December 2023UI Awards Finalists

UI Tagline--Conference Preview (UI Awards)UI Awards ’24 Finalists Announced
The annual Underground Infrastructure Awards (UIA), the most comprehensive and prestigious program to recognize outstanding performance and technology for the entire underground infrastructure industry, has announced the finalists for the 2024 awards.Sponsored by Underground Infrastructure magazine, the UIAs will be held in tandem with the Underground Infrastructure Conference (formerly UCT) on the evening of March 19 at the Oklahoma City Convention Center. This event is designed to reward the people and their incredible performances in a unique, personal and deserving fashion.The Underground Infrastructure Awards will be the best opportunity of the year to truly recognize and honor the best of this grand, underground infrastructure industry in which we all relish and participate. We sincerely hope you will participate and join us in Oklahoma City for the celebration of North America’s underground infrastructure.The finalists are listed below. To sponsor the event, contact Josh Allen at josh@undergroundinfrastructure.com, (832) 922-9018. Or, to attend, go to UI-Conference.com. For more information and questions, contact Karen Francis, karen@undergroundinfrastructure.com.UIA_CORY BAKER ON STAGE IMG_1787Emerging Technology of the Year

Shark Reamer, Infinity Tool

Hover app-based, end-to-end data platform, Hover

Quickview 360, Envirosight

Live Dig Radar Excavate, RodRadar

Jet pump system for small-diameter Direct Pipe, Herrenknecht

HK300TE: all-electric HDD Rig for greener drilling, Herrenknecht

Energy Pipeline Project of the Year

Texas International Pipeline Systems 24-inch Crude Oil Project, Texas City to Galveston, HardRock Infrastructure

Lowell Area Gas Modernization Project, National Grid

Rehabilitation Project of the Year

San Diego First Aqueduct Treated Water Tunnels Rehabilitation Project, Michels

Middlesex Water Company D&R Canal Water Supply System Transmission Main Repairs

Tucson Boulevard Diversion Structure, Pima County, Ariz.

Clark Plaza Subdivision Waterline Improvements, Fort Bend County Water Control & Improvement District No. 2

Asset Management Project of the Year

Lowell Area Gas Modernization Project, National Grid

Linear System Integrity Program, Great Lakes Water Authority

Sewer Project of the Year

City of Houston’s 78-inch Sanitary Sewer Sinkhole & Emergency Repair Project, Harper Brothers Construction

Cottonwood Valley Golf Course Wastewater Improvements, City of Irving, Texas

96-Inch Storm Water Joint Remediation Using Injection Grout in Southeast Evansville, Ind., Culy Contracting

Underground Infrastructure’s Benefactor Award

Clete Martin, PE, Plummer Associates Inc.

Donna Evanoff Renner, P.E., CP&Y

Water Project of the Year

Houston’s 24-Inch Cast-Iron Water Transmission Main Sipp Epoxy Rehabilitation, Spray in Place Solutions

72-Inch Water Line from Emancipation to Tuam, Houston Public Works

Contract Package 2A: WSPL Section I, II, and III, Lithos Engineering, Super Excavators and ECI Contracting

Environmental Awareness Award

NASSCO CIPP Workgroup, NASSCO

Versiv Solutions Cross Compression, Versiv Solutions

Rising Star

David Nylander, DiTech Industries

Chase Juhl, DE Corp.

Samuel Hunt, CBET

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