Technical Excellence Award - Team
2008
The Transmission Gully Team
The Transmission Gully project was notable for a number of leading technical features, many focussed on improving the communication of this technically complex project with stakeholders, and which contributed to the overall delivery including:
- The development of 3-D computer generated route alignments superimposed on electronic aerial photographs using Google Earth technology to facilitate improved stakeholder understanding of the project complexities;
- The use of Gint for the reporting of geotechnical logs in an electronic form which enabled integration with CAD to generate cross sections for the engineering assessment and reporting;
- The development of a GIS based route security analysis to identify vulnerability and risks along the route;
- The development of a project specific multi criteria analysis and graphical radar presentation to enable comparison of key project drivers for options;
- Integration of road safety features including crawler lanes in steeper sections;
- The development of a risk register to allow the project team to focus on key risk areas and preparation of robust cost estimates;
- Identification and mitigation of risks through measures such as ensuring active fault traces are crossed on embankments to minimise fault rupture impacts;
- Systematic assessment of rock slope stability and associated rock fall hazards, and the provision of measures to minimise impacts on the environment with ecologically important wetland and estuary areas.
The proposed alignments and concepts developed by the team led to savings in the project estimate of some $ 250 Million and led to improved route security for the route. Over 100 people have been involved in this project.
The Architecture Revit Team
The Architecture Revit Team took up the vision of Revit as a leading-edge three dimensional CAD design tool and very successfully rolled it out across the division and more recently broadened the roll-out to include other disciplines operating within the BDC Sector.
The roll-out has involved significant management of training, mentoring and other technical support with expertise developed to place us at the forefront for this technology within Australasia.
Revit is already driving a far more integrated approach to design and hence closer working between disciplines, and will lead to the production of totally resolved and coordinated building designs in a digital model that can be fully interrogated and explored by the "lay" client.
The M&E Telecom Team
The M&E Telecom team has over several years provided Telecom with a considerable range of innovative design and work practices which have individually and collectively provided significant benefit to our client.
These include:
- The use of Pressure independent control valves on chilled water;
- The changeover from 3-port valve to 2-port valve control in MDR;
- Introduction of pumped variable primary chilled water systems;
- The trialling of wicking insulation - this having to be especially imported;
- The use of cost effective and high performance thermal insulation systems including foamed in place and the use of low VOC epoxy paints on steel to give long life;
- The introduction of web based control monitoring;
- The introduction of hot aisle/cold aisle concepts in data rooms;
- Working towards sustainable solutions for Telecom data centres.
These results have been possible due to the team working in a purely collaborative manner, and challenging the status quo in terms of Telecom’s system design and operation resulting in design solutions that are creative, innovative and truly leading edge technologies.
