Technical

The CCNZ Sustainability Committee works to understand and apply sustainable practices in civil construction, including environmental, social and governance.

The Governance Group oversees the overall sustainability programme and provides the primary conduit to clients. It is expected this group will be made up of CCNZ members and client groups.

The Governance Group aims to:

• Provide a platform for client group to consult with CCNZ members on sustainability objectives.
• Provide the government with a single point of contact for the civil construction sector
• Assist with the coordination of sustainability initiatives across the sector.
• Provide advice to clients and the civil construction industry, in particular small to medium companies.
• Scope and resource projects that enable the implementation of sustainability into the sector.
• Provide a conduit to industry of recognised good practice in the implementation of sustainability.  
• Monitor sub-committee working group work plans for content and resourcing 
• Monitor the implementation of sustainability in the sector. 

Read the CCNZ Sustainability Committee terms of reference>>

Working groups

Environmental sub-committee

This working group is responsible for reviewing and overseeing issues related to environmental aspects of sustainability.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Developing and overseeing development and implementation of consistent means to calculate carbon.
• Investigating carbon reduction opportunities
• Identifying resource efficiencies and sustainable procurement opportunities, such as
  • Water reduction initiatives
  • Guidance on waste reduction initiatives and opportunities to improve waste reduction.
  • Opportunities to reuse and recycle resources 

Social outcomes sub-committee
The function of this sub-committee is to review and oversee issues related to social outcomes. 

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Assist with supporting the diversity of age, gender and ethnicity in the civil construction industry
  
• Diversity of cultural outcomes
• Prevention of worker exploitation through the supply chain
• Understanding CCNZ membership diversity

Members

Committee chair

Committee members

Orla Gallagher - Higgins
Dale Eastham - Fulton Hogan
Paul Thomas - HEB Construction
Craig Campbell - McConnell Dowell
Peter Jenkins - Mills Albert
Peter Goldsmith - J&R Contracting
Rachel Blake - Brian Perry Civil
Sarah Sutherland - Downer

Committee News

Webinar: sustainability and efficiency in aggregate, fill and cartage

CCNZ hosted a webinar on 26 March with expert presenters on sustainability in aggregate, fill and cartage from the contractor, client and supplier perspectives.

Sustainability terminology for civil contractors

CCNZ Technical Manager Michelle Farrell has put together a list of sustainability terminology for civil contractors to use, to help them understand what is being asked of them on projects.

Webinar: Sustainability in civil construction

Civil Contractors New Zealand hosted a webinar on where civil construction is at with sustainability on 7 December. The session covered off sustainability from a global perspective, from a client perspective, from a technology provider's perspective, and from the contractor perspective, also fielding questions from attendees.

Bitumen sustainability and resilience in focus at The Black Art

Alternative materials, technical specialties and sustainability initiatives were in focus at The Black Art 2023 - a full-day technical event for practitioners of the black arts of bitumen construction, held at the Due Drop Events Centre in Manukau on 30 August.

Unpacking the buzzword – 'sustainability'

It seems right now, the more the word ‘sustainability’ is used, the less it means. Is there some universal knowledge we can apply to unpack the buzzword? CCNZ Technical Manager Michelle Farrell takes on the challenge.

CCNZ Industry Statement on Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

CCNZ's Sustainability Working Group has produced an industry statement on the Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Webinar: Sustainability and technology in civil construction

CCNZ and Teletrac Navman collaborated to provide a webinar sharing the results of the 2021 Construction Industry Survey, exploring the technology and sustainability sections of the survey.