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UKSTT Awards Dinner 2007
On Friday 27 April, 2007, the United Kingdom Society for Trenchless Technology (UKSTT) once again celebrated the best in No-Dig activity from across the UK, with its Annual Awards Ceremony and Dinner. With over 270 guests, almost 25% more than the previous year, the ceremony attracted some 40 entries across all the Awards categories, again a significant increase of some 33% over 2006. The Awards categories included Innovation, New Installation (Large Project over £250k), New Inst
allation (Small Project less than £250k), Renovation (Large Project over £250k), Renovation (Small Project less than £250k), Small Project (less than £50k) and Young Engineer (unfortunately there were no entries for the latter category this year).
TV Presenter and Naturalist, Chris Packham once again presented the Awards section of the evening, introducing first the short-listed finalists in each category and, after the Dinner itself, announcing the category Winners. Chris took the opportunity to introduce diners to Triton, a Milky Eagle Owl, who was on loan from Hawk Conservancy Trust, of Weyhill, Hampshire.
As part of the evening’s ‘entertainment’, Russell Fairhurst, Chairman of UKSTT, gave his usual interesting, yet thankfully short, address to the assembled trenchless technologists and their guests, much to the relief of all! He did however have some very interesting points to make about the current state of Trenchless Technology across the UK and initiatives from the UKSTT. First, however, Russell thanked the event sponsors for their generosity and continued support. Sponsors this year included: Bodycote, Active Tunnelling, ASP, Jacobs, Severn Trent Water, Ferro Monk Systems, U Mole Ltd, DCT, Clancy Docwra, Pipe Equipment Specialists, May Gurney and TT UK Ltd. He went on to make special mention of South West Water and Develop as main sponsors for the evening. He also thanked all of the Awards entrants, without whom the Dinner would not take place, and all those members and guests attending on the night.
After an excellent meal, came the part of the evening that many people had been waiting for, the presentation of the Awards.
AWARD WINNERS
Renovation – Large Project (>£250K)
Winner:
Severn Trent Water, Onsite and Whitehouse Construction - Derby Sewers
Highly Commended:
M Holleran Ltd - Renovation at Langley Green
Subterra - Light @ End of Tunnel - ST goes underground
Renovation – Small Project (<£250K)
Winner:
Subterra - Pushing Wet String Down Hill
Highly Commended:
Subterra - ST Cures Leakage in Southern Germany
Wessex Engineering & Construction Services & Onsite - Yeovil Lining Project
New Installation – Large Project (>£250K)
Winner:
Barhale - Milford Haven to Aberdulais Pipeline
Highly Commended:
Chiltern Thrustbore - The Burbo Bank Job
Longbore TT Ltd - Horizontal Borehole for Thames Water
New Installation – Small Project (<£250K)
Winner:
May Gurney Utilities - Close Fit Bridges Victorian Gap
Highly Commended:
Clancy Docwra - Directional Drilling at Twyford
Longbore TT Ltd - Buchlyvie
Small Scheme (<£50K)
Winner:
Dyno Rod - Beech Close, Coburn
Highly Commended:
Hermes Tecnologie - Successful Performance for M Coating in Cornwall
Insituform Environmental Techniques - Jobstown Stream Dublin
Product Innovation
Winner:
Waterflow Group - Robotic System for Track Drain Renovation
Highly Commended:
Infotech Consultants - Revolutionary Pipetrack System
SDI / De Neef / Wessex Engineering & Construction Services Ltd - Sealing Gel
The evening was rounded off with entertainment by Ian Keable, a magician and mind reading specialist. Ian’s (reluctant?) assistants during the course of the show included Norman Howell, Tim Sergeant and Graham Cocksey.
Looking at one final part of Russell’s address and referring back one year, Russell highlighted one comment by a well-regarded member of the industry that the Society was dead; against which he said that it was not dead but had just completed its induction course. The new initiatives and attendance figures and entries submitted projects at the Awards Ceremony and Dinner support that and show UKSTT is a strong society, which is growing and changing to meet its members and its industry’s needs.
Overall, an excellent evening was had by all and UKSTT looks forward to inviting entries for the 2008 Awards. So please keep the next UKSTT awards competition and dinner in mind when undertaking your next or current project. Contact: UKSTT, 38 Holly Walk, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV32 4LY, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)1926 330 935 Fax: +44 (0)1926 330 935 Email: admin@ukstt.org.uk Website: www.ukstt.org.uk
UKSTT 2006 ANNUAL AWARDS
The 12th UKSTT Annual Dinner & Awards Ceremony took place on 31st March 2006 where the very best in Trenchless Techonolgy were recognised and rewarded. The evening, which included a splendid meal in superb surroundings, recognised the outstanding contributions made by organisations and individuals to the promotion, use and development of Trenchless Technology in 2005. The event was held for the second year running at the Holiday Inn, City Centre, Birmingham.
Over the past few years the evening has increasingly grown in popularity with this year over 200 members and guests attending from across the UK. The Ceremony was hosted for the third year by TV personality, author, broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham. Chris introduced the assembly to a small arachnid friend in the form a Chilian Rose Coloured Tarantula called Enzo (apparently after Mr Ferrari the motor car manufacturer/designer). Following this Chris announced the short-listed entries for this years Awards.
