Why enter

Entering the NCE Bridges Awards is an exceptional opportunity for individuals and organisations in the engineering and infrastructure industry. Here are several compelling reasons why you should consider participating:

  1. Showcase Excellence: The NCE Bridges Awards provide a platform to showcase your outstanding work. Whether you're an engineer, architect, project manager, or part of a project team, this is your chance to demonstrate excellence in bridge design, construction, and innovation.
  2. Industry Recognition: Winning an NCE Bridges Award is a mark of distinction in the field. It's an industry-recognised accolade that sets you apart from competitors and showcases your commitment to high-quality engineering and infrastructure projects.
  3. Networking Opportunities: By entering the awards, you become part of a community of professionals passionate about bridge engineering. It offers invaluable networking opportunities, connecting you with potential clients, collaborators, and experts who can elevate your career or projects.
  4. Celebrating Achievement: The awards ceremony is a celebration of the best and brightest in the field. It's an opportunity to celebrate your achievements and share your success with peers and colleagues. Your work deserves recognition, and these awards offer a prestigious stage to receive it.
  5. Benchmarking and Learning: Entering the awards allows you to benchmark your work against industry standards and learn from the best in the business. It's an opportunity to receive feedback, gain insights, and continuously improve your future projects.
  6. Attracting Attention: Winning an NCE Bridges Award could lead to future collaborations or work winning. It demonstrates your project's viability, innovation, and impact, raising the profile of your work.
  7. Publicity and Exposure: Your project will receive extensive coverage and exposure across New Civil Engineer.
  8. Inspire Others: By showcasing your work and its positive impact, you inspire the next generation of engineers and infrastructure professionals. Your success can motivate others to pursue excellence in their careers and projects.
  9. Contributing to Industry Advancement: The NCE Bridges Awards contribute to advancing the field of bridge engineering. Your participation and innovation play a crucial role in pushing the boundaries of what's possible in infrastructure development.
  10. Recognition of Commitment: Beyond winning, even the act of entering the awards shows your commitment to excellence. It demonstrates that you value quality, innovation, and the future of bridge design and management.

In summary, entering the NCE Bridges Awards is an opportunity to shine a spotlight on your achievements, gain industry recognition, connect with peers, and inspire others.

It's a celebration of excellence in bridge engineering, and your participation can have a lasting impact on your career, organisation, and the industry. Don't miss this chance to be a part of something extraordinary.

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FAQS

Hopefully you'll find an answer to your question below. If not, please contact Sara Sane on +44(0)20 3953 2819 or email sara.sane@emap.com.

To view the criteria, create your account, or login with your email and password used to create your account if you have already done so. Select ‘Enter Now’ against the category you wish to view where the criteria will be displayed. If you wish to start your entry at this point any information you add will be autosaved and you can login to complete the rest of the entry at any time.

Enter the email address and password that you used when you first started your entry on the log in page, you will then be taken through to your dashboard and will be able to continue your entry.

You can enter another category by selecting the category you wish to enter from the ‘Categories’ section.

Please contact Sara Sane on +44(0)20 3953 2819 or email sara.sane@emap.com and they will be able to help you with your entry.

Categories

Project categories 

This award recognises a new build or major refurbishment of a UK bridge used by pedestrians, as part of a cycle route or as a bridleway in the last 24 months.

Entries are welcome from anyone involved in the project – architect, consultant, contractor or client and collaborative entries from the project team are encouraged.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Design excellence
  • Delivering value
  • How the design creates a sense of place and fits the local environment
  • Use of new materials or design tools
  • How the project meets net zero
  • How the work considered whole life cost and performance

This award seeks to recognise excellence in new build or major refurbishment rail bridge projects in the UK, over the last 24 months.

Entries are welcome from anyone involved in the project – architect, consultant, contractor or client and collaborative entries from the project team are encouraged.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Design excellence
  • Delivering value for money
  • How the design creates a sense of place and fits the local environment
  • Use of new materials or design tools
  • How the project meets net zero and
  • How the work considered whole life cost and performance

This category is open to any new build or major road refurbishment project in the UK, in the last 24 months.

