Bridges Awards 2025

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GENERAL CRITERIA

ELIGIBILITY

Projects must meet the following criteria:

  1. The projects must be for rail, vehicle, pedestrian/cyclist crossings.
  2. Projects in the Design, Construction, New Life and International categories must relate to bridges that opened to the public between 1 January 2022 and 1 January 2023. For entries in the Management category, where existing crossings remained opened, the project or initiative must have been fully implemented within the same timeline.
  3. Projects must be for structure/structures located in the United Kingdom, except for the International Award, where projects can be located anywhere in the world.
  4. Only entries by companies whose headquarters (as opposed to divisions or branches) are in the UK will be considered for the International Award.

 

JUDGING

The judging panel will be chaired by José María Sánchez de Muniáin, editor of Bridge design & engineering magazine, and will include independent experts from the following organisations: The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport; Bridge Owners Forum; Transport Scotland; Transport NI, Network Rail; Welsh Government and Highways England.

The judges will be given complete freedom in reaching their final decisions, but will take particular note of the following criteria:

  • fitness for purpose
  • environmental impact
  • carbon emissions reduction
  • value for money
  • quality of design and construction
  • successful cooperation between parties
  • innovation
  • appearance and harmony with the environment
  • efficient use of materials
  • safety
  • application of research and development results
  • benefit to the community
  • life-cycle costs

 

CHECKLIST

Your entry should include the nomination statement: this should be in PDF format, 800 words maximum and no more than ten images. Payment by credit card will be required to finalise the process. See ‘How to enter’ for more details about content. Deadline for entry is 11 January 2023.