SAEEA SA ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2014 SHOWCASE BOOKLET SAEEA SA ENGINEERING TICKETS ON SALE NOW EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2014 5pm – 8pm, Monday, 24 November, 2014 Engineers Australia South Australia would like to thank and Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre acknowledge our sponsors for the 2014 South Australian Dress code: Cocktail Engineering Excellence Awards. To promote the accomplishments of engineering projects and professionals to the global engineering community, this year’s AEEA will be hosted at Convention 2014, which will attract over 5,000 delegates from around the world. excellence awards SPONSORS excellenceawards.org.au THE LARGEST ENGINEERING EVENT OF THE YEAR REGISTER NOW Division Supporters 24–28 NOVEMBER MELBOURNE CONVENTION & EXHIBITION CENTRE convention2014.org.au #EAC2014 twitter /engaustralia fb /engineersaustralia engineersaustralia.org.au /engineersaustralia @EngAustralia SA ENGINEERING SAEEA EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2014 Contents About The Awards About the Award/ 2014 Judges 5 Why enter? This is your chance 2014 Judges: to promote the outstanding work A Message from the Chief Judge 6–7 Chief Judge undertaken by your engineering Peter Hamilton FIEAust CPEng About Malcolm Kinnaird 8 team and market capability! Project Management Finalists 9–15 Engineers add real value to our communities. Jack Atkinson FIEAust CPEng EngExec Small to medium size organisations produce Anthony Mew MIEAust excellent engineering, so be assured that Commendations 16–20 Lachlan Kinnear MIEAust CPEng a “small” project can produce engineering Excellence Awards 21–25 excellence as well as the larger projects. Reports, Procedures and Systems Dr Don Sinnott FIEAust CPEng (Ret) Engineering Excellence Award & The Engineering Excellence Awards recognise Bronte Strout FIEAust CPEng the highest level of achievement in the Ralph Belperio FIEAust CPEng Malcolm Kinnaird Engineering engineering field. They provide peer recognition of outstanding engineering work, be it a large or Excellence Award 26–27 Resource Development small project. Young Professional Bronte Strout FIEAust CPEng Alex Eadie FIEAust Engineer of the Year 28–29 As well as identifying the leaders within the engineering profession, the Awards provide Stephen Ramsay GradIEAust an opportunity to showcase and celebrate Professional Engineer Project Infrastructure the invaluable contribution the engineering of the Year 30–31 profession makes to the community. Michael de Heus MIEAust CPEng Prof Mike Miller AO FTSE FIEAust Recognition Jennifer Kelly Recognition is given by the awarding of an Control Systems, Networks, Information Engineering Excellence Award. This is the major Processing and Telecommunications award for the category. Projects that have achieved Dr Don Sinnott FIEAust CPEng (Ret) high scores, but not to the degree as above, may be Andrew Stevens MIEAust CPEng awarded a Commendation. Christine Haydon TMIEAust The best overall project, as determined by the Buildings and Structures judges, is given recognition by the awarding of the Leo Noicos FIEAust CPEng Malcolm Kinnaird Engineering Excellence Award. Peter Koukourou FIEAust CPEng (Ret) Bronte Strout FIEAust CPEng Winners of a South Australian Engineering Excellence Award are eligible and encouraged to Innovation/Research and Development enter the Australian Engineering Excellence Awards Bronte Strout FIEAust CPEng in the same year. We wish the South Australian Excellence Awards winners the best of luck for the Dr Don Sinnott FIEAust CPEng (Ret) Australian Engineering Excellence Awards. 4 5 SA ENGINEERING SAEEA EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2014 The construction of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and the Life A message from Extension of a valuable copper crude ore bin in Mt Isa were two fine examples of exceptional engineering in the face of a complex and challenging user requirement, and were awarded the chief judge a Commendation. I thank all entrants for their efforts in putting together and presenting an entry for the 2014 South Australia Engineering Excellence Awards. It is a great way of bringing their work to the It is an honour to be invited by the Division The system provides its effectiveness in attention of a wider South Australian public. Committee to perform the role of Chief Judge destroying attacking missiles in exercises in the of the South Australian Engineering Excellence Pacific with US and Allied Navies. It is proving I also thank those engineers and Government Awards. Ably assisted by jurors drawn from attractive to these navies with the potential officials who sacrificed their time to sit on the ranks of engineering professionals and for overseas sales. As a valuable and innovative category juries and provide their experience