our awards
Our philosophy is that we work for our clients, and industry awards are recognition of excellence in service provision and innovation. The recognition we value most is the return business of our key clients. Below are some of the national and international prizes that we have received.
AAM has won a variety of awards in 2010. Watch our 2 minute 'Awards Showcase' YouTube™ video below or read on for more details.
AAM Wins Highly Commended at 2011 QLD Spatial Excellence Awards
AAM won the 2011 Highly Commended award in the category of "People and Community". The award-winning project was titled "Rapid Response Image Products for Queensland 2011 Disasters.
AAM supplied rapid response aerial imagery to the Queensland Government for a number of Qld disasters this year. From inland floods to post Tropical Cyclone Yasi, rapid response image products were captured within hours of the disasters and supplied within several days for the priority areas.
Teams of AAM personnel worked long hours for weeks on end. The aerial survey teams worked in difficult conditions to successfully exploit the small gaps in the poor weather conditions to capture imagery while office based teams worked in parallel to process the data for delivery within 2 days of capture for the priority areas.
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AAM Wins Two National Awards
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AAM’s innovative capabilities have been recognised with the receipt of two awards at the 7th Annual Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards.
AAM was the recipient of both the "J.K Barrie Award: Best Industry Project of the Year" and the "Infrastructure and Construction Award". The J.K Barrie Award represents the pinnacle of achievement in the spatial industry and is the highest award the National judges can confer.
The winning submission was entitled: The "Measure, Monitor, Mapping Campaign" on BlueScope Steel's Number 5 Blast Furnace Reline Project.
Above: Santiago Garayzabal (holding trophy) accepts both esteemed awards
These Awards celebrate the pinnacle of success for the spatial industry and are jointly hosted each year by the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) and the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA). The industry Awards focus on the excellence of organisations throughout the Asia-Pacific during 2010.
AAM NSW Wins Top Surveying Prize
AAM has taken out the top surveying prize in NSW – the Thomas Mitchell Prize (best of all projects submitted to the NSW competition) as well as winning the NSW 2010 Excellence in Surveying and Spatial Information Award for the category: ‘Infrastructure and Construction’.
The award entry entitled ‘Measure, Monitor, Mapping’ Campaign on BlueScope Steel’s Number 5 Blast Furnace Reline Project” was a major industrial survey task led which was led by Mr Santiago Garayzabal from our Wollongong Office. Dr Stuart Gordon of AAM, with a major technical role on this project, wrote the award winning submission and liaised with our client, Bluescope Steel for this joint entry.
The winning project was about the reline of BlueScope Steel’s Number 5 Blast Furnace in Port Kembla, which was a $370 million project and the biggest engineering campaign in the Illawarra region for many years.
The objective of the Reline Project was to renovate a 27-storey tall furnace and facilitate its safe and efficient operation for at least another 15 years. AAM Surveyors were involved at all stages of the Reline Project for a wide variety of challenging industrial surveying tasks in this hazardous environment.
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Above: Some of our team on the job!
AAM's Virtual Brisbane Project - A Queensland Award Winner
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AAM's joint submission with Brisbane City Council on the 'Virtual Brisbane' Project was the overall winner in this year's Queensland Spatial Excellence Awards (QSEA). This award represents the pinnacle of achievement in the geospatial industry and is the highest award the Queensland Judging Panel can confer.
The 'Virtual Brisbane' project also took out the 2010 QSEA Award for the category of Land Development and Planning. This award recognises how innovative or unorthodox techniques, delivery mechanisms and/or methodologies in surveying, mapping, catography, design, planning and processes has achieved exceptional outcomes.
This is an outstanding result for AAM and Brisbane City Council and highlights the unmatched benefits of AAM's K2Vi (Visualisation and Modelling Software tool) and AAM's City Models.
AAM Finalist for CeBIT 2010
AAM was a finalist for two Business Awards at this year's CeBIT Technology Conference. CeBIT was held in May in Sydney and is the leading business event for information and communications technology driving business strategy.
