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On 9 October 2015 ICE President David Balmforth will present awards to the following papers published in the various ICE Proceedings journals in 2014. Journal editorial panels nominated their best papers and an awards committee, chaired by Quentin Leiper, allocated the awards. These award-winning papers can be downloaded for free from the ICE Virtual Library’s ‘ICE Publishing Awards 2015’ page at www.icevirtuallibrary.com/info/awards2015.
| PAPER AND AUTHORS | ISSUE IN 2014 | AWARD |
|---|---|---|
| Bridge Engineering | ||
| Bearing replacements for Forth Road Bridge approach viaducts, by Barry Colford, Manuela Chiarello, Chris R. Hendy, Homayoon Pouya, Jessica Sandberg and Paul Smout | September | Bill Curtin Medal |
| Preserving Ireland’s iconic railway viaducts, by Pádraig McCarron and Aidan McAdam | September | John Henry Garrood King Medal |
| Civil Engineering | ||
| Four-dimensional modelling on Tottenham Court Road station, London, UK, by Yazhe Li, Jeff Stephens and Aleksandra Ryba | May | Charles Manby Prize |
| Gotthard base tunnel, Switzerland – the world’s longest railway tunnel, by Renzo Simoni | November | Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize |
| Containment for petroleum products – lessons learnt from Buncefield, UK, by Fathi Tarada and Peter Robery | November | Safety in Construction Medal |
| Construction Materials | ||
| Flexural performance of fibrous concrete with cement additions, by Gurbir Kaur, Surinder Pal Singh and Surendra Kumar Kaushik | February | Thomas Howard Medal |
| Energy | ||
| The implications of upstream emissions from the power sector, by Geoffrey P. Hammond and Áine O’Grady | February | James Watt Medal |
| Deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste: engineering challenges, by Andrew John Beswick, Karl P. Travis and Fergus G. F. Gibb | April | George Stephenson Medal |
| Engineering and Computational Mechanics | ||
| Tsunami wave and structure interaction: an investigation with smoothed-particle hydrodynamics, by Lee S. Cunningham, Benedict D. Rogers and Gede Pringgana | September | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Engineering History and Heritage | ||
| Qingkou complex: an engineering masterpiece of the Grand Canal of China, by Jin Zhang, Yun Zhao, Zhe Wang, Yi Wang, Ting Wu and Ming Cui | May | Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Prize |
| William Hazledine (1763–1840): Pioneering iron founder, by Andrew Pattison | August | Benjamin Baker Medal |
| Engineering Sustainability | ||
| Educating engineers to embrace complexity and context, by Edmond P. Byrne and Gerard Mullally | December | Richard Trevithick Memorial Fund |
| Forensic Engineering | ||
| Re-visiting Bragg to keep UK’s temporary works safe under EuroNorms, by Bill Hewlett, Andrew Jones, Stuart Marchand and Brian Bell | May | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Investigating property damage along Dublin Port Tunnel alignment, by Andrea Gillarduzzi | August | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Geotechnical Engineering | ||
| Fibre optic monitoring of a deep circular excavation, by Tina Schwamb, Kenichi Soga, Robert J. Mair, Mohammed Z. E. B. Elshafie, Richard Sutherden, Clotilde Boquet and John Greenwood | April | Russell Crampton Prize |
| Ground Improvement | ||
| Performance assessment of reinforced ballasted rail track, by Buddhima Indraratna, Sanjay Nimbalkar and Tim Neville | February | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Management, Procurement and Law | ||
| Ten Years of PPP in Germany: experiences and perspectives, by Dieter Jacob, Bernd Kochendörfer, Marcus von Drygalski and Corinna Hilbig | August | Parkman Medal |
| Maritime Engineering | ||
| Modelling storm response on gravel beaches using Xbeach-G, by Gerd Masselink, Robert McCall, Timothy Poate and Pieter van Geer | December | Halcrow Prize |
| Municipal Engineer | ||
| Network modelling for road-based faecal sludge management, by Ruth Kennedy-Walker, Tomas Holderness, David Alderson, Barbara Evans and Stuart Barr | September | James Hill Prize |
| Construction of Buckden’s living stones rooms, Cambridgeshire, UK, by Richard Noble | December | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Structures and Buildings | ||
| Simulating reinforced concrete members. Part 1: partial interaction properties, by Deric J. Oehlers, Phillip Visintin, JianFei Chen and Tim Ibell | November | Frederick Palmer Prize |
| Seismic response of timber frames with cane and mortar walls, by Christian Málaga-Chuquitaype, Sebastian Kaminski, Ahmed Y. Elghazouli and Andrew Lawrence | December | Tso Kung Hsieh Award |
| Transport | ||
| UK airfield pavement design using French asphalts, by Bachar Hakim, Iswandaru Widyatmoko, Carl Fergusson and John Richardson | February | William Webb Prize |
| Forecasting infrastructure resilience to climate change, by Tom Dijkstra, Neil Dixon, Chris Crosby, Matthew Frost, David Gunn, Paul Fleming and Joanna Wilks | October | Rees Jeffreys Award |
| Urban Design and Planning | ||
| Improving contemporary approaches to the master planning process, by Husam Al Waer | February | Reed and Mallik Medal |
| Waste and Resource Management | ||
| Landfill mining: objectives and assessment challenges, by Maria E. Ortner, Julika Knapp and Anke Bockreis | May | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Water Management | ||
