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6 NCE100 Survey analysis How staff attitudes to their 26 employers have changed 11 NCE100 Top 10 The 10 best NCE100 companies in 2019 22 Trending 20 The top 20 up and coming civil engineering firms 23 NCE100 winners The 15 greatest stories of 2019 56 NCE100 listing The NCE100 Companies of the Year 58 NCE100 Judges The 52 judges who assessed the NCE100 firms 24 32

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Welcome to the NCE100 Gold Book. Inside we reveal which civil engineering businesses are making an impact in 2019. A team of 52 judges has assessed teams on their innovation, engineering excellence and the impact they make on communities and the environment. The judges are some of the most eminent engineers and leaders in the engineering sector, many from the industry’s leading clients, stakeholder groups, owners and operators. Firms have presented the projects which they think deserve recognition to a panel of expert judges, who have been specifically selected for their expertise in that particular category. Judges have then undertaken a robust and rigorous evaluation of each entry, which included quizzing project representatives in person and scoring against a matrix of key criteria. Almost 7,000 people working for the firms entering the NCE100 have answered our employee survey. The results provide valuable insight about how the sector is performing and responding to specific challenges. Finally, all firms had to answer some key questions to ensure that those going forward meet the industry-leading benchmark that NCE100 has set. Judges have then The NCE100 recognises firms in three different ways. Excellence in project delivery is assessed through the 15 undertaken a robust award categories, which celebrate the best in all aspects of innovation. Other categories celebrate impact in specifi c sectors and rigorous evaluation of each and fi rms which are bringing about positive industry change. entry, which included quizzing Once again, the Trending20 category will give special recognition to smaller firms which are punching well above project representatives in their weight with ideas and innovation, but which perhaps lack “person the marketing clout to ensure we all know about it. Finally, there is the top 10 – those firms who according to judges, staff and their data, stand out. The ultimate winner is the NCE100 Company of the Year. Congratulations to all the firms who made it into this year’s NCE100, we are delighted to celebrate their remarkable achievements.

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WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK FOR A CIVIL ENGINEERING COMPANY IN 2019? WELL, IN ITS UNIQUE ANNUAL DOES YOUR FIRM PROMOTE OR ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONSIDER SURVEY, NCE100 HAS ASKED ALMOST 7,000 WORKERS 34.6% THE CARBON IMPLICATIONS OF Satisfied WHAT THEY THINK OF THEIR EMPLOYER. HERE WE YOUR WORK? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR FIRM’S WILL- REVEAL WHAT THEY SAID. BY EMILY ASHWELL. INGNESS TO EXPERIMENT AND USE DIGITAL

YES TECHNOLOGIES? NO 0% As the civil engineering sector to face, but the good news for them 100% 15.3% undergoes huge changes, so does the is that so far, of the 6,871 people who 84.7 % engineering workplace. KEY FACTS answered the NCE100 employees Game-changing trends such as survey, most believe their employers 56.2% the increasing adoption of artificial 6,871 are doing a good job of encouraging Very satisfied intelligence and sensors are not just their professional development and changing the way engineers design, Number of embracing new technology. build and maintain infrastructure: they people polled To guage employee satisfaction, DO YOU PERSONALLY WORK WITH could change the way they interact this data-driven approach has helped SCHOOLS / COLLEGES? with their employers too. For example, for NCE100 decide which are the 10 best civil some UK firms already have plans to survey engineering firms in the UK. It also implant chips into workers so that they and provides unique insights into what YES can monitor security. it is like to be an engineer in 2019. NO 33.6% 88% And just as remote sensors let Satisfied 69.5 % engineers know how a structure Percentage Talent development 30.5% is ageing, likewise firms such as of employees Last year members of the ICE voted HOW SATISFIED ARE YOU WITH YOUR FIRM’S Fitbit now have programmes where who said to back a move to make recording of APPROACH TO ACHIEVING THE UNITED NATIONS employees’ day-to-day health and their bosses’ continuing professional development SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS? activity are monitored through these (CPD) compulsory. But how ready are 0% 100% devices as part of their corporate innovation firms to support their employees in ambitions health plans so employers can see how IN THE LAST YEAR HAS YOUR staff are ageing too. matched or WORK CAUSED YOU STRESS? 22.6% As engineers increasingly design exceeded Very satisfied cities that take account of an ageing their own A shade under population, so engineering firms will

have to account for this in their future 40% of YES NO workforce. Is your firm following in % the footsteps of many in Japan and respondents said they 51.2% 48.8 designing recruitment and retention take part in industry policies around the 100-year life span 22.6% as people are expected to live longer? initiatives such as These are all challenges the people Indierent 52.2% running engineering firms are likely “ Satisfied research groups

6 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 improvement on last year’s figure of 80% of 45%, but it shows there is still much Satisfaction Dashboard respondents to do for the sector to get up to the digital skills level that the government DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF TO HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE WAY YOUR FIRM felt their fi rm’s digital has set for all its projects. Likewise, although a large majority BE WORKING AT BIM LEVEL 2? VALUES TECHNICAL EXPERTISE? strategy had a positive did not feel their IT equipment or 0% 100% software constrained their work, 24% impact on the way said it did.

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23.4% Do 27.7% 48 .9 Very satisfied exceeded their own. this training? The survey found that with almost Collaborative working two thirds of respondents already The benefits of collaborative working professionally qualified, of the 27.9% are now well documented, with the DOES YOUR FIRM PROMOTE OR of respondents who are currently success of some of the UK’s largest ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONSIDER undergoing training, 88.6% are doing projects – such as the delivery of the 34.6% this through an ICE or other approved London 2012 Olympics – put down to THE CARBON IMPLICATIONS OF Satisfied training scheme. optimal teamwork. YOUR WORK? “A shade under 40% of respondents It is early days for industry initiatives HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR FIRM’S WILL- take part in industry initiatives such such as the ICE’s Project 13 to drive INGNESS TO EXPERIMENT AND USE DIGITAL as research groups or innovation collaboration, but what barometer forums. Of these, 56% said it is seen reading did the survey give in terms of

YES TECHNOLOGIES? NO collaborative behaviour? Broadly the 0% as integral to their job and they mostly 100% do it in work time, but 40% said their picture is pretty positive. 15.3% 84.7 % employees see it as beneficial and they Respondents were asked how they do some in work time.” are working with other professions or 56.2% Overall there was good news teams from outside their companies on Very satisfied in terms of how much staff feel the project they currently spend most engineering firms do value technical of their time working on. Just over 16% expertise. 59% were “very satisfied” described their team as integrated, DO YOU PERSONALLY WORK WITH while 35% were satisfied. meaning they have a fully integrated SCHOOLS / COLLEGES? programme, co-located team with Embracing technological change combined planning and funding. The construction industry has long After that, 37.5% said they were been lambasted for being slow collaborating, meaning they have YES NO 33.6% to digitise, but there was strong longer-term interaction based on a Satisfied support for firms’ decisions about shared mission and goals, with shared 69.5 % 30.5% investment in innovation and research decision makers and resources. HOW SATISFIED ARE YOU WITH YOUR FIRM’S and development, with employee Next down on the list was co- APPROACH TO ACHIEVING THE UNITED NATIONS satisfaction levels at 87%. ordinating, with 23% describing their SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS? When asked “how do you feel about teams as adjusting and aligning their work with each other for greater 0% 100% your firm’s willingness to experiment and use digital technologies?” 56.2% outcomes. IN THE LAST YEAR HAS YOUR of respondents said they were very At the other end of the spectrum, satisfied, while 33.6% said they were 10% said they cooperate as needed, WORK CAUSED YOU STRESS? 22.6% Very satisfied satisfied, leaving one in ten feeling with 2% worryingly describing their indifferent or dissatisfied. teams as competing for resources, Likewise, more than 80% of people or client recognition.

YES respondents felt their firm’s digital NO % strategy has had a positive impact on Talent and outreach the way they work. Twenty eight per cent of respondents 51.2% 48.8 However, there is some cause for said they were undergoing training, concern over take up of building and half of all respondents said they 22.6% information modelling (BIM) level had a clear five year development plan Indierent 52.2% 2. Only 49% considered themselves mapped out and agreed with their Satisfied to be working at this level. This is an employers.

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95% – said their firm’s openness to employ- ing and treating wom- “en fairly was either good or very good

Most other people said they had some idea of their career goals, but they were not shared or mapped out with their employers. But to work at the leading edge of civil engineering, the right people and skills must be recruited and developed – with the skills set these days increasingly calling for IT and coding ability. Of the respondents, 80% said they thought their firm undertook this development and recruitment to a satisfactory level or above. With the latest gender pay gap figures showing there is still some way to go to getting women into senior roles in the industry, outreach continues to play a vital role in encouraging young people to take up science, engineering, technology and maths subjects. Seventy seven per cent of workforce. Achieving a balance employees said they were either KEY FACTS When it came to LGBT, the figure One of the biggest issues to affect day satisfied or very satisfied with the way for good or very good was again high to day life in the workplace is stress. their firm engaged with schools and at 94%, with 5% saying it is average. The construction industry has some colleges. Three in ten respondents said 94% Disappointingly, when it came to the shocking and sobering statistics on they personally worked with schools Percentage issue of firms’ openness to employing mental health. and colleges – 58% doing it mostly in and treating fairly people with hearing/ One in four of us will experience a work time with recognition and 38% of employees sight/mobility or learning impairments, mental health problem in any given saying they do some in work time or saying their 12% rated their firm as average or year, working days lost to stress have are partially rewarded for their time. company poor. increased by 24% in the last six years Employers’ treatment of people and suicide is the biggest causes of Fair treatment was open to from ethnic minorities, people from death for men under the age of 45. As the industry seeks to recruit a more employing and minority religions and people of Those working in construction are diverse workforce in terms of gender, mature age all were marked good three times more likely to end their how are firms treating their employees? treating fairly or very good by around 93% of lives compared to the national average, The vast majority of respondents – 95% LGBT staff respondents. so it is no surprise to find that it is an – said their firm’s openness to employing Similar positive views were issue that most firms appear to take and treating women fairly was either expressed about the employment seriously. good or very good, with only 1.3% citing and treatment of staff after career Of the respondents 89% rated it as poor or very poor. breaks, which will be particularly well their firm’s openness to employing Respondents were asked for their received by those firms who have put and treating fairly people with mental views on how open their employer is returnship schemes in place. health concerns as good or very good. to taking on an treating fairly a diverse At the other end of the spectrum

8 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 A score of one was not inspirational at all, a score of five was truly inspirational. The themes were: tackling urban densification and making cities great places in which to live; providing affordable water and sanitation for all; ensuring future energy comes from greener, more renewable sources; making cities and infrastructure more resilient to climate change; and providing efficient transport networks. More than two thirds of respondents scored their firm a four or five. An overwhelming 95% of respondents said it was important that their firm played a role in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. About 75% were satisfied with its approach, but one in five were indifferent. Of course achieving these goals often requires substantial funding or communities living with change, so how engineers communicate and explain what they are doing is of vital importance. It appears engineers still have some way to go in working with the media. Although 81% were satisfied or very satisfied with the way their firm promotes the profession to the wider media, only 13% actually took part in any of this promotion. 2% said their firm was poor or very 49% said they Round up poor. Although 90% of those surveyed Data driven and verified, the 2019 said they were happy with their work/ had suff ered NCE100 staff survey makes good life balance, 49% said they had suffered reading for the profession. Overall work related stress over the past year, work related stress it is a profession whose members are with a quarter of these describing the satisfied with the work their firms do, levels of stress as unpleasant on a regular over the past year the decisions they take and the way basis. they treat their employees. Only 16% had sought help, although There is room for improvement in 89% said they felt their company “ many areas, perhaps most clearly supported them. in tackling the levels of stress some engineers suffer. The bigger picture Hopefully the chief executives and The motives and drivers for civil frequently asked, with 29% saying they board members reading this survey engineers are diverse, but one which were occasionally were. will use it as a barometer with which unifies many is working for a greater But how inspirational are civil to benchmark their own internal staff good: something which benefits society engineering firms to work for? Do surveys and pinpoint where they need and or the environment. they motivate engineers to bring about to take action. When asked whether their employer change in key areas of infrastructure? Because as the new technology asked them to consider and assess The NCE100 survey asked engineers such as chips and wristbands comes the impact of their work on society – to rate their employers on a scale of one on stream fast, there is increasingly during construction and in the intended to five in terms of inspiration on a range no excuse for employers not to know outcomes – 58% said they were of themes. what motivates their workforces.

