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New naval ship building facility scoops major Earth Award

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The new Techport Australia common user facility, which supports ASC in delivering the Australian Navy’s next generation $8bn air warfare destroyers, has won a major prize at the South Australian Civil Contractors Federation Earth Awards.

  

The win was announced at an Earth Awards gala dinner on Saturday night in Adelaide, and the project and other winners now advance to the national awards, to be announced in Canberra in October.
Built by a joint venture of McConnell Dowell and Built Environs, the facility includes a 213m wharf, a 156m shiplift, a runway, dry berth, transfer system and other key elements.
Valued at $170m, the project won the Category Five Earth Award for contracts worth more than $75m. It recognised the contractors’ environmental and construction excellence, as well as their project management skills.
Other major winners included SA Water and the CityGreen Alliance, for the Glenelg to Adelaide recycled water pipeline and BMD Constructions and SmithBridge Australia for the Christies Beach outfall project. Maritime Constructions also picked up an award for the Semaphore Park offshore breakwater, while in Category One, for projects up to $1m, ADCIV Pty Ltd was the winner for its part in the rehabilitation of Sellicks Creek Bridge and the surrounding environment.
The judges noted that this year’s winners had come from a particularly strong field of entrants, making it clear that industry bestpractice is improving across the civil construction industry.
The CCF Earth Awards are into their 17th year and are the premier awards in the civil construction industry. Celebrating the use of best technologies and improvements in practice, they have been recognised as a key factor in driving civil construction industry practices forward since its 1994.
 


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