Our Awards

Stevenson Resources has won a number of prestigious awards for its quarries including the following:

Pug mill
AQA Innovation Award 2006

Stevenson Resources won the inaugural AQA Innovation Award for the quarry’s new pugmill installation in July 2006 at the joint Annual Conference of the Aggregate and Quarry Association (AQA) and the Institute of Quarrying (IOQ). The new state-of-the-art plant provides aggregates with superior grading control, the potential for lime or cement additives and improved moisture control. It can also make use of marginal aggregates from upper quarry layers blended with premium aggregates to produce high quality roading aggregates.

Mimico Environmental Excellence Award 2001

Hosted by the Aggregate and Quarry Association of New Zealand (Inc). The award recognised the comprehensive range of environmental protection measures implemented by Drury Quarry to ensure long-term sustainability, including introducing buffer zone farming activity, a water treatment plant and installing rock linings in open stormwater drains and silt sediment ponds, and other associated measures.

Mimico Environmental Excellence Award 1997

Hosted by the Aggregate and Quarry Association of New Zealand (Inc). The award recognised our company’s former East Tamaki basalt quarry for its reinstatement and rehabilitation of the former quarry site into a productive industrial subdivision. Developed by Stevenson Properties, the site now accommodates a range of modern light industrial buildings in Lady Ruby Drive (named after the late Sir William Stevenson’s wife and Barmac Place).

 

Safety Awards

The Institute of Quarries (NZIOQ) Safety Award for excellence in safety management in quarry operations. This award was won in 2002 and also 2003 by Stevenson Drury Quarry, and Huntly Quarry in 2001 for achievements against the following criteria:

  • Year-on-year improvements in total accident frequency rate.
  • All equipment guarded to AS1766.
  • Evidence of effective hazard management, hazard identification, incident reporting and resolution.
  • Excellence in housekeeping.
  • Evidence of major safety initiatives.
  • Employee participation and management commitment to safety.