In March, Australian physical services company, CityWide, laid the path to a greener future, constructing the nation’s first low emission road in the City of Melbourne. Greenpave, an advanced asphalt product reducing emissions by 30 per cent, was laid in Kay Street, Carlton – an inner suburb of northern Melbourne.
CityWide’s Managing Director, Kerry Osborne, said Greenpave is a watershed in Melbourne’s response to climate change.
“Greenpave is the future of asphalt in Australia,” he said.
Greenpave is produced at CityWide’s North Melbourne asphalt plant, in partnership with Shell Bitumen.
Recently redeveloped, the North Melbourne plant is the most environmentally sensitive in the southern hemisphere.
The Kay Street trial was commissioned by the City of Melbourne, which has a tough target of zero net emissions from the municipality by 2030. The road will undergo a trial period of three months.
City of Melbourne Lord Mayor, John So, said the use of Greenpave complements the City’s integrated strategy to reduce emissions, which has already seen the development of six star green office building, CH2, as well as a switch to solar power at Melbourne’s landmark Queen Victoria Market.
“CityWide has shown how technology can been used to benefit the entire community,” the Lord Mayor said.
Greenpave is produced at significantly lower temperatures than standard asphalt. Similar to products used in Europe since 1995, Greenpave offers a range of performance, safety and environmental benefits, such as:
- over 30 per cent reduction in
greenhouse gases - over 30 per cent reduction in
fume emissions - up to 55 per cent reduction in
fine dust - energy savings of up to 30
per cent.
“The reengineering of Australia’s physical services industry will be vital to the achievement of emissions targets,” Kerry Osborne said. “We can now offer Victorians safer and greener asphalt.”
For further information contact Rhodri Ellis-Jones at the City of Melbourne on (03) 9658 9966.
