Council projects win engineering awards

Raised platform boardwalk through Meola Creek.

Award winning: The Roy Clements treeway project in Mt Albert is one of the projects to win an IPENZ award. Photo: Morphum Environmental Ltd.

From City Scene, published on 7 June, 2009.

Two Auckland City Council projects recently received Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) awards for environment and sustainability.

The Onehunga material recovery facility (MRF), responsible for sorting Auckland and Manukau cities' recycling, received the Arthur Mead Award (large projects category award for environment and sustainability). Additionally, the Roy Clements treeway project in Mt Albert - providing a raised platform boardwalk along and above Meola Creek - received the Arthur Mead Award (small projects award for environment and sustainability).

Auckland City Council has received the Arthur Mead Award twice before, in 2005 for the transformation of a former Otahuhu landfill into the now popular Seaside Park, and for New Zealand's largest urban wetland restoration project, Waiataura reserve, in 2006.