After the meal, the main event of the evening, the Awards Ceremony took place. Once again Chris Packham took to the stage to announce
New Installation – Large Project (Sponsored by TA Drilling Ltd & Astec Underground)
Winner: Amec Ltd – Shannon River Crossing
Highly Commended: Clancy Docwra – Sutton & East Surrey Directional Drilling
Genseed Underground Services – Hexham Flood Alleviation
New Installation – Small Project (Sponsored by Bodycote Pipeline Developments Ltd & Severn Trent Water Ltd)
Winner: Longbore TT Ltd – Glncastle Minewater Remediation Scheme
Highly Commended: Balfour Beatty Utilities Ltd – Directional Drilling using Flexible DI pipe
John Mee Construction Ltd – Service Location for Sheffield Ducts
Renovation – Large Project (Sponsored by South West Water Ltd)
Winner: Clancy Docwra Ltd – ‘Trenchless Technology in East London – ( Finsbury 21 )’
Highly Commended: DCT Civil Engineering Ltd – ‘Powburn Rising Main Renovation, Troon.’
Thames Water Utilities Ltd & J Murphy & Sons Ltd – ‘Victorian Water Mains Replacement in Hornsey 4 & 5’
Renovation – Small Project (Sponsored by Thames Water Ltd & Northumbrian Water Technical Centre)
Winner: May Gurney Utility Services Ltd – ‘Royal Bird Watchers get Fast Cure’
Highly Commended: Insituform Environmental Techniques Ltd – ‘Malone / Elmwood Infrastructure Upgrade
Ferro Monk Ltd - ‘Ryal Tunnel Rehabilitation’
Innovation (Sponsored by Develop)
Winner: May Gurney Utility Services Ltd‘Holy Grail for Asbestos Cement Mains?’
Highly Commended: Infotec Consulting Ltd – ‘Underground Spaghetti Junction’
Hammerhead Mole - Portaburst PB30
Epros - Seal Liner
Tunnelling (Sponsored by South West Water Ltd)
Winner: DCT Civil Engineering Ltd – ‘M60 Jnct 16 tunnel crossing for Robin Hood Pumping Main’
Highly Commended: Amec Ltd – ‘Shannon River Crossing’
Young Engineer (Sponsored by UKSTT)
Winner: Luke Mosley, Mosley Moling Ltd
Highly Commended: John Mee, John Mee Construction
To round off the evening’s entertainment, the organisers had secured the presence of the well-known radio and TV writer and comedian Barry Cryer, who entertained the crowd with jokes, anecdotes and songs. He was accompanied on the piano by Colin Sell
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South West Water |
Develop Solutions
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Bodycote PDL
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Severn Trent Water
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Thames Water
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TA Drilling
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Astec Underground
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Northumbrian Water Technical Centre
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DCT Civil Engineering
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May Gurney
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Balfour Beatty
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TT-UK
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This year's annual awards dinner took place on 8th April at the Holiday Inn, Birmingham. Two hundred members and guests enjoyed an excellent meal in superb surroundings. The management and organisers really did everything possible to ensure the event ran like clockwork. Jon Boon, the UKSTT chairman, made a brief focussed speech welcoming members and guests to the event and encouraging everyone to enjoy the evening.
Before dinner the environmentalist Chris Packham made a short, humorous, yet persuasive presentation on the importance of environmental awareness, the skills of handling snakes poisonous or otherwise, and the humour potential of some of our sector's technical vocabulary. Then just before dinner he spent a few minutes introducing the awards and their background supporting information.
The evening meal was preceded with grace chanted by 'Cantabile' a professional quartet who had stepped in to fill the vacancy created by a late cancellation by the planned guest speaker Nicholas Parsons.
Following an excellent traditional meal the awards were introduced and the winners and highly commended runners up announced. All the awards, in recognition of excellence, are made in various categories (see table below) including renovation, new installation, Tunnelling & Micro-tunnelling, Innovation and the UKSTT-sponsored 'Young Engineer of the Year', worth £2,000. The Young Engineer prize is designed to help gifted individuals to develop their potential within the field of trenchless technology, and is a means of encouraging young members to become more involved within the society.
This was then followed by the after dinner entertainment. Usually a speaker but on this occasion a cappella quartet - 'Cantabile'. In unaccompanied form, they proved entertainment with a great variety of songs. My skills cannot do them justice - 'Highly entertaining and consummately professional'?. They wrote several topical items specifically for the evening as well as finding time to embarrass, in good taste, the chairman and his wife.
'How do you follow that?' was the opening of the final brief vote of thanks given by Jack Knight who had co-ordinated and organised the whole event (with help). Some of us then got closer to the bar for some informal networking and stories and to get feedback from members and guests. The consensus appeared to be very positive, and if you were not there you missed a great night out.
