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Links Signs Sponsors TfL Supplier Awards 2019

06 December 2019

Links Signs Sponsors TfL Supplier Awards 2019

On November 27th 2019, London Transport Museum partnered with Transport for London to host the TfL Supplier Awards 2019. The evening celebrated best practice and excellence in collaboration between TfL and its suppliers. Links Signs had the privilege of attending and also sponsoring one of the award categories, as we did last year:
Best Environmental Initiative.

A total of twelve categories were represented at the ceremony, with each being sponsored by a TfL partner organisation. Those same categories also awarded those who had made the shortlist of nominees.

Once again, we were also honoured to be approached by TfL to design and produce all of the awards handed to each of the winners and those shortlisted at the event. This year the winner’s awards took the form of square, screen printed vitreous enamel plaques, embedded in hand-made wooden frames. Each award category featured a different portion of the iconic London Underground Tube map and a single tube line or TfL transport mode picked out in its unique individual colour.

Shortlisted nominees took away smaller, rectangular framed plaques – again featuring the award category colours, but with a different overall design.

The full list of Winners and Shortlisted Nominees

Award for Innovation
Sponsored by Thales:
Winner – Arcadis
Shortlisted – Jacobs, telent
Award for Efficiences
Sponsored by Balfour Beatty:
Winner – AGSOne
Shortlisted – Alstom, Jacobs
Award for Skills & Employment
Sponsored by telent:
Winner – Dragados
Shortlisted – Bombardier, Go Ahead
Award for Collaboration
Sponsored by O2 Business:
Winner – Alexander Dennis
Shortlisted – Balfour Beatty, telent
Best Environmental Initiative
Sponsored by Links Signs:
Winner – Ferrovial Laing O’Rourke
Shortlisted – Siemens
Best Health Initiative
Sponsored by Jacobs:
Winner – Dragados
Shortlisted – Ferrovial Laing O’Rourke, Morson
Best Safety Initiative
Sponsored by Atkins:
Winner – First Tram Operations
Shortlisted – Balfour Beatty, Ringway Jacobs
Best Use of Emerging Technology
Sponsored by Taylor Woodrow / Bam Nuttal:
Winner – Omnicom Balfour Beatty
Shortlisted – Arcadis, Balfour Beatty
Best SME Award
Sponsored by Mott MacDonald:
Winner – William Cook Rail
Shortlisted – CDS, RedRay
Special Recognition Award for Social Impact
Sponsored by mtr|Elizabeth line:
Winner – Cooneen Group
Special Recognition Award
In Partnership with Crossrail :
Delmatic
TfL Supplier of the Year
In Partnership with the London Transport Museum :
Winner – O2

We would like to congratulate all the winners as well as the shortlisted nominees.
We wish them all an equally productive and successful 2020.

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A pleasure to work with Links again on such a poignant programme. Delivering amazing high quality. Very much looking forward to working together again in the future.
Robert Varney – Engagement Officer (North) & TfL Charities Scheme Manager
Links Signs took on the challenge to provide the awards for the first Transport for London Supplier Awards. Using products and materials that are supplied to TfL for our station signage, Links created very impressive plaques for our winners and runners up. Throughout the production process Links kept TfL up to date with images, delivery schedule and were always on hand to clarify any queries. We look forward to working with them again next year.
Amanda Green – Transport for London
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Catherine Villegas – Project Manager, Transport for London
The team at Links Signs provide unfailing support and flexibility, which enables us to develop ambitious schemes and be confident of the highest quality results. Working with them has transformed the way we approach our exhibition design.
Catherine Harvey – Hastings Museum Office & Keeper of World Art
Links Signs successfully managed a complex project overseeing the manufacture and installation of 48 panels to create a bespoke mural on the Transport for London (TfL) owned bridge and the station entrance at Northwood Hills station. Links ensured not only that all the technical and engineering requirements of TfL were met but also that the extensive colour hues specified by mural artists Gordon Collett and Cosmo Sarson were achieved. The finished result is wonderful, as summed up by Mayor of London Boris Johnson when he visited ‘My God, it’s beautiful! Did we do this? The murals – they’re sensational!’ He added: ‘I think it’s all fantastic, really imaginative. I’m very proud.’
Helena Webster – Town Centre Improvements Team Manager, London Borough of Hillingdon
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