CIHT Awards 2019 celebrate industry best practice and excellence

Highways & Transportation Infrastructure Projects Honoured

Welcomed by Matthew Lugg OBE, CIHT President, 2018-2019 to the 14th Annual Awards Dinner, the audience of over 400 guests celebrated the achievements of private and public sector partners in delivering complex projects across 16 award categories against three key CIHT themes: People, Better Places and Our Profession. The evening recognised winning, highly commended and commended entries and acknowledged the high calibre of all 150 UK and international submissions.

Matthew Lugg, CIHT President said:

“Our awards recognise the remarkable achievement of those working in highways and transportation. It is evident that highways & transportation plays a central and vital role in supporting a prosperous, equitable and healthy society. We are seeing recognition from government around our call for more certainty around funding of transport projects and maintenance of our transport assets at the national and local level. CIHT will continue to push for real delivery on the infrastructure projects that have been planned.”

CIHT Health & Wellbeing Award

This award is presented to an organisation that has made an outstanding contribution to the health, safety and wellbeing of employees across the highways and transportation sector.

Driver Focus Group, Mott MacDonald - an initiative that aimed to reduce the risk of people driving for workplace activity through creating a holistic strategy.

Andrew Hugill, Director of Policy & Technical Affairs, CIHT said:

"The Driver Focus Group (DFG) developed by Mott MacDonald is an original approach to reducing road driving risks, which Mott had identified as its single most dangerous workplace activity. This award goes one step further than what is usually seen in such schemes and has a clear business benefit as well as wide implementation potential."

Additional winners were:

• CIHT Skills & Training Award - Winter Maintenance Driver Training Course, Ringway
• CIHT / Amey Asset Management Award - Enhanced Drainage Asset Management, Tarmac PLC & Kaarbon Technology Ltd
• CIHT Health & Wellbeing Award - Driver Focus Group, Mott MacDonald
• CIHT Creating Better Places Award - Aldgate Highway Changes and Public Realm Improvements Project, City of London Corporation  
• CIHT Diversity & Inclusion Award - Oldbury Viaduct Major Renewal Scheme, Bam Nuttall Morgan Sindall Joint Venture
• CIHT / Ringway Road Safety Award - Online Winter Driving Workshop, Transport for Buckinghamshire
• CIHT Major Projects Award - Belfast Rapid Transit - Glider Service, Department for Infrastructure and Amey
• CIHT International Projects Award - Ampang Light Rapid Transit Extension Project (AMG LEP), HSS Integrated Sdn Bhd
• CIHT / Causeway Transport Technology Award – Cadence, City Science
• CIHT Walking and Cycling Award - 3 tier assessments for roadworks, Transport for London
• CIHT Public Transport Award - Bus Services in New Residential Developments Guidance, Stagecoach UK Bus
• CIHT / PlanGrid Collaboration Award - ‘Evolution not Revolution’, SRN Alliance Area 3 & SRN Alliance Area 9
• CIHT Sustainability Award - Highways Habitat Connectivity in Devon and Cornwall, Kier Highways Ltd
• CIHT / WSP Planning for Transport Award - Francis Road, Waltham Forest, London Borough of Waltham Forest
• CIHT Team of the Year - Innovative Approach to Asset Delivery, East Midlands Asset Delivery  

More information on all the winning entries is available here on the CIHT website. For a full list of shortlisted entries, please see here.

Photos from the event are available via a gallery here or on request