The inaugural categories distinguish completed delivery, operating performance, specialist technical
contributions, resilience outcomes, and knowledge that changes professional practice. An entry follows the
achievement being put forward, not the size, value, or profile of the wider project.
Project
Marine Works Project Award
For a completed or accepted marine works project that demonstrates strong engineering, controlled execution, and a clearly evidenced delivery result.
Who may enter: owners, public authorities, developers, designers, contractors, joint ventures, and integrated project teams.
Typical subjects: berths and quay walls, breakwaters, navigation dredging, reclamation, terminals, shore protection, marine intakes and outfalls, and subsea crossings.
The record should show: the accepted scope or phase, site constraints, delivery responsibility, marine logistics, temporary works, changes, tests, surveys, and close-out result.
Not enough on its own: a contract award, construction start, progress percentage, or planned completion date.
Asset
Marine Asset Performance Award
For a marine or waterfront asset with an operating record that demonstrates reliable function, capacity, maintainability, or service improvement.
Who may enter: owners, operators, developers, port authorities, utilities, concessionaires, and public clients.
Typical subjects: navigation channels and port basins, berths, breakwaters, mooring systems, ferry landings, terminal marine systems, and water or wastewater marine assets.
The record should show: accepted configuration, operating baseline, observation period, demand or exposure, availability, downtime, maintenance interventions, exclusions, and sustained result.
Not enough on its own: design capacity, commissioning output, or one operating milestone without a defined observation period.
Engineering
Specialist Marine Engineering Award
For a distinctive engineering or installation contribution in dredging, geotechnics, mooring, marine structures, subsea utilities, heavy lift, or related specialist work.
Who may enter: specialist contractors, designers, suppliers, researchers, and integrated delivery teams.
Typical subjects: dredging methods, ground treatment, marine foundations, caisson or immersed-element installation, shore pulls, mooring design, temporary marine works, and heavy lifts.
The record should show: the technical problem, alternatives considered, design basis, interfaces, temporary states, execution method, hold points, verification, and the entrant's precise responsibility.
Not enough on its own: participation in a prominent project without isolating the specialist decision, method, or verified installation result.
Resilience
Coastal and Waterfront Resilience Award
For work that reduces coastal or waterfront risk and demonstrates performance across hazard, structural response, consequence, recovery, or adaptation.
Who may enter: public clients, owners, communities, consultants, contractors, developers, and operators.
Typical subjects: beach nourishment, revetments and seawalls, flood barriers, breakwater adaptation, dunes, wetlands, habitat structures, and recovery-led waterfront reconstruction.
The record should show: baseline hazard and consequence, design loading, residual risk, monitoring period or observed event response, maintenance, limitations, and outcomes for the asset or community.
Not enough on its own: projected benefit, permitted scope, or modelled performance presented as though it were an observed outcome.
Knowledge
Marine Works Knowledge Award
For a method, standard, dataset, investigation, or documented operating lesson that materially improves professional marine works practice.
Who may enter: researchers, practitioners, owners, operators, project teams, standards bodies, academic institutions, and technical publishers.
Typical subjects: design guidance, standards, field datasets, investigation methods, monitoring protocols, construction lessons, and operating practices with demonstrated use.
The record should show: authorship, purpose, method, data provenance, validation, reproducibility, use, limitations, access conditions, and independent review or adoption.
Not enough on its own: a promotional publication, undocumented opinion, or claim that cannot be independently examined.