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One innovation 01 Morgan was the use of a virtual reality simulator Sindall on the M5 Oldbury Infrastructure “Viaduct

NCE100 COMPANY OF THE YEAR MORGAN SINDALL INFRASTRUCTURE PUTS INNOVATION AT THE HEART OF ITS BUSINESS, DISRUPTING THE WAY IT WORKS INTERNALLY AND THE WAY IT CARRIES OUT PROJECTS

To drive its staff to innovate, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure has launched an “egg timer” app, which sends project challenges to its employees, giving them 15 minutes to submit innovative solutions to live problems. The app is open to all members of staff, from the reception team to the board of directors, with the aim of increasing productivity and inclusivity. On a wider scale, Morgan Sindall has started holding Dynamo Days to drive innovation and collaboration with its suppliers. One innovation to come out of this way of thinking was the use of a virtual reality (VR) simulator on the M5 Oldbury Viaduct. Using virtual groups and address skill shortages with By using VR combined with a reality on its diverse and inclusive culture”. the Oldbury Shortlisted moving platform in a purpose-built Health & Wellbeing Following its launch in September simulator, Morgan Sindall was able to viaduct helped 2017, the Morgan Sindall Returnship upskill its workforce and train new staff Morgan Sindall Leader of the Year Programme received 90 applications, to tackle the challenges of working on upskill its 40% from women and 13% from a live viaduct. workforce and people of black, Asian and minority train new staff Highly Commended Other project innovations Construction Innovator ethnic backgrounds. include new stormwater management A push for greater diversity has led approaches on its contract with to an increase in the percentage of Welsh Water. Winner female employees in the Construction Driving inclusivity, wellbeing and Innovation in Project and Infrastructure business from 10% diversity is a key part of Morgan in 2016 to 19% in 2018. Sindall’s ethos. Management, Diversity Staff wellbeing is also important to It says it is attempting to “lead the Leader of the Year, Morgan Sindall. It has science-based way in changing external perceptions Impact in Water strategies to monitor employee fatigue of the sector from under-represented and overall wellbeing.

12 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 Arup has also 02 Arup shown how engineers can help to improve neglected city areas and bring “previously divided communities together WHETHER IMPROVING ITS CARBON MANAGEMENT OR ROLLING OUT NEW TECHNOLOGIES, ARUP HAS PROVED ITSELF TO BE AHEAD OF THE CURVE

Despite being a true behemoth of civil engineering with an annual revenue of £1.56bn, Arup is always looking for ways to improve. Internally it does this through its multifaceted “Inclusion Challenge”, which includes an internal mentoring programme as well as reverse mentoring where junior members of staff offer up ideas to directors. On its projects, Arup continuously strives to improve the way it works. The consultant has long been involved in shaping the direction of the industry Arup’s Arup has also shown how engineers in terms of carbon management, and can help to improve neglected Connswater Shortlisted has ramped up those efforts in the last Community city areas and bring previously 12 months. Greenway Innovation in divided communities together. This Whole life thinking is at the heart has helped Project Initiation, is exemplifed in its work on the of Arup’s involvement in the Elephant regenerate Low Carbon Leader, Connswater Greenway project. This & Castle station capacity upgrade part of East Diversity Leader of has helped to regenerate part of East and exemplifies how Arup strives to Belfast Belfast with a river restoration project. minimise carbon output. the Year, Impact in Determined to advance the Elephant & Castle station in London Transport industry’s approach to carbon, is undergoing a significant upgrade Arup has created a carbon pricing to accommodate an extra 27,000 Winner mechanism for the World Bank to commuters at peak time each day, deliver carbon pricing accountability enabling major regeneration for the Impact in Urban Living and drive down emissions. surrounding area. The project itself Arup has also been involved in

will save 1Mt of CO 2 a year by taking driving autonomous and electric traffic off London’s roads. vehicle roll-out. As well as reducing Appointed to design a new ticket toxic emissions from diesel cars, hall and access routes to increase Arup’s project-managed UK Autodrive capacity, Arup was tasked with finding pilot scheme, also demonstrated the

additional CO2 savings on a project societal benefits of Connected and with a tight cap on its budget. Autonomous Vehicles.

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Using its algorithms, 03 Newtecnic is able to minimise air conditioning use and Newtecnic “incorporate natural airflows A TRUE DISRUPTOR TO TRADITIONAL CIVIL ENGINEERING FIRMS, NEWTECNIC PRIDES ITSELF AT BEING AT THE FOREFRONT OF TECHNOLOGY AND USING INNOVATION TO DRIVE EFFICIENCY

World leaders in building information modelling (BIM), Newtecnic’s 3D BIM models are some of the most complex in the industry. The Newtecnic approach allows the company to achieve design innovation, from concept to fabrication, for the engineering design of structure, façades and internal environment. Newtecnic designs with 3D BIM models that become highly evolved during the design process. Components from these models are generated with the support of a dedicated Newtecnic research and development team, based on physical testing and prototyping. where using over-specified and Newtecnic This approach allows challenging energy-wasting air conditioning projects projects to be delivered within short Shortlisted plant is often experienced. Using include the time frames and on budget, while its algorithms, Newtecnic is able to Central Bank Impact in Energy maintaining high levels of technical minimise air conditioning use and of Iraq accomplishment and developing low incorporate natural airflows through energy solutions. façades to help cool the structure. The firm’s Energy Simulator Project Calculating the sun’s position and deploys algorithms to combine using opaque façade panels in exactly previously siloed data to modify the right places means shading can building designs. The technology be introduced to precisely reduce brings factors such as air flow and heat gain while improving occupant’s heat gain into the design equation to comfort without the need for oversized accurately predict a building’s energy air conditioning plant. consumption for decades ahead. The point of all this is to keep costs Many of the buildings that down for the client, while encouraging Newtecnic engineers, such as the environmentally-friendly buildings Central Bank of Iraq, and Grand designed to be sustainable for years to Theatre de Rabat, are in hot climates come.

14 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 The fi rm’s Every 04 Drop Counts initiative is a water effi ciency scheme that WSP “tackles water scarcity

DEMONSTRATING METICULOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL ACROSS THE BOARD, WSP IS MAXIMISING HOUSING SPACE IN LONDON AND DRIVING SAVINGS IN THE WATER SECTOR

As a giant of the civil engineering landscape, WSP is involved in most disciplines nowadays. Employing 37,000 members of staff, spread across 500 offices in 40 countries, WSP is a true global juggernaut. But at its core, it remains a technical consultancy with a strong footing in commercial property and transport. The company’s Rail Overbuild initiative is gathering pace and is a clever solution to the ever-increasing housing crisis. Building on its “Out of Thin Air” report which recommended building 250,000 homes over sections sites in London, the firm’s work in the of London’s rail and Tube network, Shortlisted water sector is equally meticulous. WSP has conducted extensive research Innovation in The firm’s Every Drop Counts in cities around the world. initiative is a water efficiency scheme Drawing on examples in Toronto, Project Initiation, Skills that tackles water scarcity by saving Vancouver and Dublin, WSPs approach Leader of the Year, 118M.l of water annually. Delivered as has already enabled the creation of Health & Wellbeing part of its Future Ready sustainability 560 new homes across three sites Leader of the Year, programme, WSP provides in London, including a 50-storey Impact in Water householders with free plumbing residential tower constructed above audits, behavioural change advice and Liverpool Street station’s eight railway £130 of water saving products. tracks. Set up in collaboration with Essex & With a further 20 projects currently Suffolk Water, the Every Drop Counts in development, WSP believes similar scheme has resulted in average savings research could identify suitable of 39litres per property per day visited, locations for overbuild housing to which contributes to the overall 118M be incorporated within newbuild rail litres of water being saved annually. infrastructure projects, such as High As the water industry prepares to Speed 2. enter AMP 7, WSP believes it has Just as its Rail Overbuild concept found the answer to Ofwat’s water is keen to maximise potential housing efficiency demands.

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capital expenditure to be targeted more effectively. It models the 05 Arcadis consequences of events to help water companies target investment in operations and maintenance. Whether delivering a world class In implementing this new approach, Formula One track in Australia, Arcadis collaborated with four of working on a high-speed rail line in the largest UK water companies in California or assisting Thames Water their business plan submissions to draw up its business plans, Arcadis is as UK regulator Ofwat, optimising their diverse as it is far-reaching. resilience investments. At just one While the firm has been around for organisation the firm was able to more than 300 years, it was only when identify £16M in savings, providing Hyder Consulting was purchased in efficient delivery of network resilience, 2014 that it began operating under the improved maintenance planning, and Arcadis brand in the UK. greater regulatory confidence. It is now firmly established as a Elsewhere, Arcadis has been tackling major UK player, no more so than congesting in Amsterdam, trialling the in the water sector. Responding concept of Mobility as a Service. to increasing demand, changing weather patterns, and environmental legislation, Arcadis has been working Shortlisted with four UK water providers to ensure their distribution and sewage networks Innovative Operator, are resilient. Low Carbon Leader, Arcadis has developed a Arcadis has a strong reputation Leader in Collaboration, consequence-led methodology in the water sector Impact in Transport which measures resilience, allowing

2,600 GWh of biomethane, which has led to carbon savings of 482,000t. 06 Sweco The firm is now working with Rika Biofuels to develop a pioneering anaerobic digestion scheme to treat With the environment increasingly on poultry manure at the Knoxbridge the agenda, it is fitting that green- Farm in Kent, which is the first of its fingered SME Sweco has retained its kind in the UK. It has also developed place in the NCE100 top 10. a new 3D imaging and management Sustainability is at the heart of tool to help Anglian Water transform everything Sweco does. Whether it is its infrastructure construction and driving greener gas supplies, reducing operation by making better, data- carbon emissions on road works or driven decisions. Inside the business using smart asset management tools to structure, Sweco is also planning for drive efficiencies within cities, Sweco’s organisational emissions neutrality environmental consciousness shines within 10 years. through every project it takes on. In its own words, Sweco believes that “as engineers, we play a crucial role in developing alternative, sustainable Winner energy sources”. In bioenergy, Sweco Low Carbon Leader has used its expertise from the — renewables-rich Nordics to deliver more than 60 biomethane upgrade Shortlisted and grid-injection plants across the Design Innovator, UK, driving a greener gas supply and Innovative Operator, helping to decarbonise heat. Cutting carbon is central The firm’s work has contributed to Sweco’s philosophy Impact in Energy to the production of approximately

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issued Wellbeing Passports for internal employees and its supply 07 Skanska UK chain, providing workers with useful information and guidance on ways to improve their physical wellbeing. More Involved on seven Crossrail contracts, than 1,000 employees have been including at Bond Street station, trained in mental health awareness, and Skanska is also an early works the company has 300 mental health contractor for High Speed 2. ambassadors throughout the business. Skanska is also determined to tackle But the company is not resting on its its carbon footprint and is the first laurels. Skanska UK chief executive contractor to achieve the PAS2080 Greg Craig has set a company-wide standard – the world’s first standard target for 75% of line managers to for managing infrastructure carbon. have attended mental health lite The company is equally committed training by the end of 2020. to tackling the industry’s mental The commitment comes despite health problem. In 2018 Skanska the company undergoing a major launched a new Wellbeing initiative, restructuring operation. with the introduction of Wellbeing Days (various options available from full personalised 1-1 health checks, to the rental of equipment to use on site), wellbeing rooms set up in key locations nationwide, and a dedicated wellbeing Finalist page on the Skanska intranet that Low Carbon Leader, provides links to a library of resources, Bond Street Station: Health & Wellbeing and wellbeing challenges. One of Skanska’s projects Leader Skanska has also designed and

safety hazards. Ramboll was also involved in 08 Ramboll UK developing and implementing heating networks utilising alternative sources of waste energy produced by London’s It is Ramboll’s work with Transport for Underground to heat homes and London that has stood out over the last amenities across a 40-year old 12 months. housing estate in north London while In particular, its work on the returning much-needed cool air to Northern line has caught the eye and the Underground. The Bunhill district harnessed the potential to drive the heating scheme in Islington takes a industry forward. pioneering approach to urban energy At the top of the line, at Finchley supply. Islington Borough Council’s Central station Ramboll has explored initial brief was to show how to heat an the potential of building above the additional 500 dwellings on an existing busy live station. By using in-house heating network using waste heat. parametric optioneering tools to explore multiple design options to improve site potential and project viability, Ramboll’s study resulted in an additional 5,000m2 of viable development area, while identifying Shortlisted significant savings in construction Innovation in Project costs and disruption. The consultant identified ways to Initiation, Diversity avoid highly disruptive and expensive Leader of the Year, rail closures by avoiding the installation of foundations between two operating Impact in Energy, tracks, mitigating one of the major Design Innovator

