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Ninth annual Collaborate to Innovate awards winners announced

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The winning projects for The Engineer’s annual Collaborate to Innovate awards have been announced at a special awards event held at the London headquarters of The Institution of Civil Engineers.

 

Winning entrants take the stage at the 9th C2I Awards - Jamie Hodgskin

 

Following deliberations from an esteemed panel of judges, projects including a process to make zero carbon cement, a low-cost device to help people learn Braille, and a stratospheric telecoms system all prevailed at the event, which was hosted by Jon Excell, editor and publisher of The Engineer magazine.

“Once more, the C2I awards has unearthed an incredible crop of collaborations across a range of sectors and provided an inspiring reminder of the role that engineers are playing in addressing some of the biggest challenges we face,” he said.

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Pushing boundaries with projects that will make a tangible difference to people’s lives and the planet, the winners and runners up demonstrated once more that engineering is a force for good, enabling improved telecommunications from ingenious platforms, delivering energy from space, and decarbonising road transport to name but a few of the ideas that engineers are bringing to life through collaboration.

Commenting on this year’s awards, Brad Yelland, Chief Engineering & Technology Officer at headline sponsor Babcock, said: “I've been an engineer for 40 years…and in that time, I've worked in in many, many collaborative programs. The biggest lesson that I've learned is the broader the collaborations, the greater the diversity of thought, experience, and greater the power to solve the challenge and problems that face us

He continued: “A crucial component to [Babcock’s] success in this is our ability to form effective and mutually beneficial collaborative relationships with other organisations, particularly the small, small medium enterprises, research organisations and academia.

“Ensuring we have the breadth of knowledge, capability and experience required is another reason why we value collaboration. In these uncertain times of national security, natural disasters, and climate change the role of engineers is increasingly important, and we need to work together to solve these challenges.”

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