CBay Also Now Finalist In Second National Award

CBay Also Now Finalist In Second National Award

Timaru’s Caroline Bay Trust Aoraki Centre has been judged a finalist in the Ingenium Engineering Excellence Awards.

CBay’s selection in the 2013 Ingenium Engineering Excellence Awards comes hard on the heels of the aquatic centre being judged a finalist in the New Zealand Property Council's property industry awards. The Property Council judges chose finalists in categories ranging from office, retail and industrial, to education, tourism and leisure, urban and heritage projects. CBay is a finalist in both the tourism and leisure property category and the green building property category.

The Ingenium award is for excellence in engineering and CBay’s entry was in Category 1, for projects of greater cost than $10 million. Judges looked for a level of excellence beyond what would be accepted as a competently executed project. Excellence is not routine work done well, they said.

Criteria included a measure of the technical complexity of the project; how well public consultation and/or stakeholder consultation was handled; a measure of how well the project impacted on the environment; the social and cultural consequences; adherence to budgets and timelines, and a measure of the level of innovation and creativity applied to resolving the issues presented by the project.

All Ingenium finalists’ projects will be presented and the winners will be announced as part of the Ingenium annual conference in Dunedin on June 15.

Ingenium, an incorporated society that exists primarily to uphold and improve the status of engineering and management of public assets in New Zealand, seeks to recognise excellence in engineering and asset management for public infrastructure.

Timaru District Council group manager district services Ashley Harper said the council was “absolutely delighted” that CBay had reached the finals of both awards entered.

“We see reaching the finals of both awards as recognition of CBay’s excellence across several levels including environmental, sustainability, energy and operational efficiency and provision of excellence in service to the community,” Mr Harper said.

“Fingers crossed,” he said.

In his entry to the Ingenium judges, Mr Harper said the $23.5 million Caroline Bay Trust Aoraki Centre stood as testimony to a community’s will, a district council’s resolve, professional design talent and effective fundraising to deliver excellence in civil engineering and construction technologies.

“The project delivered a collective approach to provide for the health, fitness and recreation of a population that spanned wide demographics in age and physical ability.”

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