“Once again the calibre of entries for this year’s awards has been exceptionally high and the judges have found it difficult to agree on the shortlist,” said Phil Mayo, chairman of the judging panel and MD of Premier EDA Solutions.“The strength of the shortlisted entries demonstrates all that is great about British design engineering. From innovative Start-Ups and clever Young Design Engineers to pioneering Materials Applications and world beating Design Teams, the entries continue to inspire and prove that the UK leads the way on the global design engineering stage.”
The companies shortlisted in each BEEAs category are:
Consultancy of the Year
3form Design
Argon Design
ByteSnap Design
Drive System Design
Kinneir Dufort
Product Partners
Design Engineer of the Year
Mike Lawton - Oxford Space
Paul Pomfret - Xtrac
Richard Poulton - Navtech Radar
Bob Stevens - Ansible
Paul Thomas - Cupris
Martin Wallace - Steeper
Design Team of the Year
Drallim Industries
Electronic Temperature Instruments (ETI)
Industrial Design Consultancy (IDC) & Quantel
Navtech RadarLtd
Optical Metrology Services (OMS)
Xtrac Ltd
Materials Application of the Year
3form Design - Novarix IC-eye
Diamond Hard Surfaces Adm - Adamant amorphous diamond material
Nylacast - Pipe in Pipe Spacers
Surrey NanoSystems - Vantablack
T-T Pumps - Ready Sump
New Product (Electronic) of the Year
Argon Design - Argon Streams
FTDI Chip - FT600 Series
Laird - BT900
London Underground - Train Monitoring System
REFL - Ultra-Low Latency HD Video Lens Distortion Correction
TDK-Lambda UK - ZMS100-100W AC-DC Power Supply
New Product (Mechanical) of the Year
2-DTech - Advanced Graphene Process
Birley Manufacturing - Universally Accessible Toilet Module
Bollard Load Testing - Bollard Load Test Equipment
Delphi Powertrain Systems - F2
RDM Group - Driverless Pod
Steeper - bebionic Small
Small Company of the Year
Blu Wireless Technology
GWR Fasteners Ltd
LG Motion Ltd
Magna Parva Ltd
Physical Digital Ltd
Wideblue Ltd
Start Up of the Year
Cubik Innovation
Cupris Health
Oxford Space Systems
Young Designer of the Year
Jenna Allen - A-one+ Integrated Highway Services
James Chambers - Greentree
James Melrose - Welwyn Components/TT Electronics
Cat Silva - Rotite Technologies
Dan Stamp - Kliklok International
The winners will be announced at a gala lunch at the Hurlingham Club, London, on 29 October.
Tables for the lunch can be booked online at: http://www.beeas.co.uk/book-a-table/