Entries are welcome from anyone involved in the project – architect, consultant, contractor or client and collaborative entries from the project team are encouraged.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Design excellence
  • Delivering value for money
  • How the design creates a sense of place and fits the local environment
  • Use of new materials or design tools
  • How the project meets net zero and
  • How the work considered whole life cost and performance

This category is open to any historic bridge project. Historic bridges being classified as those aged 50 years or over and listed on (or be eligible for listing) on the National Register of Historic Places .

Entries are welcome from anyone involved in the project – architect, consultant, contractor or client and collaborative entries from the project team are encouraged.

Projects entered into this category should focus on an upgrade or overhaul of a historic bridge in the UK to preserve it and keep it in use.
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Entries should detail:

  • How the work was planned and executed to preserve the historic structure
  • Any innovative techniques and solutions developed to deliver the work
  • Efforts made to ensure the structure remains operable for the long term
  • Any new technology incorporated into the structure without compromising the historic structure to ensure the bridge remains in service and minimises future maintenance

This category is open to any type of bridge or series of bridges that have been subject to a major inspection using new or innovative techniques that ensure the integrity of the structure.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How rate of degradation is determined
  • How health and safety risks to those undertaking the work has been minimised
  • Innovation that has helped minimise disruption for users of the structure

Entries to this category should focus on long term management of any bridge structure and could include use of sensors and AI to predict performance that guides inspection work or helps plan maintenance or a major overhaul.

This award seeks to recognise how the bridge is maintained through its whole life with a focus on maximising use and minimising closures.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How the management is having an impact on operational use of the asset  
  • Evidence of any advancement on conventional approaches
  • Explain how the management approach could be adopted more widely across the industry

This award seeks to recognise excellence from any new build or major refurbishment project, anywhere outside of the UK.

The category is open to any bridges used for road, rail or active travel.

Entries are welcome from anyone involved in the project – architect, consultant, contractor or client and collaborative entries from the project team are encouraged.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Design excellence
  • Delivering value for money
  • Evidence of how the design creates a sense of place and fits the local environment
  • Use of new materials or design tools
  • How the project meets net zero
  • How the work considered whole life cost and performance

Innovation 

This category seeks to recognise excellence in initiatives, design tools, maintenance techniques or solutions that have helped reduce the embodied carbon in new build or refurbishment projects and/or delivered lower whole life carbon costs in the UK or internationally.

The entries presented here must have been applied on a bridge or series of bridges during the last 24 months with one project used as a case study to demonstrate the benefits the idea has delivered.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Data demonstrating a quantifiable reduction in carbon compared to baseline
  • Evidence of new tools, techniques or solutions used which are advancements on conventional approaches
  • The research, development and strategy that led to the innovation

This category seeks to recognise excellence in equipment, sensors, digital tools and solutions that have helped clients gain a better understanding of bridge condition and rate of degradation in the UK or internationally.

These solutions could also focus on reducing health and safety risks or reducing the need for closures to allow inspections to take place.

The entries presented here must have been applied on a bridge or series of bridges during the last 24 months with one project used as a case study to demonstrate the benefits the idea has delivered.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • How the solutions used have positively impacted the project
  • How the solutions are an advancement on conventional approaches
  • The research, development and strategy that led to this innovation

This category is open to projects anywhere in the world that are at the design stage and do not yet have to have secured funding for delivery or have a completion date.

Entries to this category should also demonstrate how buildability, carbon costs and whole life costs have been considered at the design stage, along with details of any innovative materials or construction techniques planned to be used during the construction.
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Judges will be looking for:

  • Innovation in design concept that has the wow factor
  • Design concepts that show an understanding of the setting the bridge will be built in

This category is open to adaptation of an existing bridge or demonstration of how climate change has been considered on a new bridge from the outset to ensure the structure remains fit for purpose throughout its design life.

Entries could include scour protections, monitoring to manage increased flood flows, improved drainage of the bridge structure itself or new and improved abutment designs to reduce the risk of flood erosion.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of

  • What solutions and innovations have been adopted to maximise resilience to climate change
  • Explanation of the tangible benefits such as increased structural durability, enhanced safety, and improved performance under diverse climate conditions
  • How will the innovations perform long term to ensure resilience
  • The strategy and development that led to this innovation

People & teams 

This category seeks to recognise the best contractors – main contractors or specialists - involved in delivering the construction element of new build bridge projects or who carry out major refurbishment schemes on bridges.

