A63 Castle Street project wins national engineering award

News Hull & East Yorkshire News Traffic & Travel The recently-completed scheme was ‘one of the most complex engineering challenges in the UK’ The A63 Castle Street project has won a prestigious award just months after opening to traffic. The £355m scheme bagged Best UK Project (with a geotechnical value over £10m) in the Ground Engineering Awards 2026 – one of the leading industry honours. At a ceremony in London, judges hailed the National Highways project, saying: “A truly innovative design enabled construction of a key piece of national infrastructure considered extremely challenging to build. The judges were particularly impressed by the Project Steering Group — a structure with the potential to change how risk is managed on future comparable projects.” The complex scheme, which took more than six years to complete, saw the A63 lowered at the junction with Ferensway and Commercial Road to create the new split-level interchange while the eastbound carriageway between Princes Dock Street and Market Place was widened. The underpass opened to traffic in late March with further finishing works taking place in the weeks that followed. An opening ceremony was held earlier this month to mark the project’s completion. It was attended by a number of key figures from the city including leader of Hull City Council, Cllr Mike Ross, Hull West and Haltemprice MP, Emma Hardy, local ward councillor Daren Hale, and the council’s portfolio holder for transport, Mark Ieronimo. After receiving the award, Frances Oliver, Senior Project Manager at National Highways, said: “Construction of the A63 underpass was one of the most complex engineering challenges in the UK and we are delighted that the efforts of everyone who worked on the scheme have been recognised with this award. This new road layout has increased connectivity between the centre of the city and the port and…
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