A joint venture working with Sellafield Ltd has secured a major prize at this year's Association for Project Management (APM) awards.

The Balfour Beatty and Cavendish Nuclear partnership was recognised with the Engineering, Construction and Infrastructure Project of the Year award for the delivery of the Silo Maintenance Facility at Sellafield.

The £250 million Silos Maintenance Facility contract saw Sellafield Ltd, Balfour Beatty and Cavendish Nuclear work together to design, construct, install and commission the facility which will maintain critical machinery in Sellafield's nuclear decommissioning process to ensure a safe, secure environment.

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Following its completion earlier this year, the APM awards recognised the project for project management excellence, successfully delivering the project over a period of eight years and executing over four million manhours, with no lost time incidents. 

In addition, the project was commended for its approach to mental health awareness, working with Mental Health First Aid England to train employees to identify stress or mental health issues and provide those affected with appropriate support.

Iain Wilson, Director of Nuclear at Balfour Beatty, said: "This is a great achievement for our joint venture and testament to our collaborative approach which will support the successful decommissioning of the Sellafield nuclear site.

"Throughout the project lifecycle, we created an environment whereby standards were not just followed but adopted into the mindset of the project; resulting in the facility not only being delivered to cost and schedule but achieving an outstanding safety performance."

(CM/JG)