ICE Publishing Awards
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The ICE Publishing Awards celebrate authors from both industry and academia who have produced work judged by their peers to be of exceptional quality and benefit to the civil engineering, construction and materials science community.
Each paper is free to view as part of our commitment to furthering knowledge and best practice.
ICE Publishing award winners 2024
Telford Gold Medal
Control of screw pile installation to optimise performance for offshore energy applications
Benjamin Cerfontaine, Michael John Brown, Jonathan Adam Knappett, Craig Davidson, Yaseen Umar Sharif, Marco Huisman, Marius Ottolini** Jonathan David Ball††Show l
Géotechnique
George Stephenson Medal
Design and use of space in refugee camps: a case study of a contested terrain
Husam AlWaer, Magda Sibley, Ian Cooper
Urban Design and Planning
Sir Benjamin Baker Medal
Fatigue durability of reinforced concrete bridge deck repair methods
Toshihiko Nagatani,Toshiaki Mizobuchi, Yuki Hagihara
Bridge Engineering
Telford Premium
A multi-objective design tool for decarbonising buildings at the concept stage
Daniel Chauhan, Shane Orme, Serena Gugliotta, Zachariah Wynne, Alex Black-Roberts, Diego Padilla Philipps
Engineering and Computational Mechanics
Circular Economy Landfills for Temporary Storage and Treatment of Mineral-rich Wastes
Devin J. Sapsford, Douglas I. Stewart, Danielle E. Sinnett, Ian T. Burke, Peter J. Cleall, Michael J. Harbottle,Will Mayes, Nia E. Owen, Ana Margarida Sardo, Andrew Weightman
Waste and Resource Management
Effects of biochar on cement-stabilised peat soil
Jeffrey Lau, Giovanna Biscontin, Debora Berti
Ground Improvement
Heritage building information modelling: a case study of Kasthamandap, Nepal
Henry William Perry Paremain, David Geoffrey Toll
Engineering History and Heritage
Shear creep behaviour of soil–structure interfaces under thermal cyclic loading
A. Golchin, Y. Guo, P. J. Vardon, S. Liu, G. Zhang, M. A. Hicks
Géotechnique Letters
Understanding the performance of bridge decks through full-scale accelerated testing
Mehdi Rashidi, Hoda Azari, John Braley, Robert Zobel
Forensic Engineering
Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize
Construction engineering at The Acre, UK: how innovative props facilitated building reuse
John Roberts James Simpson Jody Paxman
Civil Engineering
John Henry Garrood King Medal
Planning and design of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, North America
Leslie A. Martin, Zaher Yousif, Bruce L. Campbell, Martin Furrer, Matt Chynoweth
Bridge Engineering
James Watt Medal
Integrating existing water and wastewater assets to reduce domestic heating emissions
F. Liu, A. Schellart, J. Boxall, M. Mayfield, S. Tait
Energy
Richard Trevithick Memorial Fund
Resource efficiency in industrialised construction: a study in developing economies
Firehiwot Kedir, Daniel M Hall, Dimitra Ioannidou, Thomas Rupper, Richard Boyd, Alex Hollberg
Engineering Sustainability
Charles Manby Prize
Framing blockchain-integrated digital twins for emergent healthcare: a proof of concept
Qiuchen Lu, Long Chen, Xiang Xie, Zigeng Fang, Zhen Ye, Michael Pitt
Engineering Sustainability
Crampton Prize
Cutting shoe design for open caissons in sand: influence on vertical bearing capacity
Jack O. Templeman, Bryn M. Phillips, Brian B. Sheil
Geotechnical Engineering
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Prize
Coupled THM analysis of a full-scale test for high-level nuclear waste and spent fuel disposal under actual repository conditions during 18 years of operation
Marcelo Sanchez, Beatrice Pomaro, Antonio Gens
Géotechnique
Study on the performance of thermal energy of a classroom built with natural materials
Fatima Zahra Benaddi, Lahcen Boukhattem, Brahim Benhamou, Paulo Cesar Tabares-Velasco, Fatima Ait Nouh
Energy
David Hislop Award
Adaptivity of plate anchors to restrain the impact of seabed trenching
C. Han, J. Liu, P. Yi
Géotechnique Letters
Bill Curtin Medal
Maximising the construction waste reduction potential - barriers and catalysts
Subarna Sivashanmugam, Sergio Rodriguez, Farzad Rahimian, Nashwan Dawood
Civil Engineering
Safety in Construction
The role of the construction project manager in developing a culture of suicide prevention
Cian Guerin, John P Spillane
Management, Procurement and Law
Geotechnical Research Medal
Characterisation of soil deformation over wide strain ranges in triaxial test with high-precision stereophotogrammetry
Satoshi Nishimura
Géotechnique
Halcrow Prize
State of the art in structural health monitoring of offshore and marine structures
Hadi Pezeshki, Hojjat Adeli, Dimitrios Pavlou, Sudath C. Siriwardane
Maritime Engineering
Thomas Howard Medal
