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environmental award Strzelecki winner
Environmental performance initiatives and actions undertaken by Brickworks Building Products™ have resulted in a number of national and state awards.
Rehabilitation of the Scoresby (Victoria) extraction and manufacturing site won the top prize in the 2009 Strzelecki Awards for Austral Bricks® and engineering contractor Golder Associates.
The awards are conducted by Victoria’s Department of Primary Industries to recognise sustainable development in earth resource industries and named in honour of mineralogist, Sir Pawel Edmund de Strzelecki, who explored extensively in Australia in the 1830s.
Although Austral Bricks® has many years experience in rehabilitating former brickworks sites for new community uses, the Scoresby project was the largest and most complex rehabilitation and development initiative undertaken.
Work was completed in July 2009 after four years of planning, demolition and earthworks which required processing over one million cubic metres of soil and bricks as engineered fill. Ground engineering was carried out by Golder Associates, co-recipients of the award.
“The Strzelecki Awards recognise companies that are taking sustainable development beyond what is required through legislation and showing a genuine commitment to the communities and environment where they operate,” says Victoria’s Energy and Resources Minister, Peter Batchelor.
The site is now being redeveloped by Mirvac as a new 800-lot residential neighbourhood in Melbourne’s prosperous eastern suburbs.