Fleming Award

Information for Fleming Award submissions

• Eligibility and Judging Criteria
  1. Entries are invited from Project Teams who have worked on geotechnical projects that have been substantially completed within the two years prior to the award date of December in the year of the competition.
  2. Each Team is expected to comprise between three and six people, at least one of whom must be a member of the BGA.
  3. Submitting teams typically include representatives from Clients, Main Contractors, Consulting Engineers, Specialist Contractors and so on. The award is presented to the Project Team which most demonstrates excellence in geotechnical design & construction.
  4. The judging criteria place significant emphasis on teamwork across the different disciplines involved in the project, innovation is also a strong consideration.
  5. The final of the competition will be held on December in the year of the award at the ICE, London. Each team will give a short presentation (20 minutes with 5 minutes questions afterwards). After the presentations have been completed, the judges will retire to consider their verdict. The judges will be selected from members of the BGA Executive Committee, previous winner(s) and industry leaders.
  6. Submissions should include a PDF document containing a brief description of the project (or section of a larger project) with illustrations/diagrams as appropriate. The text and illustrations should occupy no more than two A4 pages, i.e. four sides.
  7. The organisations and BGA individual or corporate members in the team should be identified, with contact details for one person to deal with correspondence from the BGA and a contact name and email for each of the other organisations that are part of the submission.
  8. The submitting teams should have obtained permission from project clients and other parties for the project to be considered for the Fleming Award prior to submission.
  9. There is a prize of £1,000, donated by Cementation Skanska.
• Make a Submission

  Submissions should be made using the on-line form below.

  The submission should be made by one person (who must be a BGA member) who will be the contact point. Contact names and emails should also be provided for all organisations that are part of the submission.

  The submitting teams should have obtained permission from project clients and other parties for the project to be considered for the Fleming Award prior to submission.

  Submissions should include a PDF file (maximum file size 50 MB, uploaded as part of the form submission process) that includes a brief description of the project (or section of a larger project), with illustrations/diagrams as appropriate. The text and illustrations should occupy no more than two A4 pages, i.e. four sides.

   

   

Latest Winners

Year	Winners	Finalists		Keynote Speakers
2024	Dunkettle Interchange Upgrade Scheme Fehily Timoney and Company Ramboll UK John Sisk & Sons Holdings Limited Menard UK Transportation Infrastructure Ireland	A487 New Dyfi Bridge Arup Griffiths Welsh Government	2 Finsbury Avenue Cementation Skanska Ramboll UK Sir Robert McAlpine British Land	Thomas Riccio, University of Dundee "Pile Installation Effects and Plugging in Soft Rock"

