A joint venture between Hamilton City Council and Downer is the winner of an award celebrating the success of the alliance and the benefits brought to the city’s ratepayers.
Downer, representing the Hamilton City transport alliance was one of the award winners at the Hirepool Civil Contractors NZ awards held in Wairakei, Taupo.
The alliance was created two years ago as a joint venture between Hamilton City Council and Downer to manage the Hamilton roading network.
The results have been better co-ordination of projects.
A mutual sharing of resources and knowledge means projects have been delivered on budgeted targets, allowing for additional work to be completed.
There have been significant cost savings for ratepayers and other stakeholders, and the award judges congratulated Hamilton City Council as leaders in bringing this concept into local government.
The Alliance received the Excellence in the maintenance and management of assets award.
General manager northern – infrastructure services at Downer New Zealand, Craig West says the award is a testimony to the strength of the partnership.
Council and Downer staff share offices and have built an effective working environment with a collaborative approach, including subcontractors, which continually seeks to deliver the best value to its community.
“The strength of this Alliance is the blend of contractor skills and our in-house skills,” says Hamilton City Council’s general manager city infrastructure Chris Allen.
“Selecting Downer as our Alliance partner has been a significant factor in its success,” he says,
“To be winners alongside projects such as the $450 million Tauranga Eastern Link Toll project was very special,” says Allen.
Civil Contractors, NZ is the industry representative group representing the interests of over 400 organisations nationwide and annually recognise excellence in the civil engineering, construction, maintenance and contracting industry.
Six categories of awards were presented, including capital projects of varying values and two maintenance categories.
