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McDougall’s Lift Replacement

This project by Tonkin + Taylor has achieved an ‘Excellent’ As Built v1.2 IS Rating.

Overview

Kaitiakitanga | Guardianship

“At Cardrona Alpine Resort, we know it is our responsibility to be the guardians of our people & place. We look after each other, our mountain & our future and we will do everything we can to make them the best they can be.”

Cardrona has made a commitment to be a leader in sustainability. This commitment drives an internal challenge to do better than what we have done in the past, address legacy issues, & look for ways to improve & innovate for the future.

This commitment extended to the 2017 upgrade of McDougall’s Lift, to the high-speed, combined chair and gondola cabin, Chondola. The project is a response to the very real challenges facing the Alpine Resort industry as a result of climate change, and clearly express Cardrona’s desire to be kaitiaki / guardians of their maunga / mountain by minimising the physical impacts of construction and enhancing biodiversity as a result of the project.

McDougall’s Alpine Chondola is the first piece of Tourism Infrastructure to be rated by ISCA, and the first certified As-Built rating in New Zealand.

“Cardrona has been committed to improving how we can be more sustainable and was looking to find a way to help us learn as an organisation and push our desire to show leadership in the industry.  ISCA provided us with a framework to structure the sustainability objectives we had for the project, and gave us confidence we were focused on the right aspects. Now we can communicate our achievement to our stakeholders, who can also have confidence in our third-party verified achievement. We have shared our experiences with others in the industry and will continue to apply what we’ve learned through this project in our operations and future projects.” 

Details

  • Rating Type Social
  • Registered Date October 2016
  • Certification Date August 2017
  • Practical Completion May 2017
  • Jurisdiction New Zealand
  • States NZ
  • Suburb Cardrona
  • Assessor Monique Cornish and Erica Olesson
  • Capital Value NZD 11 Million
  • Other Stakeholders Tonkin + Taylor, Cardrona Alpine Resort, Doppelmayr Lifts NZ Limited

Rating Highlights

Key areas where the commitment to sustainability can be clearly seen in the project include:

Preparing for the future: Cardrona worked with suppliers to identify the optimal solution that would meet their current and future needs. The chairlift has been replaced with a combined chair and gondola lift that:

  • enables more people to safely access the mountain. Children, beginners, and people with reduced physical ability can use the gondola cabins to access the upper mountain
  • responding to climate change risk by being adaptable to weather and seasons as gondola cabins provide protection in inclement weather.

Proactive approach to reducing waste: The project included removing the old chairlift as well as constructing the replacement. Wherever possible, reuse opportunities were identified for the old chairlift and components were identified on-mountain, this included reusing the chairlift towers, stations, chairs, waste reinforcing steel, waste concrete from chairlift pads, and spoil not suitable for backfill elsewhere in the resort.

Ecological outcomes: The construction area and broader Alpine Resort is in a highly disturbed landscape. During the project some tussock grasses were removed and stored, and a further 3000 have been sourced, and will be planted over the coming season.

Ballarat Line Upgrade

This project by the Ballarat Line Upgrade Alliance has registered for a Design v1.2 IS Rating.

The Australian and Victorian governments are upgrading the Ballarat line to deliver more trains and improved reliability for Melbourne’s outer western suburbs, Melton, Rockbank, Bacchus Marsh, Ballan and Ballarat. The project will enable much needed extra services in the morning and afternoon peak, plus a train every 40 minutes off-peak for these growing communities.

The Ballarat Line Upgrade includes duplication of 18 kilometres of track between Deer Park West and Melton, upgrading of four existing stations and building a new station at Toolern, additional passing loops, and new stabling facilities at Maddingley.

Preliminary construction works started in October 2017 while upgrades to stations and track duplication started in early 2018, with the project to be completed by late 2019.

“The Alliance is committed to pursuing a minimum IS score of 70 Design & As Built Rating for the Ballarat Line Upgrade, as mandated by our client, Melbourne Metro Rail Authority. The pursuit of an ‘Excellent’ IS Rating aligns well with our sustainability commitment as part of the Alliance’s governance charter, which states: ‘We commit to exceeding sustainability objectives – delivering a rail infrastructure solution that enhances sense of place, improves amenity for local communities and leaves an ongoing positive legacy for future generations.”