• Previous Winners

  Year	Winners	Finalists		Keynote Speakers
  2023	Ground Suction Caisson Supported Offshore Wind Farm, North Sea Ramboll Seaway 7 SSE GDG Limited UWA NGI Ternan Energy Limited Oxford University Innovation Limited Dundee University	76 Southbank - Foundation Re-use Scheme HTS Arup Keller Keltbray	Hinkley Point C Tunnel Shaft Connections, GI Probing and Grout Team Balfour Beatty BAM Ritchies Jacobs EDF BeMo	David Richards, University of Southampton "Conservatism in Geotechnical Design"
  2022	Ground Improvement for a Seismically Qualified Structure BAE Systems Atkins Bachy Soletanche Morgan Sindall	HS2 Phase 1, Contract C1 HS2 Bouygues Travaux Publics Jacobs Rendel-Ingerop Keller	A Heat-Exchange Piled Foundation Solution at the Euston Station Welfare Facility for HS2 Keltbray Limited City University G-Core Limited Wentworth House Partnership Mace-Dragados HS2	Sergio Solera, Mott MacDonald "Design and construction of the Boston Barrier"
  2021	Hinkley Point C Geotechnical Works BAM Ritchies NNB (EDF) AECOM Kier Bam JV	1 Triton Square, London Arup Lendlease British Land	A63 Castle Street Improvements, Hull - Geotechnical Site Trials Arup Züblin National Highways Balfour Beatty Geotechnical Experts Coffey Geotechnics AECOM	David Wright, Jacobs "Fibre optic sensing – A distributed monitoring technology for earthworks?"
  2020	21 Moorfields - Piling through Moorgate Station, London Cementation Skanska Robert Bird Group Mace Geotechnical Consulting Group Land Securities London Concrete	Analysis, Design and Construction of the Boston Barrier Mott MacDonald BAM Nuttall	Robroyston Link Road, Glasgow Tensar International Limited Glasgow City Council Park Lane (Scotland) Ltd Luddon Construction Ltd Foster Contracting (North) Ltd GeoFEM	Christopher Power, Mott MacDonald "Meeting the climate change challenge to transportation infrastructure geotechnical assets"
  2019	Tunnelling through under ream piles for Bank Underground Station upgrade Transport for London Arup The Worshipful Company of Grocers Dragados UK Dr Sauer & Partners	Woodsmith Mine shaft, North Yorkshire Bauer Technologies Sirius Minerals plc Arup Datum Geotechnical Experts Ltd	Tideway East – Deptford Church Street chalk fissure investigation Costain Vinci Bachy Soletanche JV Tideway Golder Mott MacDonald WJ Groundwater SOCOTEC European Geophysical Services ChalkRock Ltd Preene Groundwater Consulting Imperial College London	Rachel Monteith, BuroHappold "Viable sustainability"
  2018	Claridges Hotel Basement, London McGee Group Ltd Arup RKD Consultant Ltd	Gardenstown Landslide Stabilisation - Gardenstown, near Banff, Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire Council Atkins BAM Ritchies	A77 Cairnryan Slip Remediation - south-west Scotland WSP UK Limited Scotland Transerv Raynesway Transport Scotland	Yvonne Ainsworth, JRL Civil Engineering "Pay Peanuts, Get Monkeys"
  2017	The PISA Project Oxford University Imperial College London DONG Energy Carbon Trust SOCOTEC UK (formerly ESG) representing the many companies involved in the Project	Garrion Gill Slope Remediation Network Rail Infrastructure Projects Scotland QTS Group Limited COWI UK Limited Cementation Skanska Datum Group	Pines Hotel Cliff Stabilisation Scheme CH2M Raymond Brown Construction The Pines Hotel	Toby Roberts, WJ Groundwater "Groundwater control for excavations in Cork, Ireland"
  2016	Crag End Landslip Remediation Volker Stevin Atkins Northumberland County Council Keller	Crossrail C300 & C410 Compensation Grouting Crossrail BAM Ferrovial Kier JV Keller BAM Ritchies JV	Farnley Haugh Emergency Works Renewals Collaborative Delivery Partnership (RCDP) – Network Rail, CML, AECOM	Tony O'Brien, Mott MacDonald "Geotechnical Characterisation: Recent Developments and Applications"
  2015	Chantry Lane Chalk Mines Remediation, Hatfield, Hertfordshire BAM Ritchies Welwyn and Hatfield BC MACE Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd	Deep Basement for Exhibition Road Building, Victoria and Albert Museum, London Arup AL_A Wates Construction	Deep Basement for British Museum World Conservation & Exhibition Centre, London Ramboll Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Mace Arup Bachy Soletanche Keller P J Carey Rowecord GIG Fassaden	Duncan Nicholson, Arup “Developments in the Observational Method for Retaining Walls”
  2014	Victoria Station Upgrade - Northern Tunnels Taylor Woodrow BAM Nuttall (TWBN) Mott MacDonald (MM) Keller London Underground Ltd	Queensferry Crossing –A Collaborative Approach To Marine Foundation Construction Transport Scotland Arup JV Ramboll	Barcelona High Speed Railway Tunnel: Protecting World Heritage Buildings UPC‐BarcelonaTech Intecsa‐Inarsa Sacyr Sener SPICC	Tim Chapman, Arup “Explaining geotechnical risks to clients”
  2013	Lee Tunnel, Abbey Mills, Stratford –Shaft F MVB JV AECOM CH2M HIL Bachy Soletanche UNPS Cambridge University	Danube Bridge 2, “Vidin- Calafat” between Bulgaria and Romania High Point Rendel and Ingerop JV URS Flint & Neil Iberinsa JV FCC Construccion S.A.	Collaborative Value Engineering: Propping the Crossrail Tottenham Court Road Western Ticket Hall Crossrail Arup-Atkins JV URS BFK JV Kier Engineering & Dam Structures	Eur Ing David Norbury BSc MSc CEng MICE “EC7 – progress and myths”
  2012	Construction on West Quay Collapse, Bridgewater Somerset CC Crestmoor Construction	Kirklees Coffey Geotechnics	Field Road Coley District Peter Brett Associates	Dr Chris Menkiti, GCG “The Impact of Ground Movements due to Tunnelling – Two Uncommon Examples of Important Effects in a Hard Soil and a Soft Rock”