Government, our task was extremely interesting, project, it was awarded an Excellence Award. in judging entries. Their wisdom was much invigorating and enlightening on the health of the appreciated. In closing I wish to acknowledge the engineering profession and industry in The Goodwood Junction Rail Grade Separation assistance and professionalism of the General South Australia. project entered by Thiess and York Civil in the Manager of the Division, Caroline Argent, Events Project Infrastructure category was a complex Coordinator Kate Greenshields and the team at Entrants ranged across large infrastructure and and imaginative project built in a live rail the South Australia Division. building works, complex software systems, environment to a tight schedule and with major planning and policy reports, and maritime safety and community concerns. It was also Peter Hamilton FIEAust CPEng history. All were worthy candidates making the awarded an Engineering Excellence Award. task of adjudication that much more challenging. Chief Judge Four Commendations were awarded. One for The winner of the Malcolm Kinnaird Engineering particularly imaginative work in the retrieval of Excellence Award for 2014 is the Adelaide Oval the City of Adelaide Clipper ship from Scotland Redevelopment, submitted by Arup, Wallbridge to Adelaide. It was unparalleled as an example of & Gilbert, Aurecon and AECOM. The judges sheer doggedness, perseverance and skilled and assessed this project as having presented an imaginative engineering. exemplary example of the art of the practice of civil, structural, electrical, mechanical and A second Commendation to Flinders University, systems engineering. It encompassed significant University of South Australia and the Women’s structural and environmental issues with an eye and Children’s Health network who developed a on the heritage aspects of the ground, crowd computer based game playing system designed management and comfort, and a tight sporting to assist children with limited hand function. This timetable. The jury also noted the extensive use creative and inventive product shows substantial and praise for local steel and concrete fabrication. commercial potential not only for children but for the ageing. It was a significant example of Saab Australia entered an advanced Antiship engineering on a financial shoe string. Missile and Defence System built to protect Australian warships against missile threats of a high level of sophistication and travelling at Mach 3–4. The system is particularly software intensive with a very high degree of originality. 6 7 SA ENGINEERING SAEEA EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2014 The Malcolm Kinnaird Excellence Award The overall award, formerly known as the positions of non–executive Chairman of Kinhill FINALISTS Engineering South Australia Excellence Pty Ltd and Director of Brown and Root Pty Ltd. Award, has been named the Malcolm Kinnaird He retired from these positions in late 1999. Engineering Excellence Award. This is in recognition of Mr Kinnaird’s strong passion for In 1991, Mr Kinnaird was made an Officer in the South Australia, his vision, leadership and drive General Division of the Order of Australia for his to deliver many major developments, including services to engineering and the community. He the Adelaide–Darwin rail link and the West was awarded the French decoration of Chevalier Lakes Development. Mr Kinnaird epitomised the de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur in 1998. Mr key function of the engineering profession, to Kinnaird was awarded the honorary degree of identify and deliver solutions. Doctor of the University by the University of South Australia in 2000. In 2002 Mr Kinnaird was The Malcolm Kinnaird Engineering Excellence awarded the Centenary Medal for Service to Award will be given to the most outstanding Australian Society through Business and in 2003 entry and will be considered from the winners he was recognised for his contributions to the across all categories. field of engineering and the development of the State of South Australia by being named as South About Malcolm Kinnaird Australian of the Year. Malcolm Kinnaird AC DUniv FTSE HonFIEAust was Malcolm Kinnaird has been a member of the born in Adelaide and educated at the University Engineers Australia South Australia Division of Adelaide where he graduated as a civil Hall of Fame since its inaugural year in 2006. engineer in 1958. Mr Kinnaird has been a Fellow and Chartered Professional Engineer since 1959 and was Upon graduation Mr Kinnaird was employed admitted as an Honorary Fellow of Engineers as a Research Assistant in the Civil Engineering Australia in 1991, a title awarded to only 150 highly Department of the University of Adelaide. In 1960 esteemed Engineers Australia current members he left the University to found the consulting