City of Greater Geraldton wins top public engineering award for Nangetty-Walkaway Bridge

The City of Greater Geraldton has been awarded best public works project for the $8 million replacement of the Nangetty-Walkaway Road Bridge.

The innovative engineering project brought back top honours from the 2026 Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia WA Excellence Awards.

The award recognised the necessity to deliver regional areas with essential upgrades.

The new bridge, which cost $8m, reopened on October 3 last year.

Funded by the Federal Government, the State Government and the City of Greater Geraldton, the award-winning project replaced the ageing 1964 bridge that had reached the end of its life.

City of Greater Geraldton mayor Jerry Clune said the award reflected the high standard of work undertaken by the project team, contractors and partner organisations “whose brilliant engineering solutions have set a new benchmark for sustainable project delivery”.

“On behalf of council, I’d like to congratulate our staff on this outstanding achievement and thank them for ensuring this essential transport link will continue to support our community for many years to come,” he said.

“Most importantly, I want to thank the community for their patience throughout the eight‑month construction period, especially RAV 7 operators and local residents who relied on detours while works were under way.”

The Federal Government contributed more than $4.5m to the project under its safer local roads and infrastructure program, the WA Government provided $1m, and the city contributed the remaining funds.