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NSW ACLCA 2009 - Young Achiever Awards, 20 November 2009

Posted 8 December 2009

Matt Rendell from our Central Region office recently won the NSW ACLCA - Young Achiever of the Year presentations.  Eight young people from various companies were involved in preparing presentations on projects that they had personally been involved in and were tasked with demonstrating the innovation applied to the project as an integral part of the presentation.

Matt prepared an excellent presentation on the innovative approach to the technical challenges at a Botany peninsula site for a major industrial client.  This project undertook the remediation of leakage from a tank holding steel works tar residues.  The remediation involved excavation and bioremediation of contaminated soil and installation of vetiver grass and a collection trench to remediate the ongoing material coming from residues underneath the tank.

I congratulate Matt not only on his initiative and effort to submit but in going on to win.  It will be great for Matt's personal profile as well as the companies as being seen as a leader in innovative science in our industry.  Matt was presented as the overall winner at the ACLCA annual dinner held on Friday 20 November 2009.   Matt received a framed certificate along with a handy cheque for his efforts.

Once again well done Matt.

Philip Mulvey

Australia

Environmental Earth Sciences, under instruction from Melaleuca Estates, has won awards in the Business and Government Division of the Newcastle and Hunter Achievement Awards and the Case Earthworks Awards (a Civil Contractors Federation Initiative). Both awards are in recognition of the successful construction of a groundbreaking stormwater management system at Lagoons Estate, Nelson Bay, NSW.

Environmental Earth Sciences was presented with an award for excellence from the Urban Development Institute of Australia.  The award was in recognition for an Acid Sulfate Soil (ASS) study of the Riviera Harbours development at Paynesville, Victoria.  Our technical soil science input was recognised as allowing the project to beneficially reuse all soil on-site, despite a large potential for sulfuric acid (H2SO4) generation through soil sulfide (S) oxidation.

Please click here for a summary of works undertake at the Riviera Harbours 

United Kingdom

Remediation of Clough Road Gasworks in NE England, UK for National Grid Property has been successfully completed on programme and within the client's budget. The site was National Grid's flagship remediation project in 2007 with a team including EESI Contracting (bioremediation subcontractor), VHE (principal contractor), and Grontmij (consultant engineer).

The scheme was highly commended in two categories of the prestigious 2007 Brownfield Briefing for the 'best use of combined treatment systems' and 'most innovative remediation method' Remediation Innovation Awards. The project was also a finalist in the sustainability category of the Ground Engineering 2008 Awards.

Sustainability was a key driver throughout the design and construction process, which resulted in ~50,000 m3 (ex-situ) of hazardous waste treated on-site for re-use by EESI Contracting. The project involved the treatment of a further 39,000 m3 of non-hazardous material treated for re-use on site by VHE, or recycled by off-site soil washing. This resulted in a significantly reduction in volume to landfill, with approximately 90% of all excavated material being re-used.