace the consultant used its own data properly shared among all teams. on Network Rail’s London North at the moment”. governance framework. Arcadis West Route. Opus says the system procured data from stakeholders London Bridge recognises each project’s complexity Webb Yates Engineers and integrated it with project, Associates and highlights competencies required Provided a range of services to cost and asset management plans, Added the Quality Plus element for e ective management. It allows a the Gatwick Retail Churn scheme, reducing waste and increasing to its web-based information focus on assigning a project manager part of a series efficiency. The firm is scaling management system to provide with specialist project delivery skills, of works to transform the up the platform it developed for seamless online production and behaviours and expertise, over skills airport’s North Terminal. the airport scheme and creating quality data entry at the work and experience in the technical Used collaboration and clear a strategic level product called face. Bespoke inspection and discipline. communication to produce City Analytics to help city regions test plan check sheets include efficient, coordinated work manage their growth. logical screen layouts and digital RPS Group in a live airside environment. pin-code signatures for engineers, Launched a specific business Phasing and methodology of IDOM inspectors and others to approve stream focusing on bringing the construction were key drivers, Created a detailed design and information. Complete handover benefits of virtual reality to its while the firm took time to gain project management plan for Line records can be submitted clients. The firm has run an understanding of the terminal 3 of the Riyadh Metro in Saudi eliminating the need for multiple a pilot model for Northern Ireland building. Arabia. This includes preliminary and engineers to check, file and Water, applying virtual reality detailed design of 20 stations, two recreate records. to a BIM model for the client’s depots, 25.8km of viaducts, 11km Ballycastle plant

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 33 Tech Excellence Smart Operator

Winner: Arcadis Measured maintenance

ARCADIS HAS DEVELOPED A NEW APPROACH TO THE TRACK MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT ON A SECTION OF THE RAILWAY NETWORK IN THE NETHERLANDS

Arcadis is a 40% shareholder in a the assets, including their use and special purpose maintenance company performance. This made it possible created to proactively look after KEY FACT to predict which assets would require almost a quarter of the intensely used maintenance first. Dutch railway network. 15,000km It meant a transition from relying ProRail, which manages the Amount of on technical case experts to working network, wanted its supply chain to in a data-driven environment during help accelerate innovative approaches Dutch rail the decision making process. As a result, to maintenance. Through its key network annual maintenance costs on the section role in the AssetRail special purpose of the Dutch network Arcadis is working company, Arcadis is partly responsible for which on have been slashed by more than a for deploying a performance-based AssetRail is third this decade, with technical failures approach to almost 1,500km of railway. responsible down almost two thirds. ProRail created a working model AssetRail chief executive Jorn which makes suppliers accountable for Pruntel said: “For the concept of maintenance. To do this Arcadis must performance-based maintenance we define what work is required and when are applying on the Dutch railway to ensure it achieves performance and network, the innovative approaches safety outcomes. Network condition in data analytics and predictive is measured by clearly defined maintenance Arcadis has brought us indicators and incentives to create an have been key to our success.” environment of continuous innovation, Judges said: “We felt that optimisation and ownership. Arcadis demonstrated a very clear Arcadis has used sophisticated asset strategy moving from descriptive to and information management, data prescriptive maintenance, showing a analytics, predictive maintenance, robust methodology for continuous solution planning and performance improvement and creating strong, optimisation. It combines asset demonstrable benefits in cost knowledge and technical insight with efficiency, reliability and safety.” the generation, management and wise use of data. l Judges were London Underground Connecting different sets of profession head for tunnels Keith data using quantitative modelling Bowers, IBM digital lead for industrial provided insight into the underlying products Chris Gage, and HS2 Ltd head relationships and dependencies of of management systems Jon Kerbey.

34 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 SMART OPERATOR

HIGHLY COMMENDED earthquake shattered the New Zealand RPS Group city in 2011. Today, Moata is even smarter Working closely with client Scotia Gas and is being used internationally for Networks and partner ULC Pipeline identifying network problems and visualising Robotics (US), RPS devised project criteria solutions for transport as well as water and designs for integrated robotic repairs infrastructure. The system collects and to gas supply networks. The project allows analyses data to provide insight into a robots to work inside live gas pipelines to complex system. monitor supply efficiency and pipeline condition as well as to repair mechanical Opus International Consultants joints and seals. This Ofgem-approved Created a smart monitoring sensor to innovation is now ready to be installed in observe structural movements to better networks across UK. It presents a significant inform infrastructure maintenance saving to clients and end-users through and replacement decisions. The sensor delivery of a cost and time-effective repairs sends real-time data to mobile phones. It solution with minimal disruption and damage is credited with allowing bridges to stay and a reduction in carbon emissions. open after the earthquake in New Zealand in 2016, and removing the need for costly FINALISTS but unnecessary works on the country’s Black & Veatch Rakaia Bridge. The system has been hailed Developed a lean reliability centred by client bodies for is provision of bridge maintenance programme covering all of performance evidence. Yorkshire Water’s assets. The Workstream 69 programme covers 285 sites. Central Royal HaskoningDHV to its effectiveness is a system known Dutch drinking water company Vitens has as Failure Modes Effects and Criticality implemented Royal Haskoning’s Aquasuite Analysis. Accuracy of analysis is improved smart water solution to ensure a reliable using mobile technology to capture live supply of high quality drinking water to asset survey findings and upload them to a 5.5M people. Aquasuite OPIR database. Reactive maintenance is down by software optimises the production, almost a third, helping to reduce customer transport and distribution of drinking water bills and lower the impact of repair work on by applying big data analysis and machine more than 2M households. learning algorithms, fully integrating and automating the total water Jacobs system. Vitens water production director To protect London and the Thames Estuary Doeke Schippers said: “A stable from tidal flooding, CH2M – now owned control of our entire production and by Jacobs – formed Thames Estuary Asset distribution capacity is crucial for Vitens. Management 2100 with the Environment OPIR is an important tool for this, and we Agency. Jacobs uses tools such as expect to roll it out across our entire Arcadis customised web-based viewer The Estuary service area.” Eye, which contains in excess of 100 demonstrated layers of map, to manage the inspection, Waldeck Consulting refurbishment and replacement of tidal Waldeck delivered its Digital Reality a very clear flood defence assets along the estuary. As Capture solution for a major logistics client such it uses innovation to protect more than to capture, tag and categorise existing strategy moving 1M people and £275bn of property. assets. Data is captured, synchronised and processed using the consultancy’s own from descriptive Mott MacDonald software. Data can be screened to produce “to prescriptive Its Moata monitoring, modelling and high resolution imagery and files that can be analytics tool enabled damage to water and merged into building information modelling maintenance wastewater networks in Christchurch to applications. Defects and risks are made be quickly located and repaired when the visible using warning triangles.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 35 Business Culture Low Carbon Leader

Winner: Sweco Driving a low carbon agenda in Scotland

SWECO’S PROACTIVE EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE LOW CARBON AGENDA IS HAVING A POSITIVE EFFECT IN RENFREWSHIRE

