The Awards 2012

Several changes to the 2012 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards have been announced by the Award’s partners.
For the first time, the Awards Dinner will be held in Auckland rather than Wellington, where the evening has traditionally been held.
The Awards’ partners have also created a new set of awards for Engineering Practice:

  • Excellence in Engineering for Safety
  • Excellence in Environmental Practice
  • Excellence in Community Engagement.

In addition, two of the eight established Project and Product Awards have been reshaped to more specifically include the minerals sector, and to separate environmental practice from clean technology. The new Project and Product Awards are:

  • Energy and Resources
  • Resource Efficient Technologie

Important dates
Entries for the 2012 NZEE Awards will open on 1 April.
The Awards’ Dinner will be held 30 November in Auckland.

For more information about the award categories and the awards available:

For help with putting an entry together:

Awards Recognising People

Awarded to those working in New Zealand engineering who excel in their chosen fields, through leadership, innovation and dedication.

 

William Pickering Award for Engineering Leadership

The award recognises an engineer who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, and is a role model for other engineers. 

This award can not be applied for, but individuals can put forward a candidate to the judging panel with reference to the Judging Criteria for the Award.

New Zealand Engineering Entrepreneur of the Year

The award recognises an engineer, engineering technologist, or a team engaged in engineering activities team who, through entrepreneurship, has created or developed a new business opportunity.

New Zealand Engineering Innovator of the Year

The award recognises an engineer, engineering technologist, or a team engaged in engineering activities, who has demonstrated a commitment to innovation in engineering.

New Zealand Young Engineer of the Year

Awarded to a young engineer who is judged to have made the most excellent contribution as an engineer, leader, and through community involvement. 

Project and Product Awards

Awarded for the best recent activity (project, product or service) exemplifying excellence in New Zealand engineering in each of eight categories.

Projects or products can not be more than three years old since the date of commissioning and must be at least a year old. The judges are looking to see that the submission is commercially proven, and/or that the project has had time to settle down, for example the air conditioning system has gone through all four seasons.

 

Building and Construction

Recent activities associated with the design and construction of buildings. Includes fire engineering, building services, geotechnical, structural and earthquake engineering, excludes bridges and dams.

Chemical, Bio and Food

Recent activities associated with developing improved or new technologies or products in one or more of the fields of bioprocessing, chemical processing, food processing, or biomedical applications. Processing includes but is not limited to unit operations, unit processes, storage, materials handling and specialised transportation operations

Energy and Resources (NEW for 2012)

Recent activities or projects associated with development or implementation of improved or new products or services for energy generation, transmission, reticulation, or use (including motor and engine technology), or the extraction and processing of mineral or petroleum resources.

Information, Communication, Electrical and Electronic Technology (ICEET)

Recent activities associated with developing improved or new communications, hardware and/or software, embedded systems, broadcasting, telecoms, electrical or electronic products and controls.

Mechanical and Manufacturing

Recent activities associated with developing improved or new products, processes or services using mechanical engineering, mechatronics, or which arise in the manufacturing sector. This is a broad category which includes elaborately transformed manufactured goods, automated production facilities, mechanisation, control systems (where there is a mechanical component) and robotics. The category excludes mechanical devices permanently fitted as part of building services.

Resource Efficient Technologies (NEW for 2012)

Recent activities associated with developing or applying world’s best practice technologies that efficiently use, reuse, recycle or recover resources.

Transportation Infrastructure

Recent activities associated with the development or operation of any form of land, sea or air transport infrastructure assets. Includes bridges, tunnels, rail, road, port, airport construction, transportation and traffic engineering.

Water, Waste and Amenities

Recent activities associated with reliable supply of services to communities and/or their distribution networks in respect of any of water supply, water storage, wastewater, flood works, community amenities, eg swimming pools, beaches, marinas, solid waste, but excluding transportation, communications and energy services.  

 

The Supreme Award will be awarded to the best project/product from one of the eight awards.

Engineering Practice Awards

Recent examples of excellent engineering practice may be entered into one of three categories:

 

Excellence in Engineering for Safety

One or more of:

    • Engineered products that improve the user’s health and safety.  These could include innovations to existing products, a new product that increases the user’s safety or the safety of the community in which the product is used
    • Excellent health and safety practice in constructing , operating , maintaining , or deconstructing or disposing of engineered artefacts, with designing for safety being a critical component of the practice
    • An engineer-led programme of work or system that significantly decreases the instances of illness or injuries in the engineering workplace
    • An individual engineer who has championed a significant piece of work in occupational, health and safety.

Excellence in Environmental Practice

One or both of:

    • A project in which any environmental effects during project execution have been excellently avoided, remedied or mitigated
    • A product, programme or project that has improved the quality of the environment in a tangible and ongoing manner throughout the life of the artefact created.

Excellence in Community Engagement

An engineering project, product, programme of work or communications’ activity that demonstrates empathy with the values of affected communities. The winner will show excellent communication and/or consultation with those communities and demonstrate the communities understand the engineering issues or perspectives, and accept and support the relevant engineering solution/s.

 

Check out Past Awards and the FAQ section of the website.

For general enquiries, please contact enquiries@nzeeawards.org.nz or phone 04 474 8987.