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supply. It will also prevent flooding at hundreds of nearby homes. Realising 09 Royal Haskoning DHV that concrete groynes would only shift the problem further down the coast to neighbouring towns, Royal Headquartered in the Netherlands, HaskoningDHV opted to work with Royal HaskoningDHV has been natural processes on a large scale. This integral in bringing Dutch-style flood approach halts coastal erosion, but defences to the UK. also actively restores beaches, creating The consultant has changed the way amenities and protecting villages. UK coastal towns and cities go about Royal HaskoningDHV is also protecting their citizens from flooding. involved in developing an innovative In the low-lying fens of Norfolk, granular activated sludge wastewater Wisbech Garden Town has brought treatment. in Royal HaskoningDHV to work on ambitious plans for 12,000 new homes in a flood zone. The consultant is applying an innovative, sustainable Winner approach, paving the way for creating the UK’s climate change resilient town Innovation in Project of the future. Initiation Gas providers Shell and Perenco have brought in the consultant to – carry out urgent coastal defences at Shortlisted the Bacton Gas Terminal. The project Impact in Water, Impact is integral to protecting the site The Bacton coastal defence which produces 30% of the UK’s gas protects a local gas terminal in Climate Resilience

Through the scheme, 30 cities have identified significant opportunities to 10 BuroHappold scale up and accelerate the climate actions they have planned as well as considering new ways of tackling the BuroHappold Engineering has interdependent challenges of global proved itself to be a firm with a solid climate change mitigation. conscience and a strong desire to The consultant has also been improve the planet. involved in delivering high performing In its own words: “Climate and resilient buildings and cities. resilience underpins how we design at BuroHappold […] we must ensure we have the right strategies and infrastructure in place [to tackle] climate change and urbanisation.” Winner BuroHappold is doing this by Impact in Climate delivering direct technical assistance to 10, C40 member cities, providing Resilience workshop engagement to a further 20. – The primary objective of each city engagement is to develop a Shortlisted scientifically robust estimate of the air Leader in Collaboration, quality-related benefits of individual Innovation in Project climate actions being undertaken. The aim is to build technical capacity Management, Innovative in the participating cities, such that, Operator, Low Carbon they can generate new data to make BuroHappold Engineering is working with the case for further action themselves. cities to cut their carbon footprints Leader

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Future of Series Advert - Update II - 265mm h x 210mm w.indd 1 18/04/2019 13:45 NCE100 Trending 20 Growing Talent

NCE100’S TRENDING20 LIST IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE SMALL FIRMS WHICH ARE DELIVERING CUTTING™EDGE INNOVATION

Hewson Consulting Engineers has which impressed the Trending20 been crowned the 2019 NCE100 judging team. These included stringent Trending20 Champion. seismic requirements based on a TRENDING 20 Following on from last year’s win- site-specific assessment, and founda- ners, FJD Consulting, Hewson won tion designs to accommodate highly G Ardent Consulting Engineers the award after achieving the highest variable soft soil strata. G scores from panel of judges which re- In addition, Hewson actively sup- Arch Henderson viewed its written submission and wit- ports the University of Surrey scholar- G Bryden Wood nessed their in-person presentations. ship scheme, and recruits a significant G Cass Hayward The Trending20 list recognises small proportion of its graduates from the G Civic Engineers and medium enterprises with fewer programme. Ninety per cent of the G Clarkebond than 200 staff. students the firm has sponsored and G Design ID Consulting Guildford-based Hewson works in have joined as graduate engineers. G bridges, rail, road, temporary works, All Trending20 companies will help Design2e buildings, marine, geotechnical and shape New Civil Engineer’s SME G engineeria utilities. Over the range of categories profiles and other articles in 2019 and G HBL Associates Hewson achieved impressive scores 2020. G Hewson Consulting and won over the judges with the Engineers breadth of its work and initiative. G One project which caught the JNP Group Consulting judges’ eyes was its work on Indonesia’s Engineers first mass rapid transport system, MTR Hewson G JPP Jakarta, which opening at the begin- achieved G One Creative Environments ning of April. Hewson was structural G Plandescil designer for package CP103, for con- impressive scores and G Red7Marine tractor Obayashi-Shimizu-Jaya Kon- G struksi JV. Its work included detailed impressed the judges Rendel design of 4.7km of complex railway G Scott Hughes Design viaduct and four elevated stations. with the breadth of its G Senceive But it was the design constraints “ G Whitby Wood that the team had to work around work

22 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 Success Stories The most innovative, impactful and inspirational civil engineering practices recognised and rewarded Innovation in Project Initiation

Winner: Royal HaskoningDHV Protecting homes, and gas supplies

ROYAL HASKONINGDHV IMPORTED A DUTCH COASTAL DEFENCE TECHNIQUE TO PROTECT A GAS REFINERY AND CONTAIN A SERIOUS COASTAL EROSION PROBLEM

When asked to provide a coastal They have this project a success,” said Gökhan defence solution for Bacton Gas Doygun, a representative from the Terminal in Norfolk, for oil and gas KEY FACT been a catalyst Bacton Terminal operators. companies Shell and Perenco Royal, “They have not only created a HaskoningDHV’s team initiated a far 30% for developing a clever, sustainable solution, but have wider project with potentially vital Percentage also been the catalyst to developing a social benefits. public and private public and private partnership on this The firm has played an integral role of UK gas innovative scheme.” in a project that is set to protect 30% supply to be partnership on this The NCE100 judges were impressed of the UK’s future gas supply and save by how Royal HaskoningDHV protected by “innovative scheme hundreds of people from losing their transferred best practice in Europe homes. scheme into a UK context. The firm recognised that hard, “On the project there has been a structural defences such as concrete beaches and as a result creates clear effort to use natural materials in groynes would only shift the problem amenities while protecting the village a sustainable way to solve a real world of coastal erosion further down the for decades. problem,” the judges said. coast and put villages of Bacton and Royal HaskoningDHV has engaged “Royal HaskoningDHV Walcott at even greater risk. with central government, MPs and communicated a developed These villages were already expected residents ahead of the project. The understanding of the hard business to lose 200 homes within the coming project is expected to be completed in benefits as well as the softer decades, with the local authority summer 2019. community benefits that will result powerless to protect them. Royal HaskoningDHV is also from their innovative approach.” To resolve the issue, Royal extending monitoring and drawing on HaskoningDHV has recommended academic support to study the longer- l Judges were Heathrow Airport “sandscaping”, an innovative and term benefits of sandscaping for other expansion programme director sustainable Dutch technique not locations. Phil Wilbraham, Highways England previously delivered in the UK. “Thanks to Royal HaskoningDHV’s project director Tim Jones and Not only does the approach halt proactive steer towards cooperation, Fitzpatrick Advisory owner Brian coastal erosion, it also actively restores it was possible for us all to make Fitzpatrick.

24 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 On the project there has bee a clear eff ort to use natural materials in a sustainable way “to solve a real world problem

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Arup Davies Maguire rationalising the original design of multiple Arup has helped ensure London Luton Davies Maguire conceived a unique buildings to three and simplifying the Airport’s (LLAL’s) vision for a Direct Air-Rail foundation scheme to get a 20-storey specifications. Transit scheme is deliverable. The firm worked commercial project through the planning with LLAL to develop the brief, secure process. The building is hemmed in by a Steer planning approval, develop the definition mainline railway, a road network bridge, a Steer helped Blackpool Council secure legal design for the design and build tender in canal and a busy access road. It also lies above powers and funding to extend its tramway to just 14 months. It developed the business BT tunnels and some attenuation tanks. Blackpool North Station. case to secure £225M funding and gained stakeholder approval from Network Rail, the WSP Ramboll Civil Aviation Authority, the airport operator The firm’s Rail Overbuild initiative is At Finchley Central station on London’s and Luton Borough Council. designed to address the housing crisis, while Northern Line, Ramboll used parametric creating revenue streams for Transport for optioneering tools to explore design options Design ID Consulting London and Network Rail. It assessed the to improve site potential and project Ballynameen Bridge in Northern Ireland air rights potential of locations on London’s viability, while identifying significant reduced collapsed in 2017 due to scour damage. rail and tube network and provided data- construction costs and disruption. In collaboration with its contractor driven recommendations for where to site partner, Design ID Consulting came up approximately 250,000 overbuild homes. Beckett Rankine with innovations which got the project The firm is developing a zero-emission cycle off the ground, including saving existing Pick Everard on-cycle off ferry at Rotherhithe. It is an infrastructure and using precast concrete Pick Everard played a leading role in the alternative to the proposed £400M lifting with stone cladding to replicate the original £60M amalgamation of King’s School, bridge. The scheme could provide a crossing 100-year-old structure. Macclesfield’s estate onto one site, every three minutes for less than £30M.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 25 Design Innovator

Winner: MJ Rooney Construction Efficiency gains from digitisation

MJ ROONEY CONSTRUCTION HAS DEVELOPED A MIXED REALITY SOLUTION TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

MJ Rooney might be a small family run Award sponsor It used the clients, decrease time for party business, but it is at the forefront of wall agreements, plan construction digital construction. technology sequences, then on site to improve It has developed a mixed reality safety and allow a more diverse solution which is being used to improve to allow a constant workforce to be able to work on site safety and production efficiency from together. the start of a design to completion on feedback loop to be It used the technology to allow a site. constant feedback loop to be set up All of its projects are fully designed set up on site when situations changed on site. Every before construction, creating the “ member of the design and construction building in a 4D modelled simulation workforce is able to access all models including access and temporary works. at all time. The models are available to all Health and safety has been site workers who are able to access The most powerful experience embedded in every aspect of its work them on phones and tablets using comes from being able to see reality and QR codes have been created to technologies developed in-house. views through virtual windows. The make sure additional information is The model also includes a full-scale construction team was able to “peel accessible. mixed reality/augmented reality walk back” through the models and view the London-based MJ Rooney was through, viewed through a tablet, mixed reality experience at key stages formed in 1986 by Michael J Rooney. as a window on any phase of the of the construction process. His three sons took the firm over construction programme. Trials on site are proving extremely in 2006. Operating across London The mixed reality experience allows successful with the company already and the South East, the firm says its clients to walk around the site and the seeing how its investment in the expertise is in value engineering. building, see it in its actual location, new technology will pay for itself then walk through the building and in production and safety driven l Judges were Infrastructure and use the tablet as a viewing portal so efficiencies. Projects Authority director of that they can see what the completed The judges loved the end to end operations Alison Baptiste structure will look like from the point approach using sketch up, augmented and Highways England programme where they are standing. reality and mixed reality to talk to director Shaun Pidcock.

26 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 The most powerful experience comes from being able to see reality views through “virtual windows

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HIGHLY COMMENDED Geo-PLM software collates and analyses Station Capacity Upgrade project. Combining Cass Hayward more than 65 internal and publicly-sourced the primary and secondary linings delivered Cass Hayward developed and continuously datasets and presents then in a Google 3D significant cost and material savings and improved the design of several modular, imaging platform. reduced the lining thickness by 50%. off-site manufactured replacement railway overbridges for route clearance on the Great WYG Ramboll Western Route Modernisation Programme. Through clever structural design, the Royal A unique, automated software solution The design maximised clearance heights and Birmingham Conservatoire defied its noisy was developed for full detailed design and minimised disruption and future maintenance. urban location to achieve the sound proofing modelling of motorway gantries. The flexible required for its multiple performance spaces. software allowed designs to be optimised FINALISTS rapidly, minimising the cost of each gantry. AKT II Rendel By modelling and using the stiffening effect Rendel integrated finite element technology Vinci Construction Grands Projets of the 6,000 existing piles AKT II was able and digitised 3D building information models Combining laser scanning and building to produce an optimised raft design for the to design, detail and plan the works for High information modelling, Vinci completed new Bloomberg HQ in London. This avoided Speed 2’s Colne Valley viaduct. Changes the refurbishment of the five star Mandarin having to break out the existing piles saving in geometry of the complex post tensioned Oriental Hyde Park Hotel which saved four time and cost and minimising impact on an bridge could be rapidly assessed and weeks on the programme. adjacent church and a Victorian sewer. incorporated into the design. Pinnacle Consulting Engineers Sweco Dr Sauer & Partners The company has developed an innovative Sweco developed a new 3D imaging and The consultant designed an innovative new modular approach for the design of data management tool for Anglian Water. The sprayed concrete lining solution for the Bank centres around the world.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 27 Construction Innovator

Winner: Leighton Contractors (Asia) Modular construction aids efficiency

EXTENSIVE OFFSITE MANUFACTURING WAS USED BY LEIGHTON TO OVERCOME CONSTRAINTS OF WORKING ON THE HONG KONG-ZHUHAI-MACAU BRIDGE

Leighton Contractors took the Innovative as possible, with each roofing unit challenging design for the roof of the arriving to site 80% complete before passenger clearance building at Hong techniques, installation, including internal elements Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge and came up such as lighting. with a series of construction innovations offsite manufacturing, Overall, the use of innovative to ensure a successful build. techniques, offsite manufacturing, and The contractor implemented an and modular modular construction helped Leighton unprecedented scale of modular overcome the site constraints and construction to overcome the unique construction helped deliver the project. constraints imposed by the nearby “Leighton overcome Judges said the project “took off- airport. Construction challenges site manufacturing to the next level.” included severe height restrictions They said it demonstrated the preventing the use of cranes and highly the site constraints way site constraints can drive an congested site access. innovative approach and were The 60,000m2 steel framed impressed with the scale and technical roof, cladding, skylights, internal complexity of the project which finishes and building services were be slid into place and connected to utilised 3D digital prototyping. The manufactured off site in 81 modules, previously installed sections. contractor’s reusable support units weighing up to 600t. Most of workers Pre-assembled sections were which enabled the erection works also were concentrated offsite in an built positioned on technologically impressed the judges. The judges also assembly-line style yard, producing the impressive support units weighing noted the site safety benefits which roof units. 100t. These units could be led to an impressive safety record. Each section was transported to telescopically collapsed and removed the site using large shipping vessels, from the building after each roof l Judges were Tideway asset to avoid having to use the single unit was secured. They could then management director Roger congested access road onto site. The be reused to support installation of Bailey, London Underground prefabricated sections were then another unit. profession head of tunnels Keith jacked up and moved onto a unique Leighton exploited the advantages Bowers and EDF Hinkley Point C rail-system that allowed each unit to of offsite construction as much construction director Nigel Cann.

