Conference highlights

Video transcript

Audio: Music playing.

Text: Victoria’s Big Build. Ecologiq Greener Infrastructure Conference 2022. Victoria State Government.

Visual: View of people walking into conference.

Visual: Welcome to the ecologiq Greener Infrastructure Trade Hall sign.

Visual: Time lapse photography of people in the Trade Hall and listening to speakers.

Visual: View of exhibits in the Trade Hall.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: It’s actually been quite a tremendous surprise that the turnout from the delegates that have come to see this event and to engage in the ambition that we see for Melbourne to recycle all our waste so we’re not creating and adding to the environmental impact.

Visual: View of buses and the Projects and Products Site Tour sign, and close-up of bus steering wheel and the Alex Fraser Group building and truck trailer showing Building greener roads sign on it.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: We’ve structured in a way, we’ve given – have established yesterday bus tours where we had groups of people on buses viewing sites and viewing use of materials actually in place that we’ve installed over the last couple of years.

Visual: View of construction site and construction workers working while people look on.

Visual: View of people standing beside 100% electric bus.

Visual: View of exhibit for T-Top Bollard and barricade exhibition and people listening to speakers.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: So that was an important introduction where at the trade hall we’ve got 40-odd traders, manufacturers, suppliers, researchers here talking to delegates as they work the room.

Visual: Close-up view of speakers at conference and screen behind them and people listening in the audience.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: Also running now on the second day is our full conference with really, really experienced speakers who can bring international perspective, leading edge perspectives, local perspectives to what the problem is and what we’re trying to solve.

Visual: View of exhibits, Tyrecycle, Sustainable Products Future.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: Victoria is leading the way.

Visual: View of speakers at the conference and screen.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: The ecologiq initiative was something that was started a couple of years ago at the same time as the recycle first policy the government introduced.

Visual: View of speakers at the forum and people listening in the audience.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: And it really has been a tool that’s enabled us to harness all the players to focus on solving the problem of waste be it just recycling more of the same material, inventing, creating new products and new materials, changing standards and specifications to ensure we can utilise new materials are all a part of solving the problem.

Visual: View of stage and screen displaying ecologiq Greener Infrastructure Conference 2022 information.

Visual: View of speakers at the forum and people listening in the audience.

Visual: View of exhibit for Tyrecycle and Replas.

Visual: Close-up view of Reconophalt.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: We didn’t anticipate the number of people that would have the interest to come out and see what we’re doing, but it obviously is capturing a nerve that supporting the community want, you know, how do we make our products, our projects more sustainable?

Visual: View of Vinidex exhibit.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: How do we stop putting waste into society?

Visual: View of Puma exhibit and products.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: What can we do to ensure that this is the best value outcome that community can get?

Visual: View of Geofabrics exhibit.

Visual: View of people at the conference looking a exhibits.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: And the excitement is just enormous.

Visual: View of Vinidex exhibit and speakers at conference.

Mark Jackson, Sales & Business Development Manager, WVC Products: Today’s event has been very important for us, the community engagement we’ve had with all the stakeholders around the place, there is a shared enthusiasm for the people here that we’ve noticed.

Visual: View of people listening to exhibitors in the Trade Hall.

Mark Jackson, Sales & Business Development Manager, WVC Products: And I don’t think it’s just an event wind-up, I think everyone’s very enthusiastic and very clear on where we should go.

Visual: View of Green Hub exhibit and people chatting.

Visual: View of Alex Fraser Group sign and products.

Visual: View of Downer exhibit and people chatting.

Mark Jackson, Sales & Business Development Manager, WVC Products: It’s taking that enthusiasm away and then acting on that, and I think we’re very close to that, to see that there’s a lot of important government people here, there’s a lot of the big contractors here, and a lot of the manufacturers and suppliers, and that sort of gives that holistic approach to the by-in to the sustainable products and the sustainable future.

Visual: View of Robovoid exhibit and products.

Scott Olding, Co-founder, Robovoid: Really speaking from the same page, trying to achieve the same outcomes and learning about each other’s solutions and what we can bring, and hopefully collaborate to actually achieve some great outcomes.

Visual: View of Humes exhibit.

Paul Adams, National Manager - Sales, Marketing & Sustainable Solutions, Humes: The volume of people that have been coming through and the networking has just been amazing, so we’ve got a crew here from Holcim and Humes and everyone’s enjoying themselves.

Visual: View of speakers at the forum for conference.

Steve Hatfield-Dodds, EY Associate Principal, EY Port Jackson Partners: Yeah, the event has been really wonderful, I mean partly it’s just great to see so many people in a room thinking about the same things and keen to learn from each other.

Visual: View of people in the audience listening to speakers.

Steve Hatfield-Dodds, EY Associate Principal, EY Port Jackson Partners: The speakers have been really rich and interesting and I just think circular economy is an idea that its time has come, so that really building momentum and it’s great to be a part of that.

Visual: View of speakers at the conference.

Visual: View of people mingling at the conference and listening to speakers.

Allen Garner, Chief Executive Officer, Major Road Projects Victoria: It’s understanding the environment we’re working in. There’s a lot of people been working, doing a lot of really good work, but bringing those people together and the collaboration and exploring the use of new opportunities for recycled materials is really the joy we’re hearing in the discussion today.

Visual: White background.

Text: Victoria’s Big Build, bigbuild.vic.gov.au. Victoria State Government.