| Societal Impact Award

Non-entry award

All entries, across every category, will be automatically considered for this award, given at the discretion of our Awards judges and Awards Steering Group. 
 
In each existing entry, our judges will be looking for projects/programmes or individuals that demonstrate a positive impact on the broader community, economy, or environment beyond its/their immediate objectives. It encompasses long-term value creation through stakeholder engagement, ethical decision-making, innovation and sustainability.
 
Because all entries are automatically put forward for this award, there is no need to submit any additional material to ensure your entry is included. The judges will purely use the written submissions to choose their finalists and the winner, who will be announced on the night. 
 
View the finalists      Book your pass      Winners will be announced 29 April 2026

Congratulations and good luck to all our finalists...

Caitlin Quinn is a Project Manager at Balfour Beatty and a graduate of Business Management and Finance, achieving First Class Honours with a strong focus on project management. Through academic excellence, a full industrial placement year, and rapid progression within Balfour Beatty’s Graduate Scheme, Caitlin has developed a people-centred approach to project delivery.

She is passionate about communication, stakeholder engagement, and creating opportunities for others through knowledge-sharing initiatives and leadership involvement. Caitlin is currently supporting major infrastructure programmes, delivering projects that create lasting value for communities and the wider economy.

My dissertation was about autism, employment in projects and leadership. And within that, I created a tool called the SHELL Analysis Matrix, which can be used for many things, from personal development plans, where you can prioritise the weaker skill or lack of strengthener skill, where the frequency of use is higher than it should be. Also identifying and helping to tailor make job adverts, vacancies, where you can say what is essential to your specific team rather than the generic that we currently have.

There's many other sources we can identify for an early warning system on this of regressive skills which we want to prevent, thus creating more efficient teams where task management can be applied to this perfect or most reasonable person for that task. There are many aspects to this from data analysis to more, but it should help the neurodiverse members to look at the job adverts and apply for them because currently they are very very off-putting. 

Carolina Zani completed her PhD in 2025 at The Bartlett (number one globally for Architecture and Built Environment) at University College London (top ten university worldwide). Her doctoral thesis is titled “The dynamics of organisation design in megaprojects: A multi-dimensional capability approach”.

The thesis addresses a central question in project management: how to design megaproject organisations. Contributions are organised into themes supported by different theoretical lenses: (1) organisational capabilities (building blocks for organisational design), (2) integration of structure and coordination, (3) organisational design efficiency (cost perspective), (4) political and institutional context and influence in megaproject organisations.