Successful Glendowie salvage day
A recent community salvage day in the east Auckland suburb of Glendowie was a huge success for everyone involved – Kāinga Ora, our deconstruction partner Green Way and the local…
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Batteries put in household recycling or rubbish key cause of truck fires
Hazardous waste items, namely batteries, put into household rubbish or recycling for collection are causing a rising number of fires in rubbish and recycling trucks in the Auckland region. The…
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Building waste recycling success – more than 90 per cent diverted from landfill
A New Lynn construction site has successfully diverted an impressive 90 per cent-plus of its construction and demolition waste from landfill. Auckland Council worked with Unitec’s Environmental Solutions Research Centre…
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Meet Auckland’s most eclectic salvage company
Burrell Salvage was established in the 1960s when trash wasn’t considered treasure at all, nor so much of an issue. Fast forward to today and Burrell Salvage is not only…
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Improve your ‘Environmental Site Management’ with Site Safe’s new online course
This ‘must do’ Environmental Site Management Course takes just two hours online and highlights the activities that can harm our environment and how to reduce our impacts with some simple…
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Working towards a zero waste site for 24 modern townhouses in Titirangi
With typical new residential builds producing 4.5 tonnes of waste per house and most of it ending up in skips then on to landfill, Nigel and Jacki from Benton Build…
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Golden Bay Cement consumes three million waste tyres as part of developing EcoSure®, New Zealand’s lowest carbon GP cement
Fletcher Building pledged its commitment to reducing carbon emissions in 2019 when it became the first building and construction firm in Australasia to set a Science-Based Target (SBT) for carbon…
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Here’s your guide for ways to minimise construction site waste for all your projects.
DOWNLOAD or VIEW the ‘Building Out Waste – Guide for builders and developers And for more information take a look at the BRANZ guide to materials, or the Circular Economy…
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Buy, sell, share & hire construction materials with Civilshare’s app
CivilShare is making it easier for the construction industry to give unwanted materials a new life and to avoid sending waste to landfill. CivilShare is a marketplace for people in…
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Mates in Construction publishes Industry Report
The construction industry loses more workers to suicide every year than any other industry in New Zealand. On average, one construction worker takes their own life every week. Our industry…
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