November 4 2010
Laing O’Rourke’s Rail Group took out a clean sweep at the annual Permanent Way Institution (PWI) Conference awards this year, winning two gongs and receiving a Commended and Highly Commended for two more.
Laing O’Rourke won the Steve Maxwell Platelaying Award for the Airly Coal Project Track Work.
This award recognised excellence in platelaying and acknowledged the skill required to produce such high quality results.
Executive General Manager (Rail) Rob Boulger attended the conference and said there was stiff competition in the category from ARTC, Abigroup, RailCorp and John Holland.
“We are extremely proud to have taken out this prestigious award,” Mr Boulger said.
“The Airly project is a fantastic example of the Laing O’Rourke ‘One Team Approach’ with the Rail Group and Infrastructure South working together to offer the client, Centennial Coal, a one stop shop to deliver earthworks, trackwork and materials handling.”
Jose Argueta, from Sydney Rail Operations, also won the 2010 PWI Young Achiever of the Year for his work as the project manager on the Adamstown to Newcastle Track Reconstruction Project for RailCorp.
He won $10,000 to be spent attending a rail conference anywhere in the world.
Staff from the Sydney Rail Operation teamed up with RailCorp to receive a Commended Certificate for their entry ‘Use of stress rollers to improve the Continuous Welded Rail (CWR) process across the RailCorp Network’.
Laing O’Rourke crews also received a Highly Commended Certificate, as part of the Transport Express Joint Venture, for the ‘Border Rail to Acacia Ridge Dual Gauge Underbridge Timber Re-Transoming’.