Paul Stefani – Alliance Manager, Ballarat Line Upgrade

The Ballarat Line Upgrade includes:

  • Duplication of 18 kilometres of track between Deer Park West and Melton
  • Upgrading Rockbank station and extending platforms, constructing a new pedestrian link between platforms and building a new car park
  • Additional platforms at Wendouree, Bacchus Marsh and Ballan stations, with new pedestrian links between platforms
  • A new station at Toolern, between Rockbank and Melton, funded by the Victorian Government’s Growth Area Infrastructure Contribution
  • New stabling facilities at Maddingley, and the removal of stabling facilities at Bacchus Marsh
  • Duplication of three kilometres of track between Bacchus Marsh station and Maddingley stabling facilities
  • A new 4.5-kilometre passing loop at Ballan
  • A new four-kilometre passing loop at Millbrook, making it possible to close the existing Bungaree loop and remove five level crossings.

Details

Website

To find out more about this project, visit the Ballarat Line Upgrade Alliance website.

ACT Healthy Waterways Project

This project by the ACT Environment and Planning Directorate has registered for a Design v1.2 IS Rating.

The ACT Healthy Waterways Project is a joint initiative of the Australian and ACT governments to protect and improve long-term water quality in the ACT and further downstream in the Murrumbidgee River system.

It involves the construction of a range of infrastructure – ponds, wetlands and rain gardens – as well the restoration of creeks. –The projects are all designed to ‘turn off’ or reduce the amount of nutrients, sediment and pollutants entering our waterways. The focus is on improving water quality higher up in the catchment where rainwater becomes stormwater.

Twenty infrastructure projects will be constructed and two research projects conducted across six priority catchments:

  • the established catchment of Lake Tuggeranong
  • the established catchment of Yarralumla Creek
  • the developing catchment of Upper Molonglo
  • the developing catchment of Lower Molonglo
  • the developing catchment of West Belconnen
  • the industrialised Fyshwick catchment.

“Everything we are doing in the ACT Healthy Waterways project is aimed at improving water quality both in the receiving waters – in our lakes and ponds – and in the Murrumbidgee River downstream,”

Justin Foley Program Manager ACT healthy Waterways.

Details

  • Rating Type Water
  • Registered Date August 2017
  • Practical Completion July 2019
  • Jurisdiction Australia
  • States ACT / NSW
  • Assessor Wade Liu
  • Capital Value $93.5 Million
  • Other Stakeholders ACT Government – Environment Planning and Sustainable Development, GHD, Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council, Construction Control Australia, National Capital Authority

Website

For more information on this project, visit the ACT Government website.

Ipswich Motorway Upgrade (Rocklea to Darra) Stage 1, Package 1

This project by Bielby Holdings Pty Ltd has registered for a Design v1.2 IS Rating.

Overview

Rocklea to Darra – Stage 1 is the 3km upgrade of the Ipswich Motorway between Granard Road, Rocklea and Oxley Road, Oxley.

Benefits:

  • Reliability – improved traffic flow and reduced congestion creating more reliable, consistent travel times.
  • Safety – upgraded road safety on the motorway with improved sight distances, safer access to and from the motorway.
  • Connectivity – enhanced local connectivity for all road users, pedestrians and cyclists with new service road connectors reducing the need for local trips on the motorway.
  • Flood immunity – improving the motorway’s flood immunity by constructing higher bridges over Oxley Creek.

Details

Website

To find out more about this project, visit the Queensland Government website.

 

NorthConnex

This project by has achieved a ‘Leading’ As Design v1 IS Rating.

Overview

Due for completion in 2019, the $2.6 billion NorthConnex Project is a nine kilometre, twin-tunnel, motorway linking the M1 Pacific Motorway to the Hills M2 Motorway. NorthConnex will be the longest road tunnel project in Australia and once completed, will remove around 5,000 trucks off Pennant Hills Road each day.

NorthConnex has pushed sustainability boundaries through the use of the ISCA tool, to ensure that a positive legacy will be maintained once the project is completed. Key achievements (can we say achievements instead of priorities) include establishing a robust management and governance system and delivering creative and meaningful community engagement and establishing high standards of environmental protection. Creating a positive social and economic legacy through extensive community research and consultation has enabled the project secure highly beneficial outcomes for the local community and demonstrate industry leadership.

Other key achievements across the project include targeting reductions in total transport distances for movement of over 2.5 million cubic metres of spoil, water recycling and reduction in total carbon output.

Details

Website

For information on this project, visit the Northconnex website.

WestConnex M4 Widening

This project by CPB Contractors Pty Limited has achieved an ‘Excellent’ As Built v1.2 IS Rating.

