Here are just a handful of our award-winning achievements from 2022:
Celebrating our people
Our Specialist Lighting and Building Services team
Our Specialist Lighting and Building Services team’s work was recognised at the IESNZA Lighting Awards – Victorian and Tasmania Chapter! WSP collaborated with multidisciplinary partners Dexus, SJB Architects, Lovell Chen and John Holland to design the lighting for 180 Flinders Street’s heritage façade lighting which received an Excellence Award.
Kim Straatemeier, one of WSP’s Senior Lighting Designers, says, “We are extremely proud of this iconic project, it was a real team effort. Heritage lighting, such as 180 Flinders St, helps bridge the gap between our history, our present and our future, so it is extremely important.
“It allows the spaces we inhabit to better reflect our whole identity by maintaining and appreciating our past. This building is a perfect example of restoring this glorious façade from its recent life as an unloved carpark back to its former glory.”
The team also received a Lighting Design Award of Commendation for its lighting design of the main lobby and façade of 405 Bourke Street. Learn more.
Adrian Sterritt, Associate Director, and Kim Straatemeier, Senior Lighting Designer
Dr Brody Clark
An associate pavement engineer on the Sunshine Coast, Brody is the youngest person to have acquired a PhD and chartership in civil engineering in Australia. In 2022 he had a joint win in the National Emerging Leader Award at the Australian Flexible Pavement Association (AFPA) Industry Awards. He was also a Finalist at Engineer Australia’s National People and Project Awards in the category of Young Engineer of the Year.
Joint winners of the AFPA National Emerging Leader Award: Kiri Gibbins and Dr Brody Clark
Jay Ameratunga Australian Geomechanics Society Annual QLD Symposium
Jay, Technical Executive Geotechnics, was named as the first recipient of the Peter Hollingsworth Memorial Lecture at the Australian Geomechanics Society Annual QLD Symposium
Jonathon Chan
Jonathon, an Associate Rail Engineer, took out the Young Rail Professional Award at the Australasian Rail Industry Awards. A joint winner in the category, Jonathon has successfully led and delivered packages on significant rail projects across Australia. He is the committed to supporting the industry through information sharing and collaboration and is driven to provide the best possible outcome for the community when delivering rail projects.
Claudio Vergara-Saez
An Associate Hydrogeologist, Claudio recently won the IAH Student Award at the Groundwater Industry Awards for the International Association of Hydrogeologists. This award recognises an Australasian undergraduate or postgraduate student who exhibits a high level of academic success and enthusiasm in the field of hydrogeology; and/or has demonstrated hydrogeology skills in a project area or other area of research.
Claudio was nominated based on the results of the thesis he submitted for his Master’s Degree of Hydrogeology at the University of Western Australia. Read more.
Claudio accepts his award
Lucinda Silverstri, Adrianna Barr, Dominque Barclay, Serena Selvaraj and Kartikee Gupta
The amazing work and leadership of five of our talented female employees were acknowledge in the National Association of Women in Construction Awards, the largest industry awards program for women. Although we didn’t win, Lucinda Silverstri in South Australia, and Adrianna Barr, Dominque Barclay, Serena Selveraj and Kartikee Gupta in Queensland deserve a shoutout for their ongoing commitment to their roles and work in increasing diversity and inclusion in the sector. Learn more about these Finalists.
Celebrating our projects
Australia's first biosolids gasification facility
Logan City Council’s Logan Water, with partners Logan Water, Downer, WSP and Cardno now Stantec, has pioneered an Australian-first, a facility to transform human waste biosolids into renewable energy. From concept and strategy, design and implementation, this project displayed excellence demonstrating how engineering contributes to the circular economy and climate action. This project took a holistic approach to balancing issues from a whole of life perspective and created a viable solution to use biosolids.
In 2022, the project was awarded Bronze in the category of Breakthroughs in Research and Development at the International Water Association’s Project Innovation Awards. It was the Queensland Division Winner at Engineer Australia’s Australian Engineering Excellence Awards in the Energy, Water & Resources projects category as well as a Finalist in Engineers Australia’s National People and Project Awards.
Level Crossing Removal Project
WSP is a part of the Southern Program Alliance (SPA), along with our partners Lendlease, Acciona/Coleman Rail, Metro Trains Melbourne and the Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP). SPA is working on Victorian Government's Level Crossing Removal Project. The largest rail infrastructure project in the state’s history, it will see the removal of 85 of Melbourne's most dangerous and congested level crossings by 2025.
In 2022, SPA was awarded:
- Project of the Year (Cheltenham and Menton), Australian Engineering Excellence Awards - Winner VIC Division
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Achievement in Design Outcomes (Edithvale, Chelsea and Bonbeach), Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia Awards – Winner
- Construction (SYNCHRO on Edithvale, Chelsea), Bentley Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards - Winner
LXRP also won the Built Projects – City and Regional Scale award in the Australian Urban Design Awards
Four winning projects in the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Awards of Excellence
WSP was ranked as the #1 engineering company in the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s (CTBUH) latest publication: The World’s 118 Tallest Buildings. 12 of our projects from around the world (including four in Australia) won 25 individual Awards of Excellence.
Our award-winning projects in Australia were:
Olderfleet, Melbourne
WSP’s role: Fire
- Best Tall Building 100-199 meters – overall winner
- Best Tall Office Building
Collins Arch, Melbourne
WSP’s role: MEP, Environmental, lighting
- Best Tall Building Australia – overall winner
- Best Tall Mixed-Use Building – overall winner
- Best Tall Building 100-199 meters
55 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne
WSP’s role: Engineer of record
- Renovation Award – overall winner
Sydney Greenland Centre, Sydney
WSP’s role: Fire, security, sustainability, vertical transportation
- Construction Award – overall winner
Read about WSP’s other winning projects.
Glenroy Community Hub
Glenroy Community Hub won Best Public Building in the 2022 Sustainability Awards. One of the first community centres in Australia to achieve Passive House-certification, Glenroy Community Hub is a net positive energy building, with 125% of energy needs met via solar and storage, with goals of offsetting all operational greenhouse gas emissions. The project also won the 2022 Master Builders Awards in Victoria: Best Sustainable Project Award and Award for Excellence in Construction of Commercial Buildings ($20m-$30m category).
Q Building
The first mass timber structure in Newcastle, the University of Newcastle’s Q Building has achieved a 6 Green Star rating – the first building to achieve this rating in regional NSW. This year, Q Building has won the Professional Excellence Award in the ‘Commercial Building, $2m-$25m’ category at the Australian Institute of Building NSW Professional Excellence Awards and it was a Finalist in Leadership in Sustainable Design and Performance Institutional in the World Green Building Council Awards Asia Pacific.
Congratulations to all of our team, clients and projects who were in the running, finalists and winners in awards throughout 2022. We look forward to continuing to deliver Future Ready solutions with you in 2023.
