Eight winners announced for 2021 ITA Awards

6 December 2021


The International Tunnelling Association (ITA) has announced the winners of the seventh edition of the ITA Tunnelling Awards.

The eight winners were as follows:

  • Major Project of the Year (over €500m):

Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit, Putrajaya Line tunnels and underground station works, Malaysia

  • Project of the Year (between €50m and €500m) – two winners:
    • South extension of metro Line 14, Paris, France
    • Large-diameter shield tunnel engineering project in karst strata of sea area, China
  • Project of the Year (up to €50m) including renovation:

         Relocation of Shatin Sewage Treatment Works into caverns, China

  • Technical Innovation of the Year:

                      Riachuelo Lot 3, innovative method for the construction of sea outfall projects (risers concept), Argentina

  • Beyond Engineering:

                      Making underground works projects even better: is shield tunnelling spoil a waste? A novel solution says no. China

  • Innovative and Contributing Underground Spaces:

                      Lefdal Mine Data Centre, where scale and flexibility meet resiliency, Norway

  • Young Tunneller of the Year :

         Michael Mains, Canada