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CCF Earth Award 2008 & Trainee of the Year
Aug 11, 2008
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Premium Pipe Services Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of Vortex Pipes Limited has won the 2008 Western Australia CCF Earth Award for Category One (project value up to $1 million) for works completed on the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Sewer Replacement project. The awards were presented at the Western Australian CCF 2008 Earth Awards function last Friday evening. The CCF Earth Awards are managed by the Civil Contractors Federation ("CCF") throughout Australia. The Earth Awards are the pre-eminent awards recognising excellence in civil construction. Projects are nominated on a state basis with state winners then being judged for the national awards. The CCF Earth Awards are designed to highlight construction technique, safety, environment, project management, innovation in concept and implementation. Vortex Managing Director Trevor Gosatti said "we are extremely proud to be one of the state recipients of this award, which is highly regarded in the civil construction industry". |
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"The City of Kalgoorlie- Boulder Sewer Replacement works was significant in that the original tender was for the dig up and relay of sewer pipes, but we provided a better option to rehabilitate the existing pipes using innovative new trenchless technology," he said. Premium Pipe Services provided an option to reline the existing pipe using the Saertex-liner system. This system uses ultra violet light to cure a new fibreglass and resin pipe inside of the existing pipe to provide a close fit pipe rehabilitation. In addition a number of lines were increased in size by using another trenchless technology method by pipe bursting through the old pipe with new pipe being pulled in behind."The Principals of the project, being the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, are to be commended for their decision to allow us to use a leading edge pipe relining technology such as the UV light cured fibreglass system, which provided many advantages for the environment, and the residents of Kalgoorlie-Boulder were the beneficiaries of this decision. In addition, the trench-less option has resulted in a lower cost to the City than would have occurred using conventional dig up and relay pipe methods," said Mr Gosatti. Mr Gosatti also said "We are also extremely proud to have one of our valued employees, Mr Chad Lyon win the inaugural Western Australian Civil Construction Trainee of the Year Award at the awards function. Mr Lyon, who worked on the City of Kalgoorlie Boulder project, recently completed a Level 3 Certificate in Civil Construction (Trenchless Technology) specialising in pipe relining, and would be one of the first in Australia to do so. We congratulate him in winning this award". The company now looks forward to the national judging of the 2008 CCF Earth Awards which will be announced at the CCF National Conference in Coolum, Queensland on 1 November 2008. |
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