LIAWA awards time

After

a very successful first half of the financial year, LIAWA now turns its attention to its up-and-coming biannual Awards of Excellence in March 2023 at Optus Stadium.

The last time the awards were held, the pandemic tried to play its part in derailing them. However, it was one of the most successful awards nights held by the association in its 44-year history, with many members submitting their work for potential gongs.

Winding forward some two years, the LIAWA board felt the awards, despite their success of 2021, needed a new fresh look, particularly in order to keep the awards in line with present-day environmental issues, the promotion of sustainable landscape practices and the importance of encouraging new emerging landscapers to showcase their work among some of WA’s finest landscapers.

Categories

The key categories featured include: Newcomers to the Industry; Design; Residential; Commercial; and People & Business.

Within these headings come another group of sub-catergories for LIAWA members to submit their projects, and these include: Garden Renovation of the Year; Landscape of the year (design only); Outdoor Living Space of the Year; Learning with Nature; 2033 (Futuristic

Garden); Waterwise Garden of the Year; Display Home of the Year; Recreational Feature; Innovative Green Infrastructure; Cultural Significance; Design & Construct of the Year ( Commercial); Parks & Open Spaces; Student of the Year; Business Ingenuity Award; Supportive Supplier; Landscape Employee of the Year; and Landscape of the Year 2023.

LIAWA Exec Officer Matthew Lunn said, “These biannual awards form a very important part of LIAWA’s work in promoting the professionalism of the industry and those that participate in raising the standards across it.

“We are extremely lucky that here in Western Australia we have some extremely talented residential and commercial businesses working in a time where they are experiencing a continual boom in residential renovations, but also urban development, with new suburbs being created that are then supported with government infrastructure.”

WA’s population continues to grow, with an incredible, outdoor Mediterranean lifestyle.

Motivating the industry

For many WA has never been seen as the capital for landscape innovation, but it’s quite clear as the WA population continues to grow towards that three- to four-million mark with an incredible, outdoor Mediterranean lifestyle, the WA landscape industry continues to forge ahead with innovation and greenspaces.

Climate change will continue to answer questions of how future landscapes will look in WA’s drying state. The prediction is quite clear: landscapes of the future must be sustainable and be ones that can survive evolution.

The LIAWA Awards of Excellence hopes to ignite the imagination of its members to achieve this long-term goal. LM