Winners
City of Mitcham
Technical Excellence
After recognising inefficiencies and communication silos within their organisation, Mitcham’s Assets team developed a clash detection platform using data from multiple sources to proactively identify opportunities and efficiencies within their public works. The City of Mitcham’s Spatial Clash Detection Modelling project has used an advanced level of spatial expertise to solve this business problem and set a new standard for innovative local government infrastructure delivery. The result was a completely autonomous data model published as a web application, providing staff members with greater data visibility than ever before.
Veris and District Council of Robe
Award for Community Impact
The District Council of Robe is strengthening its evidence-based approach to decision making to manage its popular coastline and provide a sustainable future for the local community. As part of its approach, the Council worked closely with Veris to perform LiDAR mapping of 48 hectares of coastline. A combination of aerial and mobile mapping technologies were deployed to provide an accurate spatial model of the coastline that will provide a foundational dataset to monitor changes along the coastline as a result of erosion and sea level rise, and better manage the risks associated with both public and private assets.
SA Water and Alexander Symonds
Spatial Enablement
SA Water and Alexander Symonds’ innovative use of Geographic Information System (GIS) data for more than 4,700 customers transitioning from a council-run Community Wastewater Management System to SA Water’s modern sewer network has transformed the Tea Tree Gully Sustainable Sewers Program planning and management, providing new ways to manage projects on a visual and spatial platform for future work.
FrontierSI, SmartSatCRC, Myriota, University of South Australia, NGIS, SA Government (Dept for Environment and Water)
Environment and Sustainability
The SatCom IoT-enabled Automatic Ground Water Collection and Aggregation Pilot (SIG Water) project developed a pilot direct-to-orbit satellite telecommunications solution, integrated with an online spatial platform, as an end-to-end cost-effective means to transmit and aggregate, in near real time, automatically collected information from ground water bores in rural and regional areas, with a focus on environmental water monitoring. This improved groundwater readings from yearly to 6 hourly, and improved safety for groundwater monitoring staff. The project successfully deployed 70 groundwater bores with direct to space IoT communication, dramatically increasing our understanding of groundwater as a resource.
Graham Walker
Professional of the Year
Graham joined the SSSI -SA Young Professionals committee soon after arriving in Australia from the UK, serving as treasurer between 2013 to 2015. He then moved into the Regional Committee, serving as a regional member and then treasurer until October 2019. He was then thrust into the limelight by taking on the role of Regional Committee Chair in November 2019 and continues in that role today. Graham is and has been a wonderful servant of the SSSI and the profession broadly. With a surveying and civil engineering degree from the UK, this multi-disciplined background has been notable.
Andrew Bembrick
Future Leader of the Year
Andrew graduated from RMIT University with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Surveying) with 1st Class Honours. He joined PHS in 2014 as a trainee hydrographic surveyor. Since then, Andrew has become a proficient and senior hydrographic surveyor/project manager and mentor, managing large complex hydrographic surveys and leading a team of surveyors. In 2021, Andrew achieved Level 1 Certification with the AHSCP. Andrew is a career mentor at RMIT and is the hydrography representative for SA on the SSSI HCNC. He is also active on the working group to raise awareness of the hydrographic industry.