Awards

BAM Ritchies Shortlisted for three awards at the 2012 Ground Engineering Awards
BAM Ritchies submitted three entries for the 2012 Ground Engineering Awards and all three have been shortlisted by the prestigious panel of judges.

• Developments in Blasting at Glensanda Coastal Quarry has been shortlisted for the Technical Excellence award
• BAM Ritchies has had its in-house designed and developed Sherpa 3 Ground Engineering Drilling Rig shortlisted for the Product and Equipment Innovation award
• BAM Ritchies has been shortlisted for the Ground Investigation Specialist of the Year award.   

BAM Ritchies has had success at the Ground Engineering Awards every year since they began and the organisation has maintained this unrivalled run of success again this year. This reflects extremely well on the dedication and professionalism of the whole BAM Ritchies team.
The winners will be announced at a prestigious lunchtime awards ceremony, on Friday 4 May at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.

BAM Ritchies Double Success at the 2011 Ground Engineering Awards
BAM Ritchies submitted two entries for the 2011 Ground Engineering Awards and both have been recognised by the prestigious panel of judges at the awards event in central London on 11th May 2011, as follows:

‘Beyond Zero’ was the outright winner of the Health and Safety Award. Operations Director Ian Dalgleish and Senior Safety Advisor Roy Jackson were clearly delighted to collect the award.

A83 Rest and be Thankful - Landslide and Debris Flow Protection was Commended in the Geotechnical / Geoenvironmental UK Project up to £1m Award.

BAM Ritchies has had success at the Ground Engineering Awards every year since they began and the organisation has maintained this unrivalled run of success again this year. This reflects extremely well on the dedication and professionalism of the whole BAM Ritchies team.

2009 Safe Site Award
BAM Ritchies has now won four BAM Nuttall Safe Site Awards in the last eight years. The Dawlish Slope Stabilisation Project was the worthy winner of the 2009 Small Projects Safe Site Award.

The BAM Ritchies’ project team received the trophy from board director Bob Treadgold at the 2010 Bristol BAM Nuttall Operating Plan Presentation.

GE Awards 2010
BAM Ritchies' Anchoring and Piling at Rosyth has been Highly Commended in the Innovation Category at the Ground Engineering Awards 2010. There were six finalists in this very competitive category.

The No 1 Dock at Rosyth is going through a major up-grade being carried out by BAM Nuttall, with BAM Ritchies undertaking the geotechnical elements of the scheme.

This is a project where, innovation in plant, equipment and working methods, paired with excellent teamwork between Babcock, BAM Nuttall, BAM Ritchies and the various specialist suppliers has achieved the goals set.

This is the third year in a row that BAM Ritchies has been rewarded at the Ground Engineering Awards and adds to an impressive portfolio of awards achieved in recent years.

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ICE Saltire Commendation
BAM Ritchies' Dounreay Shaft Isolation Project walked away with a Project Commendation at the 2009 Saltire Awards for Civil Engineering. Of the 17 projects nominated only seven were recognised with commendations. Commenting on the Dounreay project the judges highlighted the 'exceptionally high level of initiative, teamwork and skill shown in the successful development and execution in a hostile and challenging environment'.

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BCIA 2009
At this years British Construction Industry Awards Dounreay Shaft Isolation project was awarded the Civil Engineering Award for projects valued between £3 million and £50 million. The BAM Ritchies’ team constructed a high quality grout curtain around the 65m deep Dounreay Shaft, created in the 1950s as part of an offshore discharge tunnel. This innovative geotechnical project will significantly contribute to long-term environmental improvement in the region.

The judges said the project was:

• An extraordinarily innovative and complex project delivered with extreme care, confidence and total team collaboration.
• Tackled all the potential 'show stoppers' with a great deal of strength and maturity.
• Pushed beyond the boundaries of what had been technically deliverable and fundamentally advanced the technique of wet grouting.
• Effectively saved the client around £220million over a conventional decontamination process.

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ICE South Branch Construction Awards 2009
At this years ICE South Branch Construction Awards BAM Ritchies entry Copyhold Cutting Slope Stablilisation was highly commended in the Geoffrey Osborne award for Innovation.

The Network Rail project involved critical cutting stabilisation work on a main railway line between London and Brighton. The work was required following
a series of landslides which occurred between 2006 and 2007 which led to a speed restriction causing delays to passengers using the railway.

Prior to the design stage, `Panda Probing' was undertaken to determine the weathered mudstone profile, while innovative drilling rigs enabled drilling on the steep, inaccessible slope. An optimum design using tailored facing, clever methods of control and roped access negated costly possessions ensuring value for money.

This whole project was delivered safely to time and budget minimising environmental impact through the knowledge, skills and expertise of the whole project team working collaboratively together. In addition to the excellent HSQE performance, train operations and thus delays were unaffected during the works.

Construction News Specialists Awards 2009
At this year’s Specialists Awards sponsored by Construction News, BAM Ritchies received the Ground Engineering award and went on to win the Exceptional Performance Award. This is the top award from all the category winners and is an excellent result for the BAM Ritchies team.

The judges said: "This was a quality entry hitting the right notes on excellence, safety, environmental consideration and client service. It demonstrated a good mix of project examples,: company systems in place to monitor client satisfaction and feedback on good practice, and examples of general industry involvement."

Construction News also noted BAM Ritchies’ contribution to the difficult parts of the industry, along with its passion for ground engineering as praised by the judges.

The Specialists Awards is one of the construction industry's most notable annual events, recognising and rewarding the best specialist contractors in the business.

