Abigroup Wins National Infrastructure Award For Contractor Excellence

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2

April 2008


Abigroup wins National Infrastructure Award for Contractor

Excellence


For the second year running, Abigroup has scooped the National

Infrastructure Award for Contractor Excellence. Abigroup alongside

Alliance partners McConnell Dowell, KBR and LinkWater won the award on

19 March for the Southern Regional Water Pipeline Alliance (SRWPA)

project. The project will deliver $1.2 billion of water infrastructure to

South-East Queensland. 


The National Infrastructure Awards celebrate and acknowledge innovation

and excellence through expertise and leadership in Australian

infrastructure. Host of the awards, industry body National Infrastructure

Australia, recognised the innovative and efficient way that the SRWP

project team handled diverse onsite issues, ensuring their success in the

Contractor Excellence category. 


Abigroup Executive Director of Operations David Jurd feels that the win

reinforces the benefit in using an alliance model to establish the best

possible team and outcome for a project. “We will be able to deliver this

project earlier than planned as the SRWP Alliance has worked as an

integrated team from the outset and utilised a collaborative approach

across the board”.


Starting from Brisbane to Gold Coast, the SRWP infrastructure project will

connect these future water sources to where it is most needed. It is

anticipated that the Alliance will deliver the project in less than 30 months

through the use of a quick-start approach and the early mobilisation of

staff, a matrix organisational structure and the provision of effective and

continual risk management assessments. The early procurement of key

items and efforts to minimise on-site works has also worked to fast track

project timeframes. Environment impact statements have been processed

in eight months, ahead of the standard two years and this is despite the

project undertaking 970 local and statutory approvals.


With final completion expected to be in October 2008, the Southern

Regional Water Pipeline is a regional infrastructure project of key

importance and will assist Brisbane City, Ipswich City, Logan City, Gold

Coast City and Beaudesert Shire Council with their existing and long term

potable water requirements. The SRWPA has recently also won the

Queensland Major Contractors Safety Excellence Award. In 2007,

Abigroup won the Contractor Excellence Award for the Westlink M7 Joint

Venture. 


Abigroup Contractors is one of Australia’s leading civil engineering

and building companies. Works are undertaken in areas including

roads, bridges, dams, rail, water, telecommunications and mining

infrastructure. Abigroup is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bilfinger

Berger AG, one of the world’s top ten construction companies.


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Further information:

Corporate Communications

Abigroup Limited

Ph (02) 9499 0999

Fax (02) 9499 3822

Email: abimail@abigroup.com.au






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