Press release - The 17-strong expert judging panel, chaired by the ITA President Jinxiu (Jenny) Yan, has concluded its deliberations and based on detailed evaluation, 32 entries have been chosen as finalists and will participate in the second evaluation stage to determine the winners.  

For the category "Major Project of the Year" (with a budget over 500 M€)

·         The EPC TBM Follo Line Project  - Norway

·         The Seoul Metropolitan High-Speed Railway(Suseo~Pyeongtaek) Construction Project(Yulhyeon Tunnel)  - South Korea

·         Tuen-Mun - Chek Lap Kok Link - Northern Connection Subsea Tunnel Section - Hong Kong, China

·         Wuhan Sanyang Road Yangtze River Tunnel Project - China

For the category "Project of the Year" (with a budget between 50 and 500 M€)

·         Construction of two parallel tunnels for the Mexico City - Toluca suburban railway - Mexico

·         New Badaling Tunnel and Great Wall Station of Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway - China

·         Regional Connector Transit Project -  United States of America

·         SCL Immersed tube tunnels - Hong Kong, China

·         The New Ulriken Tunnel - Norway

·         Victory Boogie Woogietunnel - Netherlands

For the category "Project of the year incl. Renovation" (with a budget up to 50 M€)

·         Finsbury Park Station Step Free Access - United Kingdom

·         Modernization of the Vladivostok tunnel of the Far Eastern Railway - Russian Federation

·         Outram Park Linkway Tunnel (Thomson Line) - Singapore

For the category "Technical Project Innovation of the year"

·         Innovation and Application of New Single-hole Double-line Quasi-rectangular Shield Tunnel Technology System - China

·         Intersecting and Overlapping (Twisted) Tunnel Group Construction Technology for Tianjin Metro Lines 5 and 6 Lot 1 - China

·         Rapid Construction Technology for Large Cross-section Extremely Gassy Tunnel - China

·         Toulouse Line A underground stations extension - France

For the category "Technical Product/Equipment Innovation of the year"

·         ARCHITA, an innovative multi-dimensional mobile mapping system - Italy

·         Autonomous TBM - Malaysia

·         AXON - Australia

·         Tunnel Inspection 4.0 – Smart Tunnel Maintenance using Artificial Intelligence - Switzerland

For the category "Innovative Underground Space Concept of the year"

·         Building Large Prefabricated Urban Underground Space with Small TBMs for Subsection Undercutting - China

·         SNWA Low Lake Level Pumping Station – Underground - United States of America

·         Underground Green Farming - Switzerland

For the category "Safety Initiative of the Year"

·         Air Quality Working Group: An industry-first collaboration on silica dust control - Australia

·         An Automatic Geological Forward-prospecting Technique Safeguarding TBM Tunneling - China

·         ROBOTIZATION OF THE AUTOMATIC TUBULAR STEEL ARCH INSTALLATION: A KEY FACTOR FOR SAFETY - Italy

For the category "Young Tunneller of the Year"

·         Amanda Kerr - United States of America

·         Diwakar - Singapore

·         Elliot James Fern - Switzerland

·         Sun Feng - China

·         Yutaka Okuda - Japan

For further information please visit the ITA website https://awards.ita-aites.org/all-finalists