Improving the lateral load resistance of vernacular masonry walls subject to flooding
Shawn L. Platt, Chintha Jayasinghe, Thishan Jayasinghe, Daniel Maskell, Gihan Ranasinghe, Peter Walker
Construction Materials
James Hill Prize
Use of digital technology to improve the way asphalt roads are constructed
Michael J. McHale, Michael Gordon, Alan Ferguson
Municipal Engineer
Frederick Palmer Prize
Analysis of axially loaded columns strengthened with fibre-reinforced polymer
Haytham F. Isleem, Muhammad Abid, Shayan Zeb, Mao Jize
Structures and Buildings
Rees Jeffrey Prize
Fully automated vehicles: the use of travel time and its association with intention to use
Zia Wadud, Fuad Yasin Huda
Transport
Reed and Mallick Medal
Using child-friendly city principles to improve dilapidated neighbourhoods, Tehran, Iran
Seyed Mostafa Mousavi, Azin Alipour Tabrizi, Arash Taqipour Akhtari
Urban Design and Planning
Robert Alfred Carr Prize
Bottom and side-wall aeration performance of an offset aerator in a flood discharge chute
Xuechun Liu, Ruidi Bai, Shanjun Liu, Zhong Tian
Water Management
William Webb Award
Detecting crash hotspots using grid and density-based spatial clustering
Amin Ganjali Khosrowshahi, Iman Aghayan, Mehmet Metin Kunt, Abdoul-Ahad Choupani
Transport
Previous winners
Telford Gold Medal - Best paper overall
Field measurements and numerical analysis of vibroflotation of sand
Sparsha Nagula, Michael Nguyen, Jürgen Grabe, Jens Kardel, Thosrten Bahl
Géotechnique
George Stephenson Medal - Second best paper overall
Overview of large-eddy simulation for wind loading on slender structures
Steven J. Daniels, Zheng-Tong Xie
Engineering and Computational Mechanics
Baker Medal - Third best paper overall
Environmental footprint analysis of an urban community and its surrounding bioregion
Geoffrey P. Hammond, Trevor Iddenden, Jane Wildblood
Urban Design and Planning
Overseas Prizes (Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Award) – Best papers written by overseas authors or covering an overseas project
Xiong'an station, China - how the largest station in Asia was built in just 2 years
Zhou Man, Zhuang Haiyan, Li Changqing, Su Xiaolong
Civil Engineering
Advances in ground improvement using waste materials for transportation infrastructure
Buddhima Indraratna, Yujie Qi, Miriam Tawk, Ana Heitor, Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn, Sinniah K. Navaratnarajah
Ground Improvement
Bill Curtin Medal: achieving real-world impact
Dynamic response control of engineering structure equipped with smart compound damper
Meng Zhan, Xiuyun Chen, Lizhen Zhang and Sheliang Wang
Structures and Buildings
Manby Prize – best paper that covers ICT/GIS/BIM
Innovative monitoring of the response of a heritage masonry building to nearby tunnelling in London Clay
Sinan Acikgoz, Antonio Luciano, Mark Dewhirst, Matthew J. Dejong, Robert Mair
Géotechnique
David Hislop Award: offshore engineering
Wave-energy plant site and converter type selection using multi-criteria decision making
Engin Ufuk Ergul, Tayfun Ozbek
Energy
H&S Safety in Construction Medal
Ensuring health, safety and well-being on the UK's Thames Tideway tunnel programme
Andy Alder, Steve Hails, Alex Vaughan
Civil Engineering
Telford Premium
Eulerian solver sensitivity for computing long-duration blast drag loading on columns
Laura Cannon, Jack Denny, Simon Clubley
Engineering and Computational Mechanics
Case studies on seismic assessment of historical buildings using advanced analysis
Damian Grant, Daniele Dozio, Paolo Fici, Richard Sturt
Engineering History and Heritage
Collapse of the Grimburgwal, a historic quay in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Mandy Korff, Mart-Jan Hemel, Dirk Jan Peters,
Forensic Engineering
Sustainable cementitious blends for strength enhancement of dredged mud in Queensland, Australia
Yaxu Liu, Dominic E L Ong, Erwin Oh, Zhuang Liu, Ross Hughes
Geotechnical Research
Three-dimensional dynamic behaviour of embankments on liquefiable ground
K. Watanabe, A. Zafar, M. Tomita, K. Nishikouri
Géotechnique Letters
Relative relevance of factors affecting the electrokinetic dewatering of soft clayey soils
Sara Gargano, Stefania Lirer, Alessandro Flora
Ground Improvement
Sway, sliding and back-rotation of piles subjected to pulse-like soil movement
Wei Dong Guo
International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics
A monitoring-based classification system for risk management of bridge scour
Andrea Maroni, Enrico Tubaldi, Hazel McDonald, Daniele Zonta
Smart Infrastructure and Construction
High-yield hydrogen from thermal processing of waste plastics
Idris Aminu, Mohamad A. Nahil, Paul T. Williams
Waste and Resource Management
Advances in Cement Research Prize
Pozzolanic efficiency of calcined clays in blended cements with a focus on early hydration