The entry should refer to developments within the firm and on projects within the last 24 months and highlight the success and impact they are having.
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Judges will be looking for entries that:

  • Demonstrate technical excellence over the last 24 months and the impact on recent projects
  • Description of how the firm has strived to be a leader in bridge building or refurbishment
  • Outline the next steps for the business and ambitions for the future

This category seeks to recognise the best specialist contractors who undertake regular maintenance work on any bridge structure.

The entry should refer to developments within the firm and on projects within the last 24 months and highlight the success and impact they are having.
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  • Demonstrate technical excellence over the last 24 months and the impact on recent projects
  • Description of how the firm has strived to be a leader in bridge maintenance
  • Outline the next steps for the business and ambitions for the future

This category seeks to reward the best bridge engineering consultants. Open to those delivering the structural design element of new build bridge projects or who carry out major refurbishment schemes on bridges.

The entry should refer to developments within the firm and on projects within the last 24 months and highlight the success and impact they are having.
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Judges will be looking for entries that:

  • Demonstrate technical excellence over the last 24 months and the impact on recent projects
  • Description of how the firm has strived to be a leader in bridge design
  • Outline the next steps for the business and ambitions for the future

This award seeks to recognise excellence from bridge architects. Open to those delivering the architectural design element of new build bridge projects or who carry out major refurbishment schemes on bridges.

The entry should refer to developments within the firm and on projects within the last 24 months and highlight the success and impact they are having.
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Judges will be looking for entries that:

  • Demonstrate technical excellence over the last 24 months and the impact on recent projects
  • Description of how the firm has strived to be a leader in bridge design
  • Outline the next steps for the business and ambitions for the future

This category is open to teams working collaboratively on any type of bridge project, bridge maintenance or bridge management, who can demonstrate excellent culture and collaboration on projects within the last 24 months.

Entries should demonstrate excellent on-site or project team collaboration, leadership and a culture of collaboration that has benefitted the delivery of the work.
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The judges will particularly be looking for evidence of:

  • Teams who have been crucial to a project’s success
  • How innovation and collaboration was fostered within the teams
  • Evidence of learning from projects being applied elsewhere in the business
  • Close working with and support for the entire supply chain
  • Any other stand-out performance that particularly merits this award

This category seeks to reward any civil or structural engineer working for a client, contractor or consultant on bridge structures with 10 years or less post graduate experience.

Entrants should be able to demonstrate how they have excelled in their work, demonstrated industry-leading potential and have made efforts to improve knowledge in the sector.

Entrants will be judged on all round ability – not only academic and work-related achievements – but also their enthusiasm for the industry and their ambition.

Entries should be submitted by either the nominee or their employer and should include a commendation from a senior leader within their organisation.
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Judges will be looking for evidence of:

  • Career achievements and what the individual did to make them happen
  • Academic or mentoring success
  • Leadership with illustrative examples
  • Initiatives conceived and/or driven by the rising star
  • An outline of the project currently being worked on, the technical challenges, along with how the nominee is contributing to solving these
  • Helping others, in career and/or social terms
  • Career satisfaction – what have been the best experiences and highlights to date
  • Ambitions, (career or for the industry) and the practical steps being taken to achieve these
  • A stand-out performance that particularly merits this award

Nominations for this award are sought to find the individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the industry over the past 24 months.

Judges will focus on the personal contribution made by the individual, who can be involved in any area of the bridge industry from project planning to design, construction or maintenance and at any stage of their career.

This is not a lifetime achievement award and judges will be looking for an individual who has made their significant contribution in the last 24 months.
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Judges will look for evidence of the individual's impact on the global bridge industry in areas such as:

  • Involvement in significant bridge projects or programmes
  • Support for adoption of innovative techniques and taking an entrepreneurial approach to their work
  • Solving complex problems or challenges
  • Making a personal commitment to improving the bridge industry and the workforce
  • Creating a wider legacy of their work outside of the industry