Infrastructure Delivery Award
Celebrating best-in-class performance and innovative approaches to delivering infrastructure projects that drive efficiency, productivity and social value. This award recognises how utilities are using digital tools, new workforce approaches and collaboration to deliver projects cost-effectively and efficiently.
Infrastructure Delivery Award
Celebrating best-in-class performance and innovative approaches to delivering infrastructure projects that drive efficiency, productivity and social value. This award recognises how utilities are using digital tools, new workforce approaches and collaboration to deliver projects cost-effectively and efficiently.
Barhale in partnership with Mace Dragados JV (MDJV), Thames Water and Cadent
Euston Station – Northern Utility Diversions
The HS2 Euston Northern Utilities Diversions project is one of the UK’s most complex multi-utility diversion projects. Delivered in London’s heart and under intense scrutiny, Barhale diverted water, wastewater, gas, power and telecommunications infrastructure whilst maintaining uninterrupted services and protecting one of the UK's busiest transport hubs. Through a combination of engineering, innovative sequencing and a flume solution that enabled tunnelling beneath a live sewer, the team overcame 125 uncharted utility clashes and reduced the programme by 18 months. Delivered through Barhale's direct delivery model, the project has established a benchmark for utility infrastructure delivery, sustainability and collaborative working.
South East Water and Murphy
Butler Water Treatment Works: Helping to secure Kent's water supply
Butler Water Treatment Works (WTW) is a flagship water resilience project delivered by South East Water and Murphy to address water supply challenges across Kent. The new £50m facility strengthens regional water security by providing up to an additional 20 million litres of drinking water each day (Ml/d), reducing reliance on imported supplies and providing additional capacity to support future population growth. Delivered through an integrated partnership model, the project overcame significant operational, environmental and technical challenges while maintaining customer supplies. Combining innovative engineering and collaborative delivery, Butler WTW improves resilience, sustainability and customer outcomes while creating lasting strategic value.
Last Mile
Dagenham Green: Multi-network collaboration to overcome major infrastructure constraints
Dagenham Green is one of East London’s largest regeneration projects, comprising 3,500 homes, commercial spaces, and a school on the former Ford Motor Company factory. Last Mile is delivering the site’s multi-utility infrastructure, including securing a 21MVA connection from UK Power Networks (UKPN) through a commercially unprecedented solution. The project involved a three-party network situation that threatened the developer’s (Peabody) build programme. Last Mile engineered industry-first temporary and permanent solutions that saved over £630,000 in additional costs and six months of delay, enabling on-time energisation, and created a model for grid-constrained brownfield development involving multiple DNO and IDNO stakeholders.
Northern Powergrid
Connecting Rural Upper Coquetdale: Delivering Power, Connectivity and Resilience
After over 50 years of campaigning by residents, Northern Powergrid has delivered the infrastructure needed to bring mains electricity to one of England's remote valleys. Funded by the Home Office and Ministry of Defence, this project has connected 16 properties and energised three emergency services communications masts through the construction of approximately 15km of overhead line and 5km of underground cable across challenging terrain within the Northumberland National Park. Delivered in partnership with Building Digital UK, utilities partner OCU Group and a range of stakeholders, the project has transformed residents’ daily lives while improving connectivity, resilience, and communications infrastructure.
SSEN Transmission
Wind Farm Grid Connections by Modular Substation
SSEN Transmission has established one of the largest, if not the largest, modular substation frameworks in the UK, as well as standardising the design and delivery approach for all future single customer wind farm grid connections in northern Scotland where the single largest majority of UK onshore wind is connected. This revolutionary approach will result in significant efficiency savings, including 60% substation size reduction, and expected 50% construction duration reduction and up to 25% cost reduction. This has already been committed to by renewables customers on 10 projects with 15 by year end, which represents just under 2GW.
Stantec, Southern Water and CMDP+
Bewl Drawdown Improvements Scheme
The Bewl Drawdown Improvements Scheme demonstrates how Southern Water and CMDP+, supported by Stantec collaborated to deliver critical resilience infrastructure through innovative engineering, digital design and integrated project delivery. At the largest inland reservoir in South East England, the partnership designed and commissioned one of the UK's largest siphon-based emergency drawdown systems, capable of lowering water levels by five metres in just 4.4 days, exceeding statutory requirements. Delivered in a live operational environment while maintaining water supply, public access and environmental protection, the project combined technical excellence, cost-effective delivery and long-term resilience, creating a benchmark for future reservoir safety schemes.
Tideway
Delivering Tideway: Collaboration, Innovation and Lasting Value
Over the past year, Tideway transformed one of the world’s most complex civil engineering projects into operational infrastructure protecting London’s river. The £4.7bn Thames Tideway Tunnel became fully operational, major construction concluded, all 13 new public spaces opened, and operational handover to Thames Water was achieved. These milestones were delivered through integrated digital controls, progressive assurance and collaboration across Tideway, Thames Water, the programme manager and the contracting alliance. The result is efficient, resilient infrastructure already preventing millions of tonnes of sewage pollution from entering the Thames while delivering lasting value for customers, communities, the infrastructure sector and the environment.
United Utilities, Cadent, and Network Plus
Digging once: Pioneering water and gas collaboration for infrastructure delivery
Nobody likes roadworks. With 925km water and more than 2,000km gas pipes to replace in the North West by 2031, that’s a lot of disruption. So United Utilities, Cadent and Network Plus came together to answer the common challenge “Why can’t they just dig the road up once?”. By sharing forward plans of works and using dual-skilled teams to replace over 400m of water and gas pipes at the same time, this project was among the first in the UK to adopt fully integrated infrastructure delivery – establishing a new benchmark for collaborative streetworks and saving 44 days of disruption.
United Utilities Enterprise
United Utilities Enterprise is transforming infrastructure delivery through an innovative Project 13 Enterprise model that brings together United Utilities, delivery partners, suppliers and stakeholders as one integrated organisation. Created to deliver the largest investment in North West water and wastewater infrastructure for over a century, the Enterprise combines digital collaboration, early supply chain engagement and customer-focused delivery to improve efficiency, drive innovation and create lasting value. By breaking down traditional organisational boundaries, United Utilities Enterprise is delivering a more collaborative, resilient and sustainable approach to infrastructure delivery while supporting local businesses, communities and customers across the region.
