Queensland’s G20 named Project of the Year

The Australian Institute of Project Management has named G20 Project Group, led by the Queensland Police Service, its 2015 Project of the Year.

The Queensland Police Service successfully delivered one of the largest and most complex security operations projects in Australia’s history—Operation Southern Cross—which spanned the 2014 G20 Leaders Summit in Brisbane and the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Cairns.

Other top achievers at The AIPM Project Management Achievement Awards included Aspen Medical’s Ebola Response in West Africa and disaster recovery projects such as Shire of Campaspe’s Flood Recovery and the Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure’s Cyclone Recovery Works at Ramingining and Milingimbi.

The awards were announced at a gala dinner during the AIPM’s National Conference, this year held in Hobart, Tasmania.

National Project of the Year
G20 Project Group
Queensland Police Service

Category winners

Construction/Engineering
Flood Recovery
Shire of Campaspe

Defence/Aerospace
The G20 Project: an airport within an airport
Brisbane Airport Corporation

ICT/Telecommunications
Government Wireless Network for the G20 (GWN-G20 Project)
Department of Science Information Technology and Innovation and Telstra Corporation

Organisation/Change Management
G20 Project Group
Queensland Police Service

Small Projects
Police Infringement Notice System
Department of Police and Emergency Management

Regional Projects
Mount Isa Sulphuric Acid Plant Major Turnaround 2014
Incitec Pivot

Community Service and/or Development
Cyclone Recovery Works at Ramingining and Millingimbi
Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure

Sustainable Projects
Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project
Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service

Internationally Funded Humanitarian Aid Projects
Ebola Response in West Africa
Aspen Medical

Individual winners

Program/Project Director of the Year
Jon Riddett
Dun & Bradstreet

Project Manager of the Year
Elena Zagorenko
ElectraNet

Young Project Manager of the Year
Penelope Blunden
Major Projects Victoria

Project Team Member of the Year
Anna Perera-Cameron
AECOM