CONCRETE SOCIETY AWARDS
NORTHERN IRELAND REGION AWARDS 2024
JOINT WINNER: PROCESS INNOVATION GRAHAM/CONSTRUCT TUITION Setting a new standard for proactive risk mitigation
Concrete planning and risk-reduction training, developed in a collaboration between GRAHAM and Construct Tuition, has been recognised as joint winner of the Process Innovation category. A data-driven approach and unique focus on real- world challenges impressed judges. The course was developed using GRAHAM’s own data to highlight specific risks and recurring issues in concrete management. Providing targeted, practical solutions immediately applicable on site, the training programme sets a new standard in the industry for proactive risk mitigation and quality improvement. Open to the project supply chain and client body, the training programme encourages collaboration between all parties, reducing errors and improving quality management. For one project, failure mode effect analysis informed adoption of a proven concrete mix, decreasing blowholes, improving site practices and making concrete cube strength sampling more reliable. Over a six-month period, errors related to pour management decreased by 6%. Feedback has been positive, with all attendees rating the course as excellent or very good.
GRAHAM and Construct Tuition celebrate a joint win for their collaborative training programme in the Process Innovation category.
T: +44 (0)28 9268 9500 E: info@graham.co.uk www.graham.co.uk
WINNER: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PROFESSOR SU TAYLOR, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST
Recognising QUB’s first female professor in civil engineering
A former committee member of The Concrete Society and a fellow of both the Institution of Structural Engineers and Engineers Ireland, Professor Su Taylor is the first and only female professor in civil engineering at Queen’s University Belfast. Her PhD research investigated compressive membrane action in concrete slabs which resulted in BD81 in the highway standards. Over the last 20 years, she has been involved in many successful KTPs with the local precast industry, including as academic supervisor for Macrete’s KTP taking the FlexiArch bridge from research into practice. This was subsequently awarded the RAEng Engineering Excellence Award. She was lead academic on Bullivants’ KTP awarded the overall UK best KTP in 2014 for developing low-carbon concrete. In 2016, she received the UK Academic Ambassador Award for knowledge transfer. Prof Taylor pioneered the use of Basalt Fibre Reinforced Polymers in concrete and is now working with FP McCann on a Carbon Trust project as well as a new £22m EU project on wave renewable energy with floating BFRP concrete foundations.
Professor Su Taylor, QUB.
T: +44 (0)28 9097 4010 E: S.E.Taylor@qub.ac.uk www.qub.ac.uk
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