AAM's RoadView product was a Finalist for the Early Innovators Award and the Location Based Services Award. RoadView is fully developed by AAM and is the result of numerous years experience that AAM has in photogrammetry, surveying, computer vision, geospatial systems and software development.
RoadView enables live measurement capture when the client uses the system via computer vision and survey techniques. This allows clients to work with the data immediately after capture. RoadView allows users to perform real-world location, height and distance measurements from within the imagery. For more information contact b.nicholls@aamgroup.com
AAM Finalist for WorkCover NSW SafeWork Awards
AAM was a finalist at the WorkCover NSW SafeWork Awards 2009. Our entry, SiteSeeTM, a spherical imaging system, showcased the benefits available to engineering projects as diverse as industrial survey, digital preservation of cultural heritage sites and road asset management. The ‘virtual tours’ available from this imagery offer ‘360 degree’ visualisations that benefit teams by reducing visits to hazardous or remote sites and provides a central tool for discussion by distributed teams.
AAM Wins Queensland Spatial Excellence Award
The Queensland Spatial Excellence Award for Land Development and Planning was awarded to AAM in September 2009. The submission ‘Smart Tools for Rapid 3D Model Creation’ outlined how AAM developed a new toolkit for the creation and delivery of highly accurate and rapidly generated building models.
AAM was also a finalist in the Resources and Environment category with the project ‘Dam Break Analysis and the Socio-Economic Impact Study for the Kenyir Power Station, Malaysia’. This project consisted of aerial LiDAR capture, the development of core geospatial datasets and the production of an ArcGIS-based Dam Break Information System.
AAM Staff Wins Microsoft Master Codemason Competition
AAM’s IT Specialist, Darko Radiceski, won the 2009 Microsoft Master Codemason competition. The application integrates Virtual EarthTM (now BingTM Maps) and AAM’s Pictometry® imagery complete with measurement functionality to enable users to measure height, distance, area and elevation immediately on the Windows Phone. ‘Points of interest’ searches and GPS integration are also available. The application will feature 3D models and 360 degree spherical video in the future.
AAM Wins Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Award and Victorian Government Award for Spatial Excellence
AAM has won the 2008 Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Award for Land Titling and Development. The prize winning project, 'Gippsland Precision Subsidence Monitoring', which also won the Victorian Government Award for Spatial Excellence in September 2008, was commissioned by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries to provide scientific evidence to refute or confirm claims of land subsidence along a 100km section of the Victorian coastline. Three precision surveys between 2004 and 2007 showed no significant subsidence had occurred.
The APSEA judges commented that “The project demonstrates the increasing demand for highly accurate measurement within the environmental domain and the levels of accuracy that are able to be achieved. The project involved rigorous and careful design, execution and processing of GPS data that achieved very stringent accuracy specifications required by the client.”
AAM Wins Queensland Spatial Excellence Award
In July 2008, AAM was awarded the Queensland Spatial Excellence Award for Land Development and Planning. The project was titled Hong Kong 3D City Models with LiDAR.
AAM Wins International Best Performer Sales Award
AAM was awarded the 2008 International Best Performer Sales Award at the GeoEye International Reseller Conference in San Diego.
AAM Wins Bentley Excellence Award
The Bentley Excellence Award in 2007 was awarded to AAM for 'The City of Melbourne True Orthophoto' in the Geospatial 3D Mapping category. This project was also recognised as the best Infrastructure and Construction project performed within the last twelve months by APSEA. Such victories are truly a team effort.
AAM Wins New South Wales Excellence Award
In October 2007, AAM and Blacktown Council were awarded the New South Wales Excellence Award for the project 'Investigations into Unauthorised Landfilling in Blacktown Local Government Area'.
AAM Wins Victorian Spatial Excellence Award
In September 2007 the Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards recognised AAM's 'Wimmera Mallee Pipeline Project' for Mapping and Measurement Excellence.
Our philosophy is that we work for our clients, and industry awards are recognition of that service. The award we value most is the return business clients keep awarding us.
