Transport for London

This award recognises a hi-tech advancement or concept that has helped a company improve its performance or delivery of a specific challenging element of a project, between January 2022 and January 2023. This category is not aimed at projects that have achieved overall excellence – such projects should be entered into one of the six project categories. The entrant may have achieved technical excellence through producing a new approach to analysis or design, advanced techniques or procedures during design or delivery and/or working with its customers to improve delivery of a specific part of a project through technical refinement. An entry should be for a single technical advance or development applied to a specific part of a project. Developments applied to a number of projects may be better placed in the Digital Innovation or Equipment Innovation categories. The geotechnical work on the project presented must be completed at the time of the submission.

Detailed interpretation of long-term field monitoring to assess the impact of vegetation on the stability of LU Earth Structures

Utilising ~30 years of high quality field monitoring data to complete detailed interpretation of the impacts that vegetation has on the stability and performance of London Underground Earth Structures. Understanding the impact of vegetation on slope movements and pore water pressures in particular, has allowed us to better assess and maintain our earth structures, improve our strategy and guidance in relation to the management of vegetation, and allowed us to make more informed, cost effective and safer decision making.