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Tonkin & Taylor Pty Ltd's sister company wins six industry awards!
August 2010
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Pictured: Award winning Tauranga Harbour Link highways project, Tauranga, North Island, New Zealand. |
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Tonkin & Taylor Pty Ltd’s sister company – Tonkin & Taylor Ltd in New Zealand – was delighted to win six industry awards for engineering excellence at a special awards ceremony held on 30 July.
T&T NZ won a Gold Award of Excellence (the highest award possible) for its work stabilising a massive landslip in South Auckland in the North Island.
T&T NZ designed the remedial works to increase the stability of the hillside within an exceptonally tight time frame. The project highlighted how technical excellence combined with high levels of consultation with wider stakeholders, helped this community through what was an extremely disruptive and difficult period.
T&T was awarded a Silver Award of Excellence for the 'MacKays Crossing Road over Rail Bridge SH1 Project', north of Wellington in the North Island. An innovative approach to an embankment design was integral to completing this project successfully for the contractor. A second Silver Award of Excellence was presented for the BNZ Building at Harbour Quays in Wellington in the North Island. A clever foundation design was critical to this project's success and it now presents a striking architectural design.
Three Awards of Merit were also presented to T&T NZ. The first was awarded for the Achilles Point Lookout in Auckland in the North Island. The new viewing platform and landscaped boardwalk provide a long-term, high visual impact upgrade of the Memorial site to New Zealand navy veterans.
A second Merit Award was presented for 'Project West Wind', located on the west coast of the North Island. The wind farm is one of the most productive in the world with an efficiency factor almost twice that of the world average.
Finally, Tauranga Harbour Link Stage 2, a large highways project undertaken in Tauranga in the North Island also picked up a Merit Award. The project has significantly eased traffic flows with some excellent engineering solutions.
Industry awards are presented annually by the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand to consultancies who undertake technically challenging projects requiring innovative solutions as well as considering wide stakeholder engagement.
Tony Kortegast, Managing Director of T&T Pty Ltd in Australia, commented that all the awards won by T&T NZ are exceptional by world standards. "T&T NZ (part of the wider Tonkin & Taylor Group) is thrilled to win these prestigious awards. They highlight how talented our employees are and how passionate they are about the work they get involved in", he said.
Tonkin & Taylor Pty Ltd and Tonkin & Taylor New Zealand are both companies belonging to the wider Tonkin &Taylor Group.
For more information please contact Tony Kortegast.
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