The UKSTT would like to thank those companies sponsoring the Awards dinner, who included Barhale Ltd, Bodycote Pipeline Developments Ltd, Byzak Ltd, DCT Civil Engineering Ltd, Insituform, Severn Trent Water Ltd, South West Water Ltd, Thames Water Ltd and U-Mole Ltd.
sponsored by Severn Trent Water Ltd and DCT Civil Engineering Ltd
Won by LMR Drilling for 'Holyhead rock outfall-Anglesey, Wales'.
Highly commended were Clancy Docwra Limited for '11Km pipeline in Cumbria'.
sponsored by Byzak Limited
Won by Clancy Docwra Limited for 'installation of New Water Mains in Surrey for Sutton and East Surrey Water'.
Highly commended were Perco Engineering Services Limited for 'Lewis-Auger Boring'.
sponsored by U-Mole Limited
Won by Managed Services Ltd for 'Mogden to Perry Oaks Sludge Main Upgrade'.
Highly commended were May Gurney Utility Services Limited for 'Praise Floods in Twin Success' and Peter Duffy Limited for 'Knostrop Emergency Work Sewer Renovation'.
sponsored by Bodycote Pipeline Developments Ltd
Won by May Gurney Utility Services Limited for 'Inversion Drums up Applause from EA'.
Highly commended were Perco Engineering Services Limited for 'Keilworth SSSI' and Insituform Environmental Techniques Limited 'Baldoyle Flood relief'.
sponsored by South West Water and Barhale Limited
Won by Naylor Drainage Limited for 'Naylor DenChem'.
Highly commended were Balfour Beatty Limited for 'High Pressure Jetting Mains Cleaning'.
sponsored by Thames Water Limited
Won by DCT Civil Engineering Limited for 'Stoke UIDs-Phase 2'.
Highly commended were Byzak Limited for 'Gas Pipeline Crossing River Dee'.
sponsored by UKSTT Chairman and South West Water Limited
Won by Becky Gabriel of May Gurney Utility Services Limited.
UKSTT held its 10th annual Awards Dinner on Friday 26th March 2004 at the Imperial Hotel, Blackpool. The Awards are presented to companies that have achieved the highest standards in their particular fields of trenchless technology, and this year were announced by Chris Packham, TV Presenter and Naturalist.
To start the evening UKSTT Chairman Jon Boon welcomed everyone to the 2004 Awards Dinner and gave a short address to the 200 members and guests present.
Jon outlined the activities of the Society during the last year, which included his thanks to the outgoing Chairman Norman Howell and to all members of the Committee for their hard work during the year.
Jon concluded by giving his vision for the future of the Society.
Chris Packham then announced the short listed Projects and after dinner disclosed to a very attentive audience, the winners.
Twenty eight nominations were received from 19 companies for awards in the 6 categories. The following awards were made on the night:-
sponsored by Severn Trent Water Ltd
Won by Corus Rail Consultancy for 'Watford Bletchley Alliance-Trenchless Undertrack Crossings (Designer)'
Short listed were Barhale Construction Plc for 'Lindrosa Road Flood Alleviation Scheme'.
sponsored by Barhale/Haswell
Won by Avoidatrench Ltd for 'Sea Banks to Brownsea Island, Water Main'
Short listed were Clancy Docwra Ltd for 'Auger bore crossing of the A4, West Cromwell Road. London', Coffey Construction Ltd for 'Directional Drilling beneath the N7, Naas Road, Dublin' and Severn Trent Water for 'Lysons Avenue Flood Relief, Gloucester (Bristol Road Connection)'.
sponsored by Byzak Limited
Won by Clancy Docwra Ltd for 'Thames Water Network Upgrade Programme'
Short listed were Laing Utilities Ltd for 'Huntsman Petrochemicals (UK) Ltd, North Tees Repair Programme' and K'Nex Pipelines and Cables for 'Pipe Bursting and Trenchless Renewal for the Gwendraith Valley Sewer'.
sponsored by Thames Water
Won by Balfour Beatty Utilities Ltd for 'Avon to Blackdown Trunk Main'
Short listed were TJ Brent Ltd for '"Keeping the Toby Man Happy" in Dudley' and Insituform Ltd for 'Lynn Road Rising Main, Wisbech'.
sponsored by South West Water and Ferro-Monk systems limited
Won by Brewis Direct/Overboring Systems Ltd for 'Overboring'
Short listed were Enterprise Mangement Services Limited/RSK Orbital for 'Pipesight - Auto-Referencing and Management of Assets, Survey Data' and Moseley Moling for 'Vaccum Excavation'.
sponsored by Environmental Techniques
Won by Barhale Construction plc for 'Welwyn Garden city Southern Outfall'
Short listed were Corus Rail Consultancy for 'Watford Bletchley Alliance-Trenchless Undertrack Crossings (Designer)' and Byzak Limited for 'Skinningrove Relief Sewer, North Yorkshire'.
sponsored by the Chairman of Blackpool B C and the UKSTT
Won by Alec Marshall of Mott MacDonald. To view the report of how Alec Marshall used his prize, please click here.
The actual Awards were presented to the winners by the deputy Mayor of Blackpool Councillor Granville Heap
The evening was concluded with entertainment from David Copperfield.
