East Midlands Merit Awards

Team Achievement Award

Achieving Merit in both the Team Achievement category and the Small Project category, the judges said: "This project is an excellent demonstration of how a rapid engineering response from all partners prevented further failure and safeguarded the community."

Commended in this category was Walters Walkway, Darley Abbey: Temporary Bridge Installation for showing exemplar engineering skills, under intense public scrutiny. The tight site required the whole team to work as one to ensure smooth implementation.

Small project Award

Highly commended was Danaher & Walsh (Civil Engineering) Ltd, Leicester City Council and Pick Everard for their project: St George Street Public Realm. The judges said: ‘This was a good example of public realm works that encourage walking, reducing carbon emissions and facilitating a safer environment.’

Commended was Ladybower Reservoir Venturi Flume, Derbyshire, submitted by Whitehouse Construction Co. Ltd, the Environment Agency, Severn Trent Water and ASP consulting. This project was designed to provide a sustainable solution compatible with the strict timescales for completion.

Regatta Way, Cycleway, Nottinghamshire submitted by Via East Midlands in Partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council was also commended. The judges were impressed with this project sustainable design choices including Stone Mastic Asphalt chosen for its resistance to permanent deformation.

Medium project Award

Commended was the Putney Road Improvement Project, Leicester, submitted by Balfour Beatty and Leicester City Council. This £6m improvement project for Leicester City Council provides a new orbital link between two key radials for traffic.

Design, Studies or Research Award

The research, which used powdered accelerators, resulted in a significant embodied carbon reduction, and demonstrated the potential for much wider use beyond sprayed tunnel linings.

Commended was Waldeck Consulting, Nottingham Trent University, Network Rail and Birmingham City University for their project: Network Rail Panoptic Bridge Management, this project was a great example of using digital technology to improve the efficiency of surveys.

People Awards

Civil Engineering Achiever of the Year

Sophie has contributed beyond her normal duties to solve engineering problems as is described a role model for all young, aspiring engineers. A delivery partner has also described Sophie as ‘one of the most organised contract agents, who is extremely reliable. An inspiring example to all young people considering a career in Civil Engineering.

The runner up this year was Jessica Palmer from AECOM, a civil engineering graduate of Derby University. Jessica has been described as confident, engaging, and proactive with good theoretical knowledge and rapport.

STEM Ambassador of the Year

This year, the STEM Awards were held nationally to celebrate those who regular give their time to inspire the next generation. Jonathon Simons, AECOM was named this year’s Regional STEM Ambassador of the Year.

Jonathon has worked in the region for several years, sitting on the regional and national East Careers Network and the Education and Inspiration Committee. As an ICE STEM Ambassador since 2013, he has taken on a wide range of STEM work including representing ICE at schools, colleges and at events such as the Big Bang.

People Awards

Professor Carrillo graduated and worked as a civil engineer in Trinidad in 1984 and in 1987, won a British scholarship to undertake a MSc in Construction Management at Loughborough University. Starting as a teaching assistant in 1989, she competed her PhD whilst working as a lecturer.

Now lecturing on construction management topics to both undergrad and post graduate students in construction planning and the use of digital technologies on construction projects. She is also a group leader for the Digital Design and Information Modelling Research Group.

To date, Professor Carrillo has published and edited five books and has over 170 journal and conference articles published. She has served on the editorial board of various journals and the scientific committee for many international conferences.