Winners were recognised at the Gala Dinner and Awards Evening held on Tuesday 3 September.
Winners of the ASTT Awards are:
Project of the Year – New Installation: The Gladstone Harbour Crossing project, COE Drilling
In Mid 2011, COE Drilling was awarded the Gladstone Harbour HDD Crossing contract on the Curtis Island Water and Trade Waste Infrastructure project.
The project involved construction of portable water pipelines and sewer pressure main between the Gladstone mainland and Curtis Island to facilitate the provision of utility services to meet demand growth associated with LNG facilities in the area.
Project of the Year – Rehabilitation: The Sydney CBD – Bennelong Stormwater Chanel Rehabilitation, Kembla Watertech
In June 2012, Kembla Watertech successfully rehabilitated an important section of Australia’s historical drainage system in inner city Sydney – the Bennelong stormwater channel – which was the first oviform combined sewer/stormwater system constructed in Sydney in 1857.
Around 154 m of a massive 1,830 mm diameter x 1,220 mm diameter heritage listed oviform stormwater channel was rehabilitated for Sydney Water.
New Technology: Intersect Technology and Gyroscopic Steering, COE Drilling
The Curtis Island Water and Sewerage Project heralds a number of innovative technical milestones for Trenchless Technology in Australia, with COE Drilling delivering the first use of HDD Intersect Technology in Australia on all three Harbour crossings. It also encompassed the first use of Gyroscopic Steering Tools on hard rock crossings involving HDD Intersects and also the deepest recorded HDPE marine crossing installed at depth over 75 m.
Person of the Year: Aurelio Pezzimenti, Pezzimenti Tunnelbore
Aurelio Pezzimenti is currently the director of Pezzimenti Laserbore, a microtunnelling design and fabrication company as well as Pezzimenti Tunnelbore, a microtunnelling contractor operating in New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Aurelio is the inventor of the world’s first microtunnelling system using vacuum power as the means to transport the spoil from the cutting chamber to the surface.
With Aurelio’s invention, the Trenchless Technology technique microtunnelling was introduced into Australia in the late 1980s.
Designed and fabricated in Ringwood, Melbourne and operating throughout Australia, Aurelio Pezzimenti invented and built a truly remarkable microtunnelling system – in Australia for Australian conditions.
Born in Italy, raised in Australia, and gifted with a creative and rapid mind, a sense of self-belief and the courage to pursue his vision, Aurelio Pezzimenti is a true pioneer of Trenchless Technology in Australia. His contribution has been foundational, and enduring.
Young Person of the Year: Joe Alphonse, Kembla Watertech
Joe Alphonse has worked in the Trenchless Technology industry for 13 years, and has helped develop Kembla Watertech and Sydney Water’s bulk sewer lining contracts to the high standard they are operating at today.
Over Joe’s career, he has overseen over 800 km of pipeline rehabilitation and project managed rehabilitation contracts worth a total of $A300 million.
Joe has been instrumental in the development of the bulk lining contracts for Sydney Water, starting off with the first Sewer Rehabilitation Program in 2000. Since then, Joe has been the key Kembla Watertech Project Manager for every Sydney Water bulk lining contract.
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