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Discover the 2023 Brownfield Award Winners

2023 Brownfield
Awards Winners' Guide

Download the free digital 2023 Brownfield Awards Winners’ Guide and view the shortlisted and highly-commended entries, plus read the in-depth submissions from the 2023 winning entries, with judges’ comments.

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Best Project Preparatory Work

Sponsored by NHBC

 

Winner: 

Tanyard Lane - CampbellReith

Highly Commended

Enabling Sustainable Re-use of 30 million m3 of Excavated Materials on C23 of HS2 - EKFB (Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction, and BAM Nuttall), working with their designers ASC (Arcadis, Setec and Cowi)

Shortlist

  • Abbots Gate – Arcadis/Propiteer Construction Ltd

  • London Luton Airport Expansion – Delivery of multi-phased ground investigations, risk assessments and a sustainable remediation strategy - Ove Arup & Partners

  • Integrated Site Characterisation of a High-Density Plume - AECOM

  • Design and Implementation of a Highly Constrained Substation Site Investigation - Atkins

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Best Research or Application in the Advancement of Science, Technology or Digital Innovation in the Brownfield Sector

Sponsored by SoilFLO

 

Winner: 

Guidance on Assessing Risk to Controlled Waters 
from UK Land Contamination Under Conditions 
of Future Climate Change - 
The Society of Brownfield Risk Assessment (SoBRA)

Shortlist

  • Tanyard Lane - CampbellReith (view the entry)

  • NHBC Hazardous ground gas - an essential guide for housebuilders - NHBC, Buro Happold and EPG

  • Field Trial of Dispersed Alkaline Substrate to passively treat highly polluted Acid Mine Drainage at Parys Mountain, Wales - WSP

  • Innovative use of extensometers to inform predictions of secondary consolidation (creep) in a thick deposit of waste beneath the Liverpool Festival Gardens site - Vertase FLI Ltd, Arup, Vinci Construction UK Ltd, Liverpool City Council

  • Sappers Field 'Sinkhole' - Yellow Sub Geo Ltd

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Best Public Engagement and Participation of a Brownfield Activity 

 

Winner: 

A Landmark Brownfield Regeneration – Fiddler’s Ferry Power Station - Deetu (on behalf of Peel NRE)

Shortlist

  • Lavenham Gasholder Restoration - National Grid

  • Tanyard Lane - CampbellReith

  • Windsor Street Gasholders - National Grid

  • Stratford - Positive Public Engagement for a gasholder infilling and dismantling site to engage with the local community and other stakeholders extensively throughout the course of our work on this brownfield site - Local Dialogue

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Best Application of Remediation Technologies

Sponsored by Envirolab

 

Winner: 

Cleared for Landing: Pioneering PFAS Remediation Enables Residential Redevelopment at a Private Airfield REGENESIS and Mott MacDonald
 

Shortlist

  • Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents in a Public Water Supply Aquifer - Arcadis

  • Permeable Reactive Barrier using Colloidal Carbon on an Operational Petrol Station - SLR Consulting

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Best Sustainable Re-Use of Materials

Sponsored by Soilfix

 

Winner: 

Liverpool Festival Gardens - Vertase FLI Ltd, Arup, Vinci Construction UK Ltd and Liverpool City Council

Highly Commended:

Enabling Sustainable Re-use of 30 million m3 of Excavated Materials on C23 of HS2 - EKFB (Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction, and BAM Nuttall), working with their designers ASC (Arcadis, Setec and Cowi)

Shortlist

  • Moss Nook - Harworth, VHE & RSK

  • Shipley Lakeside Development, Derbyshire - AECOM

  • SEGRO Park Coventry - Hydrock

  • Reuse of metal impacted sediments - Ramboll

  • Glan Llyn, Newport - Rodgers Leask

  • Port Loop Phase 1-3 - Civil & Remediation 

  • HS2 Depot Washwood Heath - Jackson Remediation (view the entry)

  • Glass Futures - Civil & Remediation 

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Best Sustainable Brownfield / Urban Regeneration / Infrastructure Scheme

Sponsored by i2 Analytical

 

Winner: 

North London Heat and Power Project - The North London Waste Authority

Shortlist

  • Port Loop Phase 1-3 - Civil & Remediation

  • The Gemstone Building - Sixpenny Group (view the entry)

  • West Longbridge - PJA with St. Modwen

  • SEGRO Park Coventry - Hydrock

  • Grand Union - St George

  • Oval Village - Keltbray, Berkeley, Waterman & Wentworth House Partnership

  • Mayfield Park - LCR

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Best Public Sector/ Not for Profit Brownfield Project

Sponsored by Englobe

 

Winner: 

North London Heat and Power Project - The North London Waste Authority

 

Shortlist

  • Chester Market - Cheshire West and Chester Council

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Best Biodiversity Enhancement on a Brownfield Project

 

Winner: 

Ackers Weir Removal - Sanctus

Highly Commended:

Parc Coed Elai - Arcadis / Welsh Government

Shortlist

  • Meon Vale - St Modwen Homes

  • The Green Quarter - Berkeley

  • Thoresby-Vale - Harworth, Bentley Project Management & AES

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Best Overseas Project 

Winner: 

Remediation of a Crude Oil Spill in the Peruvian Amazon - Ogreen/ Geo2 Remediation

 

Shortlist

  • PFAS Soil Remediation Options Appraisal and Remediation Strategy Development at Guernsey Airport– Arcadis/Guernsey Ports

  • Remediating recalcitrant contamination in Nyköping - McMillan-McGee Corp and Geostream Group (view the entry)

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Best Early Career Brownfield Professional

Sponsored by AGS

 

Winner: 

Hebah Abdel-Hady - Arcadis


 

Shortlist

  • Tom Magee - Civil & Remediation

  • Conor Billam - AECOM

  • Leanne Matthews - AECOM

  • Hayley Bowers - Leap Environmental

  • Eleanor Brown - Ramboll

  • Jessica Rowe - Delta-Simons

  • Matthew Hole - Sanctus

  • Eleanor Cook - Arup

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Technical Lead of the Year

 

Winner:​ 

Andrew Fellows - RSK Geosciences

Shortlist

  • David Cragg for Lothian Gateway 2023 - AECOM

  • Sarah Bullock - Atkins

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Judges’ Choice Award

 

Winner: 

Guidance on Assessing Risk to Controlled Waters
from UK Land Contamination Under Conditions
of Future Climate Change - 
The Society of Brownfield Risk Assessment (SoBRA)

 


 

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