This year’s 10th Anniversary of the ITA Tunnelling Awards has attracted a record number of more than 100 Award entries across its seven categories and from a record of more than 19 countries. Projects for road, rail, metro, hydro, water, and underground space, join entries for technical advancements, engineering initiatives, and the young engineers who are the future of the industry, to celebrate the highest of achievements for 2024.
Experienced review by the Panel of 20 Award Judges will identify a short list of three finalists per category and from these, a second round of scoring will arrive at an overall winner for each category. These will be announced at a gala event in November.
This year the ITA teams with SIG, the Italian Tunnelling Society, will host the global Awards event in conjunction with the SIG annual conference in Genoa on Italy’s northwest Mediterranean coast. A day long programme of round table discussions about the ITA Awards categories and the finalists will be followed by a cocktail party to announce the winners and a seated Gala Dinner in full celebration. The SIG conference the next day will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of both the ITA and of SIG, Société Italiana Gallerie, with a programme looking back at underground works over the last five decades and onwards towards projects of the future. The event is concluded with a technical site visit the following day to the Terzo Valico dei Giovi highspeed rail project just a short 30-minute road trip from Genoa.
The venue for the Awards day and Dinner on 28th November 2024 is the historic Magazzini del Cotone, a 19th Century port warehouse converted to beautifully decorated function rooms. The SIG Conference on 29th November 2024 is in the equally historic and bejewelled Palazzo Ducale. Hotels for the events are within five minutes walk. The field trip on Saturday 30th November is for the lucky ones who book their seats early.
Follow the links for more details and watch for more news to come.
ITA Awards 2024 – https://awards.ita-aites.org/
SIG 50th Anniversary Conference – https://www.societaitalianagallerie.it/menu/Attivita/sig-ita-50y-ita-awards/
ITA Awards Judges – https://awards.ita-aites.org/judges
Previous ITA Awards winners – https://awards.ita-aites.org/previous/2023/winners
ITA Tunnelling Award Categories
- Major Project of the Year – €500 million+ – 12 projects from 8 countries
- Project of the Year – €50-€500 million – 16 entries from 11 countries
- Renovation Project of the Year – 7 entries from 5 countries
- Technical Innovation of the Year – 17 entries from 10 countries
- Product/Equipment Innovation – 19 entries from 10 countries
- Beyond Engineering – 5 entries from 4 countries
- Young Tunneller of the Year – 25 entries from 16 countries
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