ICE Engineering Excellence Awards 2016 Engineered in South East England in partnership with ICE Recruit 38 Contents Cowes Outer Harbour Project 39 District Hospitals Ghana - Dodowa Hospital 40 Jurong Tuas View Phase II 41 Laxey Coastal Promenade 42 Swale Sluices Refurbishment 43 Welcome 03 Programme of the evening 04 Branch Awards About the Engineering Excellence Awards 05 Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Sponsors of the Engineering Excellence Awards 07 Engineering Excellence in association with Berryrange 44 Hosts of the evening 10 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road 45 Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme 46 The Awards Burham Strategic Water Main 47 Young Professional of the Year 11 Hoo Island Re-Engineering Works 48 Peters Village and Medway Valley Crossing 49 ICE Volunteer of the Year 13 Poorhole Lane Improvement 50 Best Infrastructure Project in association with Swale Sluices Refurbishment 51 Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP 15 Transforming Manston Airport 52 Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme 16 Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in Burham Strategic Water Main 17 partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund 53 Leigh Road Bridge 18 A400M Maintenance Repair Overhaul Facility 54 Peters Village and Medway Valley Crossing 19 Blavatnik School of Government 55 Purley Switches and Crossings Renewal and Upgrades 20 East West Rail Phase1 56 Reading Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge 21 District Hospitals Ghana – Dodowa Hospital 57 Urbanisation Award in association with Bechtel 22 Gade Valley Expansion Joint Replacement Scheme 58 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road 23 Leigh Road Bridge 59 Bognor Regis Northern Relief Road 24 Purley Switches and Crossings Renewal and Upgrades 60 Wokingham Rail Station and Link Road Re-Development 25 Reading Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge 61 Wokingham Rail Station and Link Road Re-Development 62 Best Use of in a Building Project in association with 26 South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant 63 Blavatnik School of Government 27 Balcombe Rail Re-signalling Project 64 Bournemouth University Student Centre 28 Bognor Regis Northern Relief Road 65 Hasting Pier Conservation 29 Bournemouth University Student Centre 66 Cowes Outer Harbour Project 67 Excellence in in association with Colas Rail Limited 30 Duver Road Bridge Strengthening 68 A400M Maintenance Repair Overhaul Facility 31 Grove Farm Sewage Pumping Station 69 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road 32 Hasting Pier Conservation 70 Blavatnik School of Government 33 Jurong Tuas View Phase II 71 Burham Strategic Water Main 34 Laxey Coastal Promenade 72 Gade Valley Expansion Joint Replacement Scheme 35 Thorndell Viaduct 73 Grove Farm Sewage Pumping Station 36 Whyke Horizon Footbridge 74 Thorndell Viaduct 37 South East England Engineering Excellence Award South East England Engineering Excellence Award 75

01 Contents Contents 02 Welcome Programme of the evening

As Regional Chair for ICE South East England I would 19.00 Welcome drinks like to thank you for joining us to celebrate the best civil engineering projects completed in the region over the last 19.25 Call through for dinner year. These awards recognise how civil engineers and the projects we work on benefit our local area: 19.30 Welcome

Projects which improve the life of local communities 19.35 Young Professional of the Year and ICE Volunteers of the Year Awards Make a positive impact on the environment and maintain 19.40 Dinner served Restore existing infrastructure for future generations

21.00 Key note speech by Sir John Armitt This year for the first time, we have included two individual awards – the Young Professional and Volunteer Awards. We hope that by including these 21.15 Award ceremony continues two new prizes we will be able to better celebrate the commitment and ingenuity of our 11,000 members. 22.10 Branch Awards and South East England Engineering Excellence Award

As always, these awards would not have been possible without the hard work 23.00 Ceremony ends of a number of people. These include the staff at the awards dinners across the region, the judges, our generous sponsors, ICE’s Regional Support Team and above all, those engineers who took time away from current projects to submit their entries and help us celebrate their work over the past year.

Many thanks to you all.

Tim Kermode CEng MICE Chair, ICE South East England

03 Welcome Programme of the evening 04 About the Engineering Excellence Awards

The ICE South East England Engineering Excellence Awards celebrate The Awards outstanding civil engineering achievement, innovation and ingenuity in Young Professional of the Year South East England. The awards have grown into the highest honour for engineering excellence in the region. ICE Volunteer of the Year Best Infrastructure Project in association with Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP ICE South East England is divided into three branches: Urbanisation Award in association with Bechtel Kent and East Sussex Best Use of Civil Engineering in a Building Project in association with Crest Nicholson Thames Valley (Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Excellence in Construction Award in association with Colas Rail Limited

South Branch (West Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) Engineered in South East England in partnership with ICE Recruit

An award for each branch will be presented to the project judged to be the best example of engineering excellence in that branch. Branch Awards This year we have shortlisted projects in different categories and introduced two Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Engineering Excellence in new awards – Young Professional of the Year and ICE Volunteer of the Year. association with Berryrange The individual awards recognise and celebrate young professionals and volunteers Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund who have demonstrated their professionalism and dedication. South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant For the second year running we will be awarding the Engineered in South East England Award. This award recognises the contribution of South East England engineers in ground breaking national and international projects. South East England Engineering Excellence Award The evening will culminate in one of the project teams receiving the highest award in the region, the South East England Engineering Excellence Award.

05 About the Engineering Excellence Awards About the Engineering Excellence Awards 06 Sponsors of the Engineering Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is an international, full service law firm Excellence Awards with over 850 lawyers, including over 200 partners, based across 12 global offices – , Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Moscow, Myanmar, Paris and Singapore. BLP is currently ranked by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s top ten legal innovators and renowned for responding creatively to the challenges clients face. Infrastructure is at the core of our firm and our full service offering enables us to advice from an early feasibility stage including consenting/planning, through to development, financing and exit. We advise across all asset classes (including energy, transport and logistics, water, social and communications), both in Bechtel regulated and unregulated markets. Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies, and a cornerstone of innovation in the industry. Together with Colas Rail their customers, Bechtel deliver landmark projects — the Colas Rail Limited is the world leading engineering, construction modern marvels of the world — that foster sustainable and rail support services. From design to delivery, construction to progress and grow economies. The reliability of its support, training to maintenance, Colas Rail delivers total solutions performance, the enduring quality of projects, the strength in all aspects of railway infrastructure, from high speed rail systems of ethics, and the seriousness of their commitment to to light and urban rail. As award-winning specialists in the design safety and sustainability are evident in everything they do. and construction of all forms of railway, they focus on world-class performance in four key areas of rail infrastructure – track, rail services, rail systems and training. Their approach to project delivery Berryrange is to challenge the status quo through value management and value engineering, offering innovative solutions, whilst ensuring Berryrange is a sub-contractor specialising in integrated that output quality is guaranteed first time every time. steel sheet piling design and construction. It operates a fleet of the latest piling equipment including silent pilers, leader rigs, augering equipment and excavator mounted vibratory hammers. It owns and operates the only silent Crest Nicholson piler in Europe capable of installing piles to within 75mm Crest Nicholson is firmly established as a leading developer with a of any obstruction. The team of engineers employed by passion for not only building homes, but also for creating vibrant Berryrange is skilled in the interpretation of geotechnical sustainable communities. With a southern-based bias, the FTSE250 data for both design and construction entirely based on group has a track record spanning more than 50 years and a broad the requirements of the Eurocodes. It operates throughout portfolio of developments which range in size and scale, from the UK and is available to advise clients on their ground contemporary, large scale mixed-use developments to smaller, support requirements in all sectors of construction. more traditional housing schemes. As a pioneer of its own garden village principles, the company advocates a holistic approach to development embracing social, environmental and economic factors to create homes for all segments of the community.

07 Sponsors of the Engineering Excellence Awards Sponsors of the Engineering Excellence Awards 08 Trant Hosts of the evening Established for over 50 years, Trant’s main business activities include civil, mechanical, electrical and process engineering, including full EPC services for private and public sector clients. Its key sectors are water/waste, energy (hydrocarbon and renewables), power and transmission, marine/coastal, defence (UK and dependencies), pharmaceutical and petrochemical. Projects valued between £0.5m-£58m have been successfully delivered using their directly employed resources, supply chain partners and specialists. Trant operates across England, South Wales, Channel Islands and the South Atlantic.

