The Carterton Events Centre has won a nationwide engineering award as the "celebrated heart" of the town.
The centre beat rivals from throughout the country to take the Ingenium Excellence Award 2012 for New Zealand Construction Projects between $2 million and $10 million.
Carterton District Council, Opus, and Holmes Construction Group were named for their involvement in the project and award winners were revealed at the Ingenium engineering society ceremony held in Rotorua that was attended by Carterton Mayor Ron Mark.
Mr Mark said the centre was drawing bus tours, and visits by architects, engineers and other councils and is a facility of which "the entire Carterton community can be immensely proud".
"Carterton slogged its way alone through the project, which was a long road with some bumps, and it is very rewarding to hear people now referring to the centre as a regional facility.