FPS Awards 2025: finalists announced

The Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) has announced the finalists for the 2025 FPS Awards, following 40 entries across seven categories. Winners — including the chair’s award and lifetime achievement award — will be revealed at Hilton London Bankside on 21 November 2025.

Safety Innovation Award

• BAM Ritchies — Hands on Safety: ending HAVS in tunnel repairs
• Bauer Keller JV — Collective protection and sampling slurry walls
• Cementation Skanska — Visual RAMS
• Delta Concrete Products — Blow Out Cannon

Sustainability Award

• Bachy Soletanche — Sustainable CEM VI limestone fines cement
• Casagrande & Expanded Piling — Casagrande B175XP hybrid piling rig
• DAWSON WAM — Reuse that scales: low-carbon sheet-pile walls
• Junttan — UK’s first battery pile driving rig

Geotechnical Solutions Award

• BAM Ritchies — Huddersfield Tunnel repairs
• Keltbray Built Environment — 50 Fenchurch Street project
• Roger Bullivant — Yarm Viaduct regeneration: bespoke piling solutions
• Van Elle — TRU: Pier 8

Project Leadership Award

• Danny Bunting, Van Elle
• Fernando Bienes, Expanded Piling
• Paul Keime, Bachy Soletanche
• Vitor Marques, Cementation Skanska

Geotechnical Team of the Year Award

• Bachy Soletanche, Canary Wharf Contractors, Arup & Red7Marine — Eden Dock Bridge marine piling, Canary Wharf
• BAM Ritchies, Murphy Group, Atkins & Network Rail — Harlesden embankment stabilisation
• DAWSON WAM & Van Elle — SMP Alliance: NEAR piled retaining structures
• Roger Bullivant — Yarm Viaduct regeneration: bespoke piling solutions

Comedian and presenter Alexander Armstrong will host the black-tie event. The FPS said the awards recognise safety innovation, sustainability, project delivery and teamwork across the piling and geotechnical sectors, reflecting the industry’s continued effort to raise standards.