The Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC) is the main federal body for sustainability certification in infrastructure projects in Australia. It was established in 2012 by then Federal Infrastructure Minister, Anthony Albanese, who provided seed funding to drive Australia’s achievement of its sustainability goals in Infrastructure.
The ISC’s Infrastructure Sustainability Rating scheme has now been used across 330 projects, by all of our major customers (e.g. Laing O’Rourke, Acciona, CPB, John Holland), representing over $200 billion in capital value. The rating scheme has many dimensions including circular economy, recycling, diversion from landfill, recycled content use in products, and lower carbon emissions.
Boral’s Circular Materials Solution leverages our recycling sites and operations and provides recycled content for our product mixes in Concrete, Quarries and Asphalt. We engage with our customers about how we can collectively manage the construction materials waste that comes from the project stages of demolition, excavation and even the construction itself. This broadens our engagement with customers beyond the “one-directional” supply of materials to their projects and creates a deeper more valuable relationship.
Over the past 18 months, our Recycling Solutions team, led by Andre Gobett, has presented our Circular Materials Solution to over 20 major customers. Not only has it has been received well in concept but has already succeeded in winning projects including:
- Laing O’Rourke (Transport for NSW - led by Justin Ainge)
- John Holland/CPB (WCX3B, ‘West Connex 3B’ – led by Jeff Adams)
Various ‘supply, pump, place and recycling’ packages - led by Boral DMG and Recycling Solutions teams collaboratively (e.g. Mirvac -Green Square & Waverley; Multiplex -WSA)
Various excavation rock / sand inbound projects in Melbourne and SEQ - led by Arthur Hatzis and Mathew Mesaros respectively (e.g. with Rokon and CF Group).
These projects have proven the solution’s value to customers from sustainability, project management and financial perspectives.
For us at Boral, the value lies in being able to solve customers’ pain points and thereby increasing our ability to win the supply of materials to their projects. This solution also provides us access to the raw feed we require within our recycling operations.
The many positives of these results caught the attention of the ISC who invited Boral to present as part of their 10-year anniversary conference last month.
