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Green Building Council Australia
'Edge Environment have been an absolute pleasure to work with. Edge were professional throughout and delivered high quality material. We look forward to working with you in the future.'

Project: Life Cycle Assessment Training, Client: Green Building Council of Australia, Date: June 2015
KFC
'The Edge Team are extremely proactive and provide great technical insights, they are truly passionate about what they do and helped me to bring to life my strategy.'

Project: KFC Sustainability Strategy, Client: KFC, Date: November 2013.
Singtel Optus
'The project ran very well and we were very pleased with the delivery and time frames.'

Project: Organisational Life Cycle Assessment, Client: Singtel Optus, Date: February 2016
Public Transport Victoria
'Edge Environment have be fantastic to work with on our sustainable procurement journey. They conducted interviews with key internal stakeholders to the project, carried out a gap analysis to the ISO guidance, ran a sustainable procurement specific workshop and delivered a clear and concise plan of improvement for the future. All of which I feel more than met our expectations and delivered real value for PTV...

Project: PTV Sustainable Procurement Support, Client: PTV, Date: August 2018
Public Transport Victoria
...