Since 2015, the international competition ITA Tunnelling Awards seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunnelling and underground space use. This year the event took place in Miami in conjunction with the 8th Cutting Edge Conference of UCA of SME.
For the 5th Edition the ITA Tunnelling Awards had received 71 entries worldwide with 34 of them for the three categories of yearly tunnelling projects, which shows how many outstanding projects have been recently built worldwide.
Through 8 categories and 1 Lifetime Achievement Award, the ITA Tunnelling Awards identified and rewarded the following major ground-breaking winning projects:
- Major Project of the Year (over €500M) - Tuen-Mun Chek lap Kok Link - Northern Connection Subsea Tunnel Section - Hong-Kong, China
- Project of the Year (between €50M and €500M) - Regional Connector Transit Project - Los
- Project of the Year incl. Renovation (up to €50M) - Modernization of the Vladivostok tunnel of the Far Eastern Railway, Russia
- Technical Project Innovation of the year - Toulouse Line A Underground Stations Extension, France
- Technical Product/Equipment Innovation of the year - Autonomous TBM, Malaysia
- Innovative Underground Space Concept of the year - Underground Green Farming, Switzerland
- Safety Initiative of the Year - Air Quality Working Group An industry-first collaboration on silica dust control, Australia
- Young Tunneller of the year - Amanda Kerr, USA
- Lifetime Achievement Award - Dr. Harvey Parker
For further details please visit https://awards.ita-aites.org/. 47/19.
