Environmentally Committed

Structural Concrete Industries is committed to continuously improving environmental, social and economic performance and goes beyond compliance to maximise social good and minimise adverse environmental impacts to become a leader in sustainability.

We’ve continued to maintain a truly diverse engineering-grounded business that prides itself on providing constructible design solutions and advanced manufacturing processes for reinforced, pre-tensioned and post-tensioned precast concrete products. Our people form the foundations of our company and they perform with excellence and integrity in driving the company forward.

Today we remain a values-based company and continue to be a strategic partner to many of our valued clients. We operate one of the largest, most versatile and modern manufacturing facilities in Australia that allows us to provide our clients with precast outcomes that are leading-edge in quality and cost through the integration of experienced people, continuous process improvement and the utilisation of new production technologies.

NATA Lab

SCI’s NATA-accredited lab has recently been upgraded to conduct on-site mix design trials with the goal to develop a more sustainable concrete mix design. In collaboration with The University of Newcastle, SCI’s aim is to develop a low carbon concrete suitable for prestressed precast concrete manufacture that will perform to the requirements of standards like RMS B80 and allow for daily casting cycles. The R&D project is a year-long project broken into two phases;

  1. Phase 1 Content here for this section.
  2. Phase 2 Content here for this section.

The aim of the project is to reduce the carbon content of prestressed concrete mix designs by a minimum of 10% and ordinary concrete mixes by 30%.

Sustainability Goals

Sustainability is an adjunct to the Company’s Quality System and utilises the management policies of the SCI Quality System to manage the various sustainability challenges.

  • Target and report sustainable performance to generate reliable returns for the SCI.
  • Be recognised as a leader and supplier of choice in sustainability by our clients and the construction industry.
  • Develop a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing to encourage and capture innovation.
  • Seek environmentally and socially responsible supply chain solutions.
  • Create a safe, diverse and rewarding workplace for our people.
  • Deliver sustainable projects that support communities and provide positive legacies.
  • Utilise the employment, training and business opportunities that our projects provide to foster diversity and social inclusion.
  • Use materials and energy in an efficient and environmentally responsible way to reduce carbon reduction.
  • Waste reduction, reducing waste, reusing and recycling wherever possible, ultimately aiming at zero waste to landfill.
  • Utilise the installed 100 MW solar power facility to limit reliance on the main-stream power grid, resulting in an approximately 80% offset.