| Modelling study on environmental indicators in an estuary, by Jian Sun, Binliang Lin, Guoqiang Jiang, Kaiming Li and Jianhua Tao | March | Robert Alfred Carr Prize |
| PAPER AND AUTHORS | ISSUE IN 2014 | AWARD |
|---|---|---|
| Bridge Engineering | ||
| Bearing replacements for Forth Road Bridge approach viaducts, by Barry Colford, Manuela Chiarello, Chris R. Hendy, Homayoon Pouya, Jessica Sandberg and Paul Smout | September | Bill Curtin Medal |
| Preserving Ireland’s iconic railway viaducts, by Pádraig McCarron and Aidan McAdam | September | John Henry Garrood King Medal |
| Civil Engineering | ||
| Four-dimensional modelling on Tottenham Court Road station, London, UK, by Yazhe Li, Jeff Stephens and Aleksandra Ryba | May | Charles Manby Prize |
| Gotthard base tunnel, Switzerland – the world’s longest railway tunnel, by Renzo Simoni | November | Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize |
| Containment for petroleum products – lessons learnt from Buncefield, UK, by Fathi Tarada and Peter Robery | November | Safety in Construction Medal |
| Construction Materials | ||
| Flexural performance of fibrous concrete with cement additions, by Gurbir Kaur, Surinder Pal Singh and Surendra Kumar Kaushik | February | Thomas Howard Medal |
| Energy | ||
| The implications of upstream emissions from the power sector, by Geoffrey P. Hammond and Áine O’Grady | February | James Watt Medal |
| Deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste: engineering challenges, by Andrew John Beswick, Karl P. Travis and Fergus G. F. Gibb | April | George Stephenson Medal |
| Engineering and Computational Mechanics | ||
| Tsunami wave and structure interaction: an investigation with smoothed-particle hydrodynamics, by Lee S. Cunningham, Benedict D. Rogers and Gede Pringgana | September | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Engineering History and Heritage | ||
| Qingkou complex: an engineering masterpiece of the Grand Canal of China, by Jin Zhang, Yun Zhao, Zhe Wang, Yi Wang, Ting Wu and Ming Cui | May | Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Prize |
| William Hazledine (1763–1840): Pioneering iron founder, by Andrew Pattison | August | Benjamin Baker Medal |
| Engineering Sustainability | ||
| Educating engineers to embrace complexity and context, by Edmond P. Byrne and Gerard Mullally | December | Richard Trevithick Memorial Fund |
| Forensic Engineering | ||
| Re-visiting Bragg to keep UK’s temporary works safe under EuroNorms, by Bill Hewlett, Andrew Jones, Stuart Marchand and Brian Bell | May | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Investigating property damage along Dublin Port Tunnel alignment, by Andrea Gillarduzzi | August | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Geotechnical Engineering | ||
| Fibre optic monitoring of a deep circular excavation, by Tina Schwamb, Kenichi Soga, Robert J. Mair, Mohammed Z. E. B. Elshafie, Richard Sutherden, Clotilde Boquet and John Greenwood | April | Russell Crampton Prize |
| Ground Improvement | ||
| Performance assessment of reinforced ballasted rail track, by Buddhima Indraratna, Sanjay Nimbalkar and Tim Neville | February | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Management, Procurement and Law | ||
| Ten Years of PPP in Germany: experiences and perspectives, by Dieter Jacob, Bernd Kochendörfer, Marcus von Drygalski and Corinna Hilbig | August | Parkman Medal |
| Maritime Engineering | ||
| Modelling storm response on gravel beaches using Xbeach-G, by Gerd Masselink, Robert McCall, Timothy Poate and Pieter van Geer | December | Halcrow Prize |
| Municipal Engineer | ||
| Network modelling for road-based faecal sludge management, by Ruth Kennedy-Walker, Tomas Holderness, David Alderson, Barbara Evans and Stuart Barr | September | James Hill Prize |
| Construction of Buckden’s living stones rooms, Cambridgeshire, UK, by Richard Noble | December | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Structures and Buildings | ||
| Simulating reinforced concrete members. Part 1: partial interaction properties, by Deric J. Oehlers, Phillip Visintin, JianFei Chen and Tim Ibell | November | Frederick Palmer Prize |
| Seismic response of timber frames with cane and mortar walls, by Christian Málaga-Chuquitaype, Sebastian Kaminski, Ahmed Y. Elghazouli and Andrew Lawrence | December | Tso Kung Hsieh Award |
| Transport | ||
| UK airfield pavement design using French asphalts, by Bachar Hakim, Iswandaru Widyatmoko, Carl Fergusson and John Richardson | February | William Webb Prize |
| Forecasting infrastructure resilience to climate change, by Tom Dijkstra, Neil Dixon, Chris Crosby, Matthew Frost, David Gunn, Paul Fleming and Joanna Wilks | October | Rees Jeffreys Award |
| Urban Design and Planning | ||
| Improving contemporary approaches to the master planning process, by Husam Al Waer | February | Reed and Mallik Medal |
| Waste and Resource Management | ||
| Landfill mining: objectives and assessment challenges, by Maria E. Ortner, Julika Knapp and Anke Bockreis | May | Thomas Telford Premium Prize |
| Water Management | ||
| Modelling study on environmental indicators in an estuary, by Jian Sun, Binliang Lin, Guoqiang Jiang, Kaiming Li and Jianhua Tao | March | Robert Alfred Carr Prize |
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