Telford Medal
The Telford Medal is a prize awarded by the British Institution of Civil Engineers for a paper or series of papers. It was introduced in 1835 following a bequest made by Thomas Telford, the ICE's first president. It can be awarded in gold, silver or bronze; the Telford Gold Medal is the highest award the institution can bestow.
History
In 1834 Scottish civil engineer and the Institution of Civil Engineers' first president, Thomas Telford died, leaving in his will his library of technical works to the Institution of Civil Engineers, as well as a bequest of £2000; the interest from which was to be used to for the purpose of "Annual Premiums". The council of the institute decided to expend the premiums on both honorary and monetary rewards, the honorary awards being named Telford Medals, which would be awarded in gold, silver and bronze forms. Suitable candidates for the awards were submitters of drawings, models, diagrams or essays relating to civil engineering or any other new equipment of invention relating to engineering or surveying in general, which is regarded as most seminal and influential. The awards were to be open to both Englishmen and foreigners equally. After provision for the Telford Medal, the remaining income is used for up to four annual prizes for papers presented to the institution.The inaugural gold award was given in June 1837 to John Timperley for his account of the history and construction of the town docks of the Port of Kingston upon Hull, published in volume 1 of the Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers; the medals carried an image of Telford on one side, and of his Menai Bridge on the reverse. The bust of Telford was a design by William Wyon and the medal is also signed "J. S. and A. B. Wyon" a collaboration of Joseph Shepherd Wyon and his brother, Alfred Benjamin Wyon. John Macneill, James M. Rendel, Michael A. Borthwick, Peter Barlow, and Benedetto Albano received silver awards in the same session.
Recipients
Telford Medal
The Telford gold medal is issued generally once a year. See below for the Telford Premium of which a larger number.21st century
| Year | Name | Medal | Paper |
| 2024 | B. Cerfontaine, M.J. Brown, J.A. Knappett, C. Davidson, Y.U. Sharif, M. Huisman, M. Ottolini, J.D. Ball | Control of screw pile installation to optimise performance for offshore energy applications | |
| 2023 | S. Nagula, M. Nguyen, J. Grabe, J. Kardel, T. Bahl | Field measurements and numerical analysis of vibroflotation of sand | |
| 2022 | S. Kaminski, R. Henly, N. Ciuffetelli and others | Strengthening the 1960s UK Commonwealth Institute hyperbolic paraboloid roof | |
| 2021 | Z. Zhou, C.D. O'Loughlin, D.J. White | An effective stress analysis for predicting the evolution of SCR–seabed stiffness accounting for consolidation | |
| 2020 | M.S.P. Wan, J.R. Standing, D.M. Potts, J.B. Burland | Pore water pressure and total horizontal stress response to EPBM tunnelling in London Clay | |
| 2019 | N.M. Pinyol, M Alvarado, E.E. Alonso, F. Zabala | Thermal effects in landslide mobility | |
| 2018 | M.S.P. Wan, J.R. Standing, D.M. Potts, J.B. Burland | Measured short-term subsurface ground displacements from EPBM tunnelling in London Clay | |
| 2017 | Rainer Barthel, Joram Tutsch, Joseph Jordan | The Gothic tower of Freiburg Minster, Germany: analysis and repair | |
| 2016 | Alba Yerro, Eduardo E. Alonso, Nuria M. Pinyol | The material point method for unsaturated soils | |
| 2014 | R. Kerry Rowe | Performance of GCLS in liners for landfill and mining applications | |
| 2013 | Brian A. Giannakopoulos, Nigel B. Kaye and Gary R. Hunt | The influence of room geometry on the overturning of smoke owing to a floor fire | |
| 2012 | Deric J. Oehlers, M.S. Mohamed Ali, Michael C. Griffith, Matthew Haskett, Wade Lucas | A generic unified reinforced concrete model | |
| 2011 | Victoria B. Ashley, John E. Earp, David J. Coates, Roger Ashworth | The accelerator-driven thorium reactor power station | |
| 2010 | Santiago Huerta | The safety of masonry buttresses | |
| 2009 | Neil Hoult, Paul Fidler, Campbell Middleton, Kenichi Soga | Wireless sensor networks: Creating 'smart infrastructure' | |
| 2008 | Alan E. Vardy | Generation and alleviation of sonic booms from rail tunnels | |
| 2007 | Michael B. Abbott | Managing the inner world of infrastructure | |
| 2006 | Eduardo E. Alonso, Antonio Gens | Aznalcóllar Dam failure | |
| 2005 | H. Sharman | Why wind power works for Denmark | |
| 2004 | Robert H.J. Sellin, David P. van Beesten | Conveyance of a managed vegetated two-stage river channel | |
| 2003 | Simon J. Wheeler, Marc S.R. Buisson, Radhey S. Sharma | Coupling of hydraulic hysteresis and stress–strain behaviour in unsaturated soils | |
| 2002 | Lidija Zdravković, David M. Potts, David W. Hight | The effect of strength anisotropy on the behaviour of embankments on soft ground | |
| 2001 | Melanie Batten, William Powrie | Measurement and analysis of temporary prop loads at Canary Wharf underground station, east London | |