Sir John Armitt ICE President Sir John Armitt is the Institution’s President for 2015/16. He is Also in partnership with: a Commissioner for the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), following his 2013 ‘Armitt Review’ into long-term ICE Benevolent Fund infrastructure planning. Knighted in 2012 for his services The ICE Benevolent Fund is dedicated to helping ICE members in to engineering and construction, Sir John has had many need of support. It provides help and advice to members, former achievements. One of his finest was successfully delivering the members, and their loved ones, who find themselves facing hard 2012 Olympic Games as Chairman of the Olympic Delivery times. Services provided include: Financial assistance and advice Authority (2007 - 14) and most recently, he was a member of - Back to work support - Self-development workshops - Student the Davies Commission which looked at recommendations for support - Counselling - Telephone helpline - Online wellbeing airport capacity in the South East. portal - Housing in Sussex, UK. Since the Ben Fund was started it has helped over 31,500 people worldwide. You can read more about the impact of the Ben Fund’s work by visiting the ‘About us’ section of the website www.icebenfund.com Tiff Needell TV Presenter Tiff Needell is a former Grand Prix driver who spent most of his professional career racing in the World Sportscar Championship including 14 Le Mans 24-hour races where ICE Recruit he had a best result of third in 1990. He is however, perhaps ICE Recruit is the UK’s number one specialist civil engineering better known as a former presenter of ‘Top Gear’, starring job board. We are the official job board of the Institution of Civil alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Quentin Willson throughout Engineers (ICE), the home of UK civil engineering. Our aim is to the nineties before the show was taken off air. Tiff then helped help members and non-members find jobs and civil engineering to create ‘Fifth Gear’ which entered its fifteenth year in 2016 companies and recruiters recruit appropriate staff. We cover on ITV4. Tiff recently wrote his autobiography ‘Tiff Gear’ and both permanent and interim positions in all areas of civil and still races whenever the opportunity arises. structural engineering from junior posts to specialist positions. Our goal is to put the right employer in touch with the right potential employee as efficiently as possible.

09 Sponsors of the Engineering Excellence Awards Hosts of the evening 10 Young Professional of the Year This award is designed to recognise and reward the most accomplished and promising young professional.

Charlotte Allen from Opus International Consultants Charlotte is a passionate and highly motivated young professional. She is an engineer who upholds the industry, and seeks out change and innovation. As a forward thinker, she is able to adapt to new techniques and has contributed to new research Young Professional in stormwater drainage treatment which is now gaining momentum of the Year within the industry and showcasing her technical excellence.

Tom Brown from BAM Nuttall Tom has been a proactive and motivated engineer in a series of tunnelling teams across four recent London Underground and worksites. His early embrace of extensive shift working in major tunnelling projects and commitment to ICE Volunteer self-development has given him the valuable experience to establish and lead in more senior engineering roles. of the Year Katherine Jackson from Mott MacDonald Katherine is a highly accomplished young chartered civil engineer working in the Highways division of Mott MacDonald. At 25, she was selected to join the company’s prestigious Transport Management Consultancy. A driven self-starter, Katherine’s contribution to technical excellence has been key to Mott MacDonald securing global recognition as the world’s number one technical advisor, as recognised by Infrastructure Journal Global (IJGlobal) for the sixth time in 2016.

11 Hosts of the evening Young Professional of the Year 12 ICE Volunteer of the Year This award is designed to recognise and reward the ICE member who has made an outstanding contribution to ICE through volunteering.

Moses Ajala from Connect Plus Services Helen Littler from WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Moses Ajala is an assistant engineer/structures inspection As a STEM ambassador and ICE volunteer, Helen works manager responsible for the management and stewardship of tirelessly to promote civil engineering to students of all ages. Highway Structures Inspection programme for the M25 Outside of work she volunteers as a Sunday school teacher, Network. He has been a STEM ambassador and enthusiastic Youth Club leader and does voluntary work with Sustrans and ICE volunteer since 2014. a local community rail group.

Jane Birks from Black & Veatch Elizabeth Orchard from Crest Nicholson Jane has been an active STEM ambassador for ICE since 2014. As an award-winning STEM ambassador and whilst working She has been involved in several career and skills fairs for ICE, for Peter Brett Associates LLP, Elizabeth was a key team STEM events and externally organised events such as Guest member in the setting up of University Technical College in Lecturing at Greenwich University. Reading. Opened in 2013, she successfully designed and ran the first fully curriculum-integrated professional project at the college in 2014 with support from her colleagues.

Matt Ennals from the University of Portsmouth Matt is a civil engineering undergraduate at the University of Portsmouth who has been volunteering on behalf of ICE since Kevin Tollet from Geomatic Engineering Ltd 2013. Since becoming a STEM ambassador for ICE, he has Kevin had always wanted to be a civil engineer and work attended major STEM events such as Teen Tech Solent and Big in the design environment. He has attended several career Bang among others. fairs by himself, carrying out workshops such as designing a suspension bridge and testing its limitations.

13 ICE Volunteer of the Year ICE Volunteer of the Year 14 Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme Environment Agency

The £30M Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme directly protects 1,388 homes and over 100 Cost businesses by increasing the standard of protection £30m from 1 in 20 years to 1 in 200 years, allowing for Location predicted sea level rise. The improvements include Lydd Road, Camber, Kent Best Infrastructure 1.8km of rock revetment and new concrete wave wall, 700m beach recharge and replacement of Completed by timber groynes plus improvements to the existing December 2015 Project in association promenade including access ramps and steps. Project team Environment Agency, The Broomhill Sands team has led on a number of Team Van Oord Ltd, with Berwin Leighton innovations, many of which are ‘firsts’ for the Mott MacDonald, Environment Agency, the UK and some even for the CH2M, Arcadis Paisner LLP construction industry. For example the innovative approach with high-risk water sports users within the offshore rock delivery and storage area. The team Short listed projects: have reported over £8.9m of efficiencies.

> Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme Broomhill Sands is highlighted in a Cabinet briefing as an example of best practice regarding value and the Burham Strategic Water Main > delivery of large efficiencies during construction. > Leigh Road Bridge > Peters Village and Medway Valley Crossing > Purley Switches and Crossings Renewal and Upgrades > Reading Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge

15 Best Infrastructure Project in association with Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP 16 Burham Strategic Water Main Leigh Road Bridge South East Water Geoffrey Osborne Ltd

By delivering its largest and most challenging Leigh Road Bridge opened in October 2015, pipeline scheme to date, South East Water has Cost providing a vital link for the people and businesses Cost secured the water supply to thousands of homes £9.2m of Slough Trading Estate over the Great Western £10m and businesses and provided infrastructure that Railway. It supplements the existing 1836 Brunel Location Location will promote development and growth for Bridge, which was sub-standard for current South East Water, Rocfort Leigh Road (c/o Bedford decades to come. All this whilst enhancing the requirements. Road, Snodland, Kent Avenue), Slough Trading environment and reducing costs. Estate, Slough, Berks Completed by The client, SEGRO, appointed Osborne and Peter The previous trunk main burst frequently, putting tap May 2016 Brett Associates as respective contractor and design Completed by water at risk and damaging the sensitive site of consultant. Due to concurrent Crossrail works on the October 2015 Project team special scientific interest (SSSI) that it crosses. With a route, abnormal possessions were unavailable for South East Water, Project team £500,000 annual repair bill, the business case was bridge installation. The design and build team therefore Jacobs UK Ltd., Geoffrey Osborne Ltd, obvious. The solution was a 6.5km replacement developed the half through steel girder superstructure Farrans Construction, SEGRO plc, Peter Brett main with tunnelled crossings of river, rail and road, and innovative cantilevered trailer launch method. Ward & Burke, Associates, Tony Gee but avoiding the SSSI. PF Murphy & Sons, & Partners, Slough Construction began in the summer of 2014, with the Borough Council, Ingenuity and collaborative working lead to added launch undertaken in February 2015. The innovative Network Rail benefits including improved network connectivity and method earned keen media attention with the operation resilience and was instrumental in controlling cost, featuring on the BBC One Show and on local radio time and overcoming numerous construction. promoting interest in civil engineering. The project team consistently worked collaboratively to complete the project within programme and budget.

17 Best Infrastructure Project in association with Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Best Infrastructure Project in association with Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP 18 Peters Village and Medway Valley Crossing Purley Switches Cost BAM Nuttall Limited and Crossings Renewal £8m and Upgrades Location Cost Purley Station, Whytecliffe £33m S&C Alliance South (Network Rail) Rd S, Greater London

