2008 Earth Awards

The tradition continues - Australia’s premier civil infrastructure construction industry awards, the Civil Contractors Federation Earth Awards will again be presented in 2008.

The CCF Earth Awards for Excellence in Civil Construction – powered by Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia; supported by – GE Commercial Finance, Hyundai Construction Equipment and Volvo CJD recognise the best in Australia’s civil infrastructure construction industry.
 
Qualifying projects
The Earth Awards are designed to highlight:

• Construction technique
• Environmental management
• Project management

Projects are split into a range of categories which reflect the general break-up of work done in the civil construction sector:

• Category One  – project value up to $1 million
• Category Two  – $1 million to $5 million
• Category Three – $5 million to $20 million
• Category Four  – $20 million to $75 million
• Category Five  – more than $75 million

Judging
All projects entered in the CCF Earth Awards are judged initially at a State / Branch level which generally consists of a review of the entry submission and a site visit by the Branch Judging Panel.  If the panel considers a submission not to be of appropriate quality or achievement it may choose not to proceed with the site visit.  Branch Judges assess and score each project strictly in accordance with the assessment criteria.

Branch winners in each category from each Branch will be announced between June and August at a series of CCF Branch Dinners.

Branch Winners immediately become National Finalists and a National Judging Panel then assesses these finalists with the National Winners being announced at the Annual CCF Gala Dinner at the Hyatt Coolum on November 1, 2008.

Assessment
The 2008 assessment criteria and points allocation is designed to achieve a greater level of consistency across all categories. More....