Muir Wood wins ICE gold award for engineering

Five winners of awards for outstanding engineering achievement have been named by the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Sir Alan Muir Wood is to be awarded the ICE's Gold Medal for civil engineering excellence. He is a tunnelling expert, former senior partner of consultant Sir William Halcrow and Partners and a former president of the institution.

The ICE's Edmund Hambly Medal will be given to Birmingham City Council's Transportation Department for its work on the Heartlands Spine Road Scheme. The medal is awarded for creative design that contributed to sustainability. The project is critical to a regeneration scheme being undertaken in Birmingham.

Professor Christopher Calladine is to be awarded the James Alfred Ewing Medal for his work on the engineering theory of shell structures, which "encompassed and extended two key theoretical breakthroughs".

The Brunel Medal for excellence by a group goes to a team of civil engineers from consultant Gifford Graham and Partners. The team designed the Third Dee Crossing over the A548 for Clwyd County Council (now Flintshire County Council).

Professor Stephen Wearne is to receive the Garth Watson Medal for services to the ICE, including his work as series editor of the Management Guides.

ICE president Sir Alan Cockshaw will present the awards on 3 November.