Location Completed by BAM Nuttall Limited, Site January 2016 Compound, Old Church Rd, Project team Burham, Maidstone, Kent S&C Alliance South Completed by (Network Rail), S&C August 2016 Alliance South (AECOM), S&C Alliance South Project team (Colas Rail), Network BAM Nuttall Limited, Rail – Route Enhancement Trenport Investments Management Limited, Gleeds Cost Peters Village project is an exemplary example of Management, Waterman engineering excellence. It brings innovation to solve Group, WSP, David complex engineering challenges, sustainable Jarvis Associates, BWA construction and economically viable solutions Management Limited, allowing the creation of a new village within the FGS Deacon Landscape, heart of Kent. Environmental Scientifics Group Ltd, Forest Traffic Through the provision of infrastructure for this new Services Limited, Freyssinet Purley Junction is one of the busiest and most important railway junctions in the community, there are also significant benefits to the Limited, G8 Construction, UK providing the link between London, Gatwick Airport and the South East. This local communities of Burham and Wouldham, including Colas, Hi Way Services complex infrastructure project involved the complete redesign and installation improved transportation links, PRoW, recreational and Limited, Homegrown of switches and crossings, transforming Victorian engineering into a 21st century, educational facilities. In providing these improvements Timber Limited, J P Flynn modern and sustainable rail system, fit for passenger and freight timetable demands. BAM (D&B contractor) has worked closely with the Construction, Littlewood client (Trenport Investments, Kent and Medway Councils Fencing Limited, Ovenden Aecom, Colas Rail and Network Rail working collaboratively within the S&C South Alliance, and the Environmental Agency) to ensure creation of a Earthmoving Co Limited, delivered Network Rail’s biggest Christmas project on time, to budget and with zero accidents place where people want to live, and the local P J Edwards & Co (UK) during a 24-hour, 10-day closure between 24 December 2015 and 4 January 2016. community want to live beside. Limited, C P Dynes, Lafarge , Vibro As a direct result of their excellent and sustainable designs; strong programme In delivering this goal the team have embraced latest Menards Limited, Winjam management; timely stakeholder engagement; innovative construction methods; robust technology and innovations to build new bridges and Developments Limited, RBLI, financial controls and industry leading health and safety management; the team ensured roads that provide a direct link to the A228. This eases RMD Kwikform Winjam the area continued to function without any adverse impact on the economy and the congestion on the existing roads and providing improved Developments Ltd., RBLI, day-to-day lives of local people and businesses. access to wider motorway and rail networks. RMD Kwikform

19 Best Infrastructure Project in association with Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Best Infrastructure Project in association with Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP 20 THE AWARDS Reading Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge Peter Brett Associates LLP

Urbanisation

Award in

association

with Bechtel

Short listed projects: > Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Bognor Regis Northern Relief Road The 120-metre cable stay Reading Pedestrian and > Cycle Bridge over the River Thames was constructed Cost > Wokingham Rail Station and Link Road Re-Development to play a vital role in connecting Reading. It forms a £7.2m sustainable transport link to provide accessible connections Location to employment, transport and leisure destinations. Friars Island, Thames Side

Innovative in both form and construction, the bridge Completed by embodies ingenuity in the creation of a useful addition September 2015 to local communities and a visitor destination in its own right. The bridge delivers a sustainable solution that Project team complements the local area and contributes to the Peter Brett Associates LLP, well-being of the local community. Reading Borough Council, Design Engine Architects The team relied on strong collaboration and communication Ltd, , between each other, local stakeholders and communities Hollandia Infra to meet outcomes and deliver an outstanding project.

21 Best Infrastructure Project in association with Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Urbanisation Award in association with Bechtel 22 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Bognor Regis Northern Relief Road HOCHTIEF Joint Venture Barratt David Wilson

Barratt David Wilson Homes completed the Bognor Regis Northern Relief Road connecting Cost the A29 at Shripney with the A259 at Felpham. £28m The relief road has been delivered as part of a Location package of improvements under a section 106 BNRR/Viaduct Project agreement that also includes sports facilities, Office (Western Section) parks, skate park community centre and supports Shripney Road 800 new homes built in the area. Shripney, West Sussex

The viaduct structure spans the Bognor Regis to Completed by Barnham railway line, the Lidsey Rife and other March 2016 watercourses as well as the flood plain and measures Project team 0.5km in length. Barratt David Wilson, The Bexhill to Hastings Link Road is a catalyst for , Hochtief (UK) sustainable development in a highly deprived area Cost The project has re-profiled water courses and Construction Ltd, John of the South East, providing future employment £120m semi-natural habitats are developing on both Reilly Civil Engineering opportunities. Working in collaboration with local watercourses with Water Vole evidence. The watercourses Location Limited, MJA Consulting, developers, a new business park was constructed link the new wetland habitats along the flood attenuation Cowhurst Road, Millstone Landscapes, and opened simultaneously with the opening of ponds that have developed permanent and seasonally St Leonards on Sea, Aluco Ecology, WSP, West the Link Road whilst giving the earliest possible wet areas providing a good mix of quality feeding East Sussex Sussex County Council start to these employment opportunities. resources for water vole and bat populations as well as Completed by numerous bird species. Too often urbanisation has negative impact on wild life December 2015 and public enjoyment of natural environments. This site Project team was home to many species of flora and fauna, enjoyed HOCHTIEF Taylor Woodrow by the community. The design enhances this diverse Joint Venture, East Sussex habitat with improved access for equestrians, walkers, County Council, Jacobs UK, cyclists and disabled. Mott Macdonald

Construction measures were taken to inform and work with the community, maintain public access and preserve existing habitats through proactive planning. It also provided opportunity for archaeological investigations that proved to be significant, providing evidence of human occupation though many periods with local interest and finds considered to be of national importance.

23 Urbanisation Award in association with Bechtel Urbanisation Award in association with Bechtel 24 Wokingham Rail Station and Link Road Re-Development Wokingham Borough Council

Best use of Civil

The Wokingham Rail Station and Link Road redevelopment has been a transformational project Cost Engineering in a for this busy Thames Valley interchange. Between £13m 2011 and 2015, a collaborative working approach Location between Wokingham Borough Council, Network Building Project Wokingham Town Centre Rail and South West Trains has delivered a significant transport interchange in the town fit Completed by for the 21st century. May 2015 in association with Project team The combined scheme cost of circa £12.68m provided Wokingham Borough Crest Nicholson three main elements to the redevelopment: Council, WSP|PB, Balfour A new station building and associated platform works Beatty Living Places, R&W Short listed projects: A new access forall footbridge and lifts Civil Engineering, Imtech Traffic & Infrastructure, A new link road with major junction alterations and > Blavatnik School of Government changes to traffic flow patterns DEG Signal Ltd, S&T Cover, Network Rail Infrastructure > Bournemouth University Student Centre Some of the key constructional issues the project had to Projects South – Wessex, overcome included: C Spencer Ltd., Mott > Hasting Pier Conservation MacDonald, South Maintaining access for the public to the rail station West Trains, Geoffrey during all construction works Osborne Ltd. Co-ordinating three main contractors, especially the railway building and footbridge andtechnical design Delivering the new “linked” road traffic signal and level crossing barrier control systems

25 Urbanisation Award in association with Bechtel Best Use of Civil Engineering in a Building Project in association with Crest Nicholson 26 Blavatnik School of Government Bournemouth University Student Centre WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

Bournemouth University Student Centre (BUSC) provides students with a creative and innovative new building, which supports their social activity whilst also enabling them to engage with the students’ union. The use of materials and form, including steel staircases which fly across a six-storey octagonal atrium, encourage students to work collaboratively, whilst a link bridge connecting to the existing library Cost boosts involvement with the students’ union. £10m Location Excellent relationships within the delivery team, strong BUSC, Talbot Campus, Fern early engagement from the university, together with Barrow, Poole, Dorset The Blavatnik School of Government is a global a “no-blame” culture and willingness from all to find school pursuing a vision of a world better led, Cost solutions to challenges throughout the project, was Completed by a world better served and a world better £36m paramount to the project being brought forward, March 2015 governed and with such high ambitions deserved delivered on time and on budget. The use of concrete Location Project team a world class home. The building was specifically for thermal mass, a large atrium for natural ventilation, Radcliffe Observatory WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, designed to support the school’s mission and together with ground source heat pumps, photo-voltaic Quarter, University of Oxford, Bournemouth University, provides a state-of-the-art home for its vibrant panels, and sedum roofs have enabled BUSC to achieve Woodstock Rd, Oxford , Saunders academic community. a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating. Architects, Completed by With Herzog de Meuron, the team have created a December 2015 remarkable building providing a low carbon solution Project team with landmark appeal and spectacular quality. The Pell Frischmann, design and construction required close co-operation University of Oxford, to enable such a complex form to be erected and Herzog & de Meuron, together we refined materiality and build method to Laing O’Rourke, Gardiner create a spectacular structure safely and effectively. & Theobald, Hoare Lea

27 Best use of Civil Engineering in a Building Project in association with Crest Nicholson Best use of Civil Engineering in a Building Project in association with Crest Nicholson 28 Hastings Pier Conservation THE AWARDS Ramboll Excellence in Construction in association with Colas Rail Limited

Short listed projects:

> A400M Maintenance Repair Overhaul Facility > Bexhill to Hastings Link Road

Only half the original Victorian pleasure piers > Blavatnik School of Government remain and many face an uncertain future. Cost > Burham Strategic Water Main The Hasting Pier project applied technology, £11.5m research, experience and design skills innovatively Location > Gade Valley Expansion Joint Replacement Scheme to solve the pier’s conservation problems: 1-10 White Rock, > Grove Farm Sewage Pumping Station Conserving a large heritage asset in the sea Hastings, East Sussex Thorndell Viaduct Delivering a pier with a viable, sustainable future Completed by > March 2016 The civil engineering solutions overcame the marine environment, constructability, and access difficulties for Project team inspection, construction and maintenance. The works Ramboll, Hastings Pier required the development of a range of typical and Charity, dRMM, FPE Global bespoke structural solutions and the construction Ltd, PT Projects Ltd, The methods were adapted to be suitable to the location. Heritage Lottery Fund Close collaboration with contractors has been important in development of the design.

