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, RapidGrip
Highly Commended – Auctus, Intelligent Fingerprint Drug Testing
Social Value Award 2025
Winners- BAM bmJV (BAM Morgan Sindall jv), National Emergency Area Retrofit Programme
Highly Commended – RSS, 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 £2,520 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.
Tabor Living, a charity supporting homeless individuals across the Midlands to transition back into society through a personalised support plan and a place to ‘live’ for up to 18 months The charity has a 50% success rate for client users and also supports the wider community through a variety of community engagement initiatives.
The night was topped off with after dinner entertainment from Alfie Moore, who gave a humorous insight into his former careers of steelwork and a police constable.
We would also like to express our gratitude to all our sponsors whom without this event would not be able to go ahead.
With thanks to our sponsors:
