Your Bridges Awards

Welcome to the Bridges Awards 2025! 

Introduced in 2020 by Bridge design & engineering magazine and the organisers of Bridges conference and exhibition in partnership with the Bridge Owners Forum, the Bridges Awards aim to recognise and honour individual projects and/or organisations for outstanding achievement.

The Bridges Awards celebrate the sheer ingenuity, project management and cooperative skills of the people behind the design, construction and maintenance of pedestrian, highway and rail bridges. The search for the extraordinary has now begun and outstanding achievement in UK bridge projects is now sought under seven general categories: bridge design, bridge construction, new life, management, international participation, sustainability, and training.

After listening to feedback, there are some exciting changes for 2025. We have added two new categories, the Bridges Sustainability Award and the Bridges Ethos Award.  The Bridges Ethos Award recognises an outstanding apprenticeship programme or initiative in staff training/retainment in the bridge sector. The Bridges Sustainability Award recognises innovation in the reduction of carbon emissions in bridge design, construction, maintenance, refurbishment/repair, disposal or management.

In addition, we will now be splitting the Design, Construction, International and New Life categories into projects below or above £10million. Finally, you’ll notice the window of eligibility for all categories is now two years, which follows the decision to confer the Awards every two years in order to make the contest as competitive as possible.

Finally, all entries will be reviewed by an independent judging panel who will take into consideration factors including individual/team contribution to a project, environmental impact, quality of design and construction, innovative factors and benefits to the community. The online nomination process will open in September 2024 with the deadline for entries on 10 January 2025.