From a sound understanding of the original construction of the pier we have developed a strategy that is both site specific and sympathetic to the historic structure. This pier can now look forward to a bright future under the ownership of the Hasting Pier Charity.

29 Best use of Civil Engineering in a Building Project in association with Crest Nicholson Excellence in Construction 30 A400M Maintenance Repair Overhaul Facility Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Defence Infrastructure Organisation HOCHTIEF Taylor Woodrow Joint Venture

Success achieved through a collaborative single team approach. The design and The Bexhill to Hastings Link Road may only be construction methodology satisfied specific constraints applicable working adjacent 5.5km long, but it has 13 major highway structures, Cost a runway/ taxiway within a high security operational RAF Base. poor access, extremely challenging ground features £120m and conditions, along with active flood plains. Location Innovation This project required an innovative approach in Cost Cowhurst Road, Onsite concrete batching plant to provide 11700m³ ground engineering to provide robust, timely and £35m St Leonards on Sea, of PQC cost effective solutions. East Sussex Radar absorbing panels eliminating potential interference Location A400M Maintenance A collaborative approach was taken for each challenge Completed by Airfield flight systems reconfigured to accommodate Repair Overhaul Facility and developed solutions that met all party’s needs. December 2015 the facility location Solutions were not only satisfying engineering Completed by Project team parameters, but also accommodated the poor road Creativity June 2016 HOCHTIEF Taylor Woodrow network from London and the South East. This network Multifunction facility providing a ‘one stop shop’ Joint Venture, East Sussex Project team created logistical issues in achieving daily delivery of for RAF transport aircraft County Council, Jacobs UK, Defence Infrastructure high volume imported quarry products. The site also Mott Macdonald First and second line repair managed within a Organisation, Balfour had very high ecological and archaeological interest single facility Beatty, WYG, AWW, with the planning authority who were keen on the flora ‘Just in time’ management process and forward Arup, and fauna preservation as well as maximising public supplies are held outside the security base access during the works. These interest enhanced the project on its completion. Social Value 300 additional permanent jobs created Final solutions pushed engineering boundaries to the limit with methods and scope rarely used in the UK. Significant benefits to the wider economy Long term local community commitment

Safety Foreign Object Debris measures implemented during design and construction stage Existing services diverted into a ‘corridor’ around the site to reduce the risk of a service strike

Sustainability Project on course to achieve DREAM excellent Existing hard standings were crushed and recycled

31 Excellence in Construction in association with Colas Rail Limited Excellence in Construction in association with Colas Rail Limited 32 Blavatnik School of Government Burham Strategic Water Main Pell Frischmann South East Water

By delivering its largest and most challenging pipeline scheme to date, South East Water Cost demonstrated ingenuity to secure water supply £9.2m to thousands of homes and businesses. The route Location passes through historical sites, protected species South East Water, Rocfort and a solar farm. In addition to passing 20m Road, Snodland, Kent The Blavatnik School of Government is a global underneath water ingress which proved extremely school pursuing a vision of a world better led, Cost problematic, at one stage, eight 10-inch were Completed by a world better served and a world better £36m required to manage the 13ml/d of water rising May 2016 governed and with such high ambitions deserved from the base through the rocks (enough water Location Project team a world class home. The building was specifically on a daily basis to the meet the water demands Radcliffe Observatory South East Water, designed to support the school’s mission and of a town the size of Hastings). Quarter, University of Oxford, Jacobs UK Ltd., Farrans provides a state-of-the-art home for its vibrant Construction, Ward & Woodstock Rd, Oxford Construction methods used included GPS positioning academic community. Burke, PF Murphy & of evacuators. This precision of control reduced the Completed by Sons, Mouchel With Herzog de Meuron, the team have created a December 2015 amount of material evacuated and saved time and costs. remarkable building providing a low carbon solution The launch and reception shafts for each tunnel were Project team with landmark appeal and spectacular quality. The constructed using in-situ reinforced concrete caisson Pell Frischmann, design and construction required close co-operation construction. This reduced the risk of leaks in shaft and University of Oxford, to enable such a complex form to be erected and the amount of plant and labour required. Herzog & de Meuron, together we refined materiality and build method to Laing O’Rourke, Gardiner create a spectacular structure safely and effectively. The team also created a legacy of people, supplier and & Theobald, Hoare Lea knowledge creation which will benefit future projects.

33 Excellence in Construction in association with Colas Rail Limited Excellence in Construction in association with Colas Rail Limited 34 Gade Valley Expansion Grove Farm Sewage Pumping Station Joint Replacement Scheme Thames Water Jackson Civil Engineering For many years, a community on the outskirts of Fleet in Hampshire had suffered from sewer flooding. Cost This caused when storm water overwhelmed sewage £7m tanks which forced storm water and domestic waste Location to ‘back up’ in the network. To solve this problem, Hitches lane (opposite Thames Water embarked on a £7m plan to construct Calthorpe Park school), a new sewer pumping station at Hitches Lane which Fleet. Hampshire was very close to the affected properties. Completed by This proximity to the community meant that the construction May 2016 work has had to be extremely sensitive to the needs of the Project team community and the fact that the site is adjacent to the Thames Water, MGJV local secondary school has only reinforced this. Expansion joint replacement schemes on high speed roads have the potential to cause huge disruption through lane closures and speed restrictions. Until now, commercially However, an innovative construction method and very active programme of public available temporary bridging plates, which ordinarily used hinged systems, offered engagement and communication has managed to turn what could have been a negative awkward access to the joint, and required vastly reduced traffic speeds during the day. into a positive, minimising and mitigating complaints and involving local residents as much as possible in what has been a complex and challenging project. The bespoke temporary over-ramp solution developed by Connect Plus, Connect Plus Services, Jackson Civil Engineering and Flint & Neill has delivered a versatile solution. It has virtually eliminated traffic disruption, allowing traffic to flow at normal speeds throughout the duration of the project – a world first for joint replacement on this scale.

Originally developed for use on the QEII Bridge, the Cost temporary over-ramps have subsequently been used to N/A replace the expansion joints on the Gade Valley viaduct at Junction 20. Although these structures are inherently Location different – the joints at Gade Valley are skewed by more North Grove Cottages, Off than 30 degrees – the simplicity of the ramp design has Watford Road, Kings Lane, allowed them to be re-used following minimal modifications. Hertfordshire The solution has the potential to be used at a further 28 locations across the M25 network. Whilst in-situ, 30.2 Completed by million vehicles drove over the ramps at Gade Valley and October 2015 their drivers were largely unaware of their presence. Project team Considering this number in the context of delays that Jackson Civil Engineering, could have been caused by the works, the benefits for this Connect Plus & Connect temporary works method are unquantifiable, and in that Plus Services, Flint & Neill respect, this innovation has been a triumph for the industry.

35 Excellence in Construction in association with Colas Rail Limited Excellence in Construction in association with Colas Rail Limited 36 Thorndell Viaduct BAM Nuttall Limited Engineered in South East England in partnership with ICE Recruit

Short listed projects:

> Cowes Outer Harbour Project > District Hospitals Ghana - Dodowa Hospital

In October 2015, BAM Nuttall successfully delivered a > Jurong Tuas View Phase II highly technical and challenging £5.5 million design Cost > Laxey Coastal Promenade and build replacement of the Thorndell Viaduct £5.5 million within a floodplain located between Pulborough Swale Sluices Refurbishment Location > and Amberley stations. The viaduct was deemed BAM Nuttall Site under strength in need of being brought back to Compound, Bury Road, full strength with a 120-year design. Bury, West Sussex

This project was an all-round success which saw the Completed by handover of high quality works four hours ahead of October 2015 schedule within a 75-hour possession. Project team BAM Nuttall Limited, Rigorous health, safety, and environmental processes Network Rail, Cass were instilled which resulted in zero reportable injuries Hayward, Mammoet, or incidents and award recognition for above and beyond Keltbray, Macrete initiatives. BAM Nuttall invested in future talent and incorporated collaborative working with supply chain, stakeholders and the local community.

Newly adapted processes or techniques derived from the works have been shared company-wide for future projects. Innovative working, project management and client satisfaction were key and saw the implementation of new technologies, open communication and effective cost or programme controls.

37 Excellence in Construction in association with Colas Rail Limited Engineered in South East England 38 Cowes Outer Harbour Project District Hospitals Ghana – Boskalis Westminster Limited Dodowa Hospital Campbell Reith Hill LLP Cowes is one of the world’s premier destinations for yachting with the related business essential to the island’s economy and employment. Providing a true sheltered harbour environment is key to the future and sustainable prosperity of the harbour, local and the island’s economy. The breakwater is an important catalyst for the wider regeneration of East Cowes, which suffers comparatively lower levels of employment and investment than Cowes.