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To see BAM Ritchies receiving the award please click below.
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GE Awards 2009
Award Winners at Ground Engineering Awards
BAM Ritchies were winners at the Ground Engineering Awards 2009 held in London in February.

BAM Ritchies' entry - Copyhold Cutting - Slope Stabilisation - won the UK project up to £1M category Award. The Network Rail project was to stabilise the 200m long Copyhold Cutting on the London to Brighton railway line to reduce the risk of landslips. BAM Nuttall working with BAM Ritchies regraded the top, highly weathered, section removing, 6000t of spoil using long-reach excavators, reducing the slope angle from 50° to 30°. BAM Ritchies then installed raking anchors, micropiles, soil nails and face and toe anchors using excavator-mounted and rope-supported drill rigs. All work was done without possessions nor disruption to normal rail traffic.

What the judges said: This solution incorporated a variety of innovative and well considered design and construction features. In particular, the project involved successful management of the health, safety and environmental issues." The team at Copyhold Cutting - Slope Stabilisation also won the Health & Safety Award. What the judges said: "This wasn't just minimising health and safety risks, it was getting rid of it — real solutions to real health and safety problems."

BAM Ritchies were also Highly Commended in the Technical Excellence Award for the Dounreay Shaft Isolation Project. A high-quality grout curtain sealed the contaminated 65m deep shaft at Dounreay nuclear facility in Scotland from surrounding ground water. What the judges said: An extremely challenging project which involved many successful trials prior to coming up with the solution."

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Saltire Award for Clunie Dam Post Tensioning
The Clunie Dam Post Tensioning contract undertaken by BAM Ritchies for client Scottish and Southern Energy has recently been awarded a prestigious Saltire Society/Institution of Civil Engineering Construction Commendation Award.

The citation states” The commendation was made in recognition of skills, ingenuity and excellence in construction design of this innovative project. The meticulous planning and construction process delivered an economical Civil Engineering Project in a challenging confined area.”

This award was given to BAM Ritchies and Scottish and Southern Energy at the awards ceremony in Glasgow recently.

This is the second award the contract has received. In February the project achieved the accolade of Private Sector Project under £1million Ground Engineering 2008 Award in London.

The work involved drilling and installing 23 vertical rock anchors through the gravity sections of Clunie Dam in Perthshire, Scotland. The anchors varied in capacity from 1400kN to 2500kN (10 – 17strand) and lengths between 11m and 40m.

The key points that made this job exceptional included:-

• Work undertaken despite very restricted access
• The works were completed with excellent safety measures and without accident
• Normally helicopters would be used for this type of work but despite the very restricted access the work was completed using special and floating plant. This reduced environmental impacts of high fuel use and noise
• There was meticulous planning of the works
• Innovative techniques were used to safely construct the works
• Good value of money for the client
• Very high client satisfaction

GE Awards 2008
Award Winners at Ground Engineering Awards
BAM Ritchies were double award winners at the inaugural Ground Engineering Awards 2008 held in London in February.

The two awards, one in the private sector and one in the public sector at different ends of the country, confirm BAM Ritchies as the leading UK geotechnical contractor.

These achievements are a reflection on the hard work and capability of all BAM Ritchies team members along with a management system that ensures that clients are provided with industry leading project performances.

A40 & M50 Rock Slope Stabilisations
BAM Ritchies' entry – A40 & M50 Rock Slope Stabilisations - was the winner of the Geotechnical / Geoenvironmental Public Sector Project under £1M category at the inaugural 2008 Ground Engineering Awards.

The work involved the stabilisation of rock slopes near Ross-on-Wye using rock bolts, tensioned high strength mesh, rock fall netting, dentition and sprayed concrete.

The judges commented - ‘BAM Ritchies’ successful application of agile team working and partnering to bring in a scheme with a changing brief, was on time and on budget while being in the full glare of the motoring public’.

RoSPA Gold
BAM Ritchies are proud to have been awarded a RoSPA Gold Award.
This award is a reflection of the robust Health and Safety management system in place within BAM Ritchies together with significant improvements in incident frequency, resulting from team members constant efforts to improve Health and Safety performance on all our sites.

DSRL HSE Award
BAM Ritchies Dounreay Shaft Isolation contract was a winner of one of the Dounreay Director’s Safety, Health and Environment awards.

Clunie Dam Post Tensioning
BAM Ritchies' entry - Clunie Dam Post Tensioning - was the winner of the Geotechnical / Geoenvironmental Private Sector Project under £1M category at the inaugural 2008 Ground Engineering Awards.

The work involved the installation of 23 vertical multi-strand permanent anchors through the gravity sections of Clunie Dam in Perthshire, Scotland. The anchors varied in capacity from 1400kN to 2500kN (10 – 17 strand) and lengths between 11m and 40m.

The judges said - ‘This is a demonstration of lateral thinking to deliver an innovative solution. Work at the top of the dam with its restricted access had previously used helicopters. But BAM Ritchies decision to use a high power mini-rig for drilling, and floating plant for coiled anchors without pre-grouted fixed lengths, meant the solution lowered costs and environmental impact’.

In addition, BAM Ritchies’ Director and General Manager was pleased to present the Health and Safety Award at the event, which was attended by over 300 people.

Safety and Environmental Awards
Safe Site 2008
BAM Ritchies’ Clunie Dam site was awarded the BAMNuttall Safe Site 2008 Award for contracts less than £1 million. This is the third time in the last five years that BAM Ritchies Geotechnical Scotland has won this award.

It is particularly pleasing to note that all three projects have been on sites with notable engineering and logistical challenges.

The Clunie Dam site was very restricted and innovative safe working methods resulting from careful planning were instrumental in this award along with the GE Award, referred to above.