Akshaya Chapagain, an engineer from Woking, has received the ICE’s London Emerging Engineer Award 2016, and will go on to compete for the 2016 Emerging Engineer Global Award. Akshaya Chapagain, a University of Portsmouth graduate who works for Balfour Beatty as a Crossrail Site Engineer, won the award after delivering a paper and presentation on an innovative bridge design. The prize was organised by the student and graduate members of the ICE, and was judged by a panel of senior figures in the engineering industry.