Engineers have a crucial role to play in Sweco also applied the 2017 Using a detailed traffic model output combating climate change. As well as Environmental Impact Assessment analysis, the consultant demonstrated helping people mitigate the effects of KEY FACT Regulations to the Renfrewshire the potential for an immediate global warming, the sector should be project ahead of time, ensuring reduction in tail pipe emissions. actively driving a low carbon agenda. £130M its climate change adaptation and Its Carbon Conversations initiative This category set out to recognise the resilience measures were considered. improves carbon literacy and teaches firms who are empowering their staff Value of The firm incorporated carbon as a participants how to create carbon to make a difference in this area. Renfrewshire factor in the procurement process, reduction action plans of their own. Leeds-headquartered consultant Council’s City clearly communicating to the supply Renfrewshire Council project Sweco UK says sustainability is central chain the importance and value of manager Norman Yardley said: to its culture. “We have backed-up Deal reduced emissions. “Sweco’s proposals and continual public commitments to reduce It established a carbon accounting focus on carbon aspects in all areas infrastructure carbon with decisive process during the specimen design have been instrumental in developing action,” says the firm. stage and shared this feedback with all projects with this important topic front It has driven a range of measures design teams. A carbon database was and centre”. to reduce carbon emissions as lead also developed. Judges hailed “clear evidence of consultant on infrastructure projects strong leadership throughout the that form part of Renfrewshire organisation”. They praised the way Council’s £130M City Deal. Sweco engaged, collaborated with and Sweco implemented Publicly They have aligned various parties in the fight Available Specification 2080 in to reduce carbon. The judges were Renfrewshire several months before taken off- impressed by the level of detail of its formal introduction. This is the first carbon and cost calculations. standard for managing carbon from the-shelf software, infrastructure. l Judges were Environment Sweco helped draft the standard, applied their passion Agency cost and carbon manager which was launched in 2016 by the and inventive skills, Ian Corder, Royal Haskoning strategy Construction Leadership Council’s director Jaap Flikweert and Anglian Green Construction Board to set out “then given it out for Water’s executive director Chris the principles and components of a Newsome and head of carbon and carbon management system. industry use energy David Riley.

36 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Almost a third of the company’s Sweco’s income was eligible proposals and for research and continual focus on “development tax carbon aspects in credits, saying all areas have been this confirmed its “instrumental innovative approach

LOW CARBON LEADER

HIGHLY COMMENDED Jackson Civil Engineering nine months and reduced carbon emissions by Thornton Tomasetti Led a successful trial of a new type of 80% on sites. Thornton Tomasetti’s Embodied concrete on part of the Woodbridge flood Carbon Project involved more than risk management scheme in Suffolk, reducing Taylor & Boyd five years of measuring the embodied carbon emissions by 66% from the original Last year set an ambitious target to become a carbon in its structural engineering design. This cemfree concrete, which is 95% leader in Ireland in timber structures with their projects. ground granulated blast-furnace slag, was used lower carbon footprint. The firm recruited a The New York headquartered company, to infill a 265m section of floodwall. structural engineering graduate student to which has four offices in the UK, co-ordinate knowledge gathering and the undertook research to further understand Jacobs promotion of its work in this area. It also the issue. The firm has reduced Its established Sustainability Plus programme established a partnership with University of embodied carbon in its projects by identifies savings as early as the feasibility and Ireland Galway, a leading centre for timber 40% through its recent initiative. preliminary design phases of civils projects. engineering research. It serves as an innovation database, tracking FINALISTS practices and ideas to create value for clients. Walters Design2e Carbon savings were up five-fold from 2014 to The firm’s Pennant Walters renewable energy Reduced floor slab thickness, core wall 54.2M.t in 2016. division delivers energy to South Wales size and concrete use by around through wind and solar farms, saving nearly a third each during the tender process Mace 100,000t of carbon emissions every year, for Birmingham’s Left Bank apartment The firm’s utilities, sustainability and more than offsetting the 60,000t of carbon blocks. Overall the carbon footprint was construction teams collaborated to create emitted by Walters’ heavy plant fleet of more slashed by 30% by a design approach the Energy Hub, a forecasting and purchasing than 600. The firm also ensures its vehicles that used multiple software platforms, strategy to help Mace procure 100% of its have modern and fuel efficient technologies, two internal design teams and a series of energy from sustainable sources by 2022. and sends all its plant operators on efficiency group and cross group reviews. Energy Hub saved more than £1M in its first training to understand how to save fuel.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 37 Business Culture Talent Champion

Winner: Breheny Engineering Capability boosted by staff training

BREHENY OFFERS ITS STAFF EXTENSIVE SUPPORT FOR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Suffolk-based Breheny Civil in house resources and professional Engineering aims to directly employ all reviewers. Additional courses such of its staff on all its projects. KEY FACT as the Institute of Leadership & This requires robust training and Management Level 3 option further development policies to ensure it 49 develop skills and ensure succession employs and retains professional, of staff. competent people. Number of ICE membership development More than 10% of the firm’s staff EngTech officer Louisa Rix said: “In the last are professionally qualified. four years, Breheny has supported Breheny runs an ICE-approved qualified staff over 50 staff through its professional training scheme that develops employed by qualifications, the vast majority engineering technicians along with Breheny Civil becoming EngTech MICE. incorporated and chartered engineers. “This commitment to developing It says the scheme is fully supported Engineering staff has come from all levels from and funded, allowing staff to use work the directors and senior management time to research and train. Three to site staff and their office-based professional reviewers from different colleagues.” parts of the business manage and run The judges said the presenters had the programme. an authentic, committed approach to The firm has 49 EngTech qualified talent development in a challenging professionals who have progressed part of the sector. “There was evidence They have through its training scheme. It says this of true collaboration with universities puts the firm in the top 10 companies and local government to create a taken off- in the UK ranked on volume of staff training centre,” added the judges. with this qualification. “They provided excellent feedback the-shelf software, With up to 100 projects in from a range of sources.” construction at any one time, Breheny applied their passion requires a raft of capable, self- l The judges were Environment and inventive skills, sufficient engineers to give it flexibility Agency senior skills advisor Jonathan in who it deploys. It says its staff Chapman, Employers Network “then given it out gain improved confidence and career for Equality & Inclusion member prospects from its training system. engagement manager Peter Hall, and for industry use The decade-old training programme Heathrow Airport HR director Paula has rapidly expanded recently with Stannett.

38 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 TALENT CHAMPION FINALISTS

Awcock Ward for two science teachers in a increased by 26% since the Partnership Nepalese school, supporting launch of the academy. A quarter of its workforce underprivileged children in The firm has been awarded is apprentices, and every Surrey to study STEM subjects Investors in People Gold apprentice it has taken on at university or committing Standard. has ended up with a to Women Intro Science and permanent role. Engineering (WISE) initiatives Dougall Baillie Graduates and technicians to foster diversity and talent. Associates are provided with coaching Staff regularly visit schools to and mentoring skills. A Costain describe the role of the civil monthly leadership training Costain is especially engineer to young people. It programme focuses on topics focused on ensuring the recently represented the ICE including dealing with development and retention at a careers fair for school conflict and empowering of high potential female leavers. The firm is working teams. Professional employees, and has created to meet all nine targets development is also supported 50 development action plans in the Scottish Business when workers are at college, on to achieve this, outlining Pledge include investment in the firm’s own ICE-approved training, mentoring and youth and having a balanced training scheme and via other managed job rotations. workforce as well as promoting routes. It has launched a support workforce engagement and network to ensure women having a responsible payment BWB Group are aware of opportunities structure. A bespoke three-tiered to make their careers more academy programme allows compatible with their Westlakes BWB Group to mould personal lives. Four in 10 Engineering raw talent into “complete women on the strategic All of its employees had professionals”. leadership programme in the access to training last year. Open to everyone, and last 12 months have been Collectively they had more attended by more than 100 promoted to more senior than 2,800 hours of training. people, the bronze-silver-gold positions, while one is being Westlakes’ investment programme is instrumental supported to complete a in employee training and in developing strong full-time masters in business development has increased leadership capabilities, broad administration. 162% over 12 months. It industry perspectives and relaunched its graduate general business know-how. Curtins development programme It is also good for intra- ICE-accredited Curtins which now includes bi-annual company networking. BWB Academy allows graduates graduate training days, credits the academy with to grow technically, bringing together graduates transforming the business from professionally and from institutions including a regional player into a “fast- commercially through a the ICE and the Institution of growing multi-award winning structured four-year Structural Engineers. consultancy”. training programme. It Principal engineer Nicola provides bespoke Killip said: “Westlakes CGL professional and managerial are currently funding and All staff and managers are learning and knowledge supporting me through an contractually committed to sharing opportunities. 18-month apprenticeship train and be trained. Training Currently 92 graduates to gain a level 5 diploma in uptake is 85% across the are enrolled and will attend leadership and management. company and is monitored 15 core module training This will be a significant step monthly by the executive sessions. The number of towards my personal goal of team. CGL Outreach looks to chartered memberships gaining chartered manager foster talent whether paying within the company has status.”

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 39 Business Culture Diversity Champion

Winner: CGL Inclusion effort is the key to balance

MONITORING, TRAINING AND OUTREACH HAVE HELPED CGL ACHIEVE AN ‘ALMOST PERFECT GENDER BALANCE’ IN ITS WORKFORCE

CGL has been working closely with CLG has continued to support the “For many young people, seeing is Royal Academy of Engineering’s DILG and the firm’s engineers were believing,” he wrote. diversity and inclusion leadership group early participants in the Academy’s “They respond well to practical (DILG). inclusive cultures project in 2017. examples which show the diverse and CGL was used by the Academy This centred on a survey to increase rewarding careers that are in reach in 2015 as a case study for diversity understanding of the culture of through studying STEM subjects at initiatives. The firm shared details engineering, the extent to which it was school. This is especially important of its practices with the DILG and inclusive and the measures it could for young women, who may assume made itself available for studies of its take to make it more so. engineering is not a career for them, culture and methods to help influence The company has signed up to the due to outdated perceptions.” employment practices across the industry-led Ten Steps initiative run by Judges hailed CGL as “a small firm industry. gender balance campaign Women into punching way above its weight” on The case study says a range of Science and Engineering (WISE). gender diversity and showing “robust flexible initiatives were implemented A CGL-supported publication, “The external benchmarking”. by the firm, with male and female Female Face of Civil Engineering”, “While achieving an almost perfect senior role models working flexibly was endorsed by WISE as well as the gender balance it has also ensured and a remote desktop system enabling Women’s Engineering Society and the male employees equally feel valued and home working. ICE. included,” they said. Development activities were It was published in print and online The judges praised the company’s tailored to individuals’ needs as a focal point for the company’s “exceptional amount of outreach for and aspirations. A system was efforts to encourage young women STEM subjects” including its “highly developed to enable employees’ into the industry. As well as setting out innovative use of technology to engage use online courses to help them civils-based career options for school with young people”. work towards chartered manager students, the guide highlights case status. Training was monitored studies of women who had progressed l Judges were Network Rail to consider diversity trends and in the sector. diversity and inclusion manager employees were encouraged to be ICE head of education and Kevin Bowsher, Women’s ambassadors for science, technology, inspiration John Laverty said in the Engineering Society president engineering and maths (STEM) publication that the institution was Benita Mehra and New Civil Engineer subjects. “delighted” to support it. associate editor Emily Ashwell.

40 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 The judges praised the company’s exceptional amount of outreach for STEM “subjects

DIVERSITY CHAMPION

HIGHLY COMMENDED BDP of the Chartered Institution of Highways Arcadis Identified that its gender pay gap was driven & Transportation’s Diversity and Inclusion Arcadis worked hard to ensure it was by fewer women being employed at senior Charter and the firm sponsored Croydon faith-inclusive, with a campaign including levels and asked staff what action how to Pridefest in 2017, the theme of which posters celebrating days of importance to address the imbalance. Several actions were celebrated 50 years of LGBT equality. different faiths; guidance to managers on the instigated as a result including unconscious requirements of the calendar for different bias training and career mentors for female Ramboll religions; and efforts to link faith with staff. Gender pay gap is already down. Changed its approach to focus on mind- excellent construction projects. The firm has sets and behaviours rather than strategy offered refugee traineeships and boosted its Mott MacDonald and actions; and to broaden its diversity employee survey ‘valuing diversity’ score from Publishes goals on its website focusing on programme to encompass all minorities. 3.03 in 2015 to 3.18 in 2017. recruitment, retention and progression of staff by disability, gender, gender identity, WSP FINALISTS race and sexual orientation. Tracks employee Created a five-point action plan to attain Arup demographics, analyses recruitment trends a balance of talented people. Research, Set out to make a step change in graduate and captures feedback through employee open conversations with staff and a recruitment as part of an underlying goal engagement surveys. confidential assistance programme helped to boost gender equality. Worked closely it to proactively identify issues and solve with educators, recruiters and managers Project Centre them. A gender balance action group was to eliminate bias and encourage female Mobilised an all-female team to deliver formed. Unconscious bias training has been applicants. A new applicant tracking system design proposals to Tower Hamlets council for undertaken by 25% of the business and flags up decreases in the diversity of Harley Grove in east London, working closely targets have been set to increase this further. applicants at any stage, to inform changes to with the pupils of Central Foundation Girls The proportion of women within the firm’s the recruitment process. School. Project Centre is a founder member graduate and apprentice intake has increased.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 41 Business Culture Leader in Collaboration

Winner: Curtins Undergrads get practical experience

CURTINS COLLABORATES WITH UNIVERSITIES TO DEVELOP ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ SKILLS ON UNIVERSITY ESTATES WORK PROGRAMMES

The Curtins Academy was launched fostering close collaborations between approached by the university’s civil by consultant Curtins in 2014 and academic departments, the estates engineering department to support a provides a platform to train and KEY FACT team and designers. wider research project. develop graduate engineers over a This ensured the new facility University of Leeds senior four-year period. The firm collaborates £500M considered how the latest sustainable teaching fellow David Richardson said: with universities developing technologies could add value. One “Throughout its time on the university undergraduates and working with them Value of student was encouraged to attend and framework, Curtins has been supporting on campus improvement projects. University engage in design team meetings while undergraduates within the department. Curtins was appointed to the of Leeds still at the university. Senior members of its team have given up University of Leeds’ four-year The student joined the Curtins their time to review student project work, £500M consultants framework. It consultants Academy in 2016 and has continued providing students with great exposure to has introduced several initiatives to framework to work on the Innovation Centre the private sector.” provide students with advice and the as the project progressed onto The judges praised Curtins for its opportunity to see how their studies site. Meanwhile Curtins has been “refreshing” approach, and for “truly relate to the industry. contributing to the next generation and These include an industrial our industry”. mentors scheme run with the ICE, an “This approach has provided Curtins Engineering You’re Hired initiative, a with a great opportunity to tap into Steer mentoring group and continuing The judges talented resource and the judges felt its professional development events. model of collaborating with universities The consultant involved students felt its model was a brilliant example to be replicated in structural design processes for new throughout the industry.” facilities on their campus from design of collaborating with to construction. l Judges were Innovate UK innovation On the Innovation Centre for universities was a lead for smart infrastructure Sarah the university, it supported student brilliant example to be Eager; Heathrow Airport project Kiera Mudd in her final-year project management director Joanne Ellman researching dynamic façades. “replicated throughout Brown; and Association for Consultancy The firm dovetailed this research & Engineering chief operating officer with the project’s feasibility study, the industry” Anil Iyer.