The main engineering challenges were to design and construct a stable breakwater on an extremely soft Cost clay layer and to keep within the budget. £7 million

Key features of the Boskalis Westminster proposal were Location the integrated co-operation with the client team and Cowes Harbour the provision of in-house capabilities including: Commission, Harbour Office, Town Quay, Cowes, Innovative design Isle of Wight Utilisation of the dredging fleet Completed by Sustainable re-use of dredged material from November 2015 the Southampton Channel Deepening project Project team Installation of vertical drains and compaction Boskalis Westminster Installation of geotextile Limited, Cowes Harbour The Ghana District Hospitals project is an exemplary Commission, Atkins, Supply of armour rock illustration of the core values of modern civil engineering. Cost Ramboll Project and stakeholder management USD$25m The hospitals will transform the lives of those living in Marine surveying Location each district and they have been engineered to provide Dodowa, Ghana an optimum solution. The solution brought together the best of modern facilities, modern construction methods, Completed by knowledge transfer of these methods, and the use of December 2015 new technologies to achieve a sustainable user-friendly Project team layout that economically addresses the site constraints. Campbell Reith Hill LLO, NMS International Group The project has involved everything from the use of Ltd, TP Bennett LLP, NMS satellite imagery, drones, Revit 3D, PDS 3D cut and fill Infrastructure Limited, analysis to sustainable drainage, solar energy, modern Sprunt, Deacon and Jones composite wall systems and low energy self-sufficient LLP, John Reid & Sons sewerage treatments. (Strucsteel) Ltd

39 Engineered in South East England in partnership with ICE Recruit Engineered in South East England in partnership with ICE Recruit 40 Jurong Tuas View Phase II Laxey Coastal Promenade Royal HaskoningDHV JBA Consulting

The Laxey coastal promenade scheme’s design introduced a new approach to considerate the Cost tolerable discharges from wave overtopping £65,000 through adopting the principles of limit state Location design. This involved setting the ultimate and The promenade, Laxey, serviceability wave overtopping limits to consider Isle of Man the performance of the structure during both extreme and normal conditions. The traditional Completed by design approach (focussed on the reduction of wave December 2015 overtopping to tolerable thresholds for the design Project team storm event) was shown to be inadequate in this JBA Consulting, design. This is due to the failure of the structure’s Isle of Man Government performance during lower return period events and when considered against more stringent thresholds.

The adoption of a limit state design approach at Laxey has helped ensure the performance of the structure through both normal and extreme conditions. This aided in optimising the defence geometry to provide the maximum benefits from wave overtopping Royal HaskoningDHV (RHDHV) was appointed to protection. At the same time, not designing a structure Cost design dock (entrance) gates for all three dry-docks that could negatively impact the picturesque landscape USD$12m (Dock 5, 6 and 7) of Jurong Phase II project in and important tourism industries. Singapore. Gate 7 is the main focus as it is the largest Location non-propped spanning flap gate in the world. Sembcorp Marine, Tuas Boulevard Yard, Singapore Despite being 20% larger than any previous flap gate and Completed by there were initial concerns that it might be unachievable, Spring 2016 RHDHV continued to design an efficient, safe and fully functional gate. The gate will bring significant economic Project team benefits to the local economy in a sustainable manner. Royal HaskoningDHV, Sembcorp Marine This project is in line with Singapore’s ambition to maintain its position as a highly developed trade-oriented market economy and a major hub for ship repair services.

41 Engineered in South East England in partnership with ICE Recruit Engineered in South East England in partnership with ICE Recruit 42 Swale Sluices Refurbishment BRANCH AWARDS Environment Agency Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) The £1.4million Swale Tidal Sluices Refurbishment Scheme completely refurbished four tidal sluices on the Cost North Kent coast between September 2013 and May £1.4m for Engineering 2016. The structures help maintain the marshes and Location its environmental designations. They were originally Various locations at constructed following the 1953 floods but suffered Excellence North Kent: Motney with outfall siltation and were close to failure. Hill Sluice, Motney Hill Road, Rainham; Codds in association with The team saved time and public money by packaging Sluice, Chetney Marshes, four projects into one. They put partnership working at Iwade; Crown Sluice, Ferry the heart of the project, using feedback from 360 degree Marshes, Isle of Sheppey; Berryrange stakeholder design workshops to reduce changes during Thorn Sluice, Nagden, the construction phase. Faversham Short listed projects: The team incorporated the temporary cofferdam into Completed by the permanent works then solved the siltation problem June 2016 > Bexhill to Hastings Link Road by cutting a V-notch weir into the front face of each Project team > Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme cofferdam. This increased the flow velocity, making the Environment Agency, channel self-cleaning. Team Van Oord, Royal > Burham Strategic Water Main HaskoningDHV, Lower and By maintaining water levels in the marshes, the refurbished > Hoo Island Re-Engineering Works Upper Medway Internal sluices reduce local flood risk whilst also supporting the Drainage Board Peters Village and Medway Valley Crossing international designations, local agriculture, and leisure > interests such as bird-watching, cycling and rambling. > Poorhole Lane Improvement > Swale Sluices Refurbishment > Transforming Manston Airport

43 Engineered in South East England in partnership with ICE Recruit 44 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Broomhill Sands Coastal HOCHTIEF Taylor Woodrow Joint Venture Defence Scheme Environment Agency The Bexhill to Hastings Link Road is a catalyst for sustainable development in a highly deprived area Cost of the South East, providing future employment £120m opportunities. Working in collaboration with local Location developers, a new business park was constructed Cowhurst Road, and opened simultaneously with the opening of St Leonards on Sea, the Link Road whilst giving the earliest possible East Sussex start to these employment opportunities. Completed by Too often urbanisation has negative impact on wild life December 2015 and public enjoyment of natural environments. This site Project team was home to many species of flora and fauna, enjoyed HOCHTIEF Taylor Woodrow by the community. The design enhances this diverse Joint Venture, East Sussex habitat with improved access for equestrians, walkers, County Council, Jacobs UK, cyclists and disabled. The £30M Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme Mott Macdonald directly protects 1,388 homes and over 100 Cost Construction measures were taken to inform and work businesses by increasing the standard of protection £30m from 1 in 20 years to 1 in 200 years, allowing for with the community, maintain public access and preserve Location predicted sea level rise. The improvements include existing habitats through proactive planning. It also Lydd Road, Camber, Kent provided opportunity for archaeological investigations 1.8km of rock revetment and new concrete wave Completed by that proved to be significant, providing evidence of wall, 700m beach recharge and replacement of December 2015 human occupation though many periods with local interest timber groynes plus improvements to the existing promenade including access ramps and steps. and finds considered to be of national importance. Project team Environment Agency, The Broomhill Sands team has led on a number of Team Van Oord Ltd, innovations, many of which are ‘firsts’ for the Mott MacDonald, Environment Agency, the UK and some even for the CH2M, Arcadis construction industry. For example the innovative approach with high-risk water sports users within the offshore rock delivery and storage area. The team have reported over £8.9m of efficiencies.

Broomhill Sands is highlighted in a Cabinet briefing as an example of best practice regarding value and the delivery of large efficiencies during construction.

45 Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Engineering Excellence in association with Berryrange Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Engineering Excellence in association with Berryrange 46 Burham Strategic Water Main Hoo Island Re-Engineering Works South East Water Land & Water Services

Hoo Island Re-Engineering works completed in 2015 has strengthened the perimeter engineered bunds Cost of the old dredging disposal site in the River £1.7m Medway to ensure its long-term integrity. It also Location introduced an enhanced wildlife habitat in the Hoo Island, Chatham form of dry and wetland habitat covering some Docks, Gillingham, Kent 125 acres within the River Medway. Completed by Access to the island was restricted to one to two hours November 2015 either side of high water with all labour, plant and Project team material mobilised to the island by pontoon and barge Land & Water Services, via Chatham Docks. Site accommodation and welfare Peel Ports, RSK provision were setup and maintained on the island for Environment Ltd By delivering its largest and most challenging pipeline the 20nr site personnel 24 hours a day seven days a week. scheme to date, South East Water demonstrated Cost ingenuity to secure water supply to thousands of £9.2m Strict procedures were implemented to ensure the homes and businesses. The route passes through integrity of the perimeter bund was maintained during Location historical sites, protected species and a solar farm. the construction works. Safe methods of works were South East Water, Rocfort In addition to passing 20m underneath water ingress adhered to, whilst earthworks plant accessed over both Road, Snodland, Kent which proved extremely problematic, at one stage, the unstable perimeter bunds and the soft wet dredged eight 10-inch were required to manage the 13ml/d Completed by material lying in each dredge disposal ‘cell’. of water rising from the base through the rocks May 2016 (enough water on a daily basis to the meet the water Project team demands of a town the size of Hastings). South East Water, Jacobs UK Ltd., Farrans Construction methods used included GPS positioning of Construction, Ward evacuators. This precision of control reduced the amount & Burke, PF Murphy of material evacuated and saved time and costs. The & Sons, Mouchel aunch and reception shafts for each tunnel were constructed using in-situ reinforced concrete caisson construction. This reduced the risk of leaks in shaft and the amount of plant and labour required.

