The Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) Mercia branch held its annual awards evening last Thursday (23 April) to showcase outstanding regional projects.  President John Nightingale addressed the 150 guests and spoke about the IHE’s growing membership and industry stature and the Institute’s 50th anniversary celebrations.He said the quality of this year’s submissions was very high and announced the following winners of the IHE Mercia Awards 2015: Large Project of the Year AwardProject Name – C&G and walls Roundabouts ImprovementsOrganisation – Gloucestershire CC Small Project of the Year AwardProject Name – South West Coventry Junction Improvements – Charter venue/Mitchell AvenueOrganisation – Coventry City Council/Jacobs Safety and Innovation AwardProject Name – Low level Traffic Management Installation VehicleOrganisation – Highway Traffic Management Ltd Highway Partnership AwardProject Name – Telford Future – Town Centre Box Road SchemeOrganisation – Telford & Wrekin Council, Jacobs, Pell Frischmann & Ringway Judges Merit AwardProject Name – Pennine Reach – Quality Bus RouteOrganisation – Jacobs. Individual award winners for best submission of EngTech, IEng and CEng:EngTech – Jamie MattockIEng – Ben CorfieldCEng – Richard Harris A Merit Award was also presented to the best student to enhance IHE’s links with Birmingham University.
 In other news, the IHE is urging members to assist its nominated charity RedR, in helping victims of the Nepal earthquake.RedR has launched an emergency appeal to help determine the most urgent shelter, water, medical, rebuilding and structural engineering needs in Nepal, and to target their expertise to help the Nepalese people survive and recover from the disaster.IHE members can provide their support in a number of ways:
  • Make a donation
  • Circulate our statement among your staff and members and encourage them to donate
  • Offer match-funding for staff donations
  • Organise a bucket collection in your offices.
Donations can be made online, by typing ‘Nepal’ into the ‘what prompted your donation’ field, or contact alice.hardy@redr.org.uk to find out other donation methods or to order collection buckets.