42 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Senior members of its team have given up their time to review student project work, “providing students with great exposure to the private sector

LEADER IN COLLABORATION

HIGHLY COMMENDED the broader design team on site and working Waterco Consultants Black & Veatch with trust specialists and hospital staff. The Deciding that a timesheet system The firm is ahead of programme and beating firm set up shared-learning workshops and provided little value to its clients and efficiency, safety and customer targets on a continuous improvement groups. damaged collaboration, innovation and £450M programme of works it is delivering morale, the consultant decided to change with Amey for Scottish Water. Black & Veatch Hydrock its approach. Now project programme and says this performance has been enabled by Launched best practice guide “Building team outcomes are managed by setting strong collaboration, itself promoted by Performance Engineering” five years ago to out a clear plan at the outset, providing implementing joint goals and processes. Profit encourage collaboration between engineering timely progress statements and understanding and loss is split 50:50 within the joint venture; disciplines and within project teams. BPE the importance of third party input and the a team charter was written to align behaviours. advises on energy performance; acoustics; air impact on project delivery. quality; waste management; daylight; sunlight FINALISTS and wind analysis; fire engineering; and IT Webb Yates Engineers Capita Property & Infrastructure infrastructure. It was fundamental to helping Brought together architecture and Formed a joint venture with Ineco to secure and Linkcity submit its planning application for a engineering in a transdisciplinary practice deliver consultancy work the two companies high-rise residential scheme in Bristol last year. called Interrobang. Webb Yates says this has felt they may not have won independently. allowed it to go “beyond collaboration” and The partnership has worked collaboratively on Thomas Consulting favour transdisciplinary over multidisciplinary several London Underground projects and on Took a partnership approach with client Queen processes. The first project run fully using High Speed 2 and elsewhere. Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, this new approach was Gatwick Retail Churn, on a project to create an ambitious multi-sport where it factored information exchange into Clarkebond (UK) facility. Thomas Consulting worked on a time- the programme and held regular clash check Led the use of building information modelling charge basis with open book accounting. The workshops. On completion the team will hand on the £19M Bridgwater Community Hospital structural engineering fees were under 0.5% of over an as-built building information modelling scheme in Somerset. This involved co-locating the total project cost. model to the airport.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 43 Business Culture Leader in Health & Wellbeing

Winner: Jacobs Wellbeing culture gives Jacobs an edge

JACOBS MAKES HEALTH AND WELLBEING A CULTURAL ISSUE RATHER THAN SOMETHING TO BE MEASURED IN TERMS OF TARGETS

Jacobs says health, safety and business, as well as in its “staff and mental health and wellbeing; reduce wellbeing are a core part of its DNA: family”. It delivers an extensive support stigma associated with mental “It’s not just something we do, but who KEY FACT network, including more than 1,000 illness; intervene where a person is we are at work, home and community”. positive mental health champions experiencing a mental health crisis; and The engineering giant, which 1,000+ (PMHCs) across 26 countries, promote recovery. acquired competitor CH2M just enabling early intervention for staff Last October, Jacobs launched a before Christmas, aims to have a Number who may be suffering symptoms of survey in conjunction with mental healthy, focused workforce with of positive poor mental health. health charity Mind to celebrate the improved cohesion and productivity to “We enjoy unprecedented staff work undertaken to promote and enhance project performance. mental health engagement in this initiative, and support positive mental health. Its BeyondZero programme aims champions client/supply chain interest,” says The NCE100 judges said Jacobs to prevent all accidents. Jacobs says Jacobs has in Jacobs. “PMHC training was developed “worked out a new initiative that will it makes safety a value rather than an internally and is based on international create a safer and healthier work initiative, removing visible targets or 26 countries best practice. We have supporting place for tens of thousands of workers messages and replacing them with a initiatives in place encouraging physical around the world”. They praised culture of care. wellbeing, including sporting and significantly increased awareness, “Operations and safety are seamless; healthy eating promotions.” understanding and engagement with no safety meetings, no committees, The PMHCs promote positive mental health issues both within the no separate points on agendas for organisation and with suppliers. safety, and line management is “Overcoming initial reluctance, truly accountable for safety,” says a the team has created an exemplar document about the programme. We enjoy programme,” they said. “Great The firm says it “is an organisation evidence of impact.” that does not investigate the causes for unprecedented an accident; however, it investigates l Judges were Tideway asset the causes that caused the causes of staff engagement in management director Roger Bailey; the accident”. this initiative, and Civil Engineering Contractors From this culture came Jacobs’ Association chief executive Alasdair Mental Health Matters initiative. client/supply chain Reisner; and Highwire Height Safety This promotes positive mental Engineers finance director and chief health and wellbeing across the “interest engineer Elizabeth Rickard.

44 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Jacobs worked out a new initiative that will create a safer and healthier work “place for tens of thousands of workers around the world

LEADER IN HEALTH AND WELLBEING

HIGHLY COMMENDED recognises staff working outside their Hydrock Alun Griffiths (Contractors) usual role. Staff are eligible for free gym The Hydrock Advantage scheme is a Alun Griffiths is signed up to the membership. commitment to tangible support to encourage government’s Disability Confident wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle. Features Committed employer scheme, and is Black & Veatch include an annual healthy living bonus to represented on the ICE fairness, inclusion A behavioural safety programme has cut help staff invest in healthy lifestyles; a 24/7 and respect committee. Since 2017, it has accidents fourfold in 10 years. Black & wellbeing support line and team days-out. worked closely with Time to Change Wales Veatch implemented one of the sector’s One client said the firm had “created a very to help end the stigma around mental health first wellbeing programmes in 2011 and special culture”. and encourage its staff to speak up about has recorded year-on-year falls in sickness problems. A scheme trialled on its sites has and stress-related illness. Train journeys Interserve Construction resulted more than 100 people receiving are replacing driving for many high mileage Developed a fatigue monitoring tool for training in recognising mental illness workers. Thames Water awarded Black employees on Highways England projects. symptoms and in how to get help and support. & Veatch 91% in its wellbeing maturity Launched in 2017, it monitors and reviews The scheme will be rolled out to all staff in assessment. fatigue levels and takes action if necessary. 2018. Bryden Wood Technology Waterco Consultants FINALISTS Forumlated a wellbeing team of staff to create Made a conscious effort to actively improve Awcock Ward Partnership new ways of responding to feedback from staff health and wellbeing. Initiatives included Supports its staff through a partnership their colleagues. Initiatives include weekly lunch time workshops; access to free and ethos creating a culture of support and meditation sessions, focusing on identifying confidential counselling; mindfulness encouragement. It holds monthly stress and how to manage the effects. Staff presentations; exercise events and dragon one-on-one sessions, regular social events say they are less stressed and comment that boat racing. The firm has recorded lower and training sessions as well as weekends they are more aware of the impact of stress absentee rates. It has also increased the at home and abroad. A star award is on personal wellbeing. Retention, engagement number of staff commuting to work by foot or voted by colleagues each month and and attendance have all improved. bike and saved 1,000 driving hours last year.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 45 World View Excellence in Transport

Winner: Ramboll Sustainability drives Ramboll mega-project

RAMBOLL HAS COLLABORATED CLOSELY WITH THE CLIENT AND LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS TO SUCCESSFULLY DELIVER THE MERSEY GATEWAY

