There were 63 entries across the five categories. The winners in each category were:
Efficiency innovation
Winner: Ethnet – Static Broadband Solution
Runner up: JCB – Ecomax Stage IIIB engine
Highly commended: Prolec – Prolec Machine Engine
Environmental innovation
Winner: Komatsu – Hybrid excavator
Runner up: TCP – Fuel cell lighting tower
Highly commended: JCB – Ecomax Stage IIIB engine
Safety innovation
Winner: Merlo – Dynamic load control
Runner up: Nobel Fire Systems – Stat-X fire suppresent
Highly commended: Hill Engineering (Tefra quick coupler) and Miller (Miller Mate)
Engineering innovation
Winner: Hill Engineering – Tefra quick coupler
Runner up: Prolec – Prolec Machine Engine
Highly commended: Cemo – Fuel trolley
Security innovation
Winner: Automatrics – Mtrack Proactive
Highly commended: OnGarde – Hybrid Solar Power Station
The judges
- Kevin Minton, senior manager, Construction Plant-hire Association
- Jim Senior, UK health and safety manager, Brookfield-Mutiplex
- Mike Revell, group director- plant and transport, Clancy Docwra
- Steve Jarvis, general manager, BAM Nuttall Plant
- Richard Maclean, director, Land & Water.
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