28 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 The contractor demonstrated the way site constraints can drive an innovative “approach

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HIGHLY COMMENDED on the M6 to just five weeks and bringing Waterman Group Morgan Sindall Infrastructure £35M benefit to UK economy. Waterman has worked with Laing O’Rourke’s Morgan Sindall demonstrated a clear design for manufacturing and assembly system, company-wide approach to fostering Davies Maguire using precast columns and lattice fl oor plank innovation in its employees. Its positive Davies Maguire’s use of buttress piles systems to build the tallest building in the world top-driven approach to innovation draws on a around confined site perimeters did away to use precast concrete elements. range of expertise from beyond the industry. with obstructive propping and brought significant programme savings in excavation Team Van Oord FINALISTS and efficiency. The company took an idea Team Van Oord, working against the Cundall from the past, and updated it with modern clock, collaborated with one of a project’s Cundall’s innovative approach to student technology and practise, thrust it into the stakeholders to find out what their priorities accommodation maximised offsite forefront of ground engineering. were. It then worked with suppliers to construction. It uses a multi-storey construct a precast concrete slip-way for containerised system with a genuine masonry Dr Sauer & Partners a sailing club which allowed delivery of the cladding which saved more than £2M in Dr. Sauer & Partners has challenged preferred non-slip finish, which would have construction costs and was delivered a year preconceptions and traditional limitations of been more difficult to achieve using cast ahead of the original programme. tunnelling by employing the use of sprayed insitu concrete. concrete linings on Transport for London’s Kier Group Bank Station Capacity Upgrade project. Interserve Construction Kier’s innovative way of working with new Its design innovations brought about a step Increased productivity and improved road trial materials, including rapid set concrete change in tunnelling safety as it meant surface quality were achieved with an and its efficient use of lane closures, reduced workers could delay entry into a newly 8m-wide paving machine to resurface the a 24-week programme to repair two bridges sprayed area. M11 link roads near Stansted Airport.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 29 Innovation in Project Management

Winner: Morgan Sindall Infrastructure Shared vision for M5 viaduct project

MORGAN SINDALL DEMONSTRATED HOW A CHANGE OF MINDSET IS DRIVING INNOVATION ON THE M5 OLDBURY VIADUCT RESTORATION PROJECT AND HOW THAT WILL SHAPE FUTURE PROJECTS.

Taking on the largest concrete repair Award sponsor Combining VR with a moving project ever attempted in the UK was platform in a purpose built simulator, never going to be an easy task. Doing BMV was able to upskill its workforce so on a live motorway, while assembling and train new staff to tackle the the world’s largest ever scaffolding unit challenges involved with working on a made it even tougher. live viaduct. But Morgan Sindall in joint venture The VR Simulator trained 33 with Bam Nuttall and VolkerFitzpatrick powered access equipment operators, (BMV) has done just that on the M5 10 BMV staff and 17 Highways Oldbury viaduct. Innovation in project England staff, familiarising them with management played a huge part. risks they would face on the project. Morgan Sindall has set up several VR helped deliver this activity incident initiatives to drive innovation within free, to programme, and below its own company and within the supply forecast plant budget. chain. Consequently, Highways England Internally it has launched an “egg timer” app, which sends project challenges to all of its employees, giving them 15 minutes to submit Safety is at innovative solutions to live problems. On a wider scale, Morgan Sindall has the heart of started holding Dynamo Days to drive innovation and collaboration with its everything we do at suppliers. One innovation to come out of this Highways England, so way of thinking was the application of using technology in a virtual reality (VR) simulator on the M5 Oldbury Viaduct. “this way is important

30 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 The Mersey Gateway is already acting as a catalyst for regeneration and “economic investment

awarded the M5 Oldbury Viaduct “Morgan Sindall demonstrated delivery team three best practice Blue its corporate commitment to Stars. Highways England senior project KEY FACT driving innovation through a series manager Zbigniew Twarowski said: of initiatives rolled out across the “Safety is at the heart of everything 60 company,” judges said. we do at Highways England, so using “The presenters demonstrated that technology in this way is important.” Number of this process has driven innovation Because the project was worked project staff across the industry.” on in a JV the learnings have been trained using taken back into the industry and all l Judges were Crossrail 2 head of three contractors are able to use the virtual reality commercial Simon Adams, Heathrow innovation on future projects. Airport development director Darren “This was something the judges Colderwood and Tideway chairman Sir thought was worth special praise. Neville Simms.

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HIGHLY COMMENDED Waterworks2.0 allows Knights Brown Dunelm Geotechnical & managers across the business Knights Brown’s Right Works Environmental to track 450 jobs, capture code of practice is used as a Dunelm has developed a key project deliverables and guide to running projects in a system where geotechnical meet programme performance more holistic way. The guide logs, previously hand written indicators focuses on improving project and then typed into a management with a focus on programme, can be typed BuroHappold Engineering health, safety, well-being, electronically on site, and Working with Hamad Medical environment, programme, cost, uploaded directly onto a Corporation (HMC), value and quality. The guide was central database. This saves BuroHappold has led the used as a driver for work on the time, money and paper and advancement of a Development Jaguar Land Rover facility in reduces the likelihood of Standards Framework which Dorset. human error. defines bespoke clinical, The log data input sheets architectural, urban planning Breheny Civil Engineering have been used successfully on and engineering design Breheny has invested heavily site at the £2M investigation standards for HMC facilities. in document management, for the proposed Potash This included signing and cost management systems, mine at Wilton. This job had building a bespoke content and supply chain software, particularly tight time scales, management system and to improve communication with typed electronic logs online portal, and streamlining and project delivery. Its Asite required by the client within future design consistency and document management 48 hours of a borehole’s efficiency. software is a construction completion, so its engineers specific, fully customisable can review and revise Sellafield tool which greatly enhances §further investigation Early engagement and communications. strategies while site works are close cooperation led to still taking place. the formation of the SRP Wentworth House Assurance and Governance Partnership FINALISTS Logbook. This collates output Cloud based task management Waterco from internal, stakeholder and procedures such as Trello and By developing its own in-house regulator reviews at Sellafield ClickUp have enabled the CRM and project tracker nuclear fuel reprocessing firm to track metadata and – dubbed Waterworks2.0 and decommissioning site. eliminate accumulated emails – Waterco has improved It streamlines the overall per task, and to find the status project management and assurance process, leading to a of all tasks for various projects driven customer satisfaction. much quicker approvals. instantly company wide.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 31 Innovative Operator

Winner: Cowi Non-disruptive bridge repairs on the M25

CONSULTANT COWI DEVELOPED A REPAIR AND MONITORIING SYSTEM TO ENABLE WORK TO BE CARRIED OUT ON A BUSY MOTORWAY VIADUCT SAFELY AND WITH MINIMAL TRAFFIC DISRUPTION

Consultant Cowi employed innovative existing fatigue-expired welds, in techniques to keep the Gade Valley KEY FACT conjunction with stiffening and plating. viaduct on the M25 open to traffic as Plasma welding uses electricity to melt much as possible while inspections and and weld the material. It was carried repairs took place. This saved £3M in 160,000 out using remote controlled machines, disruption costs. Daily traffic reducing risk to workers. The viaduct carries about 160,000 The highly detailed assessment of vehicles a day, double its design load on M25 each potential vulnerability on the capacity. It was suffering from wear Gade Valley viaduct meant that interventions could and tear. viaduct be optimised and then followed up with The Cowi team utilised high- targeted interim inspections. accuracy laser scanning to build a The NCE100 judges said: “This was series of building information models. a great example of combining great It then undertook an extensive ideas and new technology to achieve programme of targeted strain the client’s goals with a mind to the gauge monitoring of all potentially end user by keeping the asset open.” substandard locations highlighted by the model. In total this resulted in 1,300 gauges being placed in 650 locations across the viaduct, allowing engineers to analyse the structure’s A great example stress ranges accurately. This innovative approach utilising of combining real stress ranges was not covered by existing highways standards and great ideas and new required special approval. technology to achieve Cowi engineers also developed site- specific procedures for plasma welding “the client’s goals 32 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 The Mersey Gateway is already acting as a catalyst for regeneration and “economic investment

“Through close collaboration with all demonstration of collaboration and stakeholders they were able to manage innovation in a challenging scenario. the risks to be as low as possible while deploying innovative assets l Judges were HS2 Ltd asset management and novel technology.” management director Mark Morris, Cowi also demonstrated Highways England head of innovation consideration for safety of both the Annette Pass, and Transport Systems workforce and road and rail users. Catapult chief operating officer Mark The judges sad the project was a clear Ruddy.

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HIGHLY COMMENDED of the building. The team various port scenarios so that Foundation Piling undertook operational energy they can predict the quality of The company, in collaboration and water modelling, and operations and estimate the with Birmingham University, is embodied carbon assessments, effectiveness of a management developing a new method to and will learn how the building and planning policy and modify clay so that it is less is used to fine tune its energy compare alternatives. The cohesive and therefore less needs. software uses historic climate likely to heave or shrink. The and weather data, combined electro-kinetic osmosis and Sellafield with harbour elements such as electro resistivity measurement Sellafield has utilised pre- docks, berths, and monobuoys treatments have been trailed operations teams for a long to simulate port operations. and proved to double insitu time, but has now integrated shear strength after 28 days. them fully into the design team FJD Consulting & Design Trials are continuing including from early concept stage. This Collaborating with a specialist testing for other applications ensures efficient operation of fabricator, the company is such as soil nailing for slope the plant is embedded in its working on bringing to stability applications. design, factoring in procedures market a structural fastener and the needs of staff. that will enable a reduction of FINALISTS up to 50% in the weight of Sweco Arcadis new steelwork required for Swedish-based Sweco, working Increasing demand, changing bridge maintenance projects. for Irish utility provider weather patterns, and tougher The bespoke connector Ervia, has developed an environmental laws mean water eliminates the need for integrated National Telemetry companies need resilience the second strengthening Programme to gather data to in their distribution and plate. support its asset management sewerage networks. Arcadis has work for years to come. The developed a consequence-led Waldeck Consulting system will extend asset life, approach to resilience, which Utilising drones, 3D cameras maximise return on investment it says has generated more and a 3D visualisation and reduce life-cycle and than £16M in operation and engine borrowed from the maintenance costs through maintenance savings for clients. gaming industry, combined standardisation. Its work in helping water with machine learning companies target investment and artificial intelligence, BuroHappold Engineering in operations and maintenance the company is creating The firm collaborated with the was part of a client’s funding highly detailed 3D building University of Newcastle to plan whose quality ensured that information models to create a new urban sciences it was given fast-track approval capture and intelligently building. The firm combined by water regular Ofwat. categorise assets and their real time monitoring with a associated defects. The system highly detailed 3D building FCC Industrial incorporates traditional information model to produce a The firm has developed inspection notes within the 3D powerful real-time open-access OptiPort, a software tool for model to allow the client to tool, aiding efficient operation port managers to simulate better grasp asset conditions.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 33 Low Carbon Leader

Winner: Sweco Research driven carbon reduction

BY CREATING A TEAM DEDICATED TO ACHIEVING CARBON REDUCTION ON PROJECTS AND WITHIN THE BUSINESS, SWECO HAS PROVEN THE COST BENEFITS OF LOW CARBON DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.

