Updated - WINNERS are marked as WINNER in the list of finalists below!

ITA Announcement

The ITA Tunnelling Awards 2019 - The list of finalists disclosed

Since the first edition in 2015 by the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, the first fourth editions of the ITA Tunnelling Awards gathered already nearly 1,000 attendees and more than 310 candidacies.

A few months before the event, the judges have examined the submitted candidacies and selected a list of finalists for each of 8 categories.

The 17-strong expert judging panel, chaired by the ITA President Jinxiu (Jenny) Yan, has concluded its deliberation and based on the detailed evaluation, 32 entries have been chosen as finalists and will participate in the second evaluation stage to determine winners.

For the category "Major Project of the Year" (with a budget over 500 M€)

• The EPC TBM Follo Line Project    [Norway]
• The Seoul Metropolitan High-Speed Railway(Suseo~Pyeongtaek) Construction Project(Yulhyeon Tunnel)   [South Korea]
• WINNER ----- Tuen-Mun - Chek Lap Kok Link - Northern Connection Subsea Tunnel Section   Hong Kong, [China]
• Wuhan Sanyang Road Yangtze River Tunnel Project    [China]

For the category "Project of the Year" (with a budget between 50 and 500 M€)

• Construction of two parallel tunnels for the Mexico City - Toluca suburban railway    [Mexico]
• New Badaling Tunnel and Great Wall Station of Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway  [China]
• WINNER Regional Connector Transit Project  Los Angeles  [United States of America]
• SCL Immersed tube tunnels    Hong Kong, [China]
• The New Ulriken Tunnel    [Norway]
• Victory Boogie Woogietunnel    [Netherlands]

For the category "Project of the year incl. Renovation" (with a budget up to 50 M€)

• Finsbury Park Station Step Free Access    [United Kingdom]
• Modernization of the Vladivostok tunnel of the Far Eastern Railway    [Russian Federation]
• Outram Park Linkway Tunnel (Thomson Line)    [Singapore]

For the category "Technical Project Innovation of the year"

• Innovation and Application of New Single-hole Double-line Quasi-rectangular Shield Tunnel Technology System    [China]
• Intersecting and Overlapping (Twisted) Tunnel Group Construction Technology for Tianjin Metro Lines 5 and 6 Lot 1    [China]
• Rapid Construction Technology for Large Cross-section Extremely Gassy Tunnel    [China]
• WINNER Toulouse Line A underground stations extension    [France]

For the category "Technical Product/Equipment Innovation of the year"

• ARCHITA, an innovative multi-dimensional mobile mapping system    [Italy]
• WINNER Autonomous TBM    [Malaysia]
• AXON    [Australia]
• Tunnel Inspection 4.0 – Smart Tunnel Maintenance using Artificial Intelligence    [Switzerland]

For the category "Innovative Underground Space Concept of the year"

• Building Large Prefabricated Urban Underground Space with Small TBMs for Subsection Undercutting    [China]
• SNWA Low Lake Level Pumping Station - Underground    [United States of America]
• WINNER - Underground Green Farming    [Switzerland]

For the category "Safety Initiative of the Year"

• WINNER - Air Quality Working Group: An industry-first collaboration on silica dust control    [Australia]
• An Automatic Geological Forward-prospecting Technique Safeguarding TBM Tunneling    [China]
• ROBOTIZATION OF THE AUTOMATIC TUBULAR STEEL ARCH INSTALLATION: A KEY FACTOR FOR SAFETY  [Italy]

For the category "Young Tunneller of the Year"

• WINNER - Amanda Kerr    [United States of America]
• Diwakar    [Singapore]
• Elliot James Fern    [Switzerland]
• Sun Feng    [China]
• Yutaka Okuda    [Japan]

For the category "Lifetime Achievment Award"

• WINNER -Dr Harvey Parker