{"id":857711,"date":"2025-06-24T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/inspiring-women-in-construction-and-engineering-awards-shortlist-revealed\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:13:37","slug":"inspiring-women-in-construction-and-engineering-awards-shortlist-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/inspiring-women-in-construction-and-engineering-awards-shortlist-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering Awards shortlist revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/10\/Inspiring-Women-Awards-photo-by-Charlotte-Banks-1024x768.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  alt=\"Inspiring-Women-Awards-photo-by-Charlotte-Banks-1024x768.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The shortlist for the 2025 Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering (IWCE) Awards has been unveiled, with Atkins R\u00e9alis, Gallaway Construction, Mott MacDonald and Winvic featuring prominently across multiple categories.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its fourth year, the IWCE Awards celebrate individuals, organisations and initiatives that are helping to drive inclusion and equality across the construction and engineering sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The <a id=\"menur58u\" title=\"https:\/\/inspiring.constructionnews.co.uk\/2025\/en\/page\/2025-shortlist\" href=\"https:\/\/inspiring.constructionnews.co.uk\/2025\/en\/page\/2025-shortlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link 2025 shortlist\">2025 shortlist<\/a> was revealed last week, following a record-breaking 450 entries submitted earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Atkins R\u00e9alis, Gallaway Construction, Mott MacDonald, and Winvic emerged as frontrunners, demonstrating a strong presence across both individual and organisation award categories. Other frequently shortlisted companies include Arcadis, Balfour Beatty and Willmott Dixon.<\/p>\n<p>Familiar names such as Aecom, Arup, Coffey Geotechnics, Fugro, Jomas Associates and Geoquip Marine also feature among the finalists.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s awards cover 21 categories, including Inspirational Leader (client, consultant, contractor and supplier), Technical Excellence, Allyship Champion of the Year and Company of the Year, as well as categories focused on outreach, mental health and wellbeing, and early-career recognition such as Rising Star.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of more than 70 independent judges from across construction, civil engineering and ground engineering reviewed the hundreds of submissions.<\/p>\n<p><i>Construction News<\/i> editor Colin Marrs said: \u201cThis event goes from strength to strength.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing quite like this event, which gathers women and male allies to celebrate the best work being done on this agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s IWCE programme began in March with a webinar titled \u2018<a id=\"menur590\" title=\"https:\/\/www.geplus.co.uk\/features\/webinar-changing-culture-building-inclusive-and-safe-workplaces-in-construction-24-02-2025\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geplus.co.uk\/features\/webinar-changing-culture-building-inclusive-and-safe-workplaces-in-construction-24-02-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link Changing culture \u2013 Building inclusive and safe workplaces in construction\">Changing culture \u2013 Building inclusive and safe workplaces in construction\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shortlisted entrants will now be invited to a learning and development <a id=\"menur592\" title=\"https:\/\/inspiring.constructionnews.co.uk\/2025\/en\/page\/workshop-2025?&#038;view-type~0=compact\" href=\"https:\/\/inspiring.constructionnews.co.uk\/2025\/en\/page\/workshop-2025?&#038;view-type~0=compact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link workshop\">workshop<\/a> on 3 July at the Hilton London Bankside.<\/p>\n<p>The final stage of judging will take place this summer, ahead of the <a id=\"menur594\" title=\"https:\/\/inspiring.constructionnews.co.uk\/2025\/en\/page\/home\" href=\"https:\/\/inspiring.constructionnews.co.uk\/2025\/en\/page\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link IWCE Conference &#038; Awards\">IWCE Conference &#038; Awards<\/a>, which will be held at Royal Lancaster London on 16 September.<\/p>\n<p>The IWCE events series is jointly organised by <i>Construction News<\/i>, <i>Ground Engineering<\/i> and <i>New Civil Engineer<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The full shortlist is available to view on the <a id=\"menur596\" title=\"https:\/\/inspiring.constructionnews.co.uk\/2025\/en\/page\/2025-shortlist\" href=\"https:\/\/inspiring.constructionnews.co.uk\/2025\/en\/page\/2025-shortlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Link IWCE website\">IWCE website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"miso-related-article-grid\">\n<p><h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/inspire-me\/inspiring-women-in-construction-and-engineering-awards-shortlist-revealed-23-06-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n CN Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for the 2025 Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering (IWCE) Awards has been unveiled, with Atkins R\u00e9alis, Gallaway Construction, Mott MacDonald and Winvic featuring prominently across multiple categories. Now in its fourth year, the IWCE Awards celebrate individuals, organisations and initiatives that are helping to drive inclusion and equality across the construction and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":857712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28630,999],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-857711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-inspiring","8":"category-women"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}