Winslow Constructors’ Medium Density team has been busy developing the Cranbourne North Aged Care and Retirement Village in Melbourne’s southeast sand belt.

The project will form a new community for Summerset, a New Zealand-based operator expanding into the Australian market.

The large, gated community in Cranbourne is New Zealand-based company Summerset’s first village in Australia, and Winslow’s largest medium density project.

The team has navigated major road upgrade on a neighbouring intersection on the south and western boundary, difficult sandy conditions that caused major dust outbreaks, and the wet winter last year also made the site inaccessible, further delaying the official commencement to late 2022.

The project started last October and is on track to be completed by the end of this year.

Today is World Environment Day, which is celebrated annually on June 5 around the globe to encourage awareness and action for the protection of the environment.

Winslow is committed to reducing plastic pollution in the environment and is invested in using science and technology-based solutions to tackle this issue. 

Winslow is using sustainably based outcomes, such as EKOPipe to reduce pollution. 

In addition, Winslow will be removing plastic from the environment by avoiding plastics in the supply chain and picking plastic rubbish from the environment to ensure plastics don’t end up in waterways and our oceans.

Our projects will be showcasing what they have done to make a positive impact in reducing and removing plastics from the environment

We are driven to find sustainable outcomes through innovative solutions, such as the EKOPipe.

The EKOPipe innovation helps us achieve our environmental and sustainability goals, and the use of more sustainable production methods helps us reduce our environmental footprint.

Last week, Winslow Infrastructure received the very first order of this amazing solution for the Bradmill Remediation Project in Yarraville, the first project in Australia to use product.

The pipe reduces concrete CO2 emissions by more than 50 per cent, which exceeds the 2030 commonwealth emissions targets.

“Our commitment to sustainability factors into every decision we make on Winslow sites,” said Allan Campbell, Winslow Infrastructure’s Environment and Sustainability Manager.

“It’s this drive for sustainable outcomes that pushes innovative solutions, like RCPA’s EKOPipes - a carbon reduced steel-reinforced concrete pipe and is the first of its kind in Australia.

“It’s another reason that Winslow is leading the way in the civil construction sustainability by utilising new technologies and finding better ways to do our job.

“EKOPipe is a game changer for the use of concrete pipes for our projects.”

At Winslow, family is the foundation on which we exist because our employees are family.

It is this culture that explains why many have been with the Group for so long and become part of Winslow’s fabric.

Kylie Wilson, Personal Assistant to Winslow founder and Managing Director Dino Strano, recently celebrated her 30th anniversary at the company.

Winslow was a different company when Kylie walked into its small Bundoora office in January 1993 to start her role as receptionist.

Three decades later, Winslow Group has offices throughout Victoria, Queensland and Northern NSW, and Kylie has been there to see the company grow.

Kylie says her reason for staying with the company for three decades has been the relationships she has formed and job satisfaction.

“I have been able to grow as a person and mature into different roles over the years, and I’ve been given great opportunities,” Kylie said.

Asked what advice she would give to new employees, Kylie said “you have been given one of the greatest opportunities - grab it with both hands and run with it.” 

The Winslow Landscaping team recently celebrated the completion of Smiths Park community playground in the heart of Clyde North in Melbourne’s southeast.

“With one of the wettest winters on record, our team was able to prevail through the weather and deliver this project in a timely manner to the satisfaction of the client,” said Project Manager Josh Rolfe.

The 8000 sq m park includes a rocket ship, elevated mounded area with slides and feature rocks, an abundance of open space and a workout station.

The Landscaping team’s work included earthworks, concreting, paving, planting, irrigation, furniture and playground installation.

SMS Chief Pilot Shaun Lawson took some footage and images from a drone above the park.

Check out the video hereto see the completed and impressive park.

For more than 10 years Winslow has been constructing The Point estate in Point Lonsdale with our partner Moremac Property Group to deliver more than 500 residential and retirement lots.

At Winslow, we thrive on building communities and are committed to protecting and enhancing the environment in which we operate, with our clients, stakeholders and other interested parties to achieve strong sustainable outcomes.

The development of The Point required Winslow and Moremac to overcome extraordinary challenges.

The Point is based around a unique water body engineered to allow a regular flushing of seawater using a system of computerised gates to manage water ingress and egress.

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The system required a high level of engineering innovation, and this has been followed by an excellent residential development creating a new coastal community on the popular Bellarine Peninsula.

This was recognised in the annual Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) – Victoria awards.

In 2021, The Point was recognised with the Judges’ Award – Regional Victoria, and the Environmental Excellence Award.

Judges said The Point required significant environmental and engineering challenges, and “tackled some of the most complex water management systems that the judges have ever seen in Victoria”.

The awards also recognised The Point being a community of high-quality, coastal-inspired homes set within an environment sensitive to its abundant natural assets, landscapes, and parks.

The ongoing development of this exciting estate continues with the final bridge crossing and stages being created now.

In partnership with Major Road Projects Victoria, the Lathams Road Upgrade Project has had some great news on the sustainability front recently, with Winslow Infrastructure awarded a design score of 49.25 from the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA).

ISCA ratings consider the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of both the design and delivery of infrastructure projects.

This is Winslow’s first ever rating submission as an infrastructure contractor.

“Completing an ISCA rated project really puts Winslow Infrastructure on the map as a sustainable contractor building sustainable infrastructure.

“This has been a massive effort from everyone involved in the project team to get us to this point, and we look forward to submitting our ‘As Built’ rating following the completion of the project in the coming months and achieving an ‘Excellent’ rating,” said James Thomas, Environment and Sustainability Advisor.

This award was a real team effort with everyone from project engineers, construction managers, commercial, communications, operations and the environment team involved with implementing initiatives and contributing to the award.

The team worked closely with Edge Environment, Perspektiv, Major Roads Project Victoria’s Sustainable Infrastructure team and ISC project managers to achieve this recognition. 

Key achievements from the Project that have received recognition:

• Large-scale implementation of recycled plastic aggregate derived from post-consumer soft plastics in non-structural concrete mixes, following a successful trial of the mix on an infrastructure project. This had resulted in the diversion of over 10 tonnes of soft plastic away from landfill.
• The use of up to fifty 100 per cent solar powered street lighting replacements, with over 400 tonnes of CO2 saved over the life of the project.
• 100 per cent re-use of topsoil and spoil.
• Significant use of recycled content in drainage pipes, steel and asphalt. The project has used the equivalent of 223,200 recycled milk bottles in recycled plastic drainage pipes alone.
• 40 per cent Portland Cement Reduction achieved across all concrete mixes, with savings of over 200 tonnes of CO2.
• Material savings through the optimisation of design and the retention of existing assets
• Project site office running off renewable green power.
• Large quantities of 100 per cent recycled crushed concrete used, resulting in over 1200 tonnes of CO2 savings.

For more information about ISCA and to read more about the project’s the benefit www.iscouncil.org/project/lathams-road-upgrade-project

Winslow is committed to protecting and enhancing the environment in which we operate and are committed to achieving strong sustainable outcomes through innovative solutions.

Winslow Group recently made the exciting decision to re-join the Infrastructure Sustainability Council, of which it was a Founding Member in 2009. 

The ISC is the peak industry body that is enabling environmental, social, governance and economic benefits for people, planet, and the economy through infrastructure projects.

To find out more about the Infrastructure Sustainability Council, the IS Rating Scheme and the benefits of Winslow Group's ISC membership, click here.