The COMADIT Prize

Award criteria

Purpose: The COMADIT Prize is awarded annually by the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing to recognise a significant contribution over a period of at least 5-10 years through research and development in any branch of condition monitoring to the benefit of industry or society.
 
Details of the award: The prize will be in the form of full-time registration at the NDT Annual Conference with three nights' accommodation, a certificate and a cash sum of £350. Invitations to sponsor the prize will be issued each year to all Corporate members of the Institute. When more than one organisation desires to be the sponsor, the selection shall be by lot. The sponsor’s name will be prominently mentioned in all publicity associated with the prize for the year in question and will be featured on the Honours Board at the Institute HQ.

Eligibility: The prize may be won by any research worker or group of named research workers. 

This is intended to recognise contributions over a period of at least 5-10 years.

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.

Frequency: The prize will be awarded annually and will only be issued if suitable nominations are received.

Nomination arrangements: Nominations should be submitted by email to: karen.cambridge@bindt.org

Nominations for the award will be reviewed by the CM Technical Committee. If there is only one nomination, then the CM Technical Committee should vote to confirm whether the nomination is eligible and, if so, to approve the award. 

If there is more than one nomination, then the entries should be sent for judging by a panel set up for the purpose. Four members of the panel are to be appointed by the CM Technical Committee. Each judge will be invited to score the entries on a point scale of 0 to 3 and send the scores to Karen Cambridge, who will total the scores, and the entry receiving the most points will be declared the winner.  

Awarding arrangements: The prize will normally be presented at the CM Annual Conference during the Conference Dinner by the Chair of the CM Technical Committee.

Committee: CM Technical Committee.

Winners

The COMADIT Prize for 2025 is awarded to Geoff Walker. 

Geoff, Founder and Director of Faraday Predictive Ltd, is a Chartered Engineer focused on helping organisations optimise their maintenance strategy, with an emphasis on the technologies required to deliver condition-based maintenance. 

After reading engineering at St John’s College, Cambridge, Geoff’s experience includes over a decade in a range of engineering management roles in the chemical industry, over a decade leading the Physical Asset Management consulting practice for PwC and the last two decades working on the development and application of automated fault diagnostic systems.

As one of the founders of Faraday Predictive, Geoff’s present focus is on electrical signature analysis (ESA), smart systems using the electric motor driving the equipment, or the generator being driven by equipment, as a sensor, using subtle changes in the relationship between current and voltage to diagnose and predict a range of mechanical and operational problems as well as electrical ones.

Geoff has recently been appointed as Chairman of TC 108/SC 5, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee developing international standards for condition monitoring, is Chairman of the corresponding British Standards Institution (BSI) mirror committee GME/21/7 and has chaired the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) working group on electrical condition monitoring.

Past winners:		Sponsors:
2008	Prof A D Hope	Laser Optical Engineering Ltd
2009	Dr T Holroyd	J R Technology and RMS Ltd
2010	Mr C Pearson	Staffordshire University
2011	Dr M Walters	RMS Ltd
2012	Mr S Mills and Mr D Whittle	SpectraQuest Inc
2013	Mr S Greenfield and Mr D Shorten	Ardrox Engineering
2014	Dr J Twiddle and Dr S Muthuraman	PCN Working Groups
2015	Mr K Seaborne and Dr J H Yebra	PCN Working Groups
2016	Professor Len Gelman	PCN Working Groups
2017	Professor Ling Wang	PCN Working Groups
2018	Professor Andrew Starr	PCN Working Groups
2019	Professor Siamak Noroozi	PCN Working Groups
2020	Professor Andrew Ball	PCN Working Groups
2021	David Manning-Ohren	PCN Working Groups
2022	Tim Stevenson	PCN Working Groups
2023	Honor Powrie FREng FInstP	PCN Working Groups
2024	Dr Muhammad Khan	PCN Working Groups