Overview

The M4 Widening is Stage 1a of the WestConnex Project. WestConnex will upgrade and link the M4 at Parramatta with the central business district, airport and port precincts and the M5 at Beverly Hills. The M4 Widening will upgrade the M4 to four lanes in each direction between Church Street, Parramatta and Homebush Bay Drive, Homebush. Key features of the Project include:

  • Widening of the motorway in the existing corridor between Junction Street, Silverwater and Homebush Bay Drive, Homebush.
  • New access from Hill Road, Sydney Olympic Park to the M4 eastbound.
  • A new access ramp for southbound Homebush Bay Drive motorists to access the M4 westbound, helping alleviate congestion and removing the need for a right hand turn at traffic lights.
  • A new elevated road on the southern side of the M4 between Church Street, Parramatta and Wentworth Street, Granville
  • A new bridge between Wentworth Street, Granville and Junction Street, Silverwater.

Details

  • Rating Type Road
  • Rating Score 62
  • Registered Date October 2016
  • Certification Date July 2018
  • Practical Completion August 2017
  • Jurisdiction Australia
  • States NSW
  • Suburb Sydney
  • Assessor Peter Monsted
  • Capital Value $310 Million
  • Other Stakeholders Bingo Industries, CPB Contractors Pty Limited, WDA, Rizzani De Eccher, SMC

Website

For more information on this project, visit the Westconnex website.

Parkes Water Treatment Plant

Project

Complete renewal of the Parkes Water Treatment Plant (WTP) and Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), both on new premises. The project also includes the construction of a new Advanced Water Recycling Facility (AWRF) downstream of the STP, plus a new sewage pumping station and rising main that conveys inflows to the new STP. 

Highlights

Climate Change Adaption – Cli-2 

Achieved a level of 3 with a verified score of 4.14. 

PSC implemented the recommendations / adaptation measures that came out of the Climate Change Risk Assessment, some of which are highlighted below:   

  • Flood mitigation measures such as locating critical systems and site infrastructure above potential flood zones. 
  • Installing an early warning system at Lake Endevour Dam (upstream of Goobang Creek) which is near the STP. 
  • Sludge lagoons are in a Turkey Nest design to prevent runoff intrusion. 
  • Allowance for 1 in 20-year rainfall in all open tanks and lagoons.  

Energy and Carbon – Ene-1 – Ene-2 

PSC offsets nearly 50% of energy at STP/AWRF with solar power, and the project overall achieved a 30% energy reduction though solar initiatives. The installation of the large PV solar array was also what lead to the awarding of innovation points, as the AWRF was designed to suit the solar resource. All buildings were designed and constructed with double glazing and high insulation standards.  

Water 

Wat-1: Achieved a level of 2.5 with a verified score of 6.21. 

There was an intricate modelling and monitoring process which was implemented throughout the project. And achieved a significant reduction in potable water use. 

Water use data was collected through:  

  • Construction: savings of 46%  
  • Operation: Saving of 32% 

Wat-2: Achieved a level of 2.8 with a verified score of 3.87.  

Water Substitution Initiatives  

Potable water was substituted with non-potable water from three sources:  

  • Extraction from disused brick pit off-site 
  • Use of raw bore water 
  • Rainwater harvesting from site facilities  

Non-potable Substitution Achieved  

The project achieved 93% non-potable water use. 

Ecology – Eco-1 

The Project achieved a level of 3 with a verified score of 9.32. Improving the ecological value of the project site by greater than 20%, examples of significant additional enhancement include: 

  • Design and construction of fishway within Goobang Creek, 
  • Strategic revegetation of corridors to connect remnant paddock trees with previously fragmented patches of Fuzzy Box Woodland, 
  • Rehabilitation of the former STP tertiary treatment ponds to provide permanent wetlands for water birds and waders which frequent the ponds. 

Northern Connector

This project by the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) has registered for a Design v1.0 IS Rating.

Overview

The $885 million Northern Connector will be a six-lane, 15.5 kilometre motorway providing a vital freight and commuter link between the Northern Expressway, South Road Superway and Port River Expressway.

This project will focus on delivering economic benefits to the local South Australian community including creating 480 full-time equivalent jobs each year during construction.

  • At least 50% of all jobs to be filled by northern suburbs residents.
  • At least 90% of on-site labour hours to be undertaken by South Australians.
  • At least 20% of all on-site labour hours to be undertaken by ex-automotive industry workers, Aboriginal people, people facing barriers to employment and trainees and apprentices.

The Australian Government has committed $708 million to the project, with $177 million from the South Australian Government.

The project is scheduled for completion in late 2019.

Details

Website

To find out more about this project, visit the SA Government website.

Westconnex M4 East

This project by has achieved a ‘Leading’ As Design v1 IS Rating.