Sweco says that winning the NCE100 Sweco has being achieved,” said Perth & Kinross Low Carbon Leader award in 2018 was Council Cross Tay Link Road project only the beginning. It has put in place KEY FACT undertaken manager Jillian Ferguson. a system to drive carbon reduction In addition, Sweco has undertaken throughout the business, its projects £120M work including carbon several industry initiatives to help and beyond. Value of Cross reduce carbon in infrastructure It has created a bespoke carbon baselining, bespoke including carrying out carbon team and is working towards Tay Link Road management training for ICE organisational emissions neutrality project training, design reviewers and university lecturing. within 10 years. “team integration and The judges said: “Commitment from By applying PAS 2080, the first the top of the organisation and carbon standard for managing carbon in challenge through the supply chain was infrastructure, the team at Sweco has promotion of low clear to see. undertaken work including carbon carbon materials The use of PAS 2028 framework baselining, bespoke training, design and credible data used to raise team integration and promotion of low awareness around carbon versus cost carbon materials. information modelling integration reduction was superb.” It has also introduced innovations in to accelerate low-carbon design, Sweden-based Sweco provides digitalisation and visualisation. for example, by visually highlighting engineering and architecture An example of the outcome of this carbon hotspots in 3D. This, says consultancy services across Europe work is on Perth & Kinross Council’s Sweco, allows it to make faster, more with 15,000 employees. £120M Cross Tay Link Road scheme. informed design decisions and deliver Sweco funded and undertook more efficient carbon reduction. research for the project, so the “Sustainable development is at l Judges were Association for financial value in carbon reduction the heart of this project. Sweco’s Consultancy and Engineering chief to be meaningfully conveyed and collaborative and proactive approach operating officer Anil Iyer, Argent assessed. to minimising carbon using PAS senior projects director Anthony It is now applying new digitalisation 2080 gives us the confidence that Peter, and Anglian Water head of techniques and cloud-based building our sustainability objectives are carbon and energy David Riley.

34 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 Commitment from the top of the organisation and carbon challenge through the supply “chain was clear to see

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HIGHLY COMMENDED London Authority policy. These targets Mott MacDonald Skanska are now included in the New London Plan. Before Mott MacDonald established Skanska is the first UK contractor to achieve The research included technical and cost renewable energy services in South-East the PAS 2080 standard and has set out a implications. The targets are now mandated Asia in 2008, the consultant said there was plan to deliver further emission reductions. It on all projects in London. no utility-scale wind or solar-power capacity says it designs and constructs to reduce the in the region. Since then, it has delivered whole life emissions of the assets it builds for Sellafield 7.5GW of solar and wind projects. If all the customers. A project at the Sellafield site has used design renewables schemes it is working on are

efficiency in design to reduce materials developed, 8bn tonnes of CO 2 will be offset FINALISTS required for construction. annually. Arup Measures include piping concrete from Elephant and Castle Station Capacity a new batching plant near the site to cut Taylor & Boyd Upgrade (ECSCU) exemplifies Arup’s work truck journeys. The project also stores bulk Taylor & Boyd has established a partnership to minimise project carbon. The station excavated material near the site for future with the National University of Ireland, is undergoing a significant upgrade to reuse. Galway, to promote techniques of timber accommodate an extra 27,000 commuters at manufacture and design. Using timber peak times each day. Arup’s design achieved a Arcadis engineering for an environmentally sensitive 25% construction carbon saving. Arcadis is helping Cardiff City Council respite centre in Mayo, for children suffering transform air quality and cut carbon from cancer, Taylor & Boyd’s design has BuroHappold Engineering emissions in line with the Infrastructure helped the project to get through the BuroHappold’s research shows how Carbon Review. Its advice on implementing planning application process. The building will carbon targets can be met through energy charging infrastructure across the city is have a much lower carbon footprint than the efficiency and this has informed Greater accelerating the take-up of electric vehicles. alternatives.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 35 Skills Leader of the Year

Winner: Knights Brown Developing skills to tackle worker shortage

KNIGHTS BROWN HAS WORKED WITH A LOCAL HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TO CREATE CIVIL ENGINEERING APPRENTICESHIPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS

The Civil Engineering Groundworks CETC is approach to apprenticeships at the site Apprenticeship is the result of a is truly ground-breaking, with courses unique collaboration between 11 KEY FACT a mock designed by leading employers to Hampshire employers including ensure apprentices have the practical Knights Brown, and a local college and £2.8M construction site skills and certifications needed to local authorities. Local start work.” Working in collaboration with that provides This new apprenticeship has won Fareham Civil Engineering Training enterprise the Constructing Excellence SECBE College, Knights Brown created a Partnership civil engineering Awards 2018 Apprenticeship Initiative unique apprenticeship to prepare of the Year. grant for “apprentices a realistic young people and adults for careers in Judges said: “This collaborative civil engineering. apprenticeship training environment approach by Knights Brown and Knights Brown has made a five-year course other suppliers brought the industry commitment to the programme, together to solve a skills shortage. guaranteeing employment for “It created a model that can be apprentices and making a substantial expanded to bring in other suppliers financial contribution. firm to date. and there is potential to address other Participants develop the skills to Solent Local Enterprise Partnership skills shortages beyond groundworks. work on construction sites and get has put £2.8M into the £4.1M Civil “It is driving improved safety and paid a wage while gaining a recognised Engineering Training Centre (CETC) reduces costs by creating a more qualification. at Fareham College, which is currently sustainable groundworks workforce.” The course has been specially under construction. designed to ensure all apprentices CETC is a mock construction l Judges were Highways England are job ready after a 20-week site site that provides civil engineering head of supplier development Simon preparation programme. apprentices with a realistic training Diggle, City of London director of To date there have been three environment with the aim of making built environment Carolyn Dwyer cohorts of apprentices. Training for a them site-ready. and the Infrastructure and Projects fourth group is underway. Solent LEP chief executive Anne Authority construction director David Nine apprentices have joined the Marie-Mountifield has said: “The Hancock.

36 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 It created a model that can be expanded to bring in other suppliers and there is potential to “address other skills shortages beyond groundworks

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FINALISTS Awcock Ward Partnership Consulting staff with the skills, resilience, confidence and Design2e Awcock Ward has developed bespoke training behaviours to independently lead their teams. Each Design2e employee receives 100 hours programmes for its management team as well of training per year and the firm has an ICE- as the “next generation” of leaders, so they Pell Frischmann accredited training programme. Its managers can get skills they need to sustainably grow Pell Frischmann’s Skills Diversification attend Cranfield School of Management it the business. It delivers three main strands Initiative aims to expand its employees’ says it encourages all, regardless of position, of training which are for apprenticeships, skillset. The initiative is intended to tackle to continuously improve their skills and for leadership and next generation – for declining productivity and lack of mobility experience and be better tomorrow than graduates to develop management skills. during periods of economic downturn. today. In particular, it has worked to provide one employee with Asperger’s a career path Hewson Consulting Engineers Mace in civil engineering, with the employee now Hewson Consulting Engineers is an active Mace argues that retaining talent is highly excelling in their HNC. supporter of the University of Surrey dependent on the environment that a scholarship scheme. The firm recruits a manager creates. The Mace Manager Patrick Parsons signifi cant proportion of its graduates from the programme, has up-skilled staff to recruit, Patrick Parsons says it aims to create a programme. Around 90% of the students the engage, support and develop staff. culture that enables staff to thrive and fi rm has sponsored and who have completed the actively promotes continual learning course have joined as graduates. Red7Marine across the company. It launched its Aspire Red7Marine is providing a tailor-made programme three years ago, which aims WSP training platform for people looking to start to recognise rising stars and prepare them WSP’s “Our Leaders” leadership development a career in the marine industry, which has for senior leadership with a 12-month programme in the UK is tailored to each included transforming its former HQ into a programme. participant’s needs and designed to equip dedicated training academy.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 37 Diversity Leader of the Year

Winner: Morgan Sindall Infrastructure Bringing skills back to the workplace

MORGAN SINDALL INFRASTRUCTURE LAUNCHED ITS RETURNSHIP PROGRAMME IN 2017, WITH THE PROJECT ALREADY HELPING TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF STAFF FROM UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS.

Following its launch in September Women business. 2017, the Morgan Sindall Returnship Women accounted for 10% of Programme received 90 applications. accounted for employees in 2016, but in 2018 this Of these, 40% were female and 13% figure rose to 19% compared with an from BAME backgrounds. These 10% of employees in industry average of around 14%. figures are above the average Morgan Sindall says that its statistics for construction and 2016, but in 2018 commitment to diversity is not just infrastructure roles. a passing initiative, but an embedded Following an assessment of the this figure rose to 19% way to recruit staff. applications, Morgan Sindall invited “ The firms says it wants to lead 13 to an assessment day. It resulted the way in changing perceptions of with five being offered a place on the the sector from under-represented programme. groups through a diverse and inclusive Successful applicants came from taken time out of the workplace an culture. It hopes this will address skills a range of backgrounds, with four of opportunity to return. shortages. them being women who are either Following the recruitment process, The judges said: “The company’s qualified civil engineers, environmental the firm revisited applications from presentation focused on the successful engineers or who have building those returners who, for differing and innovative returners programme information modelling and estimating reasons, were unable to attend the and there was ample and validated experience. assessment centre day. evidence of diversity and inclusion The fifth was a young widower, Their applications were circulated being part of the organisational who was highly qualified in his field. for consideration by managers with culture. An impressive range of These applications had all found that vacancies for permanent jobs across the impactful initiatives in place.” changes in their family situations, business units. Morgan Sindall says many or the fact they had taken a career have now been recruited as a result. l Judges were Network Rail diversity break to care for family, meant that Recognition as an inclusive employer and inclusion manager Kevin they had previously been overlooked. has resulted in an overall increase in Bowsher and Women Into Science & Morgan Sindall’s programme aims to the number of female employees in the Engineering development manager change this and give people who have firm’s construction and infrastructure Anne-Marie Tuck.

38 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 There was ample and validated evidence of diversity and inclusion being part “of the organisational culture

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HIGHLY COMMENDED in 2017, encourages the development BWB Consulting Whitby Wood of a more diverse workforce and a more Using the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Whitby Wood uses a proactive gender inclusive culture. Initiatives include a reverse Diversity Toolkit, BWB is working to improve diversity recruitment plan, underpinned mentoring pilot to facilitate open discussion levels of acceptance, encourage talent by industry leading company policies for about diversity issues. and encourage innovation. It has recently pay and other areas such as maternity and developed a LGBT inclusion strategy. paternity leave, to ensure there is an organic Waterman Group improvement in diversity as the company Waterman promotes diversity using video Dr Sauer & Partners grows. campaigns, community engagement and All Dr Sauer & Partners employees undertake industry initiatives, with 70% of its current Equality 2010 and diversity training to raise FINALISTS graduate intake being women. Female their awareness of equality issues in the Pick Everard engineers carry out school visits, including workplace. It has worked hard to bridge the Last year Pick Everard signed up to the speaking to a schools’ conference to discuss gender gap in tunnelling. Disability Confident scheme run by the breaking gender stereotypes in engineering. Department of Work and Pensions and has Ramboll now been designated by the department as a JPP Ramboll’s initiatives include gender balance Disability Confident Committed Employer. JPP is actively eliminating unconscious bias lunches where feedback is built into its The scheme involves challenging attitudes from its recruitment process, with a female diversity action plan . It has improved its and increasing understanding of disability and director leading the initiative. This includes maternity pay and policies after feedback removing barriers. anonymising CVs to ensure focus is entirely from interviews with returning employees and on the applicant’s skills and qualities. So far, its global board now includes two women. It Arup using this selection process, the team is an has joined Stonewall and taken part in three The UK “Inclusion Challenge”, launched equal split of genders. Pride marches.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 39 Leader in Collaboration

Winner: Kier Group Reaching out with skills and opportunities

KIER GROUP HAS DEVELOPED A PARTNERSHIP WITH CLIENTS AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN TO IMPLEMENT BEST PRACTICE IN COLLABORATION, WHILE DELIVERING APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNITIES.

