Yearly Archives: 2010

Ennex 100 and St Mary’s Cathedral win at Master Builders 2010

Ennex 100 (aka 100 St Georges Terrace) and St Mary’s Cathedral are respectively winners of Master Builder 2010 awards for Best Commercial Building over $50 million and Best Historic Restoration or Renovation. GFWA has been involved in both of these

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Perth’s leading consultants visit Raine Square Tunnel Project

On 15 and 16 November 2010, the construction of diaphragm walls and execution of jet grouting works at Raine Square Tunnel Project was visited by 60 persons from Perth’s leading geotechnical or specialists consultants, namely Advanced Geomechanics, Aecom, Arup, Aurecon,

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18th GFWA Prize was held at AGS on 12 October 2010

The 18th annual GFWA Prize for final year undergraduate projects in geomechanics at universities in Western Australia was held on 12 October 2010 at Engineers Australia in Perth. This year saw the presentation by Ryan Colcott from UWA (Better prediction

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Babak Hamidi becomes member of ISSMGE TC211 Technical Committee for Ground Improvement

Babak Hamidi, the marketing manager of GFWA, has become one of Australia’s two representatives in ISSMGE (International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering) TC211 Technical Committee for Ground Improvement. Serge Varaksin, a senior manager in Menard, is already the

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Condor Tower Declared Overall Winner at Engineering Excellence Awards

Condor Tower has won the overall award in addition to the infrastructure and building award at the 2010 WA Engineering Excellence Awards announced in Perth. Constructing the innovative mixed-use building involved adding 18 floors to an existing abandoned 10-storey building

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RESA declared infrastructure winner at Engineering Excellence Awards

Sydney Airport RESA (Runway End Safety Area) project has won the infrastructure projects award at the NSW Engineering Excellence Awards in Sydney. Construction of the 90 x 90 m2 cleared and paved safety area at the western end of the

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Ronan Le Roy makes presentation on Diaphragm Walls to AGS & ATS

Ronan Le Roy, the business development manager of Menard Bachy for large projects, has made a presentation to Australian Geomechanics Society and Australian Tunneling Society on 10 August 2010 in Engineers Australia’s Perth office. In his presentation Ronan reviewed the

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Gary Webley wins the 9th Young Engineers Baden Clegg Award

Gary Webley, one of GFWA’s young and talented project managers, has won the Young Engineers and 9th Baden Clegg Award on 13 June 2010. Gary who presented the construction of the Diaphragm Walls at Binningup Desalination Plant is the first

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Serge Varaksin makes presentations to AGS in all Australian states

As a distinguished guest of Australian Geomechanics Society, Serge Varaksin has made an AGS tour of Australia and shared his ground improvement experience with all AGS chapters in the states. Serge who is a senior Menard manager and the current

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