Roading Awards

Thu, 03/12/2009 - 5:27pm

Roading New Zealand's annual Roading Excellence Awards, inaugurated in 2005, aim to promote excellence and leading industry best practice in the provision of land transport infrastructure. For entrants and award sponsors, they also help to grow business through valued services and increased industry profile.

Details of the different awards available and the criteria for entry can be found here.  An Awards Entry Kit is available to all New Zealand contractors, consultants and road controlling authorities prior to each year's Awards.

An Awards Newsletter detailing the winners of the 2009 Roading Excellence Awards can be viewed and downloaded from here.

Photographs from the 2009 Awards Dinner can be viewed here . . .

Every year, awards are presented in the following categories:

Shell Bitumen Excellence Award for a Major Road Project is for excellence in the planning, design and construction of a roading project of national significance completed in the previous two years.

Goughs Excellence Award for a Minor Road Project is for excellence in the planning, design and construction of a roading project of regional significance completed in the previous two years.

The InfaTrain NZ Best Practice Awards are awarded for excellence in the development and implementation of roading industry best practice in three different categories:
Best Practice - People (e.g. best practice in health and safety, training, recruitment or retention of employees, etc);
Best Practice - Procurement (innovation and best practice in procurement);
and Best Practice - Environmental Sustainability (best practice in environmental risk management).

The Roading New Zealand Supreme Award is awarded to the most outstanding entry across all categories based on the three key themes — best practice, innovation and collaboration.