The annual Roading Excellence Awards are open to all organisations involved in the delivery of roading projects in New Zealand. They seek to promote leadership, excellence and best practice within the industry, along with collaboration and the transfer of innovation.The 2012 Award winners were announced on August 27th.

Supreme Roading Excellence Award:

• Auckland Motorway Alliance (NZTA, Fulton Hogan, Opus, Beca, Resolve, Armitage)

Other award winners were:

HireQuip Best Practice Award for Environmental Sustainability:

• The Victoria Park Alliance (Fletcher Construction, NZTA, Beca, Higgins and Parsons Brinckerhoff)

Z Energy Excellence Award for a Major Road Project:

• The Victoria Park Alliance

Best Practice Award for People in association with InfraTrain New Zealand:

‘Building Futures, The Downer Way’, by Downer New Zealand

Winstone Aggregates Excellence Award for a Minor Road Project:

• Kopane Bridge Replacement, a project between Higgins Contractors and Horizons Regional Council

The Maccaferri Excellence Award for a Medium Road Project:

• Auckland City Centre Shared Space Streetscape, a combined approach by JFC, Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, Boffa Miskell and Architectus

Highly Commended:

• Kitchener Street South Upgrade by Auckland Road Maintenance Alliance (Dominion Contractors, AJ Russell and Blacktop Construction), Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, and Architectus
• The Auckland Harbour Bridge Box Girder Strengthening by Total Bridge Services, NZTA and Beca

Surpassing all performance indicators, delivering $23 million of cost savings, and developing innovative approaches to highway management that are being adopted all around the country, the Auckland Motorway Alliance has justifiably won this year’s Supreme Roading Excellence Award.

The competition’s judges commented that ‘the outcomes achieved by the Auckland Motorway Alliance in its first four years demonstrate it’s well on its way to leaving a positive and lasting legacy on the roading landscape across Australasia.’

Roading New Zealand chief executive Chris Olsen said, ‘The Alliance has exemplified the benefits of collaboration within larger performance-based maintenance contracts, bringing a team together to improve efficiency and value-for-money.’

Resolve Group has been involved with the Alliance since its inception, and is proud to work alongside the AMA partners: the New Zealand Transport Agency, Fulton Hogan, Opus International, Beca Infrastructure and Armitage Systems.

The AMA also won the Best Practice Award for Asset Management, and the Long Term Alliance Team of Excellence Award 2012 at the AAA Alliance Excellence Awards, whose program aims to encourage organisations to improve their performance and excellence in alliancing and collaborative contracting.