Special Contribution Award

Award criteria

Purpose: To recognise a significant personal contribution to the British Institute of NDT or the wider NDT/CM/SHM community, but should not reflect a contribution that benefits an individual business or academic institution.

Details of the award: The award will consist of an invitation to the NDT Annual Conference Dinner with one night’s accommodation, together with a framed certificate signed by the President and the Chief Executive Officer and a personalised letter from the President.

Eligibility: The successful nominee must be an active member of the Institute. The award will recognise a significant contribution that may be a piece of groundbreaking research, delivery of an Institute project or objective, or a significant investment of effort in the service of Institute committees or Branches. It may be awarded at any stage of a member’s career and is not intended to be an award for long service as are the Lifetime Achievement and Personal Contribution Awards.

Frequency: There is no periodicity for this award. Suitable recipients will emerge from time to time and their selection will be obvious by their acknowledged contribution. It will be possible for more than one candidate to be given this award in the same calendar year.

Nomination arrangements: All committees are encouraged to nominate individuals. Nominations for the award will be reviewed by the Croxson Committee and recommended for ratification by Council.

The proposer of the award should be a voting member of the Institute. If they are not, they will need to ensure the application is endorsed by an Institute voting member.

Committee: Croxson Committee

2024 winner: Bob Chapman

The Special Contribution Award for 2024 is awarded to Bob Chapman.

Bob has been an Honorary Technical Editor for Insight since 2010 and is a member of the British Institute of
Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT)’s Technical Committee. He has previously served as Chair and Vice Chair of
this Committee, on Council and as a Vice President of the Institute.

Bob is now retired but previously worked in non-destructive testing (NDT) for over 30 years in the electricity supply industry, first for the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) and later for its various successor companies, including finally for EDF Energy.

Bob initially worked on the theoretical modelling of ultrasonic NDT but later worked on many different projects, ranging from Magnox pressure vessel radiography to the inspection of boiler spines using ultrasonic guided wave technology.

A nomination form can be downloaded here.

Details of all Institute awards can be found here.