Overall Project of the Year Award
The winner for this category has now been announced.
This award, the pinnacle of the ceremony, is chosen at the discretion of our Awards Steering Group from the four winners of the Project of the Year categories (Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure; Technology; Transformation; and Social).
At the heart of every great project, is a great story; a successful project is about delivering results for the customer, the stakeholders, and the wider community. It’s about turning a vision into reality and making progressive change happen. Through the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques, a project’s objectives can be met. The Overall Project of the Year Award is the headline award, given to the project that has shown the highest level of excellence in project delivery and has maximised benefits to end users and communities.
There are four Project of the Year categories, representing different types of projects. The winner of each of these categories is eligible to win the prestigious Overall Project of the Year category, announced at the end of the ceremony. As a result, we do not accept direct entries for this category.
The South Wales Valleys is one of the most socially economically deprived areas within the UK and EU. As a result, it was identified that significant investment was required in the railway to unlock the economic potential whilst also raising living standards.
This entailed a £1.5 billion investment and once in a generation to deliver electrification amounting to 170km of track, installation of brand-new signalling across the network, controlled from a new purpose build Integrated Control Centre in Taff’s Well, the introduction of £800 million worth of brand-new trains, upgrades to stations, and the construction of two new railway stations.