HBPW, Farrans Construction and Global Energy Group have triumphed in the Scottish Civil Engineering Awards for their work on Scotland’s Nigg East Quay Development.
The awards, widely recognised as the highest honour for engineering excellence in the built environment, are organised jointly by ICE Scotland and the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) Scotland. They were held at The Caves on the Cowgate, Edinburgh.
This year it was the combined efforts of HBPW, Farrans and Global Energy Group that enabled the trio to take first place in the Marine Infrastructure Award category.
Working to HBPW’s engineering design, Farrans completed the East Quay development for Global Energy in Scotland, providing new wet berths with heavy-duty quays to serve the marine renewable energy market, as well as the North Sea oil and gas market.
Marine construction works for the Nigg East Quay commenced in April 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Farrans delivering the quay on schedule and on budget.
At 225m long and 50m wide, the quay increases the leading port facility’s deep water quayside capacity to over 1,200m – placing it amongst the largest in the country.
HBPW Partner, Paul Monaghan, said: “This was a highly prestigious project and I have nothing but praise for everyone involved, including our own Retford team.
“By any measure it was a major engineering project and to have delivered such a complicated scheme on time and on budget, while in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, requires no other word than amazing.
“A stunning combined effort that was worthy of recognition in these prestigious Scottish awards.”
The opening of the new 247 combi wall quay was a game changer for the Port of Nigg, enabling it to service multiple large scale energy sector projects simultaneously and ensuring the port facility has the required infrastructure in place to accommodate the demands for future floating offshore wind sector opportunities.
The works consisted of the construction of a finger quay projecting from the existing quay wall, protection to the existing quay wall to prevent any adverse effects during adjacent dredging works and dredging to the required depths.
Farrans designed the whole of the quay, the dredging and the infill to the quay structures, HBPW providing a raft of ancillary civils work, designing all the quay ‘furniture’ including some of the huge bollards used by ships to tie on to when berthing, and bases for light columns as well as quayside drainage.
A spokesperson for CECA said: “This year we were delighted to have 20 projects entered. This is an increase of 33% on last year and the highest number of entries ever received (including the Saltire Awards years). All projects have made a tremendous impact; not just to Scotland’s Economy but to Scotland’s people, environment, and community well-being.”