The Princess Royal Award for Emerging Engineers

East Midlands 2025 winner: Samira Hejazi

Samira Hejazi, a civil engineering student at the University of Nottingham, has won the East Midlands regional heat.

Her paper on Evaluating the Ageing Resistance of Bitumen Using Bio-sourced Lignin impressed the judges at the final held on 28 May.

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Middle East and North Africa 2025 winner: Josephine Jane Joseph

Josephine Jane Joseph, sustainability analyst at AESG UAE, has been named the 2025 winner for ICE Middle East and North Africa.

She won for her paper on Parametric Façade Design to Suit Daylighting Needs and Its Impact on the Energy Demand of an Office Building.

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London 2025 winner: Chris Quigley

Chris, a temporary works design engineer at Barhale, has won the London heat of the award.

Chris' paper covered delivering engineering solutions for the Ridge Road Tunnelling Project.

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North East 2025 winner: Adam Smith

Adam Smith, a graduate civil engineer at Stantec, has won the North Eastregional heat.

He captured the attention of the online audience with his paper Solving the Problem Not Just the Issue: A Sustainable Approach to Spill Reduction in Berwick-upon-Tweed.

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Northern Ireland 2025 winner: Timothy McCaughey

Timothy McCaughey (Apprentice Civil Engineer Technician, Translink) took home the Brennan Cup, the regional award.

Timothy impressed judges with the presentation of his paper RAAC – the Crumbling Concrete Crisis at the regional final held on 31 March 2025.

South West 2025 winner: Emily Mulley

Graduate engineer, Emily Mulley, won the top prize in the South West regional final for her paper exploring opportunities for using blockchain and digital models to improve efficiency in construction.

Mulley, who works for Hochtief (UK) Construction, presented a study to determine the feasibility of implementing blockchain-based methods in BIM for a construction phase.

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Scotland 2025 winner: Corey Boyle

Corey Boyle, a final year civil engineering student at Heriot-Watt University, has won ICE Scotland's regional heat for 2025.

Boyle impressed the judges through a presentation on his paper The South Sub Tram-Train.

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West Midlands 2025 winner: Shreah Bargota

Shreah Bargota, a graduate urban drainage modeller at Stantec, has won the regional final of the ICE West Midlands award.

Her paper, Exploring the Efficiency of Arsenic Removal from Water with Biochar, impressed the judges by demonstrating extensive knowledge supported by detailed experimental data and analysis.

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Yorkshire and Humber 2025 winner: Mohammed Karolia

Mohammed Karolia, a graduate structural engineer at AtkinsRéalis, took home the award in Yorkshire and Humber.

Mohammed impressed the judges with his paper Life Cycle Embodied Carbon And Cost Analysis Of Fibre-Reinforced-Polymer (FRP) Reinforced Concrete Slabs.

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South East England 2025 winner: Harini Shivani

Harini Shivani is a Civil Engineering Graduate from the University of Greenwich.

Her project, “Effects of Using Carbon-Treated Demolition Waste as Aggregate Replacement on Mechanical Properties of Concrete”, experimentally compared traditional concrete with mixes using recycled aggregates and low-carbon cement, examining how these sustainable alternatives impact compressive, tensile, and flexural strength.

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Hong Kong winner: Elise Yau

Elise Yau, a recent graduate from the University of Hong Kong, won the regional final of the award.

Her presentation was on her paper, titled Developing an energy-positive and low-carbon emission sludge treatment process by integrating physicochemical capture and anaerobic digestion.

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