Tideway has been named ‘Project of the Year’ at the 2024 British Construction Industry Awards – one of three wins in the sector’s most prestigious event for celebrating best practice.

The project was also named ‘Environmental Project of the Year’ and won the ‘National Infrastructure Commission Design Principles’ award. 

The awards were announced at a ceremony attended by more than 1,000 people at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The BCIAs are jointly organised by New Civil Engineer (NCE) and the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Tideway CTO Roger Bailey said: "These awards are testament to the collaborative teamwork and technical excellence of the people working on the project. We set out from the very start to be a transformational project and strove to achieve exemplary performance. It’s great to receive this recognition of a great outcome from our peers." 

As well as the trio of wins for the Tideway Alliance, the Tideway West JV (BAM Nuttall, Morgan Sindall and Balfour Beatty) was also shortlisted in three categories: the Infrastructure Project Authority’s Industry Innovation Champion, Temporary Works Initiative of the Year and productivity Initiative of the Year. 

The judges gave the project some glowing praise when the awards were announced:  

Project of the Year Award: "Judges agreed this project had pushed boundaries in ways that delivered real success in every aspect of project delivery – be it stakeholder engagement, placemaking, remarkable EDI policy put into practice or decarbonisation through new practices and materials.

“The project set new standards for safety. Intensive practices that included extensive training requirements for permission to access the site, resulted in no life threatening or life changing injuries throughout its 40 million person hours worked.

“And most crucially, judges felt the scale and intended longevity of the environmental and social impact built upon the legacy of Bazalgette’s great sewer innovations and makes this infrastructure that over delivers, creates public realm and generates an identity. Really outstanding."

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Environmental Project of the Year Award: "The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an exceptional mega-project and the justifiable winner in the BCIA Environment Project of the year category for 2024.

“In setting out a vision to reconnect London with the River Thames, this project has set new benchmarks in not just delivering against its stated outcomes but also through the adoption of a new funding model, the use of digital technology alongside a model of collaborative delivery, whilst taking a very positive approach to walking the talk on the whole EDI agenda. Congratulations to all involved!"

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National Infrastructure Commission Design Principles Award: “The Thames Tideway Tunnel is a great example of a project delivered in-line with the NIC design principles. It has responded to all aspects of the criteria; Climate, people, place and value, and as such we hope it will leave a positive legacy in the years to come."