A newsletter with details of the 2009 Awards projects, winners and photos can be downloaded from here
Photos from the 2009 Gala Awards Dinner and Social can be viewed here
Winner of the 2009 Supreme Award was the Northern Gateway Alliance Toll Road.
Below: Presentation of the 2009 Supreme Award - left to right, Chris Olsen (CEO Roading New Zealand), Andrew McRae and Lindsay Crossen (both Northern Gateway Alliance), David Bennett MP (Chair, Transport & Industrial Relations Select Committee), Isabella Olthoff (Shell), and Peter Spies (Northern Gateway Alliance).
Roading Excellence Awards 2010
Each year Roading New Zealand hosts the Roading Excellence Awards in order to promote leadership, excellence and best practice within the industry. The awards also aim to promote collaboration and the transfer of innovation.
Entries opened in May for the 2010 Awards. The closing date for entries is Friday 16 July. Winners will be announced on Monday 27 September. An Entry Kit for the 2010 Awards can be downloaded here.
This year a new category has been introduced in the competition. As project values continue to widen there is a need to recognise that a large number fall between $5 and $25 million in value and this needs a specific focus. Accordingly there is a new category for medium sized projects.
The other categories will remain, with the Major Road Project category for projects greater than $25 million and the Minor Road Project category for projects under $5 million.
The competition is open to all organisations that administer roads, e.g. New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) or local authorities, as well as contractors and consultants. Eligible projects are those roading projects completed in New Zealand between 10 July 2008 and 14 July 2010.
Joint entries are encouraged for the Road Project categories as the criteria covers planning through to construction and include collaboration, co-operation, and relationship building. (A road is defined as a pavement that vehicles drive on or is used by pedestrians, which may include ports, race tracks and airports.) Categories for 2010 are:
Greenstone Energy Excellence Award for a Major Road Project
Awarded for excellence in the planning, design and construction of a road project completed in the past two years with a value greater than $25 million.
Goughs Excellence Award for a Medium Road Project
Awarded for excellence in the planning, design and construction of a road project completed in the past two years with a value between $5 and $25 million.
Excellence Award for a Minor Road Project
Awarded for excellence in the planning, design and construction of a road project completed in the past two years with a value of less than $5 million.
InfraTrain New Zealand Best Practice Award: People
Awarded for excellence in the development and implementation of industry best practice, concerning a company or organisation’s roading employees. Entries could include any of the areas of health and safety, literacy and numeracy, training, recruitment or retention of employees. This award is all about people in the organisation.
InfraTrain New Zealand Best Practice Award: Procurement
Awarded for excellence in the development and implementation of industry best practice in delivery of roading projects. Entries could cover any of the areas of packaging of work, tender solutions, risk allocation, contract management, project management or communication.
InfraTrain New Zealand Best Practice Award: Environmental Sustainability
This award is for excellence in the development and implementation of industry best practice in environmental sustainability within the roading sector. Examples of areas covered by this award include consent applications, consent approvals, mitigation measures, waste reduction, energy consumption reduction and procurement procedures.
The Roading New Zealand Supreme Award is presented to the most outstanding entry across all the above categories, based on the three key themes – innovation, best practice and collaboration. The award will be presented to an entrant who is deemed, at the judges’ discretion, worthy of supreme status.