2026 Shortlist

Innovation 

Best New Bridge Concept Design

  • MODULUS - Modular low carbon, low maintenance and rapid deployment footbridge - Inertia Consulting
  • "Innovate" SCORBS A++ Low Carbon Tied Stone Arch Bridge Concept - Marks Barfield Architects and Rambol Structural Engineers
  • Low Carbon Footbridge - Ove Arup and Partners and Seán Harrington Architects
  • Mutirikwi Pedestrian Bridge - Owens desire
  • Marling Cross - Useful Studio and Expedition Engineering
  • Danjiang Bridge - Zaha Hadid Architects, Leonhardt Andrä and Partner and Sinotech

Innovation in Bridge Inspection

  • Sharnbrook Viaduct - Arup
  • National Highways Structures Moonshot - AtkinsRealis with National Highways, Jacobs and GScan
  • Next-Generation Uncrewed 3D Surveying for Bridge Inspection - Ultrabeam
  • Predictive Structural Intelligence: Deploying AI-Driven Multi-Modal Sensing for Real-Time Bridge Degradation Mapping - WeavAir
  • Muon Tomography for Post-Tensioned Bridge Management – Llanrhystud Bridge - YGC

Innovation in Carbon Reduction

  • Oxford North Meadows Bridge - AKT II
  • Van Brienenoord Bridge Re-use: Achieving a 100-Year Service Life with Existing Materials - Arup
  • Gallows Corner Refurbishment Project - Costain
  • Edgcote Viaduct - a low-carbon bridge design for future infrastructure - EKFB JV
  • Twyford Bridge - Mackley
  • Gold Bridge - Tony Gee and Partners
  • Low-Carbon Diverless Bridge Inspection Using Fully Electric Uncrewed Survey Technology - Ultrabeam
  • Marling Cross - Useful Studio & Expedition Engineering

Innovation in Climate Resilience

  • A98 Banff Bridge Scour Protection Works - Amey
  • Queensferry Crossing – Ice Accretion Forecasting & Climate Resilience System - Arup, Transport Scotland, BEAR Scotland and Kjeller Vindteknikk
  • Innovative GRP Bridge Drainage Support System for the Mersey Gateway Bridge - Hubert Steinbauer Handelsvertretungen

People & teams 

Bridge Architect of the Year

  • AECOM and Erik Behrens
  • AtkinsRéalis
  • Grimshaw
  • Knight Architects
  • Seán Harrington Architects
  • Useful Studio
  • WW+P Architects

Bridge Consultant of the Year

  • Arup
  • AtkinsRéalis
  • DYSE Structural Engineers
  • Inertia Consulting
  • Pell Frischmann

Bridge Contractor of the Year

  • Bam Nuttall
  • Beaver Bridges
  • Briton Fabricators
  • Kilnbridge
  • Spencer Bridge Engineering
  • Taylor Woodrow
  • VolkerLaser

Bridge Engineer Rising Star

  • Georgina Andrew - Amey
  • Sanket Bhagat - Bouygues Construction
  • Ines Domingues - Roughan & O’Donovan
  • Shams Ghazy - AtkinsRéalis
  • Saul Gilbert - Amey
  • Nathan Hayes - AtkinsRéalis
  • Hannah Power - Mott MacDonald
  • Joe Sauer - Pell Frischmann
  • David Sinclair - Wilde Consultants
  • Parsa Tashakkori - EKFB
  • Stephen Wilson - AECOM

Bridge Project Team of the Year

  • Arup
  • AtkinsRéalis with National Highways and Jacobs
  • Civil Engineering and Development Department, HKSAR, AECOM and China Road and Bridge Corporation
  • Galliford Try
  • Kirutamwogo Footbridge - Balfour Beatty and Mott MacDonald
  • Murphy
  • Skanska - Clifton Rail Bridge Replacement Project Team
  • Spencer Bridge Engineering
  • WSP UK, National Highways, Winvic, Chevron, Maurer and Roocroft

