Winslow was acknowledged and celebrated last week as a founding member of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC) at the Sunbury Road Upgrade Project site office.
ISC Chief Engagement and Development Officer Jane Nicholls and Business Development Manager Andrea Makris acknowledged Winslow’s role in creating the IS Rating Scheme in 2012, which was launched by then Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese.
The scheme is Australia and New Zealand’s only comprehensive rating system for evaluating economic, social and environmental performance of infrastructure across the planning, design, construction and operational phases of infrastructure assets.
The award recognises Winslow’s long-term commitment, and the contribution we have made to improving sustainability within the construction industry.
A ceremony recognising the foundation members was held last year, however no one from Winslow was available to attend the awards at the time.
Winslow’s Executive Manger Systems and Compliance Srinivasan Krishnamurti said the Group’s involvement with the ISC started in 2009 “with an informal discussion between CEO Trevor Lockwood, (former Group Governance Officer) Kevin Eeles and myself about Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Project Accounting in terms of being able to meet emissions threshold on all our greenfield and infrastructure projects”.
“I contacted the Australian Green Infrastructure Council (AGIC) which was later named Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia,” Srini said.
“We applied for foundation membership and managed to get in – actually pulled off a miracle - despite applications for foundation membership being closed for new entrants.
“AGIC’s first ever planning day was attended by Trevor in 2009.”
The award was presented to the Winslow team represented by the Environmental and Sustainability team, Communications team and Senior Project Management.
This was a great opportunity to showcase our innovations that the team led by Environmental and Sustainability Manager, Julie Buckley have implemented so far, including our sustainable site facilities in Sunbury, use of recycled foreign object debris (FOD) mats and state of the art tracking and measuring of materials procurement and use with Soil Flow.
“It is wonderful to be a part of a company that has a long-standing history of an embedded sustainable culture, that has now been recognised by ISC as a founding member,” Julie said.