Industry Awards Success

At City Rail Link, we’re thrilled to have be honoured with a couple industry awards recently, reflecting the hard mahi and high standards expected of New Zealand’s largest infrastructure project.  

In late April the project was awarded the co-winner title in Engineering NZ’s prestigious Arthur Mead Award, in the large projects category.

The award recognises projects that have delivered innovative solutions, enhanced the environment, had a positive impact on the community and can demonstrate safety in design practices as well as outstanding engagement.

Our entry relates to the complex engineering feat to construct City Rail Tunnels under the Chief Post Office building in Auckland’s CBD.

City Rail Link Ltd’s Delivery Manager, Scott Elwarth, (pictured) says that project success has been a product of the collaboration with people bold enough to tackle problems head-on and resolve them in the middle of a live construction contract.

In late May, the project’s communications team (below) was awarded bronze in the PRINZ (Public Relation Institute of New Zealand) category ‘Community Relations and Engagement’.

This submission was based on our TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) naming campaign in 2020. Tunnelling tradition dictates that TBMs must be given female names for good luck, so we set out to find a name that all Kiwis could be proud of. Hundreds of ground-breaking women were suggested – and Dame Whina Cooper was chosen, honouring the revered Māori rights champion.