Collaborative Learning Circle Kier has partners benefit society and bring in comprises Kier, its clients, supply chain new talent streams to their businesses. and other industry partners with the adopted and Judges said: “A passionate objective of embedding collaborative presentation that demonstrated how working within the Kier businesses and is adapting industry Kier has adopted and is adapting making this the industry norm. industry best practice to address an Core to group is a bespoke learning best practice to important cross-sector issue today – and development programme allied and are doing this through recognising with social value objectives. address an important the value in addressing key social issues CLC says each firm is represented “cross-sector issue facing the UK. By driving collaboration on the board, which brings in different throughout their value chain, and views, opinions and ideas. inspiring other organisations, they The firms involved are Kier – which today are an example of commitment to initiated CLC – Aggregate Industries, advancing the industry in this area.” Tarmac, Carnell, Chevron, WJ, CLC was started in 2017 by Kier Toppesfield and R&C Williams. social value. CLC’s current chosen Highways executive director Dave The learning and development social value partner OnSide Youth Wright, with its formal launch a year programme focuses on ways Zones – a charity which brings youth later at the House of Lords following collaboration and innovation can provision to areas of the UK that are several months of development. facilitate standardisation and most in need because of poverty and improvements in areas such as safety, deprivation. customer service and delivery. The focus is on young people lJudges were Highways England The programme is made up with few opportunities and the CLC customer service director Melanie of nine e-learning modules, all is linking to the group to provide Clarke, Network Rail programme approved and accredited by the employability training, mentoring director south Huw Edwards, Institute Chartered Institution of Highways & and up to 5,000 apprenticeship for Collaborative Working chief Transportation, and they also qualify opportunities over the next five years. executive Les Pyle, WSP consultant for CPD. Kier says that working with Onside Jon Kirkup and CPC Project Services At the core of the programme is to recruit apprentices, the CLC partner Andy Swift.

40 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 The CLC is linking to the group to provide employability training, mentoring “and up to 5,000 apprenticeship opportunities

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HIGHLY COMMENDED the second for holistic, coherent schemes. It Arcadis Pell Frischmann has had most impact in outcome definition Arcadis devised a collaborative four-day Consultant Pell Frischmann developed a studies for London Underground stations. design sprint using client, consultant and way to enable niche, partners in its supply developer expertise to solve problems chain to directly engage with the client. Black & Veatch using rapid prototyping. The result was a It means these market-leading specialists Black & Veatch’s flood alleviation scheme for collaborative planning platform called City can be more involved with project delivery, Burton-upon-Trent required collaboration Analytics. leading to better all-round collaboration. Pell between many professionals and the Frischmann subcontracts about 40% community. The firm combined traditional CampbellReith of revenue from a contract, which it consensus building techniques and hand Tibbalds and CampbellReith have won around believes is one of the highest rates in the drawn visualisations with interactive digital 18% of the value of the £100M framework sector. It deployed this method to achieve StoryMap resources to share and democratise commission for Homes England by building results on Highways England’s Specialist the process. on an incredibly strong network of SMEs. Professional and Technical Services Framework. WYG Waterman Group The Army Basing Programme is a complex Waterman, in partnership with Aecom has FINALISTS and sensitive exercise to relocate 4,300 provided engineering expertise to 21 local WestonWilliamson & Partners troops and their families to Salisbury Plain. authorities as part of the Midlands Highway The Elemental Optioneering System is a Working with client with the Defence Alliance since 2007. The alliance was the first methodology devised by Weston Williamson Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), WYG of its kind and, to maintain market-leading foster collaborative design decision making. became its first Principal Support Provider edge, Waterman proactively drives effective It centres around two workshops: one for to achieve ISO 44001 certification for performance, shares best practice and makes risk assessing individual design elements, and collaboration. efficiency savings.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 41 Health & Wellbeing Leader of the Year

Winner: Hydrock Delivering a feel good factor for staff

HYDROCK HAS DEVELOPED A SYSTEM TO LOOK AFTER ITS STAFF’S PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL WELLBEING, WITH OFFICE HEALTH AND WELLBEING CHAMPIONS PLAYING A KEY ROLE.

Yoga, a rounders tournament and life The winners’ Judges said: “The winners’ drawing are – according to the team at submission was set apart by a strong Hydrock – all valuable elements of its submission culture and behaviours which aligned health and wellbeing strategy. to corporate values. The activities aim to enhance the was set apart by a The judges felt the examples given office environment and are were creative, innovative, engaging co-ordinated by the firm’s 16 wellbeing strong culture and and challenged the industry norm. champions. The activities had clearly been These champions not only behaviours which developed from within all levels of the coordinate workplace activities, they “aligned to corporate organisation. are trained in mental health first aid to This is a great example of the spot signs of stress. role everyone can play in improving The firm has a 24/7 wellbeing values wellbeing at work.” support line which offers free and Hydrock has 16 offices across the confidential support on a range of UK including Cardiff, Birmingham and issues. When staff are asked what In addition to Hydrock’s in-house Manchester and employs more than the firm does well, the most selected activities, the firm has launched a 400 staff. response is “looks after staff”. “Well Worth It?” campaign focused Graduate flood risk consultant on the importance of wellbeing to Gemma Goodmore said of the productivity. l The judges were Network Rail rounders tournament: “It was great Through published articles and director, programme technical services to see so many people get involved. It seminars for the property sector in and supply chain Stuart Calvert; was an easy way to get to know people London, Manchester and Bristol it has Highways England health, safety and from other teams.” made the case for adding commercial wellbeing strategy director-supply The health and wellbeing strategy value gained by investing in wellbeing chain Lucy Fell; Tideway director of was developed in 2018, led by chief in the design of buildings. health, safety and wellbeing Steve executive Brian McConnell. It has The aim is to get the wider built Hails; and Network Rail head of been overseen by the firm’s human environment sector to think about design – south west – network rail resources department. users’ wellbeing. design delivery Jon Sturgess.

42 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 It has made the case for adding commercial value gained by investing in wellbeing “in the design of buildings

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WSP Breheny Civil Engineering Mace “Thrive” is an anonymous database for Breheny’s site staff must attend regular Mace has built wellbeing into its monitoring staff health including the causes health checks which are defined as safety 2022 business strategy, implementing of stress to identify where help and support critical. The tests enable early detection a wellbeing calendar of events and is needed. of health and wellbeing issues and enables developing a framework of tools and proactive risks management. resources to help staff participate in Leighton Contractors (Asia) wellbeing activities. Leighton rolled out its “Fitness for Work” Skanska programme a year ago. It wanted to make In 2018 Skanska launched a Wellbeing RSK Group its employees aware of the risks of working initiative, which includes special days, health This year RSK Group launched its Pedometer when fatigued or under influence of drugs, checks and a dedicated wellbeing page on its Challenge initiative to improve wellbeing alcohol or when living with a medical intranet. It has an army of mental health first and to bring a rapidly growing business condition. aiders and has rolled out its a mental health together. It staff achieved 134,495,934 awareness training to its supply chain. steps, busting its 89M steps target. Overall Morgan Sindall Infrastructure staff absences and turnover have decreased A Morgan Sindall analysis of rail incidents Cowi as a result. found they were more likely to occur during Cowi has prioritised mental health wellbeing a night shift than during the day. It gave 100 at board level, training mental health first Clancy Consulting of its workers a wrist-worn Readiband device aiders and bringing in expert speakers on Clancy Consulting has a long-established to help it the understand and quantify the subjects such as stress relief. Staff surveys health and wellbeing programme. It has risks associated with fatigue and help the it showed that 80% of attendees say they have recently introduced support for those going to develop interventions to prevent injuries incorporated what they learned into their through IVF, providing help to organise time when tired. daily routines. off and emotional support.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 43 Impact in Transport

Winner: Beckett Rankine Roll on roll off cycle ferry for east London

BECKETT RANKINE HAS DEVELOPED A DESIGN FOR AN ELECTRIC, SELF-DOCKING AND SELF-CHARGING FERRY SERVICE TO RUN ACROSS THE RIVER THAMES IN EAST LONDON.

Beckett Rankine has been working with Brisbane, Australia, which is designing ferry company Thames Clippers to KEY FACT the new vessels. It has also worked develop a zero-emission, cycle on and with Canary Wharf Group and Hilton off ferry at Rotherhithe, east London. Hotels which own the pier sites on The scheme is being proposed as £30M each side of the river. It has a long an alternative to a lifting bridge idea, Estimated history of designing passenger piers on which the firm claims could cost the Thames. around £400M. Beckett Rankine says cost of If the scheme was introduced, it is that with its design, three vessels could creating the hoped that similar schemes can also operate from two new piers, providing ferry service be introduced elsewhere in London, a crossing every three minutes for a cutting road traffic and improving air cost of less than £30M. quality. Previous plans for an electric ferry The judges said: “The submission service hit the buffers because land and presentation focused on providing owners and ferry operators would not give their approval. But Beckett Rankine’s design involves minimal land take and connects to a cycleway and nearby facilities. A great example The plans will be the first time self- docking, mooring and charging have of combining been combined in a ferry, which means the vehicle will have a turn-around great ideas and new time of two minutes. technology to achieve Beckett Rankine has been working in collaboration with AusShips in “the client’s goals 44 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 The Mersey Gateway is already acting as a catalyst for regeneration and “economic investment

a low-cost user-orientated and innovative thinking bringing an old environmentally sustainable solution technology into a modern city.” to potentially provide an improved crossing on the River Thames”. The l Judges were HS2 strategic judges were impressed with the director Andrew McNaughton, thinking: electric ferry, automatic Martin Rowark from Crossrail docking and a ride on-ride off solution International, Network Rail regional with support from local landowners. director, IP, Neil Thompson and This together with using the river Highways England chief engineer current to charge the ferry showed Mike Wilson.

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HIGHLY COMMENDED and street rearrangements. in Amsterdam and has Hewson Consulting Idom has since been asked by put together a team of Engineers the Bahrain government for local employers and local Hewson Consulting Engineers reference designs for a metro government officials to was structural designer for 5km scheme in its capital. reduce car dependency by of viaduct and four stations improving travel facilities in at Indonesia’s first mass rapid Arup the city’s business district. It transport project which is about Arup has project-managed the has launched the Mobility as a to open in Jakarta. The firm UK Autodrive pilot scheme, Service solution, which enables put together a high quality, bringing together stakeholders 5,000 employees of 15 major resilient and sustainable design including local authorities businesses to travel to and from – factoring in earthquake and car firms, to explore the work without relying on a car. resistance. The line will be key legal, insurance and cyber to reducing road congestion, security issues affecting the Davies Maguire improving mobility, driving implementation of Connected Davies Maguire is working with economic development, and and Autonomous Vehicles. The track operator Network Rail to improving air quality. project developed autonomous deliver a standardised, fully- pods to provide on-demand accessible footbridge design for FINALISTS transport for the last-mile use at over 50 railway stations Hydrock journey often required in throughout UK. The repeatable Hydrock’s research into “green cities, helping city authorities design is intended to provide wave” traffic light systems improve and future proof their familiarity to the contractor shows that a simple change to infrastructure. and the user, with the core traffic signalling, coupled with structure being cost-efficient a behavioural change to driving PJA and easy to build, minimising in urban areas, can lower fuel Consultant PJA worked on track possession time. consumption, reduce emissions a project with technology and improve air quality. As a firm City Science and Leeds TSP Projects transport consultant, it says City Council to examine how The TSP Project team worked being able to influence the way sections of existing road could with Network Rail on the people move around is critical be dedicated to driverless design and implementation to sustainable, future-proofed vehicles, making it easier to of the pioneering new tram- transport infrastructure. manage risk and integrate them strain scheme in Sheffield. into the existing transport Innovations included Idom network. It considered how, developing a double junction Idom is part of the consortium autonomous vehicles could use layout and a new section of designing, building and testing the existing highway network, track – the Tinsley Chord – to the Riyadh Metro Saudi Arabia, and examined the resulting link the systems. The team a 176km driverless metro. challenges. also designed two adjoining The huge scale of the project low-level platforms to allow includes 20 stations, 10km Arcadis passengers to alight or of tunnel, 26km of viaduct Arcadis has a huge base disembark along the route.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 45 Impact in Urban Living

Winner: Arup Flood defence unites Belfast community

ARUP WAS LEAD CONSULTANT ON A PROJECT TO TRANSFORM A PART OF EAST BELFAST WHICH HAD A HISTORY OF FLOODING, COMMUNITY SEGREGATION AND POOR PUBLIC HEALTH.