The team also created a legacy of people, supplier and knowledge creation which will benefit future projects.

47 Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Engineering Excellence in association with Berryrange Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Engineering Excellence in association with Berryrange 48 Peters Village and Medway Valley Crossing Poorhole Lane Cost BAM Nuttall Limited Improvement £2.5m Kent County Council Location Cost Poorhole Lane, Westwood £33m Road, Broadstairs, Kent

Location Completed by BAM Nuttall Limited, Site July 2015 Compound, Old Church Rd, Project team Burham, Maidstone, Kent Kent County Council, Completed by Amey Consulting & August 2016 Strategic Infrastructure, Jackson Civil Engineering Project team BAM Nuttall Limited, Trenport Investments Limited, Gleeds Cost Peters Village project is an exemplary example of Management, Waterman engineering excellence. It brings innovation to solve Group, WSP, David complex engineering challenges, sustainable Jarvis Associates, BWA construction and economically viable solutions Management Limited, allowing the creation of a new village within the FGS Deacon Landscape, heart of Kent. Environmental Scientifics Group Ltd, Forest Traffic Through the provision of infrastructure for this new Services Limited, Freyssinet The scheme involved the widening of Poorhole Lane at Westwood in Thanet community, there are also significant benefits to the Limited, G8 Construction, and linked two primary roads – the A256 Westwood Road to the west and the local communities of Burham and Wouldham, including Colas, Hi Way Services A254 Ramsgate Road to the east. This has provided an alternative route for improved transportation links, PRoW, recreational and Limited, Homegrown traffic between Margate, Westwood Cross Shopping Centre and Broadstairs. educational facilities. In providing these improvements Timber Limited, J P Flynn BAM (D&B contractor) has worked closely with the Construction, Littlewood The primary purpose was a highway improvement supporting the local economy in client (Trenport Investments, Kent and Medway Councils Fencing Limited, Ovenden creating an alternative route for existing and future traffic movements avoiding the and the Environmental Agency) to ensure creation of a Earthmoving Co Limited, severely congested Westwood roundabout. It also was to provide improved infrastructure place where people want to live, and the local P J Edwards & Co (UK) and accessibility to support existing businesses and attract inward investment and community want to live beside. Limited, C P Dynes, increased employment. Lafarge Tarmac, Vibro In delivering this goal the team have embraced latest Menards Limited, Winjam technology and innovations to build new bridges and Developments Limited, RBLI, roads that provide a direct link to the A228. This eases RMD Kwikform Winjam congestion on the existing roads and providing improved Developments Ltd., RBLI, access to wider motorway and rail networks. RMD Kwikform

49 Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Engineering Excellence in association with Berryrange Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Engineering Excellence in association with Berryrange 50 Swale Sluices Refurbishment Transforming Manston Airport Environment Agency Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald Joint Venture The £1.4million Swale Tidal Sluices Refurbishment Scheme completely refurbished four tidal sluices on the Cost North Kent coast between September 2013 and May £1.4m 2016. The structures help maintain the marshes and Location its environmental designations. They were originally Various locations at constructed following the 1953 floods but suffered North Kent: Motney with outfall siltation and were close to failure. Hill Sluice, Motney Hill Road, Rainham; Codds The team saved time and public money by packaging Sluice, Chetney Marshes, four projects into one. They put partnership working at Iwade; Crown Sluice, Ferry the heart of the project, using feedback from 360 degree Marshes, Isle of Sheppey; stakeholder design workshops to reduce changes during Thorn Sluice, Nagden, the construction phase. Faversham In July 2015, Operation Stack managed by Balfour The team incorporated the temporary cofferdam into Completed by Beatty Mott MacDonald (BBMM) made headline Cost the permanent works then solved the siltation problem June 2016 news due to the disruption being caused across £600,000 by cutting a V-notch weir into the front face of each Kent and on Highways England’s Area 4 Network. Project team Location cofferdam. This increased the flow velocity, making the Environment Agency, Balfour Beatty Mott channel self-cleaning. The M20 effectively became a giant lorry park on a Team Van Oord, Royal MacDonald, Area 4, weekly basis and as stack continued, the team were HaskoningDHV, Lower and 10 Kings Hill Avenue, By maintaining water levels in the marshes, the refurbished challenged to find a different way of holding lorries. Upper Medway Internal Kings Hill, Kent sluices reduce local flood risk whilst also supporting the Drainage Board international designations, local agriculture, and leisure BBMM and its supply chain partners made a huge effort Completed by interests such as bird-watching, cycling and rambling. to lay markings on the airfield to make it suitable as a August 2015 lorry park. Coordinated by BBMM, 17 companies were Project team involved in the operation. Over a 50-hour period, capacity Balfour Beatty Mott for 4,500 lorries over 36 lanes was marked out using MacDonald, Highways 140,000 metres of lining, 5,000 studs and 95 arrows. England, Hi-Way Services, All of this was done with no compromise on the team’s , standards for safety, the environment and quality. HW Martin

This was a massive achievement brought together by an astounding team effort from everyone at BBMM and their supply chains.

51 Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Engineering Excellence in association with Berryrange Brassey Award (Kent and East Sussex) for Engineering Excellence in association with Berryrange 52 BRANCH AWARDS A400M Maintenance Repair Overhaul Facility Thames Valley Defence Infrastructure Organisation

Award for Success achieved through a collaborative single team approach. The design and construction methodology satisfied specific constraints applicable working adjacent Engineering a runway/ taxiway within a high security operational RAF Base. Innovation Excellence in Onsite concrete batching plant to provide 11700m³ Cost of PQC £35m partnership with Radar absorbing panels eliminating potential interference Location Airfield flight systems reconfigured to accommodate A400M Maintenance the facility location Repair Overhaul Facility ICE Benevolent Fund Completed by Creativity June 2016 Multifunction facility providing a ‘one stop shop’ Short listed projects: for RAF transport aircraft Project team First and second line repair managed within a Defence Infrastructure A400M Maintenance Repair Overhaul Facility > single facility Organisation, Balfour Beatty, WYG, AWW, Blavatnik School of Government ‘Just in time’ management process and forward > Arup, Interserve supplies are held outside the security base > District Hospitals Ghana – Dodowa Hospital > East West Rail Phase1 Social Value 300 additional permanent jobs created > Gade Valley Expansion Joint Replacement Scheme Significant benefits to the wider economy > Leigh Road Bridge Long term local community commitment

> Purley Switches and Crossings Renewal and Upgrades Safety Foreign Object Debris measures implemented during Reading Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge > design and construction stage > Wokingham Rail Station and Link Road Re-Development Existing services diverted into a ‘corridor’ around the site to reduce the risk of a service strike

Sustainability Project on course to achieve DREAM excellent Existing hard standings were crushed and recycled

53 Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund 54 Blavatnik School of Government District Hospitals Ghana – Pell Frischmann Dodowa Hospital Campbell Reith Hill LLP

The Blavatnik School of Government is a global The Ghana District Hospitals project is an exemplary school pursuing a vision of a world better led, Cost illustration of the core values of modern civil engineering. Cost a world better served and a world better £36m USD$25m governed and with such high ambitions deserved Location The hospitals will transform the lives of those living in a world class home. The building was specifically Location Radcliffe Observatory each district and they have been engineered to provide designed to support the school’s mission and Dodowa, Ghana Quarter, University of Oxford, an optimum solution. The solution brought together the provides a state-of-the-art home for its vibrant Woodstock Rd, Oxford best of modern facilities, modern construction methods, Completed by academic community. knowledge transfer of these methods, and the use of December 2015 Completed by new technologies to achieve a sustainable user-friendly With Herzog de Meuron, the team have created a December 2015 Project team layout that economically addresses the site constraints. remarkable building providing a low carbon solution Campbell Reith Hill LLO, Project team with landmark appeal and spectacular quality. The NMS International Group Pell Frischmann, The project has involved everything from the use of design and construction required close co-operation Ltd, TP Bennett LLP, NMS University of Oxford, satellite imagery, drones, Revit 3D, PDS 3D cut and fill to enable such a complex form to be erected and Infrastructure Limited, Herzog & de Meuron, analysis to sustainable drainage, solar energy, modern together we refined materiality and build method to Sprunt, Deacon and Jones Laing O’Rourke, Gardiner composite wall systems and low energy self-sufficient create a spectacular structure safely and effectively. LLP, John Reid & Sons sewerage treatments. & Theobald, Hoare Lea (Strucsteel) Ltd

55 Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund 56 East West Rail Phase1 Gade Valley Expansion Atkins Joint Replacement Scheme Jackson Civil Engineering

East West Rail is a major project to establish a strategic railway connecting East Anglia with Central, Southern and Western England. The western section of the route will ultimately provide a modern 100mph railway between Oxford and Bedford, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury Vale.

