The LEEA Awards 2021 finalists have been announced, following the judges working through a hugely impressive trove of outstanding entries. The winners will be announced during the ‘party of the year’ at the prestigious Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, London on the evening of 5 November 2021.
Ross Moloney, CEO of LEEA, said: “It is inspiring to see the high quality of award entries from LEEA members and I am looking forward immensely to announcing the winners on 5 November together with our special guest, stand-up comedian and television presenter Dara O’Briain at what will be the best ever LEEA Awards event. In addition to being a celebration of raised standards and a showcase of how LEEA members are making best practice business as normal, it will be a chance to get together for a fantastic Friday night party in London, looking toward a great future having overcome the pandemic’s challenges.”
The finalists are as follows:
Best Innovation
- Craig Douglas of JCD Training
- Crosby BLOKCAM from The Crosby Group
- Lifting Specialist Engineer – Ahmed Mamdouh of RINA
- Motion Software: Innovation through Kinetic from Motion Software
- Pacific Hoists
- RFID SupraTag from Yoke Industrial Corp
- SensorSpace Remote Monitoring from Mantracourt Ltd
- Speedy Services – Capital Commitment from Speedy Services
Best Lifting Equipment Inspector / Tester / Examiner
- Hery Purwoko of Aluminium Bahrain
- Brian Butler of Protier Lifting Services
- Chris Elwick of Sparrows Offshore Services
- Gary Tegerdine of Peter Cassidy (Leeds) Ltd
- John Cobley – Production Leader of JA McDonagh Engineering LTD (RJ Engineering)
- Manny Segundo of Technical Royal Excellence Oil & Gas
- Matthew Douglas of Sunbelt Rentals Lifting – Rainham
- Scott Hale of JK Lifting Equipment
- Wayne Wilkinson of Carl Stahl Evita Ltd
- Muhammad Naeem Arif of Technical Royal Excellence
- Paul Culham of Sunbelt Rentals Lifting – Grimsby
Best Lifting operation
- AquaTerra Dunlin Team of AquaTerra Group
- Lifting Specialist Engineer Ahmed Mamdouh of Lloyds British Egypt
- Notus Contract Lifting from Notus Heavy Lift Solutions
- Speedy Lifting West Bromwich from Speedy Lifting
- Thames Tideway East Greenwich Pumping Station team CVB JV (Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets & Bachy Soletanche) from Costain
Best Team
- Engineering and IT team from Reid Lifting
- Helen Sparks of Sunbelt Rentals Lifting – Egremont
- Inspection Department of Standard Arabia Inspection Co Ltd
- UK Lifting Equipment – Engineering Services Team from JK Lifting
- Lifting Inspection / operation team from Simples Lifting and Inspection Lda
- Sales and Service team from Selby Engineering and Lifting Safety Ltd
- Speedy Services – Category team lifting from Speedy Services
- Sunbelt Rentals Lifting – Grimsby / Hull
- Team LES from Lifting Equipment Store
- Thames Tideway East Greenwich Pumping Station team CVB JV (Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets & Bachy Soletanche) from Costain
- The Dream Team – Gaz, Andy, John, Glen, Sean, Shaun and Bob from Lifting Gear UK
- The Hinkley Point C Lifting Management and Assurance team from Notus Heavy Lift Solutions
- TRE Sales and Technical team from Technical Royal Excellence Oil & Gas Services
- Velosi LLC
- Yousef Mousa from Yousef Mousa & Partners Crane Co
Kevin Holmes Award for Excellence in People Development
- Cookes NZ
- Dr Mohammad M Abul-Ola from Frontier Certification International WLL
- Elaine Percival of Minteg Ltd
- Hoist UK
- Rony Abraham of Simples Lifting and Inspection Lda
Safety Award – sponsored by Rigging Services
- Gareth McNary of Select Plant Hire (Laing O’Rourke Group)
- Karayi Manghattu of Romson Oil Field Services
For further information on the LEEA Awards 2021, please contact Leah Phelps on +44 (0) 203 488 2865 or email: [email protected]
