Altrad RMD Kwikform, Careys and Mace Dragados

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.

Euston TSS box (HS2)

Altrad RMDK used past experience and data, from UK and overseas projects, to challenge the preset design criteria on the Euston TSS project - resulting with a leaner and more efficient temporary propping solution. ARMDK use their expertise and determination, facilitated with a digital VR model, to reduce thermal design loads by circa 40% - allowing props of less size and quantity to be used; presenting the contractor with more working room, less transport to/fro site, less labour and reduced overall project costs.