Bill Curtin Award

Throughout his career, Bill Curtin devoted a considerable amount of his time to sharing his knowledge with those that he worked with as well as the industry-wide community.  

Following Bill’s death in 1991, a donation was made in his memory to the Institution of Civil Engineers by Curtins Consulting to establish a fund for an annual award. This medal for best paper from the Proceedings of ICE and Geotechnique in the area of ‘Research and Innovation’ continues to be awarded by the President of the ICE to this day.

Last year’s winning paper by Pierfrancesco Valerio, Timothy James Ibell and Antony Peter Darby can be viewed for free from the Institution of Civil Engineering’s website. Click here to download.

Previous winners include:

2008: PJ Bourne-Webb; DM Potts; D Rowbotton. Plastic bending of sheet steel piles. Geotechnical Engineering, 160, 3, 129-140.

2007: SK Clubley, SN Winter and KW Turner. Heat-straightening repair to a steel road bridge. Bridge Engineering

Further journals from the Institute of Civil Engineering and ICE Publishing can be viewed on their journal homepage by clicking here.