At the 7th Annual Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards, AAM was the recipient of both theJ.K Barrie Award: Overall Winner of all submissions in 2010 and the Infrastructure andConstruction Award. The J.K Barrie Award represents the pinnacle of achievement in the spatialindustry and is the highest award the national panel of judges can confer. Given JK Barrie was afounder of AAM, this industry award is a highly prized and significant achievement cherished by allAAM staff.
The AAM project which received both national awards was entitled: ‘Measure, Monitor, Mapping’Campaign an industrial survey project on BlueScope Steel’s Number 5 Blast Furnace RelineProject and was a joint submission with our client, BlueScope Steel.
The ‘Measure, Monitor, Mapping’ project was considered by the judges to be one of the morecomplex tasks undertaken in its field. The judges commented that this winning project was anexcellent demonstration of how surveyors adapted their knowledge and experience to capture highquality measurements within critical and short timeframes under hazardous conditions.
The objective of the Reline Project was to renovate a 27-storey tall furnace and facilitate its safeand efficient operation for at least another 15 years. AAM Surveyors were involved at all stagesof the Reline Project for a wide variety of challenging industrial surveying tasks in this hazardousenvironment.
In addition to this project winning the Thomas Mitchell Award, the top prize in the New SouthWales 2010 Excellence in Surveying and Spatial Information Awards, AAM also won the topgeospatial award in Queensland, the JM Serisier Award for Overall Excellence for the “VirtualBrisbane” submission with Brisbane City Council. Read More
