WINNERS AND COMMENDATIONS AWARDS SPECIAL TheStructuralEngineer | November/December 2017 25 TSE71_25_TSEAwards_Cover.indd 25 08/11/2017 14:13 Structural Awards 2017 Contents thestructuralengineer.org Contents 57 30 69 27 Judges 59 Award for Construction Innovation 28 Foreword: Excellence in structural engineering 63 Award for Construction Integration 30 Supreme Award for Structural Engineering 65 Award for Structural Excellence Artistry 33 Award for Long Span 69 Award for Outstanding Structures Value 35 Award for Vehicle Bridges 71 Award for Sustainability 39 Award for Pedestrian 74 Structural Awards quiz Bridges 45 41 Award for Small Projects (under £1M) 45 Award for Small Projects (of between £1–3M) 47 Award for Tall or Slender Structures 51 Award for Structures in Extreme Conditions 53 Award for Structural Heritage 57 Award for Structural Transformation 39 26 November/December 2017 | TheStructuralEngineer TSE71_26-27_awards contents.indd 26 08/11/2017 11:48 Structural Awards 2017 thestructuralengineer.org Judges Judges Judging process Judging panel The judging panel comprises some of the most experienced and respected professionals in the structural engineering industry. Their collective knowledge spans a variety of specialties within the fi eld, including academia, architecture, construction, sustainability, innovation and research. Dr Michael Cook Kayin Dawoodi Tanya de Hoog Ian Firth Tristram Hope This year the judging process was extended to three Michael is a Partner Kayin is a Lead Tanya is a founding Ian is a world- Tristram is the stages: and former Chairman Structural Engineer at director of Thornton leading expert in founder and Chairman 1) Firstly, a panel of eminent judges independently of BuroHappold, Sweco in Sweden and Tomasetti’s London bridge design and of independent reviewed all entries and awarded points. and Professor of a Founding Trustee of offi ce. She has construction. he is consultancy Creative Design in the Bridges to Prosperity’s worked on a diverse currently a Director THiSolutions Ltd. 2) Secondly, the highest-scoring entries were Department of Civil UK Charitable Trust. range of projects that of COWI (formerly He is also the evaluated by a ‘sitting judging panel’ to establish the Engineering at Imperial Kayin was the winner focus on engineering Flint & Neill) and is Royal Academy shortlist. College London. He of the Institution’s creativity and the current President of Engineering was a Vice-President 2014 Young Structural innovation with an of the Institution of Visiting Professor in 3) Lastly, the fi nal invited judging panel met to decide of the Institution of Engineering intent to foster good Structural Engineers. Engineering Design category winners. The fi nal panel was composed Structural Engineers Professional Award. design. and Sustainability for only of those judges who did not have a potential 2015/6 and is a Fellow the School of Civil of the Royal Academy Engineering at the confl ict of interest with any shortlisted projects. of Engineering. University of Leeds. Chairman of the judging panel Professor Tim Ibell Robert Jackson Martin Knight Toby Maclean Andrew Minson Simon Pitchers Tim was President Robert graduated Martin is one of the In early 2005, Andrew is Executive Simon has over 40 of the Institution of from the University of leading UK architects Toby established Director at MPA years of construction Structural Engineers in British Columbia with specialising in the structural engineering responsible for The industry experience. 2015, and is a Fellow a Bachelor’s Degree design of bridges consultancy TALL. In Concrete Centre and He is Director of of the Royal Academy of Applied Science in and transport September 2016, TALL British Precast. He is Craddys, consulting of Engineering. He was Civil Engineering. He infrastructure. He merged with Canadian currently chair of the structural engineers, recently appointed is the recent recipient founded international structural engineering Design Practice, Risk and Arc Bauen, to the Sir Kirby Laing of two awards from bridge designers fi rm Entuitive and Toby and Structural Safety construction managers, Professor David A. Nethercot Professorship of the Institution of Knight Architects in continues to take a Committee of the and a Member of the Civil Engineering Structural Engineers, 2006 following nine lead role in the UK. Institution of Structural Institution of Structural For 12 years, David was Head at the University of including the Young years at Wilkinson Engineers. Engineers Trustee of the Department of Civil and Cambridge. Structural Engineering Eyre Architects. Board, Council and Environmental Engineering at Professional Award Editorial Advisory Imperial College London. He is a 2016. Group. past member of the Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering and received an OBE for services to Structural Engineering in 2006. David is Past President of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, a Past President of the Institution of Sam Price Julia Ratcliffe Tara Reale Roger Ridsdill Peter Terrell Grant Tolley Structural Engineers and recipient Sam founded Price Julia is a Director Tara works with Mott Smith Peter is founder and Grant is Chief Engineer of the Gold Medal Award 2009. & Myers with Robert of Expedition MacDonald in London Roger Ridsdill President of Terrell of Temporary Works, Myers in 1978. His Engineering. She has and holds a PhD in Smith is the Head Group Consulting Balfour Beatty David is a foreign member of the many award-winning collaborated with bridge management of the Structural Engineers. After early Major Projects, and National Academies of Engineering new buildings and leading architects and from Trinity College Engineering team at years with Ove Arup, Founding Director of of Australia and the USA. alterations include designers on buildings Dublin, where she was Foster + Partners. Peter set up as sole the Temporary Works a number of the ranging from towers involved in European- He is a Fellow of the practitioner in 1982 Forum (TWf). colleges at Oxford and and performing arts wide research Institution of Structural in Paris, building Cambridge. He has centres to private projects. Engineers and won a practice that is lectured at Cambridge, residences. In 2015 the Royal Academy today recognised as Glasgow, Trieste, she was appointed a of Engineering Silver one of the leading Bergen, Hong Kong, Design Council Cabe Medal in 2010. structural engineering and Vancouver. Built Environment consultancies in France. Expert. TheStructuralEngineer | November/December 2017 27 TSE71_26-27_awards contents.indd 27 08/11/2017 11:50 Structural Awards 2017 Foreword thestructuralengineer.org Excellence in structural engineering CONSISTENT EXCELLENCE Looking back over the 50 years of the Structural Awards, the obvious highlight is the consistently excellent quality of the structural engineering being conducted by our members. As the scheme has evolved – more opportunity and better focus through the introduction of categories; streamlined submissions that have moved from A1 posters Professor David A. Nethercot to an electronic portfolio of drawings, photos OBE, FREng, FTSE, NAE and text; recognition that ‘sustainability’ is Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, Imperial College an integral part of projects, not a special London, UK; and Chair of the Structural Awards Judging Panel additional feature – the judges have been confronted by larger numbers and more clearly presented examples of this. And they ‘Excellence in structural engineering’ is the have come from an increasingly diverse group cornerstone of our Institution. But for the of countries. Who can forget seeing the first 40 years of our existence, we did little to “ITS MOST IMPORTANT reconstruction of the Iron Market from Haiti celebrate this internally and to broadcast it FEATURE WILL REMAIN (Figure 3), the Mariinsky Theatre staircases externally. Then came the Structural Awards. AS THE COLLECTIVE from Russia or the ‘Glass Lantern’ Apple First introduced by the Council as the SKILL, IMAGINATION Store (Figure 4) from Turkey – not obvious ‘Institution Special Award’ to be conferred on AND INGENUITY OF places in which to find structural excellence the Severn Bridge (Figure 1) as part of a lunch OUR MEMBERS” created by our members. to mark our 60th anniversary in the presence Support for the scheme has also grown, of the Duke of Edinburgh, the scheme now with entries being submitted by a far more attracts annually over 100 entries from across diverse set of organisations than was the the globe. This year marks 50 years since projects in the same year, thus making their case in the early years. This is partly due that first Award. task more dicult but adding strength to the to the encouragement given to ‘Small With some 5000 dierent structures having scheme’s reputation. And sometimes it is Projects’ and ‘Small Practices’ and partly been submitted for consideration, the scheme the deceptively simple solution, embodying due to changed methods of working that has obviously seen a very varied cross- that old engineering principle that ‘The best permit relatively small organisations to section, ranging from high-profile international solution is the simplest that does the job’, develop niche skills. As an illustration, it is projects to domestic-scale improvements. A which really impresses the judges. now the norm to receive several entries of particularly welcome feature of the past 10 years has been the growth in the number of high-quality ‘Small Projects’