Ramboll says its mission is to create Ramboll said it oversaw “incredible sustainable societies that allow people stakeholder engagement”. The and nature to flourish. “Ultimately KEY FACT project included opening derelict and we judge project success by how well land-locked sites; clearing centuries communities are served,” it says. £600M of contamination; and developing a As such it worked with train sustainable transport strategy for all passengers to design station forecourts Value of road users. and involved metro stakeholders Mersey “We considered user benefits in open continuous engagement beyond travel time savings,” says to ensure “clever” design was also Gateway the firm. “By combining skills relevant to those using it. project encompassing strategic and local Ramboll was a key technical transport planning, urban regeneration consultant on the £600M Mersey and structural design, we re-shaped Gateway scheme, working on the huge dialogue to focus on how the project project in the tiny borough of Halton would work for all.” from inception to completion. It has been calculated that the The cable-stayed bridge includes bridge will help create more than three towers of between 80m and 4,000 jobs and contribute in excess 125m in height, a design chosen to minimise environmental impact. The bridge carries six lanes of traffic for 1km across the Mersey, They have taken and is accompanied by 9km of road improvements that ultimately connect off-the-shelf the M56 with Liverpool, reducing pressure on the congested Silver software, applied their Jubilee Bridge. Halton Borough Council leader passion and inventive Rob Pohill said the scheme would not skills, then given it out have happened without Ramboll’s “continuing support”. “for industry use

46 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 The Mersey Gateway is already acting as a catalyst for regeneration and “economic investment

of £60M to the economy each year. outstanding example of a long-term Contaminated land was remediated collaborative relationship that has and pedestrian, cyclist and public KEY FACT delivered a significant transport transport access improved. project unlocking original and local The Mersey Gateway is already £60M development opportunities while acting as a catalyst for regeneration remaining sensitive to environmental and economic investment, according Contribution and community constraints”. to the Halton Borough Council. “The of Mersey They described the close long term drivers who collectively make 27M collaboration with the client borough trips every year have quicker, easier Gateway and other relationships as “impressive” and more reliable journeys in Halton,” Bridge to and said this was “particularly vital” said Pohill. local economy given the challenges of the scheme. One letter to the “Warrington Guardian” said that using the crossing l Judges were Transport for London daily has slashed the author’s commute commissioner Mike Brown, High from almost three hours to under Speed 2 technical director Andrew one. “What a transformation to my McNaughton and Highways England journey,” they wrote. smart motorways programme manager The judges said the bridge was “an Shaun Pidcock.

EXCELLENCE IN TRANSPORT

HIGHLY COMMENDED and associated utility diversions. to Huntingdon improvement Jacobs The firm sees “huge potential” scheme, involving a total of Jacobs played a key role on the for using it with parent CAF’s 294 km of new lanes, which recently opened Queensferry catenary-free traction solution. will relieve congestion and Crossing near Edinburgh. As help to connect communities part of a joint venture with Curtins in the East of England. It Arup, the firm supported Cranfield University appointed involved delivering one of the Transport Scotland for more Curtins to join its Multi-User UK’s largest infrastructure than a decade from earliest Environment for Autonomous development consent order option and Bill development Vehicle Innovation design applications in just 13 months. through feasibility and on to co- team. A mile of shared surface location with Transport Scotland roadway and pedestrian access Patrick Parsons as an integrated project was created through the Patrick Parsons says the management team. centre of the campus for use Pont Briwet Transportation The project’s final outturn by fully autonomous vehicles, Improvement in north-west cost of £1.35bn was substantially pedestrians, cyclists, drivers and Wales, was “a prime example less than originally estimated. buses. of how we deliver transport Many project savings were infrastructure that has a positive redirected to the community, Jackson Civil Engineering outcome for society”. while intelligent transport Jackson, Atkins and Navtech systems reduced road successfully piloted a stationary WSP construction, cabling design vehicle detection radar system Transforming London Bridge will allow strand replacement on all-lane-running sections of station involved a complex without closures and wind- the M25 for Connect Plus and staging process identified by shielding measures will mitigate Highways England. This system WSP to minimise the impact weather closures. could dramatically improve on 120,000 daily commuters. safety for road users, traffic Platforms and arches built in FINALISTS officers, incident support units the early 19th Century were BWB Group and emergency services. demolished before the station BWB’s Traject ultra-thin pre- was reconstructed. The work was cast track bed system uses a Mace described by Network Rail as shallow construction concept Mace was project manager of “carrying out open heart surgery to minimise excavation depth the £1.5bn A14 Cambridge while running a marathon”.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 47 Winner Excellence in Urban Living

Winner: Civic Engineers Public realm upgrade boost for town centre

PEDESTRIAN AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT-FRIENDLY REDEVELOPMENT OF ALTRINCHAM TOWN CENTRE HELPED INCREASE TRADE AND CUT CRIME

Civic Engineers says it ensures A series of innovative road layouts Crucially, footfall through the town interconnectivity between its and shared spaces was designed to centre was increased as a result of the structures and related public realm. KEY FACT change driver mentality and increase improvement work. “We transform streets so people, not access for cyclists and pedestrians. Trafford Council leader Sean Anstee cars, are at their heart,” says the firm, 90 Narrowing roads to reduce traffic said in 2016: “One of our key focuses which has offices in London, Glasgow, speed as well as removal of lights was has been to reduce and reverse the Leeds and Manchester. Number of aimed at improving the experience for number of vacant business premises in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, jobs resulting pedestrians and motorists. these areas. Not only are we achieving had one of the highest business from the In March 2017, vacancy rates this but we have bucked the trend premises vacancy rates in the country. had fallen to less than 10%, down in the region. We’ve seen 24 new Civic Engineers worked alongside remodelling substantially from 30% at the start businesses occupying previously empty landscape architects Planit-ie and of Altrincham of the decade. Crime and anti-social premises, creating nearly 90 jobs.” Trafford Borough Council on a behaviour also fell. Although some 270 The judges said: “Civic Engineers programme of public realm works town centre incidents were recorded in June to presented an excellent scheme focused designed to enhance the streets. October 2016, this was down from 319 on the need for a community to be Phase one of the scheme linked in the same period the previous year. transformed. Its regeneration of a regenerated market with a new Altringham into a thriving place to transport interchange. Natural stone work, live and visit was centred on the paving was used, trees were planted concept of putting people first. and contemporary street furniture “Focusing on people, with was introduced including benches and Civic Engineers an integrated social value and cycle racks. infrastructure plan, Civic Engineers Phase two involved improvements presented an has transformed the town for the to the town’s main traffic better of pedestrians, motorists and thoroughfare, Stamford New excellent scheme those using public transport.” Road. Civic Engineers says changes focused on the need to the main route have changed l Judges were Arup director David driver attitudes, reduced speed and for a community to be Caiden, ICE director Nathan Baker significantly improved links to a key and New Civil Engineer news editor transport interchange. “transformed Rob Horgan.

