ITA Tunnelling Awards 2024 – The Winners
Winners of the seven categories of the 10th Anniversary series of the ITA Tunnelling Awards were announced and the Brunel Trophies presented at the Awards gala celebrations in Genoa, Italy.
These outstanding achievements from across the world demonstrate how each of the projects, innovations and young tunnellers of the 2024 Awards series are changing how underground engineering is shaping the future development and sustainability of cities and global public infrastructure.
Major Project of the Year: +500 Million Euros
Gold: Thames Tideway – London’s Super Sewer, UK
Silver: Grand Central Madison, formerly East Side Access, New York, USA
Bronze:Thomson-East Coast Line Contracts T222 to T310, Singapore
4th: Single-bore Double-deck Municipal Expressway Tunnel with Super-large Diameter, China
Project of the Year: 50–500 Million Euros
Gold: Brenner Base Tunnel - Lot H52 Hochstegen, Austria
Silver: Isarco River Underpass - Lot H71, Brenner Base Tunnel, Italy
Bronze: Lyon-Turin Saint-Martin-la-Porte Exploratory Tunnel, France
4th: Musaimeer Pump Station and Outfall Project, Qatar
Renovation Project of the Year
Gold: Manfreida Road Tunnel Renovation Project, Italy
Silver: Refurbishment of the Heinenoord Immersed Tube Road Tunnel, Netherlands
Bronze: Genoa Railway Junction Capacity Upgrade, Italy
Product/Equipment Innovation of the Year
Gold: Ultra-Small Turning Radius Hard Rock TBM, China
Silver: SOGUN: Geometric Control System for Shotcreting and Other Tunnelling Works, Spain
Bronze: Advanced Hybrid Wireless Sensor Network System for Safety Risk Sensing in Tunnel and Underground Engineering, China
4th: Type 0–90° Continuous Conveyor Equipment, China
Technical Innovation of the Year
Gold: Disc Cutter Wear Sensor Package and TBM Monitoring System, South Korea
Silver: MIRET-Tunnel AI, Italy
Bronze: Advanced Tunnelling Assistance System, Italy
Beyond Engineering
Gold: Modern Underground Cemetery – Where Creativity, Sustainability and Efficiency Meet Tradition, Israel
Silver: City Rail Link Goes Beyond in Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, New Zealand
Bronze: Eco-friendly Metro Construction for Challenging Coastal Geological Environments, China
4th: Risk Control for Safe Shield Tunnelling Through Complex Strata of the Pearl River System, China
Young Tunneller of the Year
Gold: Luigi D‘Angelo, Italy, 34
Silver: Hanan Samadi, Iran, 28
Bronze: Adriano Martoccia, Italy, 33
ITA Tunnelling Awards 2025 in Belgrade
Next year, the 2025 series of ITA Tunnelling Awards will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, in conjunction with the 2025 SETC Southeastern Europe Tunnelling Conference on 1–3 October 2025.