East West Rail Phase 1 represents a 20km stretch between Oxford and Bicester. The section between Oxford Parkway Station and Bicester village was opened on Expansion joint replacement schemes on high speed roads have the potential to cause 26 October 2015 and the remaining section opens late autumn 2016. huge disruption through lane closures and speed restrictions. Until now, commercially available temporary bridging plates, which ordinarily used hinged systems, offered The project comprised the following: awkward access to the joint, and required vastly reduced traffic speeds during the day. New Oxford Parkway station at Water Eaton Cost The bespoke temporary over-ramp solution developed by Connect Plus, Connect Plus £350m Upgrade of Bicester Village and Islip stations Services, Jackson Civil Engineering and Flint & Neill has delivered a versatile solution. Location It has virtually eliminated traffic disruption, allowing traffic to flow at normal speeds Construction of a connecting line to the Chiltern Mainline The Axis, 10 Holliday throughout the duration of the project – a world first for joint replacement on this scale. Seven new overbridges Street, Birmingham Originally developed for use on the QEII Bridge, the Six reconstructed or strengthened under bridges Completed by Cost temporary over-ramps have subsequently been used to March 2016 N/A Eight new footbridges replace the expansion joints on the Gade Valley viaduct Project team at Junction 20. Although these structures are inherently Location Numerous stretches of widened earthworks and Atkins Plc, Chiltern different – the joints at Gade Valley are skewed by more North Grove Cottages, Off retaining walls Railways, Network Rail, than 30 degrees – the simplicity of the ramp design has Watford Road, Kings Lane, Modification of 35 culverts Buckingham allowed them to be re-used following minimal modifications. Hertfordshire Joint Venture, Siemens The solution has the potential to be used at a further 28 Closure of 37 level crossings locations across the M25 network. Whilst in-situ, 30.2 Completed by October 2015 Repair, strengthening and track formation lowering million vehicles drove over the ramps at Gade Valley and through Wolvercote Tunnel their drivers were largely unaware of their presence. Project team Considering this number in the context of delays that Jackson Civil Engineering, Installation of a new signaling system could have been caused by the works, the benefits for this Connect Plus & Connect temporary works method are unquantifiable, and in that Plus Services, Flint & Neill respect, this innovation has been a triumph for the industry.

57 Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund 58 Leigh Road Bridge Purley Switches and Crossings Geoffrey Osborne Ltd Renewal and Upgrades S&C Alliance South (Network Rail) Leigh Road Bridge opened in October 2015, providing a vital link for the people and businesses Cost of Slough Trading Estate over the Great Western £10m Railway. It supplements the existing 1836 Brunel Location Bridge, which was sub-standard for current Leigh Road (c/o Bedford requirements. Avenue), Slough Trading Estate, Slough, Berks The client, SEGRO, appointed Osborne and Peter Brett Associates as respective contractor and design Completed by consultant. Due to concurrent Crossrail works on the October 2015 route, abnormal possessions were unavailable for Project team bridge installation. The design and build team therefore Geoffrey Osborne Ltd, developed the half through steel girder superstructure SEGRO plc, Peter Brett and innovative cantilevered trailer launch method. Associates, Tony Gee Purley Junction is one of the busiest and most & Partners, Slough Construction began in the summer of 2014, with the important railway junctions in the UK providing Cost Borough Council, launch undertaken in February 2015. The innovative the link between London, Gatwick Airport and the £8m Network Rail South East. This complex infrastructure project method earned keen media attention with the operation Location involved the complete redesign and installation featuring on the BBC One Show and on local radio Purley Station, Whytecliffe of switches and crossings, transforming Victorian promoting interest in civil engineering. The project team Rd S, Greater London consistently worked collaboratively to complete the engineering into a 21st century, modern and Completed by project within programme and budget. sustainable rail system, fit for passenger and freight timetable demands. January 2016 Project team Aecom, Colas Rail and Network Rail, working S&C Alliance South collaboratively within the S&C South Alliance, delivered (Network Rail), S&C Network Rail’s biggest Christmas project on time, to Alliance South (AECOM), budget and with zero accidents during a 24-hour, 10-day S&C Alliance South (Colas closure between 24 December 2015 and 4 January 2016. Rail), Network Rail – Route Enhancement As a direct result of their excellent and sustainable designs; Management strong programme management; timely stakeholder engagement; innovative construction methods; robust financial controls and industry leading health and safety management; the team ensured the area continued to function without any adverse impact on the economy and the day-to-day lives of local people and businesses.

59 Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund 60 Reading Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge Wokingham Rail Station and Peter Brett Associates LLP Link Road Re-Development Wokingham Borough Council The 120-metre cable stay Reading Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge over the River Thames was constructed Cost to play a vital role in connecting Reading. It forms £7.2m a sustainable transport link to provide accessible Location connections to employment, transport and leisure Friars Island, Thames Side, destinations. Reading Innovative in both form and construction, the bridge Completed by The Wokingham Rail Station and Link Road Cost embodies ingenuity in the creation of a useful addition March 2015 redevelopment has been a transformational project £13m to local communities and a visitor destination in its for this busy Thames Valley interchange. Between Project team 2011 and 2015, a collaborative working approach own right. The bridge delivers a sustainable solution Location Peter Brett Associates between Wokingham Borough Council, Network that complements the local area and contributes to LLP, Reading Borough Wokingham Town Centre the well-being of the local community. Rail and South West Trains has delivered a Council, Design Engine significant transport interchange in the town fit Completed by Architects Ltd, Balfour for the 21st century. May 2015 The team relied on strong collaboration and Beatty, Hollandia infra communication between each other, local stakeholders Project team The combined scheme cost of circa £12.68m provided and communities to meet outcomes and deliver an Wokingham Borough three main elements to the redevelopment: outstanding project. Council, WSP|PB, Balfour A new station building and associated platform works Beatty Living Places, R&W A new access forall footbridge and lifts Civil Engineering, Imtech A new link road with major junction alterations and Traffic & Infrastructure, changes to traffic flow patterns DEG Signal Ltd, S&T Cover, Network Rail Infrastructure Some of the key constructional issues the project had to Projects South – Wessex, overcome included: C Spencer Ltd., Mott MacDonald, South Maintaining access for the public to the rail station West Trains, Geoffrey during all construction works Osborne Ltd. Co-ordinating three main contractors, especially the railway building and footbridge andtechnical design Delivering the new “linked” road traffic signal and level crossing barrier control systems

61 Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence in partnership with ICE Benevolent Fund 62 BRANCH AWARDS Balcombe Rail Re-signalling Project South Award for Kier Infrastructure and Overseas Limited Engineering Excellence in association with Trant

Short listed projects:

> Balcombe Rail Re-signalling Project > Bognor Regis Northern Relief Road > Bournemouth University Student Centre > Cowes Outer Harbour Project > Duver Road Bridge Strengthening The Balcombe Re-Signalling Project involved the > Grove Farm Sewage Pumping Station complex installation of bi-directional signalling to Cost allow six trains to run per hour in either direction £13m Hasting Pier Conservation > on each track between Balcombe Tunnel Junction Location and Copyhold Junction on the busy Brighton Main > Jurong Tuas View Phase II London Road, Line. The aim of the works was to bring greater Balcombe, West Sussex > Laxey Coastal Promenade flexibility and reliability to the line. Completed by > Thorndell Viaduct (Amberley, West Sussex) The original contract value was circa £10 million and for November 2015 Kier, working on such a busy and publicity sensitive main Whyke Horizon Footbridge Project team > line, any setbacks would have been high profile. However Kier Infrastructure and the success of the project was secured by the collaborative Overseas Limited, Network spirit and close working relationships developed between Rail, Mott MacDonald each part of the team which saw the project delivered Limited, TICS Limited, on time and within budget in November 2015. Global Rail Construction Limited, The TEW Group (TEW Engineering Ltd), Fonealarm, NTS Premier Services Ltd