48 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Civic Engineers has transformed the town for the better of pedestrians, motorists “and those using public transport

EXCELLENCE IN URBAN LIVING

HIGHLY COMMENDED CGL country, the city is keen to manage water Wills Bros Engineering Has been involved with the huge Barking resources sustainably to support continued Wills Bros played a key role in delivery of the Riverside scheme, helping turn a brownfield growth. HR Wallingford was part of a team Inverness West Link in the Scottish Highlands, site into a community of 10,800 homes with developing a smart water management system completed in December 2017. The scheme schools, roads, a railway station and a bus and to improve water efficiency across the city. involved the construction of a new 2.2 km river transport interchange. CGL established a single carriageway relief road outside the town, viable remediation plan for the 180ha former Waterman and the design and construction of a 170m power station site. Upwards of 500,000m3 of Provided engineering and environmental bridge across the River Ness. soil will be reused onsite. consultancy services on the 187ha Graven Hill Wills Bros was also contracted to develop scheme in Oxfordshire. The firm played a key world class sports pitches and facilities on Clancy Consulting role in securing outline planning permission behalf of the local rugby club, which lost land Provided civil and structural engineering for up to 1,900 self-build homes, and a village through the development. design for the sensitive conversion of five centre. It is now working closely on detailed Victorian hospital buildings into 168 homes. designs for the site. FINALISTS Retaining the historic buildings while ensuring Bryden Wood Technology affordable homes were able to meet Code WSP Developed a chassis-based platform system for Sustainable Homes Level 4 standards was Proposed a “cost effective and pragmatic” for a residential project in Russia. The set-up, a major challenge. Each home has access to plan to build above rail lines in and around which included a structural skeleton and an private outdoor space. London. WSP believes this space could provide MEP network, was customisable to create 250,000 homes for the capital. At Principal different buildings but retained a large HR Wallingford Place, the firm is working on a 50-storey proportion of repeatable elements. Client Led the water workstream within a £16M residential tower and 60,000m2 of office space feedback was positive and the system – is being project to develop Milton Keynes as a smart in a scheme that spans over six rail tracks at developed for the UK housing market. city. Located in one of the driest parts of the Liverpool Street Station.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 49 World View Excellence in Water

Winner: GHD For water, add efficiency

GHD HAS BROUGHT EFFICIENCY PLANNING AND INNOVATION TO A MAJOR UK WATER INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT

GHD is leading the design of a shaft. This also reduced the working significant upgrade of a 100 year old area substantially, facilitating planning pipeline bringing clean water to a major KEY FACT permission, as well as minimising city in the UK. The firm designed three the requirement for cut-and-fill new tunnel sections, along with their 100 years old operations. connections to the existing conduit, Only one 72-hour shutdown was to ensure continuous supply across Age of water needed to form the connection. national borders for generations ahead. pipeline being Flows were turned into the new GHD developed a staged excavation upgraded tunnel in early 2017, improving the beneath the existing asset, removing resilience of the city’s drinking water the need for internal propping and supply. allowing installation of a protective GHD is employee owned and concrete wrap without a shutdown. says its staff are empowered to By combining cast insitu and share knowledge, collaborate, and benched precast concrete units, the create lasting community benefit in company removed the need for large partnership with its clients. and costly prefabricated lightweight The firm says that by going “on steel sections. the journey” with clients through the It delivered significant savings by entire life cycle of their water projects, combining the tunnel boring machine it aims to deliver solutions with a drive pits and connection cofferdams lasting benefit for communities. to remove two deep shafts. Judges praised evidence of The near-vertical reinforced soil wall widespread community engagement to was the largest of its kind built in the help with cultural attitudes to support UK. project objectives. The team developed a way to divert “They were passionate engineers flows while the aqueduct was in service. and developed the client brief in an This involved removing the temporary innovative way,” said the judges. “They roof, placing precast concrete utilised professional registration for diversion blocks and removing the stop development of people internally. logs before placing the precast roof. Good example of horizontal innovation Tunnel boring machine launch for incorporation into their brief.” methodology was simplified by l Judges were Tideway chairman Sir combining the TBM drive pit and Neville Simms, Environment Agency the connection cofferdam in to one, national commercial manager Brian removing the need for a separate Francis and IRSE chief executive 12m diameter, 10m deep secant piled designate Blane Judd.

50 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 GHD is EXCELLENCE IN WATER employee HIGHLY COMMENDED an interception, storage and Jacobs owned and says its IDOM conveyance system that will CH2M (now Jacobs) is the Worked on solutions to improve water quality in Lake programme manager for the staff are empowered minimise losses to the water Ontario. £4bn, Tideway tunnel infrastructure in Medellin, The scheme covers an project. It says its to share knowledge, Colombia, where some entire area of 270 km2 and will procurement and commercial “collaborate, and neighbourhoods were at risk reduce the frequency expertise resulted in savings of total loss of supplies. The of sewer discharges and urban of up to 20% of the cost of create lasting project will have a positive run-offs. It included 27km of phase 2 works. Jacobs was impact on the lives of over 6.3m diameter tunnel as well praised by the client for its community benefit 11,700 families from peripheral as 14 large diameter storage strategy and its use of know- neighbourhoods that were shafts. how on the project at risk of being excluded UK hydraulics specialists to transform the river and completely from a fresh water developed a system to leave a legacy for future supply. physically model air release at generations. The firm set up community shafts, using a partial vacuum working groups involving to achieve the same pressure London Bridge Associates neighbourhood leaders to change ratio and air pocket Provided specialist and expert help communicate the need expansion in the model and engineers in construction and to use water efficiently and prototype. logistics planning to support respect the new water supply its client’s work to develop infrastructure that has been FCC Construcción and implement the Tideway installed. Worked on the Castrovido dam Tunnel project. Helped ensure Community leaders in Spain, a major construction the environmental impact expressed satisfaction and and engineering challenge. The was accurately assessed and highlighted the positive impact dam will generate a reservoir construction impacts were of the scheme. with storage capacity of minimised. Tideway chief 44Mm3 and an area of 214ha, executive Andy Mitchell said FINALISTS equivalent to 212 football London Bridge Associates did Arup pitches. an “excellent job of balancing Created a strategy to improve stakeholder needs with the water supply protection for HR Wallingford commercial aspects of the more than 1M people in Wales Led the development of new regulated business”. and safeguard a similar number projections of water availability against failure of an existing for the UK to enable the Stantec treatment works. government to assess the Developed three programmes The 30-year ambition aims relative severity of impacts to help the Seychelles to reduce Welsh Water’s under a range of scenarios. Water Authority improve carbon emissions by more than This was the first national its efficiency, demand 80% and halve the amount of assessment of climate-related management and resilience time customers are without risks by the UK Government, in the face of the significant water each year. Arup drew on and informed the second threat apparent from climate global experience of resilience UK Climate Change Risk change and sea level rise. planning to identify customer- Assessment. The firm’s The firm’s water demand specific target areas such projections extend to management programme as affordability, vulnerable the 2080s, significantly formulated strategies to circumstances and working in further than the typical manage water demand that communities. horizon currently adopted were communicated through a for UK water resource targeted awareness campaign Black & Veatch planning, providing an insight and promotion of bylaws to The consultant is designing into the pressures likely to be increase use of water-saving the City of Toronto Wet faced by the industry in the devices, rainwater harvesting Weather Flow Tunnel Scheme, longer-term. and household storage.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 51 World View Excellence in Climate Resilience

Winner: Royal HaskoningDHV Getting under the skin of flood defences

ROYAL HASKONINGDHV’S COMMITMENT TO LIVE AND BREATHE ITS PROJECTS IS EVIDENT IN ITS WORK ON THE MORAY FLOOD ALLEVIATION SCHEME

