CECA Midlands Annual Dinner & Awards 2025 took place at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham on 11 September and brought together over 340 contractors, local stakeholders, and major clients for a glittering night of celebration. Celebrating our world class civil engineering industry and the individuals and teams that make it just that, by delivering outstanding performance.
CECA MIDLANDS AWARDS 2025
The award nominations were of extremely high calibre with the judges nominating Highly Commended in several categories. The winners of the categories for 2025 were:
Project of the Year 2025 up to £3 Million
Winners – Crown Highways, McClean Way Project
Highly Commended – Forkers Ltd, Shipston-on Stour Gauging Station Refurbishment
Project of The Year 2025 over £3 Million
Winners – Alun Griffiths Contractors Ltd, Kepax Footbridge Project
Highly Commended – Mott MacDonald Bentley, Wem Sewerage Works
Client Team of the Year 2025
Winners – Jackson Civil Engineering and the Environment Agency
Highly Commended – Balfour Beatty and Derby City Council
Environmental Excellence Award 2025
Winners – Jackson Civil Engineering, Hibaldstow Bridge Refurbishment
Highly Commended – R&C Williams, Cressbrook Footbridge
Innovation Award 2025 – in Memory of Keith Baldwin
Winners – WJ Group, RapidGrip
Highly Commended – Auctus, Intelligent Fingerprint Drug Testing
Social Value Award 2025
Winners- BAM, National Emergency Area Retrofit Programme
Highly Commended – RSS Infrastructure, Design a Railway 2030 competition
Most Promising Apprentice 2025
Winner – Kai Ginifer , McPhillips
Employee of the Year 2025
Winner- Victoria Phillips, BAM
Highly Commended – Jason Taylor, McCann
Highly Commended – Abid Rehman, Currall, Lewis and Martin
Lifetime Achievement Award 2025
Edward Pinfield, Currall, Lewis and Martin
Nominated Charity – Pancreatic Cancer UK
Our wonderful guests and members raised more than £2,000 on the night for Pancreatic Cancer UK, a leading voice of the pancreatic cancer community, they work with governments, clinicians, researchers and those affected by the disease to find ways to speed up diagnosis, develop faster and better treatments. Last year we lost Keith Baldwin founder of HTM from the disease, so we were proud to support the charity in his memory.
The nights formalities concluded with our after-dinner entertainer Alfie Moore, Police constable turned comedian and podcaster and was topped off with a fun casino for guests to enjoy.
We would also like to express our gratitude to all our sponsors whom without this event would not be able to go ahead.