  2011	Design And Construction Of The Toombul Jacked Box Arup Geotechnics Benaim – URS Scott Wilson RD Geotech	M74 Completion Interlink M74JV Jacobs/Atkins Design JV	Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade – The D-Shaped Pile London Underground Buro Happold Bauer Keller JV Taylor Woodrow Bam Nuttall JV	Neil Smith, Applied Geotechnical “Progress on the UK Register of Ground Engineering Professionals (RoGEP) and related future developments”
  2010	Use of Tyre Bales in A421 Foundations Highways Agency Balfour Beatty Major Civil Engineering URS Scott Wilson	St German’s Pumping Station Cofferdam Costain University of Southampton Mott MacDonald	Cannon Street Station Redevelopment –Micropiles & Associated Geotechnical Works Hines Laing O’Rourke Expanded Piling Foggo Associates GCG Byland Engineering	Martin Pedley, Cementation Skanska “10 Decades of Geotechnical Engineering and Innovation: A History of Cementation”
  2009	One New Change Land Securities Bovis Lend Lease Hoare Lea Arup Cementation Skanska Geothermal International	Isle of Grain Pump House Cofferdam Garassino Srl Laing O’Rourke Bachy Soletanche Limited	First Street, Manchester Ask Developments Ltd Ove Arup & Partners Celtic Remediation Ltd Fraser Blair Associates David Langdon LLP	Tony O’Brien, Mott MacDonald “Pile group design for major structures – pitfalls and opportunities”
  2008	Limerick Submerged Tube Tunnel Temporary Works John Sisk & Son Ltd Webber Associates MLM Consulting Engineers	Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham BNHJV White Young Green Stent Foundations	Brigg Line Freight Enhancement Network Rail Ove Arup & Partners Carillion Civil Engineering	Dinesh Patel, Arup “Deep basement scheme at Ropemaker Place, Moorgate”
  2007	Amsterdam Central Station ARCADIS Combination Strukton Betonbouw van Oord ACZ Movares Nederland B.V. Royal Haskoning Smet-Keller RD Geotech	Bow Bells House Buro Happold Stanhope Stent	Kings Cross Ticket Hall ABBT Morgan Bemo JV Arup	Jim Williams, English Heritage “From research guidelines – piling and archaeology”
  2006	Govan Dewatering Scheme Keller Ground Engineering Strathclyde Partnership for Transport Gifford and Partners WJ Groundwater Gallaghers Arup Scotland	Lyme Regis Coastal Defences High Point Rendel Carillion West Dorset District Council		Prof. Malcolm Bolton, Cambridge University “Foundation piles: advances in understanding and technology”
  2005	Castlehaven Coast Protection and Slope Stabilisation Scheme, An Innovative Geotechnical Solution, Niton, Isle of Wight High Point Rendel Van Oord UK Ltd TPGEO/Group Ress	Ground Improvement Solutions for the M60 Orbital Motorway Widening Scheme around South Manchester Highways Agency AMEC Alfred McAlpine JV Halcrow Pennine Vibropiling	The UK’s largest soil mixed reactive barrier Northampton Borough Council/ English Partnerships Joint Initiative Halcrow Group Mowlem Remediation Mowlem Piling and Foundations Envirotreat Technologies	Tim Chapman, Arup Geotechnics
  2004	Moorhouse Draught Relief Shaft for Crossrail, London Arup Geotechnics Geotechnical Consulting Group Skanska UK Building WJ Groundwater Ltd Crossrail London Links Ltd Arup Tunnelling Skanska UK Tunnelling Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin Bachy Soletanche Mouchel Parkman Environmental Protection Agency Dublin Docklands Development Authority Pierse Contracting	The River Witham Phase 2/3 Contract, Lincoln Bullen Consultants Environment Agency May Gurney		Prof. John Burland, Imperial College
  2003	Dublin Port Tunnel Geotechnical Consulting Group Dublin County Council Nishimatsu/Mowlem/Irshenco JV Haswell Consulting Engineers & University College Dublin World Trade Centre Recovery Effort Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Bovis Lend Lease Nicholson Construction/Hayward Baker JV	CTRL 250 Ripple Road Bridge Settlement Mitigation Bachy Soletanche, Nuttall/Ways Freytag/Keir JV Donaldson Associates Ltd Rail Link Engineering	CTRL C320 Thames Tunnel Rail Link Engineering, Hochtief-Murphy JV Amec-Spie Keller Ground Engineering Land & Water Services WJ Groundwater	Prof. Michael C R Davies, University of Dundee
  2002	Heathrow Airside Road Tunnel Mott MacDonald BAA plc Laing O’Rourke	A542 Pentredwr Landslide Wardell Armstrong Denbighshire County Council Wrexham County Borough Council KM Construction (NW) Ltd Rock Engineering Ltd.	Aznalcóllar Slurry Trench Wall Golder Associates (UK) Ltd Soletanche Bachy (Rodio)	Dr Hugh St. John, GCG “Ken’s Life and Work”
  2001	Rail track Northwest Structure Alliance Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick Railtrack Edmund Nuttall	Large Diameter Piles at New Medway Crossing Maunsell Limited Highways Agency WS Atkins Mowlem Piling	The South Steps Project Building design partnership Taylor Woodrow Construction GCG Tony Gee and Partners John Doyle Construction Royal Albert Hall	Mike Putnam, Skanska UK “The Future of Geotechnics is Teamworking”
  2000	The Copenhagen Metro –The observational method at Norreport station Bachy Soletanche Carillion Maunsell Comet	Home Extension Project, Central London Applied Geotechnical Engineering CMCS Berry Withers R Durtnell & Sons Symonds Travers Morgan	Rainham Landfill –The KGRID Foundation Support System Cleanaway Keller Halcrow	Ken Fleming, Cementation Foundations