The industry alliance that managed the upgrade of the Great Eastern Highway has been recognised for excellence in construction and environmental management at this year's Earth Awards for civil infrastructure.
The City East Alliance, made up of Main Roads, Leighton Contractors, GHD and NRW, won for its work upgrading 4.2 kilometres of the Great Eastern Highway between Kooyong Road and the Tonkin Highway, which was completed nine months ahead of schedule and under budget.
DM Civil, working for the Water Corporation, won for creating the Stirling trunk main duplication project to carry increased water flows from the Southern Seawater Desalination plant in Binningup, which recently doubled in capacity to 100 billion litres.
WA Limestone and Italia Stone Group won for their joint venture project creating the Augusta Boat Harbour, placing rock at a rate of 3,000 tonnes per day to construct the new harbour in just over 12 months.
Busselton company Streamline Underground won for its optic fibre cable installation project for Telstra at Rio Tinto's new Hope Downs 4 mine site entrance through to the West Angelas mine site near Newman.
DJ MacCormick Contractors won for its work carrying out the Market Street main sewer diversion project, which involved diverting a 70-year-old sewer pipe to make room for an underground rail line.
The Earth Awards are run by the Civil Contractors Federation and culminate this year at a national ceremony to be held in Melbourne on October 25, for which WA's winners will be in the running.
Separately, the WA Department of Transport has won project of the year at the Project Management Achievement Awards for its clean up and recovery project of lead contamination in Esperance.
The awards, run by the Australian Institute of Project Management, recognised two companies in the construction and engineering category – engineering services company Parsons Brinckerhoff for its work in developing the Mount Dove mine, and grain handler CBH Group for its rail program.
In the defence and aerospace category, Airservices won for its Paraburdoo secondary surveillance radar project.
In the organisation and change management category, CBH Group won for its culture of One CBH.
In the sustainable projects category, Water Corporation won for its three-year groundwater replenishment trial aimed at boosting drinking water supplies.
WA Project Management Achievement Award winners will progress to the national conference to be held from October 13 to 16 at the Perth Conference and Exhibition Centre.
