APM Project Management Awards 2018

The APM Project Management Awards 2018, sponsored by RPC UK Ltd. took place tonight, Monday 26 November, in historic Old Billingsgate London. The finalists in all 19 categories and more than 650 guests eagerly awaited the announcements at the glittering event hosted by Natasha Kaplinsky.

APM Award winners:

Geoffrey Trimble Award
Clement Gunasekar – Improving contractor’s cost and progress control systems in the UAE (University College of Estate Management, UK & Falconcity of Wonders, UAE)

Herbert Walton Award
Paul Summers - Practitioner development - From trained technicians to reflective practitioners: a systemic study within a United Kingdom unitary authority (The University of Winchester)

Brian Willis Award
Tracy Small, Met Office

Overseas Project of the Year
IMC Worldwide Ltd  - The Fael Khair Project for the Construction of School-cum-Cyclone Shelters in Bangladesh - Phase 1

Shell HSSE
Infrastructure Strategic Alliance - Sellafield Ltd working with Morgan Sindall and Arup

Social Project of the Year
Nationwide Building Society - Comfort U Bags (CUBs)

Mike Nichols Award
Cumbria County Council & Mott MacDonald - Cumbria Infrastructure Recovery Programme

Sir Monty Finniston Award
Professor Peter Hansford FREng FAPM, University College London

Project of the Year: Transformation
NATS  - EXCDS into Swanwick Terminal Control

Project of the Year: IT and Tech
British Gas - British Gas Rewards

Project of the Year: Eng Cons Inf
Atkins - Northern Spire

Project of the Year: Specialist
BAE Systems - Naval Combat Systems Integration Support Service (NCSISS)

Overall Project of the Year
NATS – EXCDS into Swanwick Terminal Control

Programme of the Year
GCHQ - Licence to Operate

Project Management Company of the Year
Dyson

Project Management Consultancy of the Year
Pcubed

Young Project Professional of the Year
Michael Rusbridge, Pendennis Shipyard

Project Professional of the Year
Alison McChesney, Coventry Building Society

PMO of the Year
Ella’s Kitchen

In addition to the awards, the recipients of five new APM Honorary Fellowships were announced. These are the first for APM as a chartered body and under the new guidelines that APM Honorary Fellows do not need to be APM members or a current project professional practitioner.

APM Honorary Fellows 2018:

• Philippa Foster Back CBE
• Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE
• Sir Cameron Mackintosh
• Tony Meggs
• Air Vice- Marshal Sue Gray CB OBE MSc CENG FIET RAF

Congratulations to all the finalists, winners and honorary fellows.