Projects ranging in value from $675,000 to $116m have been named as winners in the New Zealand Contractors’ Federation/Hirepool Construction Awards 2011. Hick Bros and Spartan picked up the prize for building the Te Uku Wind Farm.
The awards have four categories, recognising excellence in civil construction projects carried out by New Zealand companies at home or abroad, with budgets ranging from up to $1m to over $50m. Category 3, for projects between $10m and $50m was won by the $35.3 Te Uku Wind Farm, near Raglan, carried out as a joint venture by Hick Bros Civil and Spartan Construction for Meridian Energy.
Federation executive officer Malcolm Abernethy said that all the projects had demonstrated outstanding technical and environmental planning and often innovative approaches and provided solutions that provided identifiable and long lasting benefits to the client, public and environment.
Winners were announced on August 5 at the New Zealand Contractors’ Federation and Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand’s joint conference in Rotorua.
The Te Uku Wind Farm is home to the Pipiwharauroa Walking and Biking Trail.
Media Release: NZ Contractors Federation, 6 August 2011