The Connswater Community The Arup team greenway project at £500M, more Greenway has brought about a than 12 times the project cost. transformation of the communities KEY FACT ensured the “Arup has been an excellent partner. surrounding it in terms of health, The Arup team ensured the design active travel, physical resilience and 1,700 design process was process was easy to understand and it biodiversity. Number engaged appropriately with residents It is an example of communities and easy to understand and communities to find solutions and engineers working together to deliver of homes add value,” said client Michelle Bryans, a scheme which genuinely makes lives protected from and it engaged who manages the greenway. better for the people who live near it Judges were looking for a scheme flooding “appropriately and use it. which addresses the challenges The greenway has been built along by the with residents and presented by urban densification with the banks of a river that runs through Connswater a view to enabling sustainable, healthy East Belfast. The primary aim is to communities development and redevelopment of bring flood protection to 1,700 homes. Community towns and cities. Previously communities had suffered Greenway Arup’s scheme scored top such bad flooding that some residents marks across all categories, with were unable to get property insurance. sections to look after. judges praising the project team’s The project involved restoring 5km of In total more than 1,000 weeks of collaboration and clarity of vision. urban rivers and combining them with paid work was created for long-term They said: “This is a simple but 16km of cycle-pedestrian paths, seven unemployed people, apprentices, extraordinary project and a world class bridges and a public square. graduates and students. example of how engineering can deliver Arup was lead consultant during the Queen’s University Belfast’s Centre community cohesion.” design and construction phase, working of Excellence for Public Health is with clients community group EastSide now undertaking a research project to l Judges were Crossrail 2 managing Partnership and Belfast City Council. analyse the full benefits the project director Michèle Dix, Argent partner The scheme has had a huge has given to the community. Andre Gibbs and Royal Town Planning community integration impact, with An initial study has estimated the Institute chief executive Victoria schools and businesses adopting potential economic return of the Hills.

46 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 This is a simple but extraordinary project and a world class example of how “engineering can deliver community cohesion

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Steer a new neighbourhood with workspaces, labs, residence and mixed-use development Steer was asked by client Better Bankside leisure and education facilities and residential in south London. Modular construction to come up with a design for an innovative, accommodation. Curtins is designing the led to significant reductions in on site creative, modular system to enable pavements site’s overall infrastructure, including detailed waste, including noise, dust and air in the Bankside area by the Thames in London design of a new diagnostics centre, a 200 bed pollution. to be temporarily extended. The system, hotel, and the new Liverpool International made of colourful anti-slip resin modules College. Clarkebond supported by a steel frame, allows flexibility Clarkebond is providing civil and structural and adaptability. Pinnacle Consulting Engineers engineering services for phase one of a £1bn The regeneration of a former industrial redevelopment in Havering, east London. Mott MacDonald site close to Acton town centre in west The project will transform 12 council estates Mott MacDonald has developed the Safeswim London is currently at concept stage. Plans into high quality, affordable, places to live. website in New Zealand. It connects real- involve building a new 600 pupil three- It will deliver a legacy of skills through time sensors across Auckland’s wastewater storey academy building with residential schools engagement and free courses for network with global weather data, to deliver accommodation above it in three medium long term unemployed adults, as well as 165 water-quality forecasts at 84 beaches. This rise towers offering which have out-of- apprenticeships. enables 1.6M residents to make informed hours sports facilities. The blend of building decisions about the safe beaches to visit and occupants is intended to encourage activity Pick Everard can also identify problems on the network. at different times of the day. Pick Everard has taken a piece of scrub land in west London which is surrounded by a Curtins WestonWilliamson & Partners major roads, an overground railway line and The £1bn Paddington Village project in WW&P is has used modular construction a school and club, to engineer a deliverable Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter will provide at Chapter Lewisham, a student hall of scheme for 17 houses at Gresham Gardens.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 47 Impact in Water

Winner: Morgan Sindall Infrastructure Shared drainage holds back the flooding MORGAN SINDALL INFRASTRUCTURE HAS ENGINEERED AN INNOVATIVE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN WALES.

The Cambrian RainScape catches, Award sponsor Sustainable residents and businesses of the dates redirects and slows down the speed at when they would be affected by the which rainwater enters the local sewer solutions and work. network. It means communities are less In addition, the team worked to at risk of flooding and pollution. innovative technology minimise traffic disruption to local Morgan Sindall, with design partner residents and businesses. Arup, worked on the scheme as part combining to deliver A redundant copper works was used of Welsh Water’s Capital Delivery as the single site compound , saving Alliance. real benefit carbon and the cost of mobilising and High levels of rainfall in the area “ demobilising, and a dedicated drop-in cause regular sewer flooding in centre. residential areas and excessive spills Judges said: “Rainscape and the into the sea. Resulting flood risk also sustainable and innovative solutions imposes restraints on the construction response runoff, removing 125,000m3 used to solve flooding on this project of new homes. of surface water from the combined demonstrate how environmental The project involved implementing sewer pumping and treatment benefits can be achieved innovatively the new surface water management processes each year. It has reduced and sustainably. This relates to network and incorporating landscaping energy use, increased catchment the important and relevant area solutions such as basins and planters resilience to flooding and climate of catchment management, with to store and treat rainwater runoff change and reduced pressure on the sustainable solutions and innovative through a series of soil layers and wastewater networks downstream. technology combining to deliver real swales – long, shallow channels that Working with Carmarthenshire benefit.” hold rainwater and allow it to gradually County Council, the team also infiltrate the sewer network. managed to incorporate existing l Judges were Tideway programme The project included a 1km surface council highway drains into the design, director Andy Alder and Anglian water tunnel between Llanelli town saving 1km of new pipework. Water director of the @One Alliance centre and Delta Lakes. The team also engaged with the Dale Evans and Southern Water head The team says this has mitigated local community through meetings, of planning and resilience Philip the 10ha impermeable surface fast public exhibitions, letters to informing Johnson.

48 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 The team managed to incorporate existing council highway drains into the design, “saving 1km of new pipework

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Black & Veatch Waterco has completed more than 60 effluent standards using a quarter of the Black & Veatch devised a way of securing water main renewals designs to replace over carbon and half the energy consumption of the water supply for 280,000 Bristol Water 75km of water mains with poor burst history traditional systems. There are 12 UK Nereda customers, who could previously have been or deteriorating water quality. Working projects constructed for clients including cut off if a single point failed. The solution with client Amey, its work has included United Utilities and Severn Trent Water. was a 30km pipeline linking three water pipe selection and choosing appropriate treatment works. Black & Veatch delivered methodology. Cowi the concept, detailed design, construction Singapore’s Deep Tunnel Sewerage support and environmental consultancy. Edenvale Young Associates System uses gravity to convey used water to Edenvale Young has researched 2D hydraulic reclamation plants that turn it into high quality WSP modelling to analyse the impact of rainfall drinking water. Cowi is designing a 7.9km, 6m WSP has been helping more than 17,000 run-off from upper catchment areas on diameter section of phase 2 of the scheme Essex & Suffolk Water customers cut concentrations of, for example, nitrates in a design-build partnership with contractor consumption. The Every Drop Counts (EDC) further down a catchment area with a view Leighton Asia and local consultant CPG. water efficiency scheme is saving 118M.l of to mitigating problems at water treatment water annually. Householders are provided plants. The research is useful for tracking Pell Frischmann with free plumbing audits, behavioural change pollution, and managing fertilizer use. The consultant developed a rejuvenation advice and water saving products. master plan for India’s Powai Lake in suburban Royal HaskoningDHV Mumbai. The design included dedicated Waterco Royal HaskoningDHV has developed the zones for habitat simulation, biodiversity Severn Trent Water has had to increase its Nereda granular activated sludge wastewater corridors, religious and cultural activities and mains renewal target to 250km per year. treatment process. It meets the strictest commercial development.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 49 Impact in Climate Resilience

Winner: BuroHappold Engineering Helping cities cut carbon footprints

BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING HELPS CITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE IMPLEMENT STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE AIR QUALITY AND UNDERSTAND HOW THEY CAN MAKE FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS.

BuroHappold Engineering is delivering This will have the engagement, 30 cities have direct technical assistance to 10 identified significant opportunities C40 member-cities, to help them KEY FACT a significant to scale up and speed up the climate develop a way of assessing the impact actions they have planned, as well as of air quality improvements they are 10 positive impact considering new ways of tackling the undertaking. Number of interdependent challenges of global Through the initiative, which also on people and climate change mitigation. includes workshop engagement with a cities Buro- The judges said of BuroHappold’s further 20 cities, the primary objective Happold is communities work: “An exciting and ambitious of the work is to help each of them programme, setting a global vision, working with “ develop a scientifically robust estimate demonstrating how a strategic of the air quality-related benefits of approach can be translated to the individual climate actions being local applications. This will have a undertaken. These actions range science. It has therefore developed significant positive impact on people from mobility projects to industrial a conceptual framework which first and communities, enabling them to emissions policies. considers the change being introduced be better engaged and to develop BuroHappold’s team has helped by the initiative, and then evaluates and deliver mitigation and future- the cities undertake the initiatives by the associated health and air quality proofing actions in an integrated way. helping them build the case for them benefits. The scientific, evidence base enables and by quantifying the benefits. This work by the firm’s air targeted, cost-efficient investment It has also worked with the cities to quality and public health specialists across a range of interdependencies”. help them implement the initiatives. enables city officials to understand The overarching ambition of the critical interdependencies as well as l Judges were Environment Agency project is to build technical capacity enabling them to obtain the necessary deputy director Ian Hodge, Yorkshire in the participating cities, so they can baseline data. Water drainage strategy manager generate new data to make the case It means the cities can find ways Brian Smith and Association of for further action themselves. to take scientifically sound measures Consultancy and Engineering chief BuroHappold says it recognises the based on available knowledge. executive Hannah Vickers. complexity of air quality and health BuroHappold says that through

50 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 This work by the fi rm’s air quality and public health specialists enables city offi cials “to understand critical interdependencies

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HIGHLY COMMENDED Royal HaskoningDHV Located in the low- extensive liaison with the Environment YGC lying fens of Norfolk, the Wisbech Garden Agency and the lead local flood authorities. YGC worked on the Fairbourne: Moving Town has plans for 12,000 new homes in a Forward project, set up to engage the flood zone. Using its Dutch expertise, Royal Ardent Consulting Engineers community and overcome social barriers to HaskoningDHV is applying an innovative, Ardent has used hydraulic modelling to change. The project was set up and developed sustainable approach to help build a climate design the East Thatcham Flood Alleviation to help action recommendations set out in a resilient town. Scheme. The scheme includes a large shoreline management plan. detention basin and spillway and a series of Black & Veatch strategically located bunds, swales, a flood FINALISTS The firm’s delivery of improved flood wall and associated flow control structures in Cundall defences in Derby took a long-term view of the form of culverts and spillways. Cundall has committed to provide evidence- climate resilience. As well as reduced flood based design solutions to mitigate the risk, the community benefited from a legacy Pell Frischmann impacts of climate change scenarios for 95% of an improved landscape along the corridor, Pell Frischmann worked on the Cottingham of all projects by 2025. and the rebirth of derelict sites. Community and Orchard Park Flood Alleviation Scheme engagement, from the outset, was at the in Hull. To combat the effects of climate Civic Engineers project’s heart. change, a 30% increase in allowance for As civil and structural engineers for the Leeds rainfall was made in addition to the 1:75 year Climate Innovation District, Civic Engineers JNP Group Consulting Engineers flood return period. The design included is working on the new city centre, sustainable, JNP has been using 2D flood modelling eight storage reservoirs, which will operate low-carbon housing, which includes timber techniques to incorporate major wetland in cascade to attenuate up to 200,000m 3 of framed homes and SuDS. areas within large new urban developments flood water, releasing it gradually once the of up to 1,500 new homes. This has involved storm has passed.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 51 Impact in Energy

Winner: GHD Turning plastics into energy

GHD PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE NEW ENERGY PLANT WHICH TRANSFORMS END-OF- LIFE PLASTICS INTO RENEWABLE FUELS AND CHEMICALS.

