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Iconic New Plymouth bridge wins 2011 Roading Award

Media Release
Wednesday, August 30

Iconic New Plymouth bridge wins 2011 Roading Excellence Awards

New Plymouth’s stunning Te Rewa Rewa Bridge and Coastal Walkway Extension was last night honoured as the best new road project, taking out the Roading New Zealand Supreme Award in the 2011 Roading Excellence Awards.

On their way to the top prize, the team behind the Te Rewa Rewa Bridge also received the Winstone Aggregates Excellence Award for a Minor Road Project.

The competition judges said the project combined an iconic design with technical excellence and innovative architecture to create a wonderful asset for the local community. The design, by Whitaker Civil Engineering, was chosen through a competition staged by the New Plymouth District Council in 2007 which asked entrants to create a bridge which was ‘simultaneously utilitarian and beautiful’ on a site which was significant both culturally and environmentally.

“The team has designed and built this internationally acclaimed asset for the district, which has well and truly achieved the council’s objectives. It is inspirational and has been embraced by the local community,” the judges said.

The project was one of 13 finalists recognised across five categories at the award ceremony, hosted by Roading New Zealand at Auckland’s Langham Hotel. The awards are open to all organisations involved in the delivery of roading projects in New Zealand and seek to promote leadership, excellence and best practice in the provision of land transport infrastructure.

Fletcher Construction, Higgins, the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) and Beca won the Z Energy Excellence Award for a Major Road Project for their work on the Manukau Harbour Crossing. The project involved upgrading the motorway to four lanes of the 644m Mangere Bridge, plus adding 3.

New desktop clients introduced in Colligo Contributor 3.0 for ...

(Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008) - Colligo Networks Inc., a leader in desktop collaboration solutions, today announced the release of Colligo Contributor™ Version 3.0 for SharePoint, a Colligo family of products that improves user productivity and adoption for companies deploying Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. With Contributor 3.0, customers can now choose a product tailored to their specific requirements: Colligo Contributor 3.0 Client is a rich desktop application that provides offline access; Colligo Contributor 3.0 Add-In for Microsoft Office Outlook provides email and content management capabilities within the Outlook interface; and Colligo Contributor Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to create custom desktop applications for SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) has selected Version 3.0 of Colligo Contributor Add-In for Microsoft Office Outlook for firm-wide deployment. "SharePoint is the core platform for project management and team sites at SKM. We wanted a solution that would allow us to effectively manage emails in SharePoint," said Karen Taylor, IS Project Director, at SKM. "We selected the Contributor Add-In for Outlook to give our professionals the ability to easily move emails and attachments into SharePoint. With rich Outlook integration, Contributor Add-In will allow SKM employees to move emails (including metadata) to SharePoint document libraries and sub-folders with a simple drag-and-drop or by using automatic Outlook rules."

Sinclair Knight Merz is a leading engineering, sciences, and project delivery firm with more than 6,000 people in 47 offices around the world including Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia.

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