Nancy Beuntner, Karl-Christian Thienel
Advances in Cement Research
Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize
An innovative ‘flat pack’ wharf: overcoming construction challenges in Antarctica
Ian Wenkenbach, Emiel Meijer, Alan Roper, Stewart Craigie
Civil Engineering
Crampton Prize
Monitoring the construction of a large-diameter caisson in sand
Ronan Royston, Brian B. Sheil, Byron Byrne
Geotechnical Engineering
Emerging Materials Research Prize
Study on the mechanical and tribological properties of C/C composites by CVI and PIP
Fei Li, Yuqin Ma, Wei Xu, Wen Zhu, Gangfeng Whang, Yi Xu, Haiyin Guo, Yatao Li
Emerging Materials Research
Environmental Engineering and Science Prize
Canada’s oil sands industry from a sustainability perspective
Nima Khakzad, Mohammad Dadashzadeh, Rouzbeh Abbassi, Ming Yang
Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science
Environmental Geotechnics Prize
Sustainable environmental geotechnics practices for a green economy
A.J. Roque
Environmental Geotechnics
Frederick Palmer Prize
High-performance resilient earthquake-resisting moment frames
Mark Grigorian, Mozhgan Kamizi
Structures and Buildings
Geotechnical Research Medal
Physical modelling to demonstrate the feasibility of screw piles for offshore jacket-supported wind energy structures
Craig Davidson, Michael John Brown, Benjamin Cerfontaine, Therar Al-Baghdadi, Jonathan Knappett, Andrew Brennan, Charles Aurgarde, William Coombs, Lei Wang, Anthony Blake, David Richards, Jonathan David Ball
Géotechnique
Green Materials Prize
Synthesis and application of eleostearic acid based plasticizer
Hong-ying Chu, Hua-bei Li, Xiao-yan Sun, Yao-wang Zhang
Green Materials
Halcrow Prize
Impact of Covid-19 on the cost of technical services in European ports
Alberto Camarero, Nicoletta González Cancelas, Verónica Verdesoto
Maritime Engineering
Howard Medal
Long-term alkali–silica mitigation of high-alkali concrete with cement replacements
Douglas Hooton, Benoit Fournier
Construction Materials
Infrastructure Asset Management Prize
Water infrastructural heritage: management and governance
Meisha Hunter
Infrastructure Asset Management
James Hill Prize
Assessment of the resilience of pedestrian roads based on image deep learning models
Donggyun Ku, Minje Choi, Haram Oh, Seungheon Shin, Seungjae Lee
Municipal Engineer
James Watt Medal
A deep borehole disposal solution for the UK's high-level radioactive waste
Fergus G.F. Gibb, A. John Beswick
Energy
John Henry Garrood King Medal
Simulating the role of transportation infrastructure for community disaster recovery
Nikola Blagojević, Max Didier, Božidar Stojadinović
Bridge Engineering
Kajal Mallick Memorial
Inspired by mussel: biomimetic polyelectrolyte complex coacervate adhesive initiates a connection through water exchange
Guilong Wang, Zhen-Feng Hu, Xiu-Bing Liang, Fu-Xue Chen
Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials
Magazine of Concrete Research Prize
Estimation models for creep and shrinkage of concrete made with natural, recycled and secondary aggregates
Chao-Qun Lye, Ravindra K. Dhir, Gurmel S. Ghataora
Magazine of Concrete Research
Nanomaterials and Energy Prize
Opportunities for thermoelectric generators in supporting a low carbon economy
Mohammad Ruhul Amin Bhuiyan, Hayati Mamur, Ömer Faruk Dilmaç and Mehmet Ali Üstüner
Nanomaterials and Energy
Parkman Medal
Systems integration in infrastructure projects: seven lessons from Crossrail
Jennifer Whyte, Andrew Davies, Chris Sexton
Management, Procurement and Law
Reed and Mallik Medal
Setting urban design as a specialised, evidence-led, coordinated education and profession
Ombretta Romice, David Rudlin, Husam AlWaer, Mark Greaves, Kevin Thwaites, Sergio Porta
Urban Design and Planning
Rees Jeffreys Award (Highways Prize)
Mega elliptical roundabouts versus grade-separation interchange
Ahmed I. Z. Mohamed, Yusheng Ci, Yiqiu Tan
Transport
Richard Trevithick Fund Prize
Co-creating social value in placemaking: the grand balancing act
Ani Raiden, Andrew King, Sir John Peace, Kevin Osbon, Sophia de Sousa, Laura Alvarez
Engineering Sustainability
Robert Alfred Carr Prize
The economic value of water in crop productions and policy implications in southern Brazil
Camila Dalla Porta Mattiuzi, Guilherme Fernandes Marques, Josué Medellin-Azuara, Ana Paula Dalcin
Water Management
Surface Innovations Prize
Evolution of antibacterial and antibiofouling properties of sharkskin-patterned surfaces
Sabra Rostami, Bora Garipcan
Surface Innovations
Webb Prize
Effects of steel spring floating slab on vibration and noise of a rail transit box-girder
Xiaozhen Li, Zhen Guo, Kangning Lei, Xuehui Hu, Lin Liang
Transport
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