Bridge Supplier of the Year

  • Acrow
  • Doka
  • WM Plant Hire

Project categories 

Active Travel Project of the Year

  • Twyi and Cothi Active Travel Bridges - Beaver Bridges
  • Old Tram Bridge - DYSE Structural Engineers
  • Waterside Bridge - Nottingham - Inertia Consulting
  • Newtown Active Travel Bridge - Mott MacDonald
  • Preston's Tram Bridge - Preston City Council, Lancashire County Council and Eric Wright Civil Engineering
  • Meridian Water Strategic Infrastructure Works - Bridge B1 - Taylor Woodrow
  • Keel Crossing - VolkerStevin, Arup, Sunderland City Council and Knight Architects

Award for Project Legacy & Social Value

  • Eden Dock Bridge - Arup
  • Kirutamwogo bridge - Balfour Beatty and Mott MacDonald
  • Cuckoo’s Hollow Footbridges - Reconnecting Communities - M Group

Bridge Management Project of the Year

  • Portsmouth Highways Management PFI - Pell Frischmann
  • Data-Led Scour Management and Ongoing Monitoring at Eden Viaduct Using Fully Electric USV Technology - Ultrabeam
  • ML powered structural monitoring of the Bromford Viaduct on High Speed 2 (HS2) - Woolpert / Murphy Geospatial
  • A34 Thames Wytham Strengthening - WSP UK

Historic Bridge Project of the Year

  • Marlow Bridge Management - AtkinsRéalis
  • Restoring Edinburgh’s Historic North Bridge - AtkinsRéalis, Balfour Beatty, The City of Edinburgh Council and Currie & Brown
  • Millers Dale Viaduct Historic Bridge Project - Beaver Bridges
  • Deep Pit - DYSE Structural Engineers
  • Hibaldstow Bridge Refurbishment - blending heritage with modern engineering - Jackson Civil Engineering
  • Berwick Old Bridge Refurbishment Scheme - Northumberland County Council
  • Clifton Suspension Bridge - Taziker
  • Warburton Bridge Refurbishment - Wilde Consultants

International Bridge Project of the Year

  • Gordie Howe International Bridge - WDBA with BNA (FlatironDragados, Fluor, Aecon), AECOM and Erik Behrens
  • Beamish and Crawford Bridges - Arup and Sean Harrington Architects
  • Bridging nature and mobility: Design and construction of a multi-use curved tubular truss pedestrian bridge in Chauveau Park, Quebec - AtkinsRéalis
  • 1915 Çanakkale Bridge - Çanakkale Motorway and Bridge Inc.
  • Karowa Bridge, Warsaw - DKFS and Schüßler Plan
  • Sydney Harbour Bridge Cycleway - Eckersley O’Callaghan with Stantec
  • Drammen City Bridge - Degree of Freedom, SAAHA, Knight Architects, Norconsult, Asplan Viak, Light Bureau, Scan Survey, Drammen kommune
  • Danjiang Bridge - Zaha Hadid Architects, Leonhardt Andrä and Partner and Sinotech

Rail Bridge Project of the Year

  • HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct - Align JV
  • AVA Stowmarket - Expedition Engineering
  • CMP2/1A Greek St Reconstruction - Murphy
  • Clifton Rail Bridge Replacement - Skanska
  • Huddersfield Viaduct Renewal - Transpennine Route Upgrade

Road Bridge Project of the Year

  • Destiny Bridge - BAM & Arup
  • Agar Grove - BAM Nuttall
  • Gallows Corner Flyover Refurbishment - Costain
  • M25 J10 Cockrow (Green) Bridge - Expanded
  • Renfrew Bridge - H&H
  • A21 Panthurst Farm Armco Accommodation Bridge - Jacobs
  • HS2 A46 Kenilworth Bypass Overbridge - HS2 Integrated Project Team Area North: Balfour Beatty VINCI, Mott MacDonald SYSTRA Design JV and HS2 with Freyssinet
  • M27 Junction 10 Improvement – Underpass Installation - VolkerFitzpatrick
  • A34 Thames Wytham Strengthening - WSP UK