GHD has taken on the design of the year, but the client also has planning UK’s first Catalytic Hydrothermal KEY FACT consent to expand the plant to process Reactor (Cat-HTR), which makes 80,000t of waste per year. It means products such as fuels, oils and the amount of plastic going to landfill chemicals from unrecyclable waste 20,000t can be reduced and products otherwise plastics. Annual waste derived from fossil fuels can be The plant is being developed for created. client Tourian Renewables at the handling GHD says there has already been Wilton International industrial site capacity of significant interest in the project on Teesside and GHD undertook the the new from the renewable energy sector and front-end engineering design. The its work is helping to showcase this Teesside site is already a hub for the Teesside plant innovative technology. chemicals industry and many firms Client feedback said: “GHD’s have a focus on low carbon technology. flexible and multi-disciplinary input GHD developed the design with a helped easily plan and optimise design global team, which included Australian technology provider Licella and GHD engineers from the UK and Australia. This involved daily collaboration. The team created the process design, identified equipment, There is every developed a walk-through 3D model for the physical layout, and established indication that a cost estimate. The project will be the first of its kind in the UK, while this solution should this application of technology will be provide a sustainable a world-wide first. Currently, plans are to process 20,000t of waste per “return on investment 52 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 The Mersey Gateway is already acting as a catalyst for regeneration and “economic investment

of this ground-breaking project.” l Judges were UK Power Networks Judges said: “This project clearly director of capital programme & addresses a tangible problem in procurement Nirmal Kotecha, EDF energy which is pertinent world-wide, Energy Hinkley Point C innovation while simultaneously supporting local and culture coordinator Stacey communities. There is every indication Shepherd and Horizon Nuclear Power that this solution should provide a head of structures, plant arrangement sustainable return on investment.” and civil engineering Martin Walsh.

FINALISTS

Black & Veatch neighbouring chicken egg farm, design for the dam’s fourth Black & Veatch has developed and additional poultry manure hydropower extension a tool to swiftly and cheaply delivered from offsite. optimised concept power identify the most viable sites output and increased it by in Australia for new pumped Ramboll 47%, from 960MW to hydro renewable energy Ramboll’s work on a district 1410MW. The hydropower storage projects. Australia has heating scheme which takes plant came online in 2018 and 22,000 possible sites, and waste heat from London this huge increase has been by batch evaluating them, Underground’s Northern realised, benefiting Pakistan clients have been able to make line to heat homes across a and its people. informed decisions on which housing estate has led to the ones to develop. The open- client looking to expand the JNP Group source project contains a tool technology to other areas of Consulting Engineers which determines potential London. A Ramboll study found Knottingley HydroPower connection routes based on that air as warm as 18° C to scheme on the River Aire is hydrological and topographical 28°C taken from ventilation the largest hydropower station rules, and a model which shaft could be harnessed and to be built this century. It generates high-level costs. used to heat 1,350 homes. provides electricity to power Everything from the high- It has recently completed a more 100 homes. The civil and pressure main’s intake level feasibility study at another structural engineering concept, to the number of pumps, is ventilation shaft that could design and supervision was evaluated. allow London Underground provided by JNP, with the firm to supply a district heating showcasing the leading role Sweco network, managed by EoN, taken by female engineers from Sweco has delivered more than using surplus heat from the its team. 60 biomethane upgrade and Victoria Line. grid-injection plants across Plandescil the UK, driving a greener Newtecnic Strutt & Parker engaged gas supply and helping to Newtecnic’s Energy Simulator Plandescil to assist with decarbonise heat. Sweco is Project deploys algorithms to the construction of a working with Rika Biofuels to combine previously siloed data 40GWh output anaerobic develop the Fridays project, to modify building designs. digestion plant. Plandescil a anaerobic digestion scheme Passive solar gain, air flow and initially helped to find a to treat poultry manure at shading are accounted for to suitable site for the plant. Knoxbridge Farm in Kent, ensure that energy used by air The new facility had to take in which is the first of its kind in conditioning plant is minimised. a range of farming by-products the UK. Sweco provided the This can produce energy savings and different types of waste, front end engineering design of up to 20% over the life and Strutt & Parker designed study and delivered design, of buildings. a drainage system which would engineering, procurement and comply with agricultural by construction management Mott MacDonald product requirements with the services. The site will process Tarbela Dam supplies up to flexibility for it to be converted 57,500t of dry straw and 20% of Pakistan’s electricity to a full waste system if poultry manure a year from the needs. Mott MacDonald’s required.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 53 UPCOMING EVENTS

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he Black & Veatch Europe business continues with expansion into new areas of technology and digital/ artificial intelligence offerings; and growth in its core water, environmental and energy Tconsulting, design and build alliancing and asset management businesses. The thing that sets the company apart is the ability to support every point in the lifecycle of clients’ assets; coupled with an outstanding knowledge of the ways in which digital technologies can enhance customer Asset management successes: the Dynamic outcomes. Its commitment to quality Maintenance Planning programme encompasses and innovation secured the company a Yorkshire Water’s entire asset base top-10 ranking in the 2018 NCE100 Companies of the Year listing. Black & Veatch Europe provides consulting and design/build services for moves towards fruition. support E.On’s combined heat and water companies and the Environment KEY STATS To help utilities achieve world power and biomass renewable-energy Agency. As AMP6, and Q&SIV in class asset management, in January plants for industrial clients. Scotland, move towards completion 2018, Black & Veatch and EMS Momentum continued into the company continues to deliver £2.592bn Cognito teamed-up to offer bespoke 2019 when the renewables team critical asset investment through lean reliability centred maintenance won Ofgem’s renewable electricity collaborative alliancing/framework Black programmes and training. In February generator audits contract. This was arrangements with Scottish Water, & Veatch’s 2019 Black & Veatch teamed-up followed closely with the award of the Yorkshire Water, Bristol Water and global with Emagin to support UK water design consultant role on the Morlais Thames Water. It is listening and companies with advanced operational Demonstration Zone, which has the engaging with clients to explore turnover intelligence, allied to hands-on potential to become one of the world’s extending these relationships into asset management and engineering largest tidal stream energy sites. AMP7; and also entering new client expertise. In the thermal power sector, 2018 contract arrangements bringing 73.38% In between, the asset management saw Black & Veatch chosen to provide digital and technology skills into Reduction team commenced new programmes, detailed design services for InterGen’s the engineering and construction in Black including Yorkshire Water’s Dynamic 299 MW new build gas turbine in environments. Maintenance Planning programme, Spalding. Black & Veatch’s contribution & Veatch one of the first, and largest, reliability In the next 12 months, the company to the UK’s largest inland flood Europe’s centred maintenance programmes anticipates the current momentum risk project – the Environment undertaken by a UK water company. to continue; with growth in the above Agency’s River Thames Scheme – absolute Black & Veatch’s presence in the markets – and expansion in to new continues as its appraisal study to emissions UK energy market is growing. In 2018 sectors to continue, enabled by the assess feasibility, undertake outline since 2008 the company secured a technical and companies continued technology and design, and create the business case consultancy services agreement to digital product and capability focus.

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 55 NCE100 The Gold List

THE NCE100 COMPANIES OF THE YEAR 2019 WERE SCRUTINISED BY A PANEL OF 52 JUDGES WHO ASSESSED ENTRIES AND INTERVIEWED SENIOR EXECUTIVES ANALYSIS OF STAFF SURVEYS COMPLETED THE ASSESSMENT

3D Repo Design ID Consulting Kevin McShane

AKTII Design2e Kier

Arcadis Dougall Baillie Associates Knights Brown Arch Henderson Dr Sauer & Partners Leighton Contractors (Asia) Ardent Consulting Engineers Dunelm Geotechnical and Environmental LogiKal Arup DYSE M J Rooney Construction Awcock Ward Partnership Edenvale Young Associates Mace NCE100 Basestone Engenuiti Mason Navarro Beckett Rankine Engineeria Midland Metro Alliance Black & Veatch FCC Construccion Morgan Sindall Breheny Civil Engineering FJD Consulting & Design Mott MacDonald Bryden Wood Technology Foundation Piling Newtecnic BuroHappold Engineering Geotechnical & Environmental Associates nPlan BWB Consulting GHD One Creative Environments caley Water Glanville Consultants Patrick Parsons CampbellReith Hartigan Pell Frischmann Cass Hayward HBL Associates Peter Brett Associates Civic Engineers Hewson Consulting Engineers Phil Jones Associates Clancy Consulting Hydrock Pick Everard Clarkebond (UK) IDOM Pinnacle Consulting Engineers Costain Interserve Construction Plandescil Cowi Jenkins and Potter Ramboll Cundall JNP Group Consulting Engineers Red7Marine Curtins Consulting JPP Consulting Rendel

Davies Maguire Keltbray Robert Bird Group

56 NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 HERE IS THE NCE100 TOP 10. A LIST OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL, INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE CIVIL ENGINEERING COMPANIES IN 2019

Kevin McShane Royal HaskoningDHV Kier RPS Group 01 Morgan Sindall Knights Brown RSK Group Leighton Contractors (Asia) Sanderson Watts Associates 02 Arup LogiKal Scott Hughes Design Top 10 Top M J Rooney Construction Sellafi eld Mace Senceive 03 Newtecnic Mason Navarro Sensat Midland Metro Alliance Skanska 04 WSP Morgan Sindall Steer Mott MacDonald Stuart Michael Associates Newtecnic Sweco 05 Arcadis nPlan Taylor & Boyd One Creative Environments Team Van Oord 06 Sweco Patrick Parsons TSP Projects Pell Frischmann Vinci Construction Grands Projets Peter Brett Associates Waldeck Consulting 07 Skanska UK Phil Jones Associates Waterco Pick Everard Waterman Group 08 Ramboll Pinnacle Consulting Engineers Wentworth House Partnership Plandescil WestonWilliamson & Partners Ramboll Whitby Wood 09 Royal HaskoningDHV Red7Marine WSP Rendel WYG 10 BuroHappold Engineering Robert Bird Group YGC

NCE100 GOLD BOOK 2019 57 NCE100 Judges Judging Panel

Diversity Leader of the strategy director - supply Brian Smith Katherine Smale Construction Innovator Year Award chain, Highways England Drainage strategy manager, Technical reporter, New Award Kevin Bowsher – Yorkshire Water Civil Engineer Roger Bailey QPM diversity & inclusion Steve Hails – – Asset management manager, Network Rail Director of health, safety Hannah Vickers Shaun Pidcock director, Tideway – and wellbeing, Tideway Chief executive, Programme director, – Anne-Marie Tuck – Association of Consultancy Highways England Keith Bowers Development manager, Jon Sturgess and Engineering – Profession head: tunnels, WISE Head of design – south – Innovation in Project London Underground – west – Network Rail design Impact in Transport Award Management Award – Impact in Water Award delivery Andrew McNaughton Simon Adams Nigel Cann Andy Alder – Strategic director, HS2 Ltd Head of commercial, Hinkley point C construction Programme director, Impact in Urban Living – Crossrail 2 director, EDF Energy Tideway Award Martin Rowark – – – Michèle Dix Crossrail International Darren Colderwood Connor Ibbetson Dale Evans Managing director, – Development director, Reporter, Director of the @one Crossrail 2, Neil Thompson Heathrow Airport New Civil Engineer alliance, Anglian Water – Regional director, IP, – – – Andre Gibbs Network Rail Sir Neville Simms Impact in Energy Award Philip Johnson, head of Partner, Argent Chairman Tideway Nirmal Kotecha Planning and resilience, – Mike Wilson – Director of capital Southern Water Victoria Hills Chief engineer, Highways Rob Horgan programme and – Chief executive, Royal England News editor procurement, UK Power Innovative Operator Award Town Planning Institute – New Civil Engineer Networks Mark Morris – Innovation in Project – – Director of asset Skills Leader of the Year Initiation Award Leader in Collaboration Stacey Shepherd management, HS2 Ltd Award Brian Fitzpatrick Award Innovation and culture – Simon Diggle Chief executive and owner, Melanie Clarke coordinator, EDF Energy Annette Pass Head of supplier Fitzpatrick Advisory Ltd Customer service director, Hinkley Point C Head of innovation, development, Highways – Highways England – Highways England England Tim Jones – Martin Walsh – – Project director, Highways Huw Edwards Head of structures, plant Mark Ruddy Carolyn Dwyer England Programme director south, arrangement and civil Chief operating o‹ cer, Director of built – Network Rail engineering, Horizon Transport Systems Catapult environment, Phil Wilbraham, – Nuclear Power – City of London Expansion programme Les Pyle – Connor Ibbetson, reporter – director, Heathrow Airport Chairman, Aten Group Low Carbon Leader New Civil Engineer David Hancock, – – Anil Iyer – construction director, Sam Sholli, reporter, Jon Kirkup Chief operating Health & Wellbeing Leader Infrastructure and Projects New Civil Engineer Consultant, WSP o‹ cer, Association of the Year Award Authority, Cabinet O‹ ce – – for Consultancy and Stuart Calvert Design Innovator Award Andy Swift Engineering Director programme Impact in Climate Alison Baptiste Partner, CPC Project – technical services and Resilience Award Director of operations, Services Anthony Peter, senior supply chain, Network Rail Ian Hodge Infrastructure and Projects – projects director, Argent – Deputy director, FCRM, Authority – Lucy Fell Environment Agency – David Riley, head of carbon Health, safety and wellbeing – and energy, Anglian Water

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