COUNCIL has recognised their behind-the-scenes staff for “exceptional” efforts on 2009 projects.
Last month, Infrastructure Services Director Michael Brearley presented the Annual Project Excellence Awards for his branch.
Mr Brearley said the awards were about giving recognition to staff for a job well done.
“These awards are really about acknowledging the exceptional work staff do, particularly outdoor staff who don’t often get commended for their hard work,” Mr Brearley said.
Among the award recipients, Peter Byrne and Karen Allison received recognition, named the Parks and Property winners, for coordinating the delivery of the 13 Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Grants Programs.
The key projects for the community included lighting, fencing, netball and tennis upgrades, drainage, irrigation and arborist works.
The team responsible for installing the water main ring feeds was awarded the Water and Sewer Award.
Chris Geddes, Reg Webster, Kel Garbutt, Wayne Gorton, Graham Andrews, Tony Weber, Robert Berghuis and Edwin Isbester completed the project well under budget. They were allocated $205,000 but finished it for a cost of just $102,716.
The work involved construction of 21,100 metres of water main, 23 hydrants and 18 stop valves.
The Roads and Traffic Award went to the construction team responsible for the New Berrima roundabout.
This large $1.2 million federally funded project to improve access to the Moss Vale Enterprise Zone is one of the biggest construction projects ever undertaken by Council staff.
The project was completed on time and within budget by Darren James, Don McLean, Noel O’Maley, Russell Gilby, Craig Morris, Glen Theull, Eddie Morris, Michael Anelzark, Dennis Woods and Robert Wiya.
A special Inter Branch Award for asset management work went to Alex Gale, Manmohan Singh Kaura, Stace Lewer, Tim Bell, Kylie Stefanuik and Darron Passlow for implementing Council’s new asset management system.
Frank Iacono received the Design and Projects Award for his work with the Bowral Town Centre Parking TRACKS Modelling Options paper.
The project required Frank to undertake intensive training in New Zealand to get a better understanding of the principles of parking, modelling and operation of the “user unfriendly” TRACKS program.
Follow up work, post-training, found that the base parking model was poorly validated and considerable work was undertaken to rectify this.
“Modelling can be seen as a paper exercise, however, I believe that this exercise, in the true spirit of good engineering, has shown that options that are not fully investigated can be both costly and not fully address the issues that were hoped that would be addressed,” Mr Iacono said.
“To this effect, I believe that this has saved Council investing approximately $10 million on a proposal that would be largely ineffective.”
Many other individuals and teams received commendations for contributions to campaigns and events throughout 2009, with the real winner being the Highlands community.
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