2016 Design, Heritage, Environment and Student Awards

The twenty-fifth Annual Awards for Excellence in Design, Heritage, Environment and Student categories was held at the Ipswich Corporate Centre on Tuesday, 6 September 2016. The guest presenter was Ms Jennifer Howard MP, Member for Ipswich and Assistant Minister for Local Government. The Master of Ceremonies was Ashleigh Mac.

Judges - Design and Heritage Awards

• Margaret Cook
• Ivan McDonald

Judges - Environment Awards

• Works, Parks and Recreation Department Officers

Judges - Student Awards

• Professor Stephen Winn, University of Southern Queensland Springfield Campus

The Overall Award winners were:

• Overall Heritage Award for Excellence: "Goleby House Restoration", 197, 199-203 Brisbane Street, Ipswich - Jason Low
• Overall Design Award for Excellence: "St Mary's College Riverside Precinct" - Fulton Trotter Architects, Sommer and Staff and St Mary's College
• Overall Environment Award for Excellence: "Cribbtopia" - Cribb Street Childcare
• Overall Student Award for Excellence: "Sometimes it takes an Ordinary Somebody to do Something Extraordinary" - Karl Rosenberg, Ben Maynard and Kate Pitty, Ipswich Grammar School

Amex Design Awards

• A Gold Award was presented to Fulton Trotter Architects, St Mary's College, Sommer and Staff for "St Mary's College Riverside Precinct"
• A Gold Award was presented to Vee Design for "Orion Lagoon", Springfield Central
• A Gold Award was presented to Gerard Gimpel and Jennifer Stower for "Rosebrook", 68 Glebe Road, Newtown
• A Gold Award was presented to the Ipswich Little Theatre Society Inc, Solid Architecture and Portabuild Constructions for "Raising the Roof", Burley Griffin Incinerator, Queens Park
• A Gold Award was presented to Smith Architects, Catalyst Church and Beech Constructions for "The Foundry Restoration", 142 Pine Mountain Road, Brassall
• A Silver Award was presented to Gibson Architects Pty Ltd and St Mary's Primary School for "St Mary's Landscape Works", 3 Mary Street, Woodend
• A Silver Award was presented to Arcadis for the "New Generation Rollingstock Maintenance Centre", Wulkuraka
• A Silver Award was presented to Gibson Architects Pty Ltd and Amberley District State School P&C Association for "Amberley District State School - Outside School Hours Care Extension"

Ron Brown Heritage Conservation and Promotion Awards

• A Gold Award was presented to Jason Low for the  "Goleby House Restoration", 197, 199-203 Brisbane Street, Ipswich
• A Gold Award was presented to the Ipswich Little Theatre Society Inc, Solid Architecture and Portabuild Constructions for "Raising the Roof", Burley Griffin Incinerator, Queens Park
• A Gold Award was presented to Village Building Company, Saunders Havill Group and RPS Group for the "Verrall Park and Pioneer Graves", Woodlinks Village, Collingwood Park
• A Silver Award was presented to Smith Architects, Catalyst Church and Beech Constructions for "The Foundry Restoration", 142 Pine Mountain Road, Brassall
• A Silver Award was presented to Gibson Architects Pty Ltd and Pedro Baraza for the  "Queens Park Croquet Club"
• A Silver Award was presented to Queensland Heritage Restorations and the Queensland Country Women's Association West Moreton Division for the "QCWA Women's Hostel", 5 Brisbane Street, Ipswich
• A Silver Award was presented to Queensland Heritage Restorations and Chris Radke for "Dalby House", 22 Woodford Street, One Mile

National Trust Heritage Preservation Awards

• A Certificate was presented to Graham and Genevieve Isbell for opening "Gooloowan" for the Great Houses of Ipswich Open Day
• A Certificate was presented to Natalie Small for opening "Notnel" for the Great Houses of Ipswich Open Day
• A Certificate was presented to John and Laurel Dingle for opening "Bellevue Homestead" for the Great Houses of Ipswich Open Day

The Best Maintained Property Award was presented to the Wendy and Kristian Randall for "Ebenezer", 39 Salisbury Road, Ipswich

Ipswich Heritage Hall of Fame

Viva Cribb was posthumously inducted into the hall of fame. Viva who was a long-time member of the Ipswich Heritage Consultative Committee, passed away in June 2006, aged eighty-six.

Enviroplan Environment Awards

• A Gold Award was presented to the Cribb Street Childcare for "Cribbtopia"
• A Silver Award was presented to Victor Bales and Stephanie Grove for "Restoration of waterway - supporting Sandy Creek"
• A Silver Award was presented to BMD Urban and Springfield Land Corporation for "Health City Bulk Earthworks"
• A Silver Award was presented to OWAD Environment for "Koala Surveys with Taz the detection dog"

Student Awards

• A Gold Award was presented to Karl Rosenberg, Ben Maynard and Kate Pitty (Ipswich Grammar School) for "Sometimes it takes an Ordinary Somebody to do Something Extraordinary"
• A Gold Award was presented to the Cribb Street Childcare for "Cribbtopia"
• A Gold Award was presented to Lillian de Vries, Staines Memorial College for "White Rock Investigation - Landscapes and Landforms
• A Silver Award was presented to Jaida Perry-Gill, Staines Memorial College for "White Rock Investigation - Landscapes and Landforms