Date: Thursday 19th February 2026
Venue: Ivy Ballroom
Time: 6:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Tickets: EventBrite on sale now
PWI Awards Night
Don’t miss your chance to celebrate the rail industry’s finest people, projects and innovations
Awards Night
The long wait is over!! Join your rail industry colleagues and peers to celebrate the annual PWI Awards.
The evening will include a 2 course meal, drinks and a chance to network with your industry colleagues at Sydney’s Ivy Ballroom.
The awards will feature:
- PWI Ken Erickson Innovation Award
- PWI Welders Award
- PWI Alan Barham Maintenance Award
- PWI Steve Maxwell Award (Major, Minor & Platelaying)
- PWI Design Award (two categories)
- PWI Electrical Safety and Quality Award
We hope you can join us.
Note: this is a member only event, so you must be a financial member to attend.
The night will feature the presentation of the PWI Awards nominations and announce the winners of the:
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PWI Ken Erickson Innovation Award
Award nominations:
• Rhomberg Sersa – Concrete Finisher Train
• Agonics – Digital Signal Sighting Assessment
• ARTC – Heavy Duty Bow Plate
• Lycopodium – Integration of immersive 3D digital capture into client-facing rail asset intelligence platform
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PWI Welders Award
Award nominations
• Adam Allen – Anric Group – 188 Welds
• Boyd Butcher – BJ Rail Welding Solutions – 186 Welds
• Isreal Campos – Anric group – 244 Welds
• Stephanie Leigh Andrew – HFC Rail – 177 Welds
• Dean Mcpherson – Affective Rail – 205 Welds
• Guy Rowland-Johnson – Quickway – 75 Welds
• Tevita Sili A Plus Rail and Civil – 279 Welds
• Peter Young – Quickway – 148 Welds
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PWI Alan Barham Maintenance Award
Award nominations:
• ARTC – Gunnedah Provisioning Centre
• UGL Regional Linx – North East Routine Maintenance Team
• Sydney Trains – South Coast Territory
• Sydney Trains – Western Territory
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PWI Steve Maxwell Platelaying Awards (Minor, Major and Platelaying)
Award nominations – Platelaying
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Award nominations – Minor Works Category <$3m
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Award nominations – Major Works Category >$3m
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PWI Design Awards (Two Categories)
Award nominations – Minor- Design Fee’s <$1m
• GHD – Tallawong Depot Bogie Workshop Upgrade
Award nominations – Major – Design Fee’s >$1m
• Aecom – Macquarie Fields Station Safe Accessible Transport
• GHD – Clyde Area Remodelling
• Plasser – Track Maintenance Machine developed for Kiwi Rail
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PWI Electrical Safety and Quality Award
Award nominations
• John Holland: Enhanced Conductor Replacement Package (Weekend 16)
• Laing O’Rourke: Sojitz Airgap
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PWI Young Achiever Award
This award is announced at the Australasian Rail Industry Awards Dinner and it will give the winner an opportunity to be recognised by the whole of the Australian Railway family.
Email info@pwinsw.org.au for further information.
Membership
To attend PWI NSW functions you must be a current financial member or corporate representative or guest. Please refer to the membership page for all memberships including corporate membership.
If you are not currently a member of PWI NSW you can join via our Membership page. Upon joining you will receive a Login ID and password to register for events.
For any queries please contact info@pwinsw.org.au
