► Excellence Award for Small Business Ventures/Projects

This category applies to an engineering organisation with five or less professional engineers and 20 or less additional full-time employees. Any field of engineering, whether covered by one of the other main categories, will be eligible.

Please note: this category is for small businesses only, rather than work units or subsidiary companies of larger organisations. It is not necessary to specify the category of the work you are submitting as this is an open category across all disciplines.

► Excellence Award for Project Management

This category provides for the management of a project or an engineering work which achieves client requirements in harmony with the environment, business and community considerations, while meeting time, cost and quality targets.

► Excellence Award for Research, Development and Innovation

This category looks at the means by which innovative ideas are applied individually or as a team and consists of reviewing existing engineering knowledge, formulating new engineering ideas and concepts, and testing and developing them by analysis or experiment.

Entries should be able to clearly define the benefits that have been, or will be, delivered.

► Excellence Award for Products and Manufacturing

This category includes the development, upgrade, or maintenance of plant and equipment, mechanical and/or chemical processes, food processing, bioengineering, ceramics, medical and fuel technology. This includes manufactured products, materials handling equipment, including robotics, and asset management.

Entries should quantify the achievements made in, for example, areas such as reliability, maintenance cycles, financial impacts, safety concerns, etc.

► Excellence Award for Infrastructure and Building Projects

This category applies to the development, upgrading and maintenance of transport, communications and public service infrastructure, including water, waste, sewage, chemical treatment, electricity and gas services.

It includes the building structure and/or the building services contained within them. Projects may include offices, hospitals, housing, public and special purpose buildings.

Entries should highlight the particular influence that engineering has on the finished work.

► Excellence Award for Leadership and Management

This award recognises the contribution of individuals, teams or organisations to leadership, education, training, planning, organisation and management (the ‘people dimension’) of engineering.

This category applies to programs or processes that improve the workplace environment. This may include a commitment to professional development and training programs, improved occupational health and safety regimes, equal opportunity, and/or other internal processes.

It can also apply to external programs which demonstrate a commitment to addressing common issues facing the engineering profession, such as programs run in primary and secondary schools to tackle skills shortage issues.

This category seeks to identify and recognise organisations that are leading the way in the long term development of the engineering team and the engineering profession.

► Excellence Award for Reports, Procedures and Systems

This category provides for reports covering engineering activities including aspects such as development, feasibility studies, computer modelling, environmental impact, planning investigations, procedures and systems.

Note: It is essential that a copy of the FULL report is submitted.

► Excellence Award for Environment and Sustainability

This award recognises engineering activities that achieve improvements in quality of life, protection of our natural environment, assessment and mitigation of environmental impact, and/or remediation of environmental damage.

Most importantly, projects must demonstrate a significant reduction in negative environmental impact of an activity and/or demonstrate the establishment and application of systems or processes that significantly contribute to improving awareness and performance relating to environmental sustainability across the engineering profession and wider community.

► Malcolm Kinnaird Engineering Excellence Award

The Malcolm Kinnaird Engineering Excellence Award will be awarded for the most outstanding entry and will be considered across all categories.