Dear Members,
Thank you to all that attended the ACLCA member Xmas Party last Thursday evening. It was a fun night and great opportunity to wind down and catch up.
The 2024 Damien Morris Award for Industry Excellence recipient was announced at the Xmas Party. It was especially wonderful to have Damien’s family present the award. We are all very grateful they travelled from NSW to present this special award and enjoy our end of year celebrations.
This was the fourth year that we celebrated the career and achievements of the late Damien Morris. Damien holds a special place in our industry here in Qld, not only as a respected practitioner and Auditor but also as our former ACLCA president and committed mentor to early career professionals (ECPs). Sadly, we lost Damien in 2020 and he has been greatly missed since then.
In honour of Damien’s legacy ACLCA Qld and GHD will continue to sponsor the Damien Morris Award for Industry Excellence.
This award carries a substantial prize and is intended to support the career development of the ECP that wins the award.
This year we were excited to receive 7 sensational ECP nominations.
- Mackenzie Adams – Construction Sciences
- Rachel Pegler – Epic Environmental
- Sam Metcalfe – WSP
- Zoe Baxter – GHD
- Yue Zhu -WSP
- Hannah Bennett – GHD
- Callum Douglas – WSP
Whilst there is only one winner, ACLCA would like to congratulate all nominees and acknowledge the extremely high standard of the submissions. The CLM industry is fortunate to have such amazing young talent.
The judging panel were impressed and encouraged at the quality of the submissions.
Damien would have been proud of the nominated cohort as they are a demonstration of our industry’s future leaders.
Judging was very difficult due to the standard of the submissions, and we thank all the judges for their efforts in making this difficult decision.
ACLCA extend our congratulations to Zoe Baxter -GHD, as the 2024 recipient of the Damien Morris Award for Industry Excellence.
ACLCA also thank GHD for their continued support of the Damien Morris Award.
The judging panel noted that Zoe’s applications was very well submitted with a lot of strong supporting evidence to each criteria. The judges all agreed a standout submission, and all agreed well deserved.
Congratulations Zoe!!!
2024 nominees (meeting ECP category) are strongly encouraged to consider re submitting next year and future years, and those in earlier stages of their careers will have opportunity to gain more demonstrated experience.
Member companies are also encouraged to consider nominating their fabulous ECPs in 2025 who are at any stage of their career however ensuring all relevant criteria is met in the submissions.
