The ACE Engineering Excellence Awards on 25 May was hosted by ITV News anchor Mary Nightingale at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, and brought together large and small consultancy and engineering firms from across the industry.
ACE chief executive, Nelson Ogunshakin OBE, said: 'This year’s awards were the most competitive we have seen with a remarkable standard of entry in every category.'
The awards also named the Engineering Ambassador of the Year. This year the prestigious title went to Hanif Kara of AKT2. Mr Kara is a founding partner of Adams Kara Taylor and is an enthusiastic exponent of using creative engineering to keep the UK’s industry one step ahead.
Sir Michael Latham received the lifetime achievement award in recognition of a long and distinguished career during which he helped 'redefine attitudes to procurement and efficiency in the industry'.
His 1993 report 'Constructing the Team' has been the genesis of new thinking through the Egan review, the Constructing Excellence organisation and chief construction adviser Paul Morrell's Innovation and Growth Team report.
ACE chief executive Nelson Ogunshakin, OBE said: 'I am delighted to endorse this award. Sir Michael Latham has been a strong ally of ACE over the years. He has chaired our Advisory Board since its creation, and has provided strategic and tactical guidance to ACE and its board members. His support has strengthened our work on proportionate liability and procurement. Sir Michael Latham is giant of a man in the UK Construction industry and fully deserves our acclaim.'
The winners list in full is:
Building services small
• Delap and Waller - Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, Titanic Quarter, Belfast
Building Services Medium
• Gifford - Conservation of Tyntesfield Estate
Building services large
• WSP - Strata SE1
Building structures small
• Crofton Design - Leas Lift, Folkestone
Building structures medium
• Curtins Consulting - People’s History Museum
Building structures large
• Pell Frischmann - University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences
Infrastructure SME
• Royal Haskoning - Weston-Super-Mare sea defence project
Infrastructure large
• URS/Scott Wilson - Reconstruction of collapsed tunnel at Gerrards Cross
Research Award
• Mott MacDonald – LATreat
Ambassador of the Year
• Hanif Kara
Lifetime Achievement
• Sir Michael Latham
