2021 Awards for Excellence Details

Awards Categories

Champions of Change - Female Leadership

This award recognises a mid or senior level female professional who has demonstrated leadership capabilities and/or is championing change within her firm or in the industry more broadly.

Future Leader

This award acknowledges professional staff of firms aged 35 years and under who have made a significant contribution to their firm and added value in a demonstrable way.

Small Business Excellence

The Small Business Excellence Award recognises firms with less than 20 FTE who have demonstrated innovation in the conduct of their business either through process, people or use of technology.

Superior Sustainability

This award recognises the achievement of sustainable outcomes on an internal or external project that go above and beyond expectations in the application of the firm’s services (e.g. through design, advice, and/or the application of sustainable materials and principles etc.).

Client Service Excellence

The award recognised member firms who have delivered exemplary customer service throughout the course of a client engagement or project. Entry in this category requires firms to be either nominated or endorsed by the client.

Collaboration for project excellence

This award recognises collaboration initiatives between project participants and the client, which contributed to project excellence.

Technological Innovation

This award recognises firms who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the innovative application of new or existing technology.

People First

This Award recognises firms that have implemented and delivered outstanding initiatives that benefit their people.

Innovative Design

The award recognises firms who have demonstrated outstanding innovation in any aspect of the design process.

Special Awards

Small Firm of the Year

The Small Firm of the Year Award recognises the sole practitioner or firm with less than 20 employees with a nomination in any of the 2021 Awards for Excellence categories considered to be of the highest standard by an independent judging panel.

Medium Firm of the Year

The Medium Firm of the Year Award recognises the firm with 20 – 199 employees, with a nomination in any of the 2021 Awards for Excellence categories considered to be of the highest standard by an independent judging panel.

Large Firm of the Year

The Large Firm of the Year Award recognises the firm with 300+ employees, with a nomination in any of the 2021 Awards for Excellence categories considered to be of the highest standard by an independent judging panel.

President's award

The President’s Award recognises the individual or firm who has contributed the most to Consult Australia and/or the industry over the past 12 months.

Hall of Fame

The OneConsult Awards for Excellence Hall of Fame is the highest accolade a company can receive. To be recognised in the prestigious OneConsult Hall of Fame is the highest honour and is seen as the epitome of “Excellence” and entrants are celebrated for superiority in their field.

Companies are honoured by entry into the Hall of Fame if they have been awarded Large Firm of the Year, Medium Firm of the Year or Small Firm of the Year for a period of three (3) consecutive years. Entrance in the Hall of Fame is for a two (2) year period.

Judges

Consult Australia would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank each of the judges on the 2021 panel for generously donating their time and expertise to support this year's Awards for Excellence.

All judges are independent and are engaged to ensure the highest possible standards of fairness and impartiality are applied to the judging process. All judges are also required to ensure the confidential nature of all submissions is maintained.

The judging criteria applied to select the Award winners principally revolves around consulting excellence. This is reflected through the originality, innovation, quality, results and impact of each submission. Community, environmental and social aspects are also considered.

Marlene Kanga, Standards Australia

Brian Yu, University of Sydney

Danny Samson, University of Melbourne

Kim Seeling-Smith, CEO Ignite Global

Anthony Manning, School Infrastr ucture NSW

Awards Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSOR

Autodesk, Inc., is a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of 3D software for global markets.

Customers across the manufacturing, architecture, building, construction, and media and entertainment industries—including the last 19 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects—use Autodesk software to design, visualize, and simulate their ideas before they're ever built or created. From blockbuster visual effects and buildings that create their own energy, to electric cars and the batteries that power them, the work of our 3D software customers is everywhere you look.

GOLD SPONSOR

Unit4 offers industry-leading software for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A). Our software solutions focus on People Experience, helping to free your project management, design and engineering teams from administrative tasks, to spend more time on what’s important: realizing value for your clients.

Manage your business and create a foundation for growth with a dedicated solution for the management and planning of your finances, people and projects with Unit4.

SILVER SPONSOR

NEC is a division of Thomas Telford Limited, the commercial arm of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). NEC develops and promotes standard forms of contract that can be used for the procurement of works, services and goods across all sectors. The contracts help to enable any project to be delivered on time, within budget and to the highest standards. We also offer trainings in the best practice of managing the contracts.

NEC contracts have been used on major building and infrastructure projects around the world including Main Roads Western Australia trialling NEC for its Great Northern Highway upgrade, and Sydney Water selecting NEC as its standard procurement route for construction works and services.

GALA DINNER SPONSOR

Cbus is the national industry super fund for the building, construction and allied industries. The Fund is focused on maximising retirement outcomes for over 747,000 members, while also helping more than 134,000 employers manage their business superannuation needs. With a strong focus on keeping super simple, Cbus offers employers easy administration with reliable service and support. To join up, or find out more: Call Cbus on 1300 361 784 or visit cbussuper.com.au

Cbus’ Trustee: United Super Pty Ltd ABN 46 006 261 623 AFSL 233792 Cbus ABN 75 493 363 262. Figures quoted are correct as at 31 May 2017.

Welcome Reception Sponsor

Mace is a global company of experts in shaping and making the built environment. It provides development, consulting, construction and operations services for many of the world’s most inspiring building and infrastructure projects and programmes – from Olympic parks and iconic skyscrapers to state-of-the-art data centres, schools, hospitals and homes.

The privately-owned company, headquartered in London, UK, has an annual turnover of £1.8 billion. Over 30 years, its growth has been fuelled by an adventurous spirit and the relentless pursuit of a better way. Today, the company employs over 6,000 people across five global hubs in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, the Americas, Sub Saharan Africa and Asia Pacific.

Mace is driven by its purpose to redefine the boundaries of ambition, and its vision of leading the way to a more connected, resilient and sustainable world.

UNIFORM SPONSOR

With over 30 years of continuous experience in the Safety Industry, we at Safeman Australia pride ourselves on our staff’s capacity to understand the issues surrounding the safety and protection of employees and to advise customers accordingly.