ITA awards shortlist

A panel of 17 judges, led by ITA president Tarcisio Celestino, evaluated and chose finalists to move onto the second evaluation stage, which will be held at the 13-16 November conference in Paris. (Full disclosure: each year the panel of judges includes a rotating member of the tunnelling media and editor of Tunnels & Tunnelling International Alex Conacher is this year’s representative.)

MAJOR PROJECT OF THE YEAR (over EUR 500M)

• Confederation LRT line – Canada
• Delhi Metro Phase 3 expansion of networks – India
• Qatar Rail Metro – Qatar
• Tehran Metro Line 6 – Iran

PROJECT OF THE YEAR (between EUR 50M and EUR 500M)

• Blue Plains Tunnel – US
• Citybanan, B4-9523 Norrströmstunnel – Sweden
• MTR Shatin to Central Link (SCL) Contract 1103 Hin Keng to Diamond Hill Tunnels – Hong Kong
• Túnel Emisor Poniente (TEP) II – Mexico

PROJECT OF THE YEAR (up to EUR 50M)

• Fjærland hydropowerplants – Norway
• Southwark to City of London deep cable tunnel – UK
• Tunnel Kennedy – Chile
• TECHNICAL PROJECT INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
• Construction of bifurcation section of underground expressway underneath residential area, application of enlargement/widening technology of TBM tunnel, first challenge in the world wide tunnelling industry – Japan
• Implementing BIM concepts to Karavanke tunnel – Slovenia
• Trenchless construction of pedestrian underpass using a rectangular box jack TBM at Thomson-East Coast Line Havelock Station – Singapore

TECHNICAL PRODUCT/EQUIPMENT INNOVATION OF THE YEAR

• Automatic drilling jumbo – Finland
• RowaTrain – Self-driving trackless supply logistic system – Austria
• Strength monitoring using thermal imaging (SMUTI) – UK

SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR

• Anacostia River Tunnel in Washington D.C. – US
• ITO Metro Station – India

SAFETY INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR

• BSCU SCL radial joint design – UK
• MineARC’s Guardian remote Monitoring and diagnostics for refuge chambers – Australia
• Telemach Cutterhead disc robotic changing system – Hong Kong

INNOVATIVE UNDERGROUND SPACE CONCEPT OF THE YEAR

• Bostanci Intermodal Hub – Turkey
• Cavern Master Plan of Hong Kong - Unlock hidden land resources for sustainable city development – Hong Kong
• Underground cemetery in tunnels – Israel

YOUNG TUNNELLER OF THE YEAR

• Anthony Bauer – US
• Juan David Herrera – Colombia
• Michele Janutolo Barlet – France
• Roberto Schuerch – Switzerland
• Tobias Andersson – Norway