NT Spatial Excellence Awards - Industry

Dates and Information for 2015 TBA.  

The Awards categories are as follows: 

Innovation and Commercialisation 

This award recognizes an individual’s or a corporation’s contribution to spatial science research and/or technical innovation. It may be conferred for a specific project or for an innovative solution to a technical problem.

Judges will consider projects against the following specific criteria:

1. Originality and/or ingenuity of design
   
2. Difficulty of the task or of the existing problem to be overcome
   
3. Proportion of available resources engaged in research / innovation
   
4. Use of emerging or developing new technologies
   
5. Potential as a new spatial sciences benchmark
   
6. Economic or sociological benefit to the industry or the community
   

Land Titling and Development

This award recognizes how innovative or unorthodox technique, delivery mechanisms and/or methodologies in surveying, mapping, cartography, design, planning and processes etc has achieved exceptional outcomes.

Judges will consider projects against the following specific criteria:

1. Complexity, size or scope of the original problem or project brief
   
2. Innovative or unorthodox methodology employed
   
3. Degree of applied lateral thinking
   
4. Media, tools and project management techniques used
   
5. Degree to which the process and outcome exemplifies professional knowledge and skill
   
6. Resulting increased awareness of the industry by the community or allied profession
   

People and Community 

The People and Community Award recognizes those companies, products or programs that make a collective difference to national and local issues and communities via 'grass roots' initiatives, and/or educational programs, services or tools that permit the widespread adoption, use, understanding and access to spatially derived products or services.

Judges will consider projects against the following specific criteria:

1. Demonstrated community acceptance, understanding and uptake of the solution
   
2. Training, educational programs or tools enabling widespread use
   
3. Innovative use and application of technology
   
4. Degree of applied lateral thinking
   
5. Level of interaction and input from the affected communities and users
   
6. Demonstrated benefit to the community or the environment AND/OR contribution to emergency management/ defence/ safety and security
   

Infrastructure and Construction

The Infrastructure and Construction award recognizes those projects that have contributed to planning, designing and developing construction and/or infrastructure initiatives.

Judges will consider projects against the following specific criteria:

1. Size, time constraints and the complexity or difficulty of the project
   
2. Special site and/or location requirements, including access and logistical problems
   
3. Overcoming challenging community, environment, culture, heritage or other issues
   
4. Use of innovative technology or lateral and original thinking
   
5. Consistently excellent actual and strategic approaches to problem-solving
   
6. Degree to which the spatial component contributes to the overall project
   

Environmental Sustainability 

This award recognizes how the spatial sciences help to resolve natural resource issues such as managing scarce water resources, water property rights, biota rights, salinity management or any issue in an environmental context.

Judges will consider projects against the following specific criteria:

1. Impact on natural resource management and effect on the balance of the environment
   
2. Design and execution with respect for natural form and function
   
3. Degree of intervention, consistent with safety and structural or technical integrity
   
4. Designing original solutions or ingeniously adapting existing solutions
   
5. Innovatively applying emerging or developing new technologies
   
6. High design standards incorporating consistently exceptional spatial application
   

Spatially Enabled Government

Only government agencies, bodies and/or instrumentalities (and may include a private sector partner) are eligible to receive the Spatially Enabled Government Award, which recognises achievement according to the following criteria:

• Projects that use spatial information and technology to enable and/or improve government productivity, efficiency, service delivery, and/or help government agencies integrate customer-centric service delivery models.
  

For every project entered, the Judges will presume that, as a mandatory minimum:
the work place was safe

• the client was satisfied with the outcome
• the project was completed on time and within budget
• the methodologies used were professionally and ethically sound

Please note that if no suitable nominations are received for a category then we reserve the right to withdraw that award.