| Bridge Engineering | | |
| Design and construction of the Fabian Way bridge superstructure, by Paul A. Sanders, David K. MacKenzie and Chris J. Walker | May | John Henry Garrood King Medal |
| Behaviour of very long cable-stayed bridges during erection, by Guido Morgenthal and Yasutsugu Yamasaki | December | Overseas Prize (1) |
| Civil Engineering | | |
| Burj Khalifa – a new high for high-performance concrete, by James Aldred | May | George Stephenson Medal |
| Squeezing the heat out of London’s Tube, by Matthew Botelle, Kevin Payne and Bill Redhead | August | Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize |
| Delivering the Beijing National Aquatics Center, by Chen Wang, Hamzah Abdul-Rahman and Hui Wang | November | Overseas Prize (2) |
| Fire fighting in high-rise buildings: the role for engineers, by Shane S.-h. Lo | November | Safety in Construction Medal |
| Construction Materials | | |
| Durability of light steel framing in residential applications, by R. Mark Lawson, Sunday O. Popo-Ola, Andrew G. Way, Trevor Heatley and Remo Pedreschi | May | Howard Medal |
| Energy | | |
| Lerwick district heating scheme Shetland Islands, UK, by Neville Martin and William Spence | August | Watt Medal |
| UK microgeneration. Part II : technology overviews, by Iain Staffell, Philip Baker, John P. Barton, Noam Bergman, Richard Blanchard, Nigel P. Brandon, Daniel J. L. Brett, Adam Hawkes, David Infield, Christian N. Jardine, Nick Kelly, Matthew Leach, Mardit Matian, Andrew D. Peacock, Sohasini Sudtharalingam and Bridget Woodman | November | Baker Medal |
| Engineering and Computational Mechanics | | |
| Finite-size Lyapunov exponents: a new tool for lake dynamics, by György Károlyi, Margit Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Tamás Krámer, János Józsa and Tamás Tél | December | Telford Premium |
| Engineering History and Heritage | | |
| The safety of masonry buttresses, by Santiago Huerta | February | Telford Medal |
| Lessons from Western Australia’s goldfields water supply scheme, by Richard G. Hartley | August | Telford Premium |
| Engineering Sustainability | | |
| Low-carbon housing design informed by research, by Mark Gillott, Lucélia T. Rodrigues and Catalina Spataru | June | Trevithick Fund |
| Geotechnical Engineering | | |
| Design and performance of retaining walls, by Howard Roscoe and David Twine | October | Crampton Prize |
| Ground Improvement | | |
| Analysis of PV D-enhanced consolidation with soil disturbance, by Prasenjit Basu, Dipanjan Basu and Monica Prezzi | November | Telford Premium |
| Management, Procurement and Law | | |
| Increasing ‘local content’ in infrastructure procurement. Parts 1 & 2, by Jill Wells and John Hawkins | May | Parkman Medal |
| Maritime Engineering | | |
| The time evolution of scour around offshore structures, by John M. Harris, Richard J. S. Whitehouse and Tom Benson | March | Halcrow Prize |
| Municipal Engineer | | |
| Road safety community partnership in Queensland, Australia, by Jason Deller | December | James Hill Prize |
| Structures and Buildings | | |
| Modular design for high-rise buildings, by Robert M. Lawson and Jane Richards | June | Palmer Prize |
| Transport | | |
| Central London congestion charging: understanding its impacts, by Charles Buckingham, Tony Doherty, David Hawkett and Spyridoula Vitouladiti | May | Rees Jeffreys Award |
| Urban Design and Planning | | |
| Housing and sustainability: demolition or refurbishment?, by Anne Power | December | Reed and Mallik Medal |
| Waste and Resource Management | | |
| Paintcrete leachability in fresh water and marine environments, by Moncef L. Nedhi and Abu Sharim Md Arif | May | Bill Curtin Medal |
| Remediation of contaminated industrial sites, by James Baylis and Douglas Allenby | August | Telford Premium |
| Water Management | | |
| Inorganic profiles of chemical phosphorus removal sludge, by Cynthia Carliell-Marquet, Jennifer Smith, Ioannis Oikonomidis and Andrew Wheatley | February | Robert Alfred Carr Prize |