CECA Midlands Annual Dinner & Awards 2023 took place at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham on 14 September and brought together over 350 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.

The award nominations were of extremely high calibre with the judges nominating Highly Commended in a number of categories.  The winners of the categories for 2023 were:

  • Project of the Year 2023 up to £3 Million

Winners – Freyssinet

Highly Commended – Currall, Lewis and Martin

  • Project of The Year 2023 over £3 Million

Winners – Balfour Beatty

Highly Commended – Danaher and Walsh

  • Environmental Excellence Award 2023

Winners – Currall, Lewis and Martin

Highly Commended – Jackson Civil Engineering

  • Social Value Award 2023

Winners- WINVIC

Highly Commended – Jackson Civil Engineering

  • Most Promising Apprentice 2023

Winner – Callum King, Aggregate Industries UK Limited

Highly Commended – Joe Tregartha, Buckingham Group Contracting Limited

Highly Commended – Pym Westrix, R&C Williams

  • Lifetime Achievement Award

Nigel Drew, R&C Williams

Nominated Charity – Tabor Living

Our wonderful guests and members raised £1982 on the night for 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 Toyah Willcox, who gave a insight into her working life and also entertained the crowd with a few musical numbers.

We would also like to express our gratitude to all our sponsors whom without this event would not have been able to go ahead.

Thank you to our Sponsors for 2023: