Online voting is now open for the ICE People’s Choice Award, allowing everyone that uses infrastructure to shine a light on the UK’s greatest civil engineering achievements this year.
Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project is one of 12 nominated projects from across the UK. The public have until November 30 to vote for their favourite. The winning project will be announced in January 2017.
Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project is an Essex landmark conservation and engineering scheme on a scale never before tried in the UK. It combines ecological research and environmental vision with commerce and innovative industrial engineering. A mutually beneficial partnership between the RSPB and Crossrail is creating replacement wetland habitats whilst disposing of excavated material.
Movement of material from London on this scale by water had never been attempted before but BAM Nuttall contracted by Crossrail, proved it can be done.
It was entered in the ICE East of England Merit Awards. The judges were so impressed they honoured it with an award in every available category incluidng the highest, Exceptional Merit for Physical Achievement. The other awards are:
- Merits for Sustainability and Team Achievement
- Highly Commended for Technical Excellence & Innovation
Working in local communities throughout the East of England and across the world, civil engineers are constantly finding new ways to provide practical solutions to society's everyday problems and propel nations into the future with new, ever-improving infrastructure.
ICE East of England Regional Director Glen Owen said: “Civil engineers create, maintain and operate almost everything between and under our homes. The infrastructure they build connects, nourishes and improves the lives of everyone it serves.
“Working on the frontline of civilisation, civil engineers are as indispensable to society as doctors, teachers, police and social workers. Imagine if the Dartford Crossing didn’t exist – vehicles would have to rely on ferries. Without civil engineering billions of people around the world would be poorer, disparate and isolated - no train stations, airports, clean water, waste treatment, roads, internet or electricity. Farms would wither and businesses would go bust.”
“This is an opportunity to celebrate civil engineers, who design and build infrastructure for the public and make a world of difference to local communities. Vote now for your favourite infrastructure project and help promote the overwhelmingly positive contribution of civil engineering to everyday life.”
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The full list of nominees is:
- Nottingham Express Transit (Phase 2), Nottingham, East Midlands
- Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project, Essex, East of England
- Lee Tunnel Project, Barking, London
- Crag End Landslip Stabilisation, Rothbury, North East
- Manchester Victoria Station Redevelopment, Manchester, North West
- Lagan Weir Footbridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Forth Road Bridge Reopening, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Thorndell Viaduct, Bury, South East
- South Devon Highway, Devon, South West
- Harlech Castle Visitor Centre and Footbridge, Harlech, Wales
- Birmingham New Street Station, Birmingham, West Midlands
- Leeds Station Southern Entrance, Leeds, Yorkshire & Humber
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