The M4 East will extend the existing M4 Motorway with two new 5.5 kilometre tunnels, three lanes in each direction, from Homebush to Haberfield. The extension will reduce the bottleneck at the end of the M4, saving travel time for motorists and removing cars from local streets. It will provide a bypass of Parramatta Road and a connection to the City West Link.

The M4 East connects to work already underway on Stage 1, the widening of the existing M4 Motorway to four lanes in each direction from Church Street, Parramatta to Homebush Bay Drive, Homebush.

Details

Website

To find out more about this project, visit the Westconnex website.

Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project

This project by Rail Projects Victoria has achieved a ‘Leading’ Design v1.2 IS Rating.

Overview

The Metro Tunnel Early Works package includes:

  • The relocation of power, drainage, gas, water, sewer and telecommunications services to clear the alignment prior to the Main Works commencing in 2018.
  • The construction of two access shafts in Franklin Street and A’Beckett Street to enable future construction of the stations.
  • Major site preparation works including land clearing, property demolition, temporary relocation of monuments and tree protection and removal across all precincts.

The completion of the Metro Tunnel Project by 2026 will create space for more trains to run more often across Melbourne’s rail network. This will create capacity for 39,000 more passengers during each peak period, reduce road congestion and pave the way for future expansion of Melbourne’s public transport network.

Details

  • Rating Type Rail
  • Rating Score 82
  • Registered Date September 2016
  • Certification Date October 2018
  • Jurisdiction Australia
  • States VIC
  • Suburb Melbourne
  • Capital Value $324 Million
  • Other Stakeholders John Holland Group Pty Ltd, KBR

Website

To find out more about this project, visit the Metro Tunnel website.

Wynyard Walk As Built

This project by CPB Contractors Pty Limited has achieved a ‘Commended’ As Built v1 IS Rating.

Wynyard Walk is a new pedestrian tunnel within the Wynyard precinct of Sydney’s CBD. It will provide a world class, fully accessible pedestrian link between below-ground Wynyard station, the above-ground footpath networks, and the developing western corridor of the CBD and Barangaroo via a pedestrian bridge.

“Thiess appreciates the importance of this high-profile project and has decided to pursue an IS rating to promote and achieve recognition of excellence in sustainable design and construction.”

Nick Kouvaris, Project Director, Thiess Pty Ltd

Details

  • Rating Type Rail
  • Rating Score 33
  • Registered Date June 2013
  • Certification Date March 2017
  • Practical Completion January 2015
  • Jurisdiction Australia
  • States NSW
  • Suburb Sydney CBD
  • Assessor Stephanie Barlow
  • Capital Value $286 Million
  • Other Stakeholders Bingo Industries, Transport for NSW (TfNSW)

Website

To find out more about this project, visit the TfNSW webite.

Sydney Metro Northwest – Surface and Viaduct Civils

This project by Salini Impregilo SpA Australia has achieved a ‘Leading’ As Built v1 IS Rating.

Overview

The $8.3 billion Sydney Metro Northwest is Australia’s biggest public transport project and a priority infrastructure investment for the NSW Government. It is the first stage of Sydney Rapid Transit, the city’s new rapid transit railway network.

The Sydney Metro Northwest will deliver eight new railway stations, 4,000 commuter car parking spaces and five existing stations upgraded to rapid transit standards. When the Sydney Metro Northwest opens in the first half of 2019, there will be a train every four minutes in the peak – that’s 15 trains an hour. As Australia’s first fully automated railway, customers won’t need a timetable – they’ll just turn up and go.

As Australia’s first fully automated railway, customers won’t need a timetable – they’ll just turn up and go.

There are four packages of work registered for IS Rating: Early Works |Tunnel and Station Civils | Surface and Viaducts Civils | Operations, Trains and Systems.

About Surface and Viaducts Civils The $340 million skytrain contract was awarded in December 2013 to Salini Impregilo.

It includes a 4km elevated skytrain viaduct between Bella Vista and Rouse Hill, as well as a 270m landmark cable-stayed rail bridge, similar in design to Sydney’s Anzac Bridge, over Windsor Road and a further 2km of associated surface civil construction works and railway embankments.

Major construction began in November, 2014.

Details

  • Rating Type Rail
  • Rating Score 75
  • Registered Date March 2014
  • Certification Date January 2018
  • Jurisdiction Australia
  • States NSW
  • Suburb North West Sydney
  • Assessor Tim Clarke
  • Capital Value $340 Million
  • Other Stakeholders Bingo Industries, Fulton Hogan, Transport for NSW (TfNSW), WSP, Daracon, Urbis