Individuals and organisations have been honoured with awards across 14 different surveying and spatial information categories.
The recipients of the 2026 Victorian Excellence in Surveying and Spatial Information (EISSI) Awards have been announced, including highly commended runners up.
The awards were presented a recent gala occasion in Melbourne, on an evening that brought together hundreds of the state’s surveying and spatial information professionals.
This year’s recipients are as follows:
Infrastructure & Construction Award
- Recipient: Taylors Development Strategists; Eastern Freeway Upgrade, Hoddle Street to Burke Road
- Highly commended: Beveridge Williams; Yarraville and Spotswood Level Crossing Removal Project
Extra Dimension and Innovation Award
- Recipient: South East Water; Digital Cadastre Modernisation Asset Transformation Program
- Highly commended: Land Services Victoria, SERV, Veris and Escient; Land & Survey Spatial Information Modernisation
Community and Sustainable Environment Award
- Taylors Development Strategists, Community Forest Mapping
Rural Cadastral Surveying and Land Titling Award
- Beveridge Williams, Bridgewater Bridge Declaration and Stratum Definition Survey
Urban Cadastral Surveying and Land Titling Award
- Recipient: Melbourne City Council; Melbourne City Council Laneways NUA Conversion Program
- Highly commended: Department of Transport & Planning/Land Services Victoria; Re-establishing Structural Boundaries for Subsurface Acquisition
- Highly commended: Taylors Development Strategists; West Gate Tunnel Project
Surveying Project Management Award
- KLM Spatial, Cardinia Business Park
Professional Organisation of the Year Award – Small Firm
- Recipient: OnePlan Land Development Group
- Highly commended: Thomas & George
Professional Organisation of the Year Award – Large Firm
- Recipient: Taylors Development Strategists
- Highly commended: KLM Spatial
Professional Surveyor of the Year Award
- Robin McDowell, Reeds Consulting
Young Professional Surveyor of the Year Award
- Joint recipients: Georgie Webster (Intrax Consulting) and Chris Burrows (Taylors Development Strategists)
EISSI Student Prize
- Edward Tung, RMIT
The Alexander Skene Award
- KLM Spatial, for the Cardinia Business Park
CSV Peter Tyrell Award
- Robert Steel, Rob Steel Development Consulting Services
Sustained Excellence in Cadastral Surveying Award
- Leon Wilson, Melbourne City Council
Spatial Source extends its congratulations to all the award recipients and to those who achieved highly commended status.
The EISSI Awards have celebrated excellence across the profession for 28 years. Confined in earlier years just to NSW, the awards have now gone national.
The final state-based EISSI awards for 2026 — those for Western Australia — will be announced on Friday, 30 October, during a black-tie event in Perth. We’ll bring you the list of recipients next week.
All state and territory award recipients are automatically entered into the National EISSI Awards, which will be presented in Canberra in February 2027.
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NSW 2026 EISSI Awards recipients announced
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