| 2000 | Scott W. Sloan | ARC Centre of Excellence in Geotechnical Science and Engineering, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. | |
| 2000 | Hai-Sui Yu | Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham |
20th century
| Year | Name | Medal | Paper |
| 1999 | Graham W Plant and Douglas E Oakervee | Hong Kong International Airport – civil engineering design | |
| 1998 | David Potts, Peter Rolfe Vaughan, Nebojsa Kovacevic | Delayed collapse of cut slopes in stiff clay. | |
| 1997 | Alistair Biggart | Storebaelt Tunnel | |
| 1995 | R.P.J. Clarke and Colin Norman Paterson Mackenzie | Overcoming ground difficulties at Tooting Bec | |
| 1994 | R.P.J. Clarke and Colin Norman Paterson MacKenzie | Overcoming Ground Difficulties at Tooting Bec. | |
| 1994 | Eduardo E. Alonso, Antonio Gens, A. Lloret | The landslide of Cortes de Pallas, Spain | |
| 1993 | A.R. Flint | Strengthening and Refurbishment of The Severn Crossing | |
| 1991 | David Potts, Peter Rolfe Vaughan | ||
| 1989 | Nick Shirlaw | ||
| 1986 | D. Droy, A. McGowan, D.C. Mann | A8 Port Glasgow Eastern Section: Design and Construction. | |
| 1985 | Rodney C. Bridle, Peter Rolfe Vaughan, Howard N. Jones | Empingham Dam – Design, Construction and Performance | |
| 1984 | Jayanta K. Mitra, J. H. Tetlow, and N. Ellis | Hutton Tension Leg Platform – The Hutton Tension Leg Platform | |
| ? | Terence W. Hulme | ||
| 1982 | Nigel Ruffle | ||
| 1981 | Roy Severn, Alan Jeary, Brian Ellis | Forced vibration testing of embankment dams using an eccentric mass exciter system | |
| 1978 | David Blockley | Analysis of Structural Failures | |
| 1976 | Sir Alan Muir Wood | ||
| 1973 | Alistair Biggart | The Bentonite Tunnelling Machine | |
| 1973 | John Vernon Bartlett | ||
| 1971 | John Vernon Bartlett | ||
| 1968 | Letitia Chitty | ||
| 1968 | Peter Walter Rowe | Summary. The Influence of Geological Features of Clay Deposits on the Design and Performance of Sand Drains | |
| 1968 | Geoffrey Binnie | ||
| 1965 | Bill Carlyle | Llyn Brianne Water Scheme, River Towy, Wales | |
| 1964 | Mary Kendrick | 'Reasons for siltation in the Mersey estuary' First female medallist | |
| 1962 | Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver | ||
| 1962 | Stanley Bernard Warder | 'Electric Traction in the British Railways Modernization Plan' | |
| 1958 | Gerald Lacey | `regime theory' for the design of major irrigation canals and Stable Channel Flow. | |
| 1949 | C.B.H.Colquhoun, Terence Patrick O'Sullivan | The Brabazon Assembly Hall at Filton | |
| 1948 | Alexander Mitchell | Screw-piles | |
| 1935 | B. M. Hellstrom | ||
| c.1934 | J.J.C Bradfield | The Sydney Harbour Bridge and Approaches | |
| 1932 | John Fleetwood Baker | Design of steel-framed buildings | |
| 1930 | William Thomson Halcrow | Lochaber scheme. | |
| 1928 | Sydney Lionel Rothery | A.M.I.C.E., paper describing the salient engineering features of an international irrigation project in California, United States, and in Lower California, Mexico. | |
| c.1928 | Oscar Faber | Plastic Yield, Shrinkage, and Other Problems of Concrete, and Their Effect on Design | |
| 1927 | Oswald Longstaff Prowde | The Gezira Irrigation Scheme, including the Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile | |
| 1926 | John Arthur Saner | The most efficient & economical means of overcoming differences in level in canals and inland navigations | |
| 1924 | Charles Inglis | The Theory of Transverse Oscillations in Girders and its Relation to Live Load and Impact Allowance | |
| 1921 | Ernest George Coker | ||
| 1918 | Edward Sandeman | 'Derwent Valley Waterworks' | |
| 1915 | James R. Forgie | The Laxaxalpam Aqueduct Tunnels in Mexico | |
| ? | William Wright Harts | ||
| 1911 | Francis Collingwood | Repairs to the Allegheny Bridge | |
| 1911 | William J. Wilgus | Detroit River Tunnel | |
| 1910 | Adam Hunter and Francis Charles Buscarlet | Queen Alexandra Bridge over the River Wear, Sunderland. | |
| 1910 | George Robert Graham Conway | Chief Engineer, Monterrey Railway, Light and Power Company, Mexico | |
| 1910 | Charles Mattathias Jacobs | Tunnelling the North River | |
| 1907–1908 | William Barclay Parsons | 'The New York Rapid Transit Subway.' | |
| 1906–1907 | Dugald Clerk | ||
| 1906–1907 | Edward John Way | ||
| 1905–1906 | George Alfred Denny | 'Design and Working of Gold-Milling Equipment, with special reference to the Witwatersrand.' | |
| 1904–1905 | Lord Brassey | 'Shipbuilding for the Navy.' | |
| 1904–1905 | Charles Stuart Russell Palmer | 'Coolgardie Water-Supply.' | |
| 1904–1905 | Major Sir Robert Hanbury Brown | ||
| 1901–1902 | John McFarlane Gray | 'Variable and Absolute Specific Heats of Water' | |
| 1901–1902 | William Morris Mordey | ′Electrical traction on Railways′ | |
| 1901 | William T.C. Beckett | The Bridges over the Orissa Rivers on the East Coast Extension of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. | |
| 1900 | Edmund Wragge and George Andrew Hobson | The Metropolitan Terminus of the Great Central Railway | |
| 1900 | Llewelyn Birchall Atkinson and Claude William Atkinson | 'Electrical Mining Machines' |