Industry Updates
Gavin Lume from Hyder collects Young Designer Award at Steel Design Awards One of Hyder Consulting’s young engineers, Gavin Lume, has been merited with the Young Designer Award at this year’s NSW ASI Steel Design Awards. His efforts as project and on-site engineer for the Skoda Stadium project helped distinguish Gavin from the competition.
INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTORS Shannon Stephenson – Google Australia Ben Mason – Norman Disney & Young Joanne Nugent – Parsons Brinckerhoff Glen Pidgeon – Westfield Sydney Avril Henry – Author Graeme Cowan – Author
SMEC’s Engineering News Record (ENR) rankings SMEC has significantly improved rankings its rankings in Engineering News Record (ENR) magazine’s annual design lists. SMEC was ranked at number 74 in ENR’s ‘Top 150 Global Design Firms’ list and number 58 in the ‘Top 200 International Design Firms’.
Stuart Kelly & Lindsay Hutter – Hill + Knowlton Daniel Samson – University of Melbourne Isabelle Phillips – Mackerel Sky Jerome Parisse-Brassens & Diana Coelho – Arup Darren Pavic – BRIC Tara Hill & Sean Neale - Deloitte Private
KBR awarded project management contract for Diamantina Power Station, Mt Isa
Mark Griffiths - Hinds Blunden
KBR has been awarded a project management services contract for the construction of the Diamantina Power Station, a 242 MW gas-fired power station in northwest Queensland. The station will provide power to Xstrata’s MIM copper mine and will be a secure long-term energy supplier to the region.
Dr Peter Gehrke - SMEC
Gateway Upgrade Project wins at Queensland Engineers Australia Awards The Gateway Upgrade Project received the Excellence Award for Queensland for the project infrastructure category $50M+ as well as the overall R. W. Hawken Award. The Gateway was constructed by the Leighton Abigroup Joint Venture, with the AECOMSMEC Joint Venture as civil designers and Coffey Geotechnics as the geotechnical and pavement designers. The project also received a gold award at the Consult Australia 2011 Awards for Excellence.
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