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Major CCF award goes to Sydney’s desalination pipeline

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The Water Delivery Alliance has been the big winner in the 2010 Civil Contractors Federation New South Wales Earth Awards, picking up top recognition for the Sydney Desalination Pipeline project at a gala dinner last Friday night.

  

The Alliance, consisting of Sydney Water, Bovis Lend Lease, McConnell Dowell, Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd, WorleyParsons and Environmental Resource Management, won the Category Five Earth Award recognising excellence in environmental and project management, as well as the use of innovative technologies and techniques. Category Five of the awards recognises projects with a value of more than $75m.
The desalination pipeline, part of the $1.9bn desalination project, traverses Botany Bay and some of Sydney’s busiest suburbs, and is capable of supplying up to 500ML of water to Sydneysiders every day.
Other high-profile winners included The Reed Group, which picked up the top prize in Category Three for the Falcon Street Pedestrian Bridge, and Antoun Civil Engineering and Volumetric Concrete, which claimed Category One for its timely replacement of pavement on Runway 25 at Sydney International Airport.
Haslin Constructions’ won Category Four with its new Cooling System and Attemperating Reservoir/transfer pump station at Lake Macquarie, while Christie Civil picked up Category Two for its Environmental Flows and Fishway at the Broughtons Pass and Pheasants Nest Weirs.
Premier awards in the civil construction industry the CCF Earth Awards are into their 17th year. They celebrate the use of the best technologies and practices and have been recognised as a key factor in driving civil construction industry practices forward, since their inception in 1994.
 


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