ICE West Midlands Online Awards Ceremony 2021 

Thursday 6th May - 13:00 - 14:00

Presented annually, these awards provide the perfect opportunity to celebrate all aspects of civil engineering and are presented to the best civil engineering projects, people and ground-breaking research across Birmingham, the Black Country, Coventry, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.


Awards are judged in the large, medium and small project categories, as well as accolades for team achievement, sustainability, communication, innovation, and many more.

Jo Barnett, ICE East and West Midlands Regional Director, said: “The ICE West Midlands Awards provide a perfect opportunity to celebrate our local civil engineering projects and the people working on them.”

 
 

2020 ICE West Midlands Award Winning Projects

 
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West Gate Repair and Restoration won both the Communication Award and Heritage Award

Submitted by Warwickshire County Council, with partners Waterman Aspen, Atkins, Mark Evans Architect, Balfour Beatty and Croft Building & Conservation, the repair and restoration of the 12th century structure’s heavily eroded masonry combined modern technologies with traditional skills, replacing or re-facing over 400 sandstone blocks and reconstructing the archway’s tierceron vault.

Two other projects in the Communication Award received recognition: Coton Arches Roundabout Signalisation, submitted by Galliford Try and Warwickshire County Council, was Highly Commended and Walton Wellesbourne S101a, submitted by Severn Trent and nmcn, was Commended.

Bedford Street Deck Bridge Replacement received Highly Commended in Heritage Award category.

 
 
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The Midland Metro Alliance's Trailblazer Apprenticeship won the Education and Inspiration Award

Launched in June 2019, the Trailblazer Apprenticeship is the first of its kind in the UK and will enable site-based staff to develop in five discipline areas needed to kick-start a career in light rail.

 
 
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Worcestershire Parkway was the winner of the 2020 ICE West Midlands Awards Large Project Award, Geotechnical Award and Overall Award.

Submitted by SLC Rail and Worcestershire County Council (Large Project), Mott MacDonald and Buckingham Group Contracting (Geotechnical Award), Worcestershire Parkway is the first train station to be opened in Worcestershire for over 100 years.

In delivering the new station, which had been in the pipeline for 30 years, the project team overcame technical challenges through a collaborative approach, engineering expertise, tenacity and determination.

Commenting on the project, the judges agreed that the whole design, coordination and delivery of the project was highly impressive. They commented that Worcestershire Parkway Station is a remarkable piece of infrastructure that the West Midlands can be truly proud of.

 
 
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Infrastructure Upgrade Through Collaboration – Replacement of Three Bridges won the Small Project and Team Achievement Awards

Funded by Network Rail, as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan, this project included electrifying the railway, which required the upgrading of three local authority footbridges spanning railway lines — two in Stafford and one in Walsall.

The Small Project category also had two Highly Commended projects: Walton Wellesbourne S101a submitted by nmcn and Severn Trent, and Weoley Avenue Lodge Hill Cemetery Flood Alleviation scheme, submitted by Mott MacDonald Bentley and Severn Trent.