Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle, Re-purpose...

We're building a permanent capability to research sustainable methods of improvement in soil characters via treatment with economical and performant chemicals containing no or low-embodied carbon.Our goal is to energise enough industry participation to establish a permanent centre of excellence in soil improvement.

Research Driven Commercial Opportunities

We're working closely with industry to produce a new generation of sustainable and profitable business opportunities for in-situ, resource recovered, waste or quarried soils.

Collaboration Made Easy

We make collaboration easy and affordable.From short-term testing to determine the suitability of materials to deep engagements that take you on a journey from lab to commercial production, we make it easy for industry participants to collaborate with the program.Green Strategy invites industry participation in the Program to support the discovery the most economical and performant solution for your materials and use case.There are 3 tranches to the research:1. Classification of candidate soils and geotechnical performance of untreated and treated soils2. Development of Performance Specification for treated candidate material for focus use cases3. Development of reference solution based on optimal product performance coupled with construction methodologies to assist in the market readiness of your solutionAll underpinned by our core research to validate solution features and construction outcomes via the adaption of standardised testing methodologies and establishment of highly repeatable, accurate and inexpensive test regimes for lab, field and factory use.

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Consulting

Our team has a broad range of experience in the infrastructure space, covering roads and rail, telecommunications, electrical and water infrastructure.

Our focus is on sustainable infrastructure. We support businesses and projects navigating the Energy Market Transition.

We successfully combine project management, commercial management and stakeholder engagement skills to drive sustainable outcomes in challenging multifaceted environments.

Carbon-Offset Methodology

We have developed a draft method of carbon-offset relating to earth works that can be applied to civil construction (public infrastructure) on a project by project basis. It is aligned with the principles of the Gold Standard - Global Goals (Urban Sustainability).The assertion of this method is that modern chemical soil stabilisers are a low carbon / no carbon substitutes for industry incumbent high carbon construction materials.

Treatment of in-situ soils with modern chemical soil stabilisers facilitate a lesser depth of pavement design at equivalent or better performance to conventional pavement design. There is no performance or life-cycle compromise in adopting the method. The method has been in use as a road construction methodology globally for almost 50 years.
Traditional pavement designs were developed in the manner they have because the performance of in-situ subgrade soils was assumed to be extremely poor and unable to be sufficiently improved to support usage. Pavement layers are traditionally designed and

engineered using imported granular materials and binders to dissipate stresses away from low strength in-situ subgrade material, and to provide adequate protection against water damage. Reducing the transfer of traffic induced stresses and allowing for adequate drainage can traditionally be accomplished by simply building a thicker pavement or using highly specified materials and precise application methods. As a practical design approach, this looks great on paper, but the required performance characteristics of granular pavement materials means they are expensive, require regular quality control, and have a high CO₂ footprint. In-situ soils treated with our proposed method, will produce performance outcomes equal to or better than those expected of engineered granular pavement layers that are traditionally specified to account for low strength subgrades.

The treatment process is no more complex than existing pavement construction methods. It makes use of the same or similar construction equipment, but allows for less construction activity on site, leading to reduction in activity carbon (primarily from the reduction in diesel fuel consumption).

The use of our prototype method challenges twentieth century pavement design paradigms with a sustainable and economical alternative. The establishment of this emissions reduction activity legitimises advancement of sustainable civil construction methods and provides further financial incentives to combat the entrenched aversion to deploying non-traditional methods in the construction industry.
The methodology is beneficial to carbon avoidance across the full spectrum of roads, unsealed or sealed, lightly trafficked or heavily trafficked.