Young female architect wins Steamships award of excellence

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Vanness Kagena

VANESSA Kagena, a graduate architect with Pacific Palms Property (PPP) has received the 2020 Steamships managing director’s award for excellence.
According to Steamships, joining PPP in 2019 straight out of university, Kagena has built up an impressive resume of achievements in a short amount of time.
She oversaw the design process for the Harbourside shade, deck and pirate ship that helped transformed the precinct and assisted with the refurbished new look for the Beachside food and beverage outlets at Ela Beach Hotel, creating a significant prospect for the city.
More importantly, Kagena has taken a lead role in the exterior design of the rehabilitation of Burns House with her impressive images and perspectives formally depicted in a Steamships/PPP advertisement in the newspaper last November.
Board and senior management presentations, both internal and external have utilised her work-designs for development projects as well.
“Vanessa’s work has meant that Steamships has avoided expensive external architectural fees and proven that not only do we have strong design capabilities in the country, but also, we have an extremely capable female Papua New Guinean with a huge amount of potential working for Steamships,” the company said.
“Vanessa’s design skills and hardwork ethic have made her stand out as a star who performs excellently and has a huge amount of potential.
“She has seamlessly stepped up to manage the ongoing development projects while some key project managers are out of country, further highlighting that she has many strings to her bow.
“This prestigious employee award serves to recognise employees performing exceptionally beyond their duties and responsibilities to improve the results and reputation of our business and workforce.”
Kagena is the second recipient of the award in Steamships; the first was Alma-Jean Urakowi of the Jjoint venture port services in 2019.

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