The £180M Moray Flood Alleviation major works to trunk roads; and team to deliver flood alleviation and Programme provided resilience to relocation of businesses and homes. complement the environment. My 3,000 homes and 600 businesses KEY FACT Some of the new flood defences measure of success was the scheme in four communities in north-east were tested before they were should be invisible and prevent Scotland. £180M completed, when the tail end of flooding. Not only was the challenge Royal HaskoningDHV was appointed Hurricane Bertha hit in August 2014. met, it was delivered ahead of to provide a range of services as a Value of The consultant says more than half programme and under budget.” consultant on the 15 year project, Moray Flood of Moray Council’s investment was The judges praised the firm’s which was completed last year. Alleviation effectively repaid within a decade of “very clear ethos of future proof The firm has 6,000 staff working the first elements being completed. considerations in projects across the on projects in 150 countries. It says Programme The project also has major social whole company, with particular focus it embeds people into project teams and environmental benefits, including on climate resilience”. to help them “live and breathe” the a cycle path and work to improve They said there was “clear evidence schemes. It also aims to apply “global amenities including parks, playing of cutting edge thinking and practice” solutions to local situations”. fields, wetlands and water courses. and hailed “excellence” in the Moray The Moray scheme was a response Moray Council project sponsor Flood Alleviation programme. to floods that affected thousands Peter Haslam said: “I challenged the “Adding value to local communities of properties and caused millions of was at the centre of their design and pounds worth of damage during the delivery, with infectious passion and 1990s and early 2000s. It covered five enthusiasm during the presentation flood alleviation schemes in four towns that made clear they are living and with investment from Moray Council breathing what they are saying.” and the Scottish Government. Not only was The programme was based on l Judges were Environment designs to make room for the river – the challenge Agency coastal risk management the construction of set-back defences; met, it was delivered director Alison Baptiste, Heriot demolition and rebuilding of bridges to Watt University professor of civil open up water courses; construction ahead of programme engineering systems Paul Jowitt and of dams to create flood water storage Mott MacDonald global sustainability reservoirs; building a pumping station; “and under budget leader Davide Stronati. 52 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 Very clear ethos of future proof considerations in projects across the “whole company

EXCELLENCE IN CLIMATE RESILIENCE

FINALISTS and public realm, helping reduce surface water JBA Consulting Arcadis flood risk. In January 2017, JBA and consortium Part of the winning team in a US Government- partners began a three-year project to assess run competition following super storm Sandy, Floodline Consulting geophysical and atmospheric hazards, aiming which damaged more than 300,000 homes The consultant has developed plans for two to adapt climate and hazard prediction models in New York in 2012. The protection scheme flood-resilient “can-float” properties on land to tropical conditions and improve forecasting, chosen, known as the Dryline, is a protective beside a flood prone river. The homes will rise emergency planning and response capacity in system around Manhattan. In collaboration with and fall with flood water. The Environment Kuala Lumpur whose population is projected to the City of New York and local communities, Agency has approved the scheme and Floodline grow by 30% to almost 10M by 2030. Arcadis will design flood protection solutions says the houses can be insured and mortgaged that merge into the urban fabric for 200,000 like conventional homes. RPS Group residents and 21,000 businesses. Design RPS’ Bongo River Trees Restoration project in features will incorporate architectural HR Wallingford Ghana, completed last year, drew in engineers floodwalls, bridging berms, embankments, HR Wallingford is helping the Malaysian and professional staff alongside charity moveable floodgates and interior drainage government’s Department of Irrigation and volunteers and village groups to undertake a improvements. Drainage develop an effective, integrated flood 75ha land restoration project. The semi-barren forecasting and river monitoring system. The rural landscape was transformed, with almost Civic Engineers consultant has developed two systems for west 100,000 trees and shrubs planted along with a Worked with landscape architects J&L Gibbons coast rivers, and is working on three for the range of other works. to produce sustainable urban drainage systems east coast. Fully automated systems are driven guidance for Transport for London. Responding by a combination of live, telemetered gauged Waterco Consultants to the Mayor of London’s Climate Change data from the government’s own database, as Commissioned to develop its smart flood Strategy, this demonstrates how SuDS can be well as spatial rainfall radar information and management concept through to project seamlessly integrated into London’s streetscape rainfall forecasts. appraisal review at four sites in north Wales.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 53 World View Excellence in Alternative Energy

Winner: Robert Bird Group Care has been taken to Minimising ensure all materials are recyclable and the turbines leave the footprint “no lasting impact on the environment after 25 years ROBERT BIRD GROUP HAS DEVELOPED A SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR UNDERSEA TURBINE BASES ON THE MAYGEN TIDAL POWER PROJECT

Robert Bird Group played a key role Design of ballast blocks and foundation in Phase 1A of the ambitious MeyGen tripods was selected to ease transport tidal power project to create the KEY FACT from the fabrication facilities to world’s first grid-connected tidal the port, with only final assembly turbine scheme in Scottish waters. 25 years undertaken at quayside. RBG conceived and developed the Judges described this as an gravity base design for the under sea Period after “excellent entry” that provided a turbines. They had to resist long-term which the strong case study in first principles dynamic forces in extreme marine turbines design, including an explanation of how conditions including highly turbulent the project was pushing the boundaries currents and storm surge conditions. will have no of high turbulence current modelling The site in the Pentland Firth between lasting impact and structural simulation. the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea They added that lessons from the was chosen for its strong tidal stream, on the scheme were being shared with the with its irregular seabed creating environment wider industry and even fed into a eddies and vortices on various scales. new design code that will apply as an The firm says proving effective industry standard. foundation design is a key requirement “Carbon use has been a major for the tidal power industry as it seeks consideration on the project,” the to fulfil its promise of aiding the move judges said. to a more sustainable energy mix in the “Care has been taken to ensure future. all materials are recyclable and the The MeyGen scheme is turbines leave no lasting impact on the environmentally responsible in a environment after 25 years. number of ways. Being entirely below “The clients were clearly happy with the sea surface, visual impacts are Robert Bird Group’s work. minimised. The gravity base concept Overall, a fantastic project showing also means the structures can simply clear innovation and leadership in be lifted off the seabed once their alternative energy.” operational life is over, allowing embodied steel to be recycled while l Judges were UK Power Networks the ocean is returned to its natural director of programme and state. procurement Nirmal Kotecha, Jacobs The steel support structure and head of innovation Adrian Harrison ballast blocks were fabricated close to and New Civil Engineer technical site to reduce transportation impact. reporter Fiona McIntyre.

54 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 EXCELLENCE IN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

FINALISTS wind farms, tidal arrays cope with difficult ground Beckett Rankine and new-nuclear projects. conditions. The wind farm The firm partnered in a JBA is using the system has the capability to save research project to address to support construction of more than 400,000t the cost of foundations the 116-turbine Rampion of carbon per year. On a for offshore wind and offshore wind farm off the broader scale, Sweco has wave energy schemes Sussex coast, where initial contributed to 3.6GW of by advancing a concept foundation construction installed renewable capacity that could achieve a 20% was heavily delayed by bad over the last eight years. reduction renewable weather. ForeCoast Marine energy costs. The Offshore predicted a 20 month Walters Platform for Energy construction programme to Its Mynydd Bwllfa wind Conversion comprises a within three days. Costain farm project involved the large floating structure, principal risk consultant installation of nine wind fabricated in reinforced Andy Poole said the system turbines, each 125m high, concrete modules, designed was “a game changer in the on an environmentally to support multiple wind way we plan and manage sensitive site in Wales. and wave devices and also weather”. As landowner, developer aquaculture facilities. and design-and-build The project is exploring Mott MacDonald contractor, Walters the deployment of such Developing the technical conceived the project systems in developing island specification and business and will operate and states and isolated coastal case for an innovative maintain the facility for communities that currently 600MW solar-pumped the next 25 years. It face high electricity costs. storage project on the coast maintained consultation and of northern Chile’s Atacama stakeholder engagement IDOM Desert. When the sun is throughout. Walters Designed the hydro-wind shining, half the power from provides more than power plant on El Hierro in the 1650ha solar plant will 100MW of clean electricity the Canary Islands with the be used to pump water from capacity at seven sites aim of supplying all of the the sea to 650m above across Wales, enough to island’s electrical energy sea level. When released, offset the carbon emissions from renewable sources and this water will generate of its huge plant fleet. helping conserve an area hydropower to meet declared a World Biosphere daytime peaks and night- WYG Reserve. Power is supplied time power demand. Mott The consultant was to the network from wind MacDonald says the hybrid commissioned by Vestas to turbines with surpluses used scheme will be competitive investigate the optimum to pump water to create a on cost with conventional solution for transporting reserve to drive the hydro- alternatives. 66 turbines to Stronelairg turbines if wind is lacking. wind farm on the shore of It is estimated that this Sweco UK Loch Ness. The longest system will save the annual Provided a range of component was the length consumption of 40,000 consultancy services for of four buses. WYG oil barrels and cut out the Galway Wind Farm, which assessed each stage of the emission of 18,700 tonnes has the capacity to generate journey and worked with of CO2. enough green energy developer SSE Renewables for 90,000 homes. The to design the mitigation JBA Consulting 169MW generating project works required. It reduced Developed ForeCoast is a combination of four the need for expensive land Marine to facilitate windfarms and Sweco had to deals and intrusive road installation, operation and design five different types works and slashed costs and maintenance of offshore of turbine foundation to timescales.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 55 NCE100 The Gold List

