31 January 2018, 00:00 -

East of England Awards 2018

The CIHT East of England Awards are open for entries, closing date for submissions is 31st Janury 2018. This year as well as a new format for the well established "Mike Sharpe Award" for Young Professional of the Year, we have two new awards for teams or individuals based in the East of England who have made a significant contribution to sustainable transport, or an important project locally.

CIHT East of England Young Professional of the Year:   Young Transportation Professionals can put themselves forward for the Mike Sharpe Award by completeing the enrty form and creating a short presentation, written story, series of captioned pictures or 5 minute snapshot of what contribution you have made to the industry. However we know that many of you tend to hide your light under a bushel, so this year we are giving an oportunity for nominations from colleagues and friends of talented young people, agins we just need a illustration of the contribution they have made in a media of your choice and taking no more than 5 minutes to view or read.

CIHT East of England - Young professional 2018

CIHT East of England Project of the Year:  If you have been involved in a really interesting project in 2017 i am sure you can write 1000 words, thats all we need to enter it for the best regional project award? The criteria we will be looking at are as follows.

• Innovation – the levels of enterprise and ingenuity shown by the project team at all stages in the development of the scheme
• Benefits – how the scheme has led to improved safety, reduced congestion, provided benefits to the local community and end users
• Health & Safety – approach during planning, design and construction
• Objectives Met – completed on time, to budget, fully delivering client’s aims and objectives for the scheme, minimising disruption, levels of collaboration, demonstrating a best value approach, applying Lean Construction techniques
• Sustainability  - efficient use of resources, use of sustainable products or ways of working and approach to Corporate Social Responsibility
• Collaboration – how the various parties have worked together and the benefits derived from that approach.

CIHT East of England - Project of the Year 2018

CIHT East of England Sustainable Transport award: Transportation is a very broad industry from the engineers who build our railways, roads and bridges to the supposedly softer but equally importnat skills of transport planners or traffic managment experts. At a time when transport is changing rapidly we all play our part in striving for sustainable ways to travel, or lower engery solutions to build infrastructure. Whatever your area of expertise if you are passionate about in modal shift, innovation, or reducing th ecarbon footprint of th eindustry, and society as a whole entering this ward might be for you. All we need is 1000 words. This category will be judeged against the following criteria:

• Environmental- (social and economic benefits)
• Mode shift (towards more sustainable modes of transport)
• Innovation
• Objectives met
• Planning (robustness of research and consultation)
• Implementation (management, operation, communications)
• Value for money – (outcomes/benefits versus cost)
• Wider implementation potential

CIHT East of England - Sustainable Transport 2018