FIDIC has unveiled the winners of its annual Member Association Excellence Awards at a gala dinner event held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 23 September 2025 during FIDIC’s annual Global Infrastructure Conference.
The awards, now in their sixth year, highlight the achievements and campaigning successes of FIDIC’s international member associations and the work they do in representing the global engineering consulting industry. This year the judging panel made four awards – two highly commended entries and two winners.
The first winner’s prize went to a FIDIC member association that responded to the calling of a snap general election in Canada by developing a high-impact digital campaign that empowered citizens and its association’s members to engage with political candidates using targeted tools and messaging.
The Association of Consulting Engineering Companies (Canada) won the award for its Invest in Growth: Elevating Infrastructure as a National Priority campaign. During the April 2025 general election campaign, ACEC Canada achieved policy influence, with the association’s demands reflected during the election in political party platforms, which offered more visibility for the sector with consulting engineers seen as public leaders.
The award judges said that the ACEC’s campaign was a great example of modern and effective advocacy delivered under tight timeframes by an agile team that clearly punched way above their weight in terms of the impact they were able to generate utilising a small team and small budget.
The second winner in the FIDIC Member Association Excellence Awards was a strategic research effort aimed at equipping engineering firms with the foresight, tools, and competencies that they need to thrive by the year 2035. The American Council of Engineering Companies and its ACEC Research Institute’s Firm of the Future initiative was praised by the judges as a very good initiative for the survival and growth of firms.
“Preparing for the future is key and this is an excellent initiative utilising innovative ways to approach strategic challenges across the engineering sector,” they said. “The member association involved is also very open to sharing their research globally to uplift the global sector, highlighting their underlying values of collaboration and philanthropy and raising the tide for all,” said the judging panel.
The two highly commended prizes awarded in this year’s FIDIC Member Association Excellence Awards went to RIF – the Norwegian Engineering Consultancy Association for an initiative entitled Engineering the Future: Norway’s AI Frontier: RIF’s Strategic Collaboration on Artificial Intelligence and also to the Association of Consulting and Engineering New Zealand for their The Pillars Competency Framework.
All the awards were presented during the 2025 FIDIC Global Infrastructure Awards Gala Dinner, which was sponsored by infrastructure, engineering and advisory practice, Zutari.
Photo above shows John Gamble, president and CEO of ACEC Canada and vice-president Martine Proulx (centre) being presented with their Member Association Excellence Award, flanked by incoming FIDIC president Alfredo Ingletti (left) and outgoing president Catherine Karakatsanis (right).