THE NCE100 COMPANIES OF THE YEAR 2018 WERE SCRUTINISED BY A PANEL OF 45 JUDGES WHO ASSESSED ENTRIES AND INTERVIEWED SENIOR EXECUTIVES ANALYSIS OF STAFF SURVEYS COMPLETED THE ASSESSMENT

AKTII Costain i-Transport Alun Griffiths Curtins Jackson Civil Engineering Anthony D Bates Partnership Davies Maguire Jacobs Arcadis Design ID Consulting JBA Consulting Arch Henderson Design2e Jenkins and Potter Ardent Consulting Engineers Dougall Baillie Associates JNP Group Consulting Engineers Arup Dr Sauer & Partners John Sisk & Son NCE100 Awcock Ward Partnership Dunelm Geotechnical JPP Consulting Barhale Eastwood & Partners Kier BDP Edenvale Young Associates London Bridge Associates Beckett Rankine Engenuiti Mace Black & Veatch Engineeria Midland Metro Alliance Breheny Civil Engineering FCC Construccion MJ Rooney Construction Bryden Wood Technology FJD Consulting Mott MacDonald BWB Group Floodline Consulting Opus International Consultants C Spencer Foundation Piling Patrick Parsons Caley Water GHD Pell Frischmann CampbellReith Glanville Consultants Peter Brett Associates Capita Property and Infrastructure Hartigan Pick Everard Cass Hayward Hewson Consulting Engineers Pinnacle Consulting Engineers CGL HR Wallingford PJA Civic Engineers Hydrock Plandescil Clancy Consulting IDOM Project Centre Clarkebond Igloo Ramboll Converge Interserve Construction Robert Bird Group

56 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 HERE IS THE NCE100 TOP 10. A LIST OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL, INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE CIVIL ENGINEERING COMPANIES IN 2018 i-Transport Royal HaskoningDHV Jackson Civil Engineering RPS Group 01 Arcadis Jacobs RSK Group JBA Consulting Sanderson Watts Associates 02 Arup Jenkins and Potter Sensat Top 10 Top JNP Group Consulting Engineers Stantec John Sisk & Son Stuart Michael Associates 03 Jacobs JPP Consulting Sweco UK Kier Taylor & Boyd 04 Mace London Bridge Associates Thomas Consulting Mace Thornton Tomasetti Midland Metro Alliance Van Elle 05 Ramboll MJ Rooney Construction Waldeck Consulting Mott MacDonald Walters 06 Sweco UK Opus International Consultants Waterco Consultants Patrick Parsons Waterman Pell Frischmann Webb Yates Engineers 07 Mott MacDonald Peter Brett Associates Wentworth House Partnership Pick Everard Westlakes Engineering 08 Costain Pinnacle Consulting Engineers Whitby Wood PJA Wills Bros Civil Engineering Plandescil Wood 09 WSP Project Centre WSP Ramboll WYG 10 Black & Veatch Robert Bird Group XEIAD

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2018 57 NCE100 Judges Judging Panel

Tahir Ahmad Jonathan Chapman David Hancock Andrew McNaughton Elizabeth Rikard BIM specialist, Crossrail Senior skills advisor, Construction director, Technical director, Finance director and chief — Environment Agency Infrastructure and Projects HS2 Ltd engineer, Highwire Height Simon Alford — Authority, Cabinet Office — Safety Engineers Director, AHMM Darren Colderwood Benita Mehra — — Development director Adrian Harrison President, Women’s David Riley Roger Bailey Heathrow Airport Head of innovation, Engineering Society (WES) Head of carbon and energy, Asset management — utilities, Jacobs — Anglian Water director, Tideway Ian Corder — Paul Morris — — Cost and carbon manager, Anil Iyer Head of innovation, Kevin Shelton Nathan Baker Environment Agency Chief operating officer, Tideway Head of risk and value Director, ICE — Association for Consultancy — management, Network Rail — Adrian Coy & Engineering Chris Newsome Sir Neville Simms Alison Baptiste Local authorities director, — executive director, chairman, Tideway Director, flood and Aecom and former vice Paul Jowitt Anglian Water — coastal risk management, president, ICE Professor of civil — Paula Stannett Environment Agency — engineering systems, Heriot Douglas Oakervee Chief people officer — Sarah Eager Watt University Chairman, Docel and ICE Heathrow Airport Ltd Lewis Blackwell Innovation lead – smart — Special Representative for — Executive director, Building infrastructure, Innovate UK Blane Judd China Davide Stronati Centre — Chief executive, EngTech — Global sustainability leader, — Joanne Ellman Brown Now Nelson Ogunshakin Mott MacDonald Denise Bower PMO director, — Chief executive, — Executive director, Major Heathrow Airport Jon Kerbey Association for Consultancy Jon Sturgess Projects — Head of management & Engineering Programme manager Association Jaap Flikweert systems, HS2 Ltd — (design) – building and civil — Director, water governance — Shaun Pidcock design groups, Network Keith Bowers and strategy, Royal Nirmal Kotecha Programme director, Rail Profession head: tunnels HaskoningDHV Director of capital Highways England — London Underground — programme and — Christine Townley, — Brian Francis procurement, UK Power Lisa Pinney Freelance consultant – Kevin Bowsher National commercial Networks Chief executive, Coal young people and skills Diversity and inclusion manager, Environment — Authority; trustee, — manager, Network Rail Agency David Leam Infrastructure Stonewall Keith Waller — — director, London First — Senior advisor, Maggie Brown Geoff French — Nicholas Pollard Infrastructure & Projects Innovation manager, EDF Past-president, ICE John Lorimer Chief executive, Cory Authority Energy – Hinkley Point C — Chair, BIM Academy Riverside Energy — — Chris Gage — — Briony Wickenden Mike Brown Digital lead - industrial Alexi Marmot David Porter Head of training, Civil Commissioner, Transport products UKI global Vice-dean teaching and Director, NI Rivers Agency Engineering Contractors for London business services, IBM learning, University — Association — — College London Alasdair Reisner — David Caiden Peter Hall — Chief executive, Civil Simon Wright Director, Arup Member engagement Michelle McDowell Engineering Contractors Programme director, manager, Employers Chair, civil and structural Association Crossrail Network for Equality & engineering, BDP Inclusion

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