British Construction Industry Awards 2023

The 2023 BCIA shortlist in full

Carbon Net Zero Initiative of the Year

  • EKFB – HS2 C23 Phase
  • Carbon Management Programme
  • Forest Traffic and Clearway – A38 Chudleigh: Forest Traffic Services’ Digital Care Initiative
  • Mott MacDonald Bentley – Embsay Water Treatment Works water quality investigation
  • Skanska Construction UK – Electric arc furnace steel instead of basic oxygen furnace steel
  • Strategic Pipeline Alliance – Disruptive carbon reduction
  • Taylor Woodrow – EcoPark South Off-Grid Solution
  • WSP, Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council, Seascape South and Footprint Architects – Durley Chine Environmental Hub
  • Zed Pods – The Henwood House

Commercial Property Project of the Year

  • 150 Holborn
  • Battersea Power Station
  • Soho Place
  • The Rowe

Community Impact Initiative of the Year

  • Morgan Sindall Construction – St Marks Church of England School, Southampton and Redbridge School Education Partnership
  • Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure – Glebe Farm School pioneering community and sustainable legacies
  • Multiplex Construction Europe – The Broadway: Constructing a Better Future for Everyone
  • RSHP – A Ruthlessly Inclusive Civic Campus for Hammersmith & Fulham
  • Services Design Solution – Plymouth Sound National Marine Park
  • Tideway – Delivering social value through its legacy programme
  • Vinci Building – Chester Northgate
  • Vinci Building – New Victoria Residential Development, Manchester
  • VolkerRailStory JV – Delivering community impact along the Hope Valley Line
  • Willmott Dixon Interiors –The Power of Green: Trainee Challenge 2022

Cultural & Leisure Project of the Year

  • Baitul Futuh Mosque Community Building
  • Chester Northgate Development
  • Game of Thrones Studio Tour
  • Jubilee Pool
  • National Portrait Gallery Redevelopment
  • St Johns College Libraries Refurbishment
  • Thomas Hardy House & Dugdale Arts Centre
  • Wokingham Leisure Centre & Library Complex at Carnival Hub

Digital Initiative of the Year

  • Align JV on behalf of HS2 by Rendel – Colne Valley Viaduct: Innovative 3D digital tools
  • Arup and Severn Trent with Cada Consulting – Blue Green Digital Strategy Tool: Mansfield flood resilience
  • Balfour Beatty Vinci – Digital Permits
  • BuildData Group – Zutec: Platform to support Part L photographic evidence
  • Galliford Try – Project Vinni: Predictive Analytics for Safety
  • HLM Architects – eDigiT2Life Research & Development
  • Laminar Projects – Digital transformation for EKFB (HS2) information management
  • Skanska Construction UK – 5D Strategy
  • Skanska Construction UK – Implementation of OpenSpace on M42-J6 Improvement Scheme
  • Skanska Construction UK – Skanska GeoBIM: The Geospatial Digital Twin for Infrastructure
  • Skanska Construction UK – Skanska GeoPlan: The digital construction sequencing tool

Cross Bay Link, Hong Kong

Environmental Project of the Year

  • A31 Ringwood Bridge Replacement and Widening Scheme
  • Mill Fleam Pumping Station 
  • Porthcawl Sandy Bay Coastal Scheme 
  • The Corran Narrows Project

Environment & Sustainability Initiative of the Year

  • Balfour Beatty Vinci – Thermal recycling of asbestos
  • Bellway – Energy House 2.0
  • Civil Engineering & Development Department of the Government of the HKSAR, Aecom Asia and China Road and Bridge Corporation – Pioneering use of construction materials and advanced technologies in Cross Bay Link, Hong Kong
  • Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche JV – More by River Strategy
  • C-Probe Systems – Low carbon resilient corrosion management of parking decks
  • Skanska Construction UK – electric arc furnace steel instead of basic oxygen furnace steel
  • Skanska Costain Strabag JV Railways – Electric piling rig
  • Yorkshire Water, Stantec, Ward & Burke and Gurney Environmental – Hollym, Myers Lane Wastewater Treatment Works
  • Zetteler – The Black & White Building’s engineered timber superstructure

Health, Safety & Wellbeing Initiative of the Year

  • Anglian Water @one Alliance – Life Fest 22
  • Anglian Water, Aecom and Balfour Beatty – People Operated Plant Managed Service Desk
  • Arup – Fresh Start…and a Strong Finish
  • blu-3 – Pioneering mental health support for blu-3 Paddington workforce
  • Environmental Techniques, Scottish Water, Caledonia Water Alliance, Dawson Wam, Northern Ireland Water and Good Friday Robotics – Drones Developed Specifically for Safer Internal Pipeline Surveying
  • Flannery Plant Hire and Spillard Safety Systems – Human Detection System
  • Fortel Group – South Asian Community Mental Health Support
  • GRS Group – Let’s Talk
  • National Grid – The Health Hub at Mission Sellindge
  • VolkerRail – Building Relationships on the West Coast Mainline Site

IPA’s Industry Innovation Champion

  • Alice Technologies and Skanska Costain Strabag JV
  • Balfour Beatty Vinci
  • Brilliant Ideas
  • Sellafield

NIC Design Principles Award

  • Barking Riverside Pier
  • Durleigh Water Treatment Centre Refurbishment
  • East Leeds Orbital Route
  • Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Footbridge “Flow”
  • Porthcawl Sandy Bay Coastal Scheme
  • SAS13 Bridge
  • The Elizabeth Line

Partnership Initiative of the Year

  • Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche JV – A collaborative supply chain approach for better health and safety performance
  • HS2 Ltd – Supply Chain Collaboration Hub
  • innDex and Procore – Cocoa Works
  • Knights Brown – Faster. Better. Together. Portland Port Deep Water Berth
  • Lom architecture & design – Build-to-suit at Unity Place: Santander
  • Mott MacDonald – Moata on Water for Life: Hampshire programme
  • Programme and Project Partners at Sellafield – Collaborating to solve nuclear engineering problems on time-sensitive projects
  • Speedy Hire and Eminox – Industry First Retrofit
  • Wincanton – Embedding a collaborative approach to security
  • Zed Pods – Zed Pods and Mid-Devon District Council

Battersea Power Station

Place Making Initiative of the Year

  • AL_A – Undergraduate and Access Centres for Wadham College
  • Arup – Gateway Linear Park for Pladŵr
  • BuroHappold – Redevelopment of Battersea Power Station
  • Knights Brown – Dukes Meadows Pedestrian Footbridge
  • Plymouth City Council – Forder Valley Link Road
  • RSHP – A Ruthlessly Inclusive Civic Campus for Hammersmith & Fulham
  • ScottWhitbyStudio – Jubilee Pool
  • Services Design Solution – Plymouth Sound National Marine Park
  • Stantec – Waterbeach School Street
  • Vinci Building – Chester Northgate Development
  • VolkerRailStory JV – “Place Making” along the Hope Valley Line

Product Innovation of the Year

  • Brilliant Ideas – Alimats: Half-Loader
  • Brilliant Ideas – Alimats: Load Spread Solution for Mewps
  • Brilliant Ideas – Hole Cover
  • Cubis Systems – Multiduct
  • J-Strut – Prop Smarter
  • Milwaukee Tool UK – MX Fuel 25kg class 28mm Hex Demolition Hammer
  • Multiplex Construction Europe – MBuild – Internal Operational Performance Management System
  • Strategic Pipeline Alliance – Low Water Commissioning

Productivity Initiative of the Year

  • Balfour Beatty Vinci – HS2 Mainline North: M42 Marston Box
  • Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche JV – Tunnel secondary lining systems for Tideway East Contract
  • Kilnbridge – The mobile production line inside London Power Tunnels
  • Network Rail – FibreReinforced Polymer Footbridge “Flow”
  • Skanska as part of the @one Alliance – Additional storm volume portfolio of works for Anglian Water
  • Skanska Costain Strabag JV Railways – On-site certified rebar processing and threading facility
  • Wilson James – Intermodal Lifting Platform at 8 Bishopsgate

Residential Project of the Year

  • Hill Street House
  • Magna Square
  • New Victoria, Manchester
  • Yr Hafan

Social Infrastructure Project of the Year

  • Glebe Farm School, Milton Keynes l Headley Court Veterans’ Orthopaedic Centre
  • Maggie’s Southampton
  • Wadham College Temporary Works Initiative of the Year
  • Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche JV – Adit construction

SAS13 Bridge

Temporary Works Innovation

  • JBA Bentley – An innovative approach to protecting Grist Mill
  • Panthera Group – EnviroHoard reduces carbon on Jewellery Quarter Project
  • Pilosio – Under the Viaduct and over the City District
  • Riverlinx CJV (Ferrovial Construction, Bam Nuttall, SK Ecoplant) – Tunnel boring machine rotation for Silvertown Tunnels
  • Skanska Construction UK – SAS13 bridge: East Abutment construction and bridge move
  • Swanton Consulting – 120 Fleet Street Basement Retention
  • Wentworth House Partnership – Remediation of historical gasholder for the Oval Village

Transport Project of the Year

  • A31 Ringwood Bridge Replacement and Widening Scheme
  • Bank Station Capacity Upgrade Project
  • Barking Riverside Pier
  • East Leeds Orbital Route
  • Forder Valley Link Road
  • SAS13 Bridge
  • The Elizabeth Line

Upgrade & Renewal Project of the Year

  • Battersea Power Station
  • Bradford Beck Culvert Remediation Scheme
  • Euston Station
  • Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Footbridge “Flow”
  • Finsbury Park Access for All Scheme
  • Niagara Weir Stabilisation and Fish Pass
  • Queen’s Bridge Siphons

Utility Project of the Year

  • Army Basing Programme Utility Works
  • Durleigh Water Treatment Centre Refurbishment
  • Embsay Water Treatment Works
  • Mission Sellindge
  • Queen’s Bridge Siphons
  • The Greenway Trunk Sewer Diversion