James Rennie Medal Final 2025

Carys is a Chartered Civil Engineer (CEng) with extensive experience in design coordination, sustainability, and construction management. Currently a Senior Design Coordinator at J. Murphy & Sons Ltd, she oversees multi-site projects and has led groundbreaking Earth Friendly Concrete trials, achieving an 82-ton CO2 reduction. Her expertise spans permanent works and temporary works design management, tunnelling, and site management on major infrastructure projects, including London Power Tunnels 2.  

Emma began her career as a graduate geotechnical engineer with Tony Gee and Partners in Glasgow. With expertise in the power and energy renewable sector, namely onshore wind, Emma now leads the technical delivery and management of projects, from feasibility and design to construction and operation.

Career highlights include her influence in the successful delivery of Viking Wind Farm in Shetland, namely the design and construction of “floating” New Sandwater Road, 103 no. turbine foundations, and role as geotechnical clerk of works.  

The ICE’s 160th President, Jim Hall is professor of climate and environmental risks at the University of Oxford. He is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis in water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and climate change adaptation.  

Hall is a member of the prime minister’s Council for Science and Technology and a commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC). He also served on the adaptation committee of the independent Climate Change Committee from 2009 to 2019.  

Hall led the development of the national infrastructure systems model the NIC used in producing its first National Infrastructure Assessment. He invented the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure in 2017 and remains chair of its strategy board.  

Among his many accolades, Hall was awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018. He also contributed to the Fourth Assessment Report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. 

Jacki is currently membership development officer for ICE covering West Yorkshire and York. Previous to this she has enjoyed a varied career working in academia, non-governmental client bodies, local authorities, waste management, and consultancy. She has also enjoyed several roles within the ICE as regional director for Scotland, London and the South West. She always enjoys listening and learning from the James Rennie finalists.

Giorgio Giuliani was appointed geotechnical design lead - offshore wind at COWI in September 2024. Prior to this, he spent one year in 2H Offshore and 8.7 years in Ramboll. He is a Chartered Engineer affiliated with the ICE and IMarEST, RoGEP advisor with a Master of Philosophy in Engineering from the University of Aberdeen. Giorgio is lead reviewer and the chair of the Offshore Engineering Society of London, a Specialist Knowledge Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Craig has more than 25 years’ experience as a leader in the civil engineering industry working on a diverse range of projects in the UK and overseas.

His current portfolio includes projects in the nuclear sector, in support of the UK’s Continuous at Sea Deterrent, the drive to net zero carbon energy production and distribution.

Previously, Craig served in the British Army and he’s a proud sponsor of Kier’s Armed Forces network. In 2022, Craig won the Engineering Excellence Award at the British Ex-Forces in Business Awards.