Finalist in the 2011 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards Announced

The winners of the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards will be announced at the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards dinner on Wednesday 30 November in Wellington. For more information or to purchase tickets to the dinner.

Congratulations to all the finalists in the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards. The Finalists in the New Zealand Engineering Excellence awards are as follows:

Project and Product awards

Albany Lakes Precinct: Integrated Asset Management Strategy
Anguillid Consulting Engineers and Scientists Ltd       
Auckland Transport

Air New Zealand Nelson Hangar
Mainzeal Property and Construction Ltd         
Aurecon New Zealand Ltd

Aorangi House
Beca

Engineering Design and Construction of Hokitika 11kV Reactive Support
Mitton ElectroNet Ltd

Manukau Harbour Crossing
Beca

Napier's Cross Country Drain
Beca

Nga Awa Purua Geothermal – Steam Separation System
Sinclair Knight Merz

Ovine Auto Processing Systems Development
Milmeq Ltd

Project Orbit
Beca

Rosedale Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall Tunnel
AECOM           
Aurecon NZ Ltd
McConnell Dowell       
Tonkin & Taylor Ltd

Setting a New Sustainable Benchmark at the Dudley Park Aquatic Centre
MWH New Zealand Ltd

Silverstream Landfill Transformation
Hutt City Council         
Tonkin & Taylor Ltd     
Transpacific Industries Group (NZ) Ltd           
H. G. Leach & Company Ltd   
Dimac Contractors Ltd           
Tenga Pickering Contractors Ltd

Tauranga Harbour Link
NZ Transport Agency  
Beca   
URS New Zealand Ltd 
The Fletcher Construction Company Ltd

Te Rewa Rewa Bridge
New Plymouth District Council
Whitaker Civil Engineering Ltd
Novare Design Ltd

Vanuatu Transport Infrastructure Compact
Downer
AECOM

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

Awards Recognisng People

New Zealand Young Engineer of the Year
Camilla Gibbons
Mark James
Georgina Waibl

Award for Excellence in Engineering Journalism
Ruth Beran for Martin Jetpack, Our Changing World, Radio New Zealand National
Geoff Cumming for A test of character, The New Zealand Herald

Also presented at the dinner will be the New Zealand Engineering Innovator of the Year, the New Zealand Engineering Entrepreneur of the Year and the prestigious William Pickering Award for Engineering Leadership.

Initiated in 2005, the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards are the premier awards for the engineering professionals of New Zealand. The awards are presented in two major areas: Awards Recognising People, that recognise leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and our young engineers; and Project and Product Awards, that recognise achievement in the various industry areas, together with a Supreme Award for the best of the Project and Product winners.