Wade Els Wins National Award

Congratulations to Wade Els from Trilab’s Brisbane Laboratory for winning the Golden Shovel Award. The national award recognises overall outstanding employees who bring positivity, safety consciousness, and professionalism to their workplace. These exceptional individuals contribute to the growth of our business with their innovative ideas and hard work.

As a Golden Shovel recipient, Wade will travel to North America, where he will experience a week in the life of Trilab’s partner company, Raba Kistner.

Congratulations to Wade for a well deserved win!

Trilab Rock Specialised Testing Laboratory Manager Joshua Rodriguez Rasmussen said Wade ensures that we are meeting our clients expected turnaround times and clients really appreciate his interaction with them as he always keeps them up to date with the process of the test.

“Wade joined Trilab in early 2017 starting out doing soil preparation, compaction tests and quality tests. Wade’s strength is his eagerness to learn and his inquisitive nature to ask why we perform tests. This resulted in his promotions over the past years to supervisor. His attention to detail is brilliant, which is a must when carrying out engineering tests such as triaxials, Triaxial permeabilities, oedometers and CSLs,” Joshua said.

“He is quite methodical when talking to other lab managers in regard to understanding why we carry out that particular test. He really enjoys mentoring staff that reports to him and will go out of his way to assist any technician in the lab with any problem.

“Winning the Golden Shovel would be a great experience for him to see testing processes in the USA and to get a good appreciation how other laboratories work, particularly lab culture, management of staff and testing (as he knows and carries out some ASTM test methods).”