Welcome to the Inspiring Women in Construction & Engineering Awards

This year’s Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering Awards will recognise the individuals and teams making outstanding contributions to gender diversity within their industry.

Held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on 16 September 2025, this is a perfect evening to celebrate the fantastic people within your organisation

The awards recognise individuals, teams, companies and initiatives that have helped contribute to making a construction or engineering firm and the industry a better place to work. This represents a unique opportunity for women within the civil engineering, geotechnical engineering and construction sectors to gain recognition at a national level and have their achievements celebrated across Construction News, Ground Engineering and New Civil Engineer. 

Countdown to Entry Deadline

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Why enter


Positioning your company as a great place to work


Celebrating the industry’s achievements  and initiatives to improve diversity and inclusion in the workplace


Networking with other companies and individuals striving to improve employment practice and support their workforce


Celebrating the women behind the projects and the organisations that make the construction industry a great place to work


Exclusive invitation to the IWCE workshop for all shortlisted organisation and companies

Workshop and mentoring

Shortlisted entries for the 2025 awards are invited to an exclusive learning and development workshop on Thursday 03 July, offering networking and a unique opportunity to discuss challenges and career development. 

In addition to winning a trophy, the winners will receive mentoring support through the programme to further boost their careers.

Key Dates

Entry Deadline
Judging Interviews
Shortlist Announcement
IWCE Conference and Awards

Judging

Inspiring Women in Construction & Engineering Awards has a rigorous judging process to decide our winners. Applications will be considered by a panel of judges including representatives from major industry figures across the Construction News, Ground Engineering and New Civil Engineer sectors.

Each stage is designed to provide a fair and transparent process.

Stage 1: Online Judging – once the entry phase closes, the judges will review online and score each submission to determine the shortlist.

Stage 2: Live Presentations – once the shortlist is announced, all finalists will be invited to give a presentation to our judging panel. This will either take place virtually or in person. In person interviews and presentations will take place from 09 to 16 July 2025 at our central London office:

emap Publishing

Harmsworth House

13-15 Bouverie Street

London

EC4Y 8DP


Put your best foot forward this year and submit your entry today and you could make it through to this exclusive judging phase.

FAQs

Hopefully you'll find an answer to your question below. If not, please contact Hannah Kaur on 020 3953 2117 or email Hannah.Kaur@emap.com .

To view the criteria, create your account, or login with your email and password used to create your account if you have already done so. Select ‘Enter Now’ against the category you wish to view where the criteria will be displayed. If you wish to start your entry at this point any information you add will be autosaved and you can login to complete the rest of the entry at any time.

Enter the email address and password that you used when you first started your entry on the log in page, you will then be taken through to your dashboard and will be able to continue your entry.

You can enter another category by selecting the category you wish to enter from the ‘Categories’ section.

Please contact Hannah Kaur on 020 3953 2117 or email Hannah.Kaur@emap.com and they will be able to help you with your entry.

Venue

Royal Lancaster London
Lancaster Terrace
London
W2 2TY

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