IRF’s global road awards open

The International Road Federation is inviting entries for its Global Road Achievement Awards (GRAA) programme. According to the IRF, this competition is intended to highlight innovative road projects and individuals that raise the profile of roads in worldwide social and economic development. The awards provide an important route for promoting road industry innovation and achievements receive worldwide publicity. Winners will receive a crystal trophy at the 17th IRF World Meeting & Exhibition in Riyadh late
June 13, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
The 713 International Road Federation is inviting entries for its Global Road Achievement Awards (GRAA) programme. According to the IRF, this competition is intended to highlight innovative road projects and individuals that raise the profile of roads in worldwide social and economic development. The awards provide an important route for promoting road industry innovation and achievements receive worldwide publicity. Winners will receive a crystal trophy at the 17th IRF World Meeting & Exhibition in Riyadh later this year, IRF Annual Awards Luncheon, recognition online and a project summary in the IRF GRAA Book of Winning Projects. There are several award categories including: design; excellence in project finance & economics; technology, equipment & manufacturing; environmental mitigation; construction methodology; program management. They also include: research; quality management; safety; maintenance management; traffic management & intelligent transportation systems. Entries are judged by an independent panel of expert judges drawn from IRF's academic members and there is no limit to the number of entries an organisation submits. The selection panel is not obligated to select an award recipient for each of the 11 categories however. The panel can also recognise submissions that do not win an award, yet show merit.

Further details can be found on the IRF website: %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal www.IRFnet.org www.irfnet.org/ false http://www.irfnet.org/ false false%>

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

February 9, 2012

IRF launches Innovation Award for Road Transport

No it's not a question posed by a precocious toddler or a rather senile judge but rather the name of an exciting new international competition launched by IRF and its global Transport Knowledge Partnership (gTKP) programme. InARoad (the Innovation Award for Road Transport in Developing Countries) has been created to recognise exemplary projects that have made significant impacts on transport in developing countries as well as to reward innovative and sustainable good practices in this field.
March 8, 2019

Bentley Systems opens awards to nominations

Bentley Systems has opened its 2019 Year in Infrastructure 2019 Awards Programme to nominations. Winners will be selected and announced at the Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference in Singapore, later in the year. The awards are judged by independent juries of industry experts and recognise infrastructure projects for digital innovations that improve project delivery and/or asset performance. The Year in Infrastructure Awards are an integral part of Bentley’s annual Year in Infrastructure Conference. The
boombox1

Highlighted Content

boombox2