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The Watford Group is an international voluntary association of architects, designers and other design professionels coming from railway-related companies and administrations, created in 1963.
As an occasion for exchange and discussion between its members, the Watford Group holds an annual general assembly, the Watford Conference.
To promote quality in railway-related design issues and to show the results achieved in this fields to a wider, non-professional audience, the Watford Group donates since 1985 the Brunel Awards, the international railway design competition.
So we were glad about the generally high quality of the 161 entries handed in for this year`s 10th Brunel Awards. And the Jury, led by Dominique Perrault, did a great choice of 15 awards and 15 recommendations.
It was in particular a pleasure to see the "Special Jury Price for overall Quality" given to Austria, as they not only look back on an impressive row of well done architecture and design projects. They also did a great job in making this years Brunel and Watford Conference a memorable incident.
We thank Austrian Railways ÖBB for conducting this year`s Awards and we thank the International Union of Railways UIC for first time cooperation and promotion of this prestigious event.
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