Melbourne’s EastLink project wins the 2009 Australian Construction Achievement Award
Melbourne''''s EastLink project, delivered by Thiess and John Holland to ConnectEast through it''''s agency SEITA, was declared Australia''''s most outstanding example of construction excellence at the 2009 Australian Construction Achievement Award (ACAA) dinner in Sydney last night, Thursday 7 May.
EastLink is a $2.5 billion, 45 kilometre project that connects Melbourne''''s eastern and south-eastern suburbs between the existing Eastern, Monash and Peninsula Freeways. At the time of construction, it was Australia''''s largest road infrastructure project, and was completed five months ahead of schedule.
The annual ACAA event was hosted by Mr Wal King AO, President of the Australian Constructors Association, and Mr Peter Godfrey, National President of Engineers Australia. The award was presented by Sir Rod Eddington, Chair of Infrastructure Australia, and was accepted by Gordon Ralph, the Thiess and John Holland project director for EastLink.
The Chair of the 2009 ACAA judging panel, Professor Archie Johnston, said that despite the different risk allocations under design and construct, public and private partnerships and alliance delivery models, all five finalists displayed exceptional quality and functionality, and illustrated excellent delivery performances where all projects were completed ahead of schedule and within budget.
"While all were outstanding projects, I and my fellow judges John Cassidy and Dick Prince considered that the EastLink project was exceptional across all of the criteria in this most difficult judging task.
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