63 Thames Valley Award for Engineering Excellence South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant 64 Bognor Regis Northern Relief Road Bournemouth University Barratt David Wilson Student Centre WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Barratt David Wilson Homes completed the Bognor Regis Northern Relief Road connecting the A29 Cost at Shripney with the A259 at Felpham. The relief £28m road has been delivered as part of a package of Location improvements under a section 106 agreement BNRR/Viaduct Project that also includes sports facilities, parks, skate park Office (Western Section) community centre and supports 800 new homes Shripney Road Bournemouth University Student Centre built in the area. Shripney, West Sussex (BUSC) provides students with a creative and innovative new building, which supports The viaduct structure spans the Bognor Regis to Completed by their social activity whilst also enabling them Barnham railway line, the Lidsey Rife and other March 2016 to engage with the students’ union. The use watercourses as well as the flood plain and measures Project team of materials and form, including steel staircases 0.5km in length. Barratt David Wilson, which fly across a six-storey octagonal atrium, Atkins, Hochtief (UK) encourage students to work collaboratively, whilst The project has re-profiled water courses and Construction Ltd, John a link bridge connecting to the existing library Cost semi-natural habitats are developing on both Reilly Civil Engineering boosts involvement with the students’ union. £10m watercourses with Water Vole evidence. The watercourses Limited, MJA Consulting, Location link the new wetland habitats along the flood attenuation Millstone Landscapes, Excellent relationships within the delivery team, strong BUSC, Talbot Campus, Fern ponds that have developed permanent and seasonally Aluco Ecology, WSP, West early engagement from the university, together with Barrow, Poole, Dorset wet areas providing a good mix of quality feeding Sussex County Council a “no-blame” culture and willingness from all to find resources for water vole and bat populations as well as solutions to challenges throughout the project, was Completed by numerous bird species. paramount to the project being brought forward, March 2015 delivered on time and on budget. The use of concrete Project team for thermal mass, a large atrium for natural ventilation, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, together with ground source heat pumps, photo-voltaic Bournemouth University, panels, and sedum roofs have enabled BUSC to achieve Willmott Dixon, Saunders a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating. Architects, Hoare Lea

65 South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant 66 Cowes Outer Harbour Project Duver Road Bridge Strengthening Boskalis Westminster Limited Island Roads

Cowes is one of the world’s premier destinations for yachting with the related business essential to the island’s economy and employment. Providing a true sheltered harbour environment is key to the future and sustainable prosperity of the harbour, local and the island’s economy. The breakwater is an important catalyst for the wider regeneration of East Cowes, which suffers comparatively lower levels of employment and investment than Cowes.

The main engineering challenges were to design and construct a stable breakwater on an extremely soft Cost clay layer and to keep within the budget. £7 million

Key features of the Boskalis Westminster proposal were Location the integrated co-operation with the client team and Cowes Harbour the provision of in-house capabilities including: Commission, Harbour Office, Town Quay, Cowes, Innovative design Isle of Wight Island Roads was required to rebuild a bridge that provides the only public access to a community Utilisation of the dredging fleet Cost Completed by in one of the Isle of Wight’s most protected N/A Sustainable re-use of dredged material from November 2015 beauty spots. the Southampton Channel Deepening project Location Project team Duver Road, St Helens, Installation of vertical drains and compaction In doing so, it had to ensure the scheme for The Duver Boskalis Westminster Isle of Wight Installation of geotextile Limited, Cowes Harbour at St Helens did not leave residents and businesses in the area isolated. It also needed to ensure the reasons Completed by Supply of armour rock Commission, Atkins, Ramboll behind the existing bridge’s deterioration were tackled. April 2015 Project and stakeholder management Project team Marine surveying The solution combined the required engineering Island Roads expertise in providing a lasting technical solution that was in harmony with all the environmental considerations. It also involved a number of engagement and communication measures that ensured the specific needs of the local community were heard and addressed.

The resulting scheme was delivered on time and in budget. Not only did it restore and indeed enhance access for residents and visitors, it ensured that good community relations remained at the heart of the project.

67 South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant 68 Grove Farm Sewage Pumping Station Hastings Pier Conservation Thames Water Ramboll

For many years, a community on the outskirts of Fleet in Hampshire had suffered from sewer flooding. Cost This caused when storm water overwhelmed sewage £7m tanks which forced storm water and domestic waste Location to ‘back up’ in the network. To solve this problem, Hitches lane (opposite Thames Water embarked on a £7m plan to construct Calthorpe Park school), a new sewer pumping station at Hitches Lane which Fleet. Hampshire was very close to the affected properties. Completed by This proximity to the community meant that the May 2016 construction work has had to be extremely sensitive to Project team the needs of the community and the fact that the site Thames Water, MGJV is adjacent to the local secondary school has only reinforced this. Only half the original Victorian pleasure piers remain and many face an uncertain future. Cost However, an innovative construction method and The Hasting Pier project applied technology, £11.5m very active programme of public engagement and research, experience and design skills innovatively Location communication has managed to turn what could to solve the pier’s conservation problems: 1-10 White Rock, have been a negative into a positive, minimising and Conserving a large heritage asset in the sea Hastings, East Sussex mitigating complaints and involving local residents as much as possible in what has been a complex Delivering a pier with a viable, sustainable future Completed by and challenging project. March 2016 The civil engineering solutions overcame the marine environment, constructability, and access difficulties for Project team inspection, construction and maintenance. The works Ramboll, Hastings Pier required the development of a range of typical and Charity, dRMM, FPE Global bespoke structural solutions and the construction Ltd, PT Projects Ltd, The methods were adapted to be suitable to the location. Heritage Lottery Fund Close collaboration with contractors has been important in development of the design.

From a sound understanding of the original construction of the pier we have developed a strategy that is both site specific and sympathetic to the historic structure. This pier can now look forward to a bright future under the ownership of the Hasting Pier Charity.

69 South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant 70 Thorndell Viaduct Jurong Tuas View Phase II BAM Nuttall Limited Royal HaskoningDHV

In October 2015, BAM Nuttall successfully delivered a highly technical and challenging £5.5 million design Cost and build replacement of the Thorndell Viaduct £5.5 million within a floodplain located between Pulborough Location and Amberley stations. The viaduct was deemed BAM Nuttall Site under strength in need of being brought back to Compound, Bury Road, full strength with a 120-year design. Bury, West Sussex Royal HaskoningDHV (RHDHV) was appointed to Cost This project was an all-round success which saw the Completed by design dock (entrance) gates for all three dry-docks USD$12m handover of high quality works four hours ahead of October 2015 (Dock 5, 6 and 7) of Jurong Phase II project in schedule within a 75-hour possession. Singapore. Gate 7 is the main focus as it is the largest Location Project team non-propped spanning flap gate in the world. Sembcorp Marine, Tuas BAM Nuttall Limited, Rigorous health, safety, and environmental processes Boulevard Yard, Singapore Network Rail, Cass were instilled which resulted in zero reportable injuries Despite being 20% larger than any previous flap gate and Hayward, Mammoet, Completed by or incidents and award recognition for above and beyond there were initial concerns that it might be unachievable, Keltbray, Macrete Spring 2016 initiatives. BAM Nuttall invested in future talent and RHDHV continued to design an efficient, safe and fully incorporated collaborative working with supply chain, functional gate. The gate will bring significant economic Project team stakeholders and the local community. benefits to the local economy in a sustainable manner. Royal HaskoningDHV, Sembcorp Marine Newly adapted processes or techniques derived from the This project is in line with Singapore’s ambition to works have been shared company-wide for future projects. maintain its position as a highly developed trade-oriented Innovative working, project management and client satisfaction market economy and a major hub for ship repair services. were key and saw the implementation of new technologies, open communication and effective cost or programme controls.

71 South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant South Award for Engineering Excellence in association with Trant 72 Laxey Coastal Promenade Whyke Horizon Footbridge JBA Consulting Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald Joint Venture

The Laxey coastal promenade scheme’s design Whyke Horizon Footbridge is a unique and introduced a new approach to considerate the Cost innovative bridge form, best described as a Cost tolerable discharges from wave overtopping £65,000 hybrid box girder and U trough. The cycle or £3.2m through adopting the principles of limit state pedestrian bridge provides much needed Location Location design. This involved setting the ultimate and connectivity between schools and residential The promenade, Laxey, Whyke Roundabout, A27, serviceability wave overtopping limits to consider communities, previously severed by the busy A27. Isle of Man Chichester the performance of the structure during both extreme and normal conditions. The traditional Completed by Constructed with negligible disruption to road users, Completed by design approach (focussed on the reduction of wave December 2015 the bridge aims to embrace the flat coastal environment August 2015 overtopping to tolerable thresholds for the design with a low form of structure. The gentle curved, Project team Project team storm event) was shown to be inadequate in this sculped exterior is deliberately understated, whilst the JBA Consulting, Balfour Beatty Mott design. This is due to the failure of the structure’s brightly coloured interior has a playful, fun nature. Isle of Man Government MacDonald, Wilkinson performance during lower return period events and Eyre Architects, Interserve when considered against more stringent thresholds. The bridge deliberately aims to challenge preconceived Civils, Highways England, ideas of what highway footbridges should be like. Mabey Bridge The adoption of a limit state design approach at Laxey Whilst many bridges of this genre are designed with has helped ensure the performance of the structure a more holistic approach, characterised by a respectful through both normal and extreme conditions. This and measured response to context and design brief. aided in optimising the defence geometry to provide The project demonstrates how everyday infrastructure the maximum benefits from wave overtopping can better and could be argued to pioneer a philosophy protection. At the same time, not designing a structure known as ‘beautiful ordinary’. that could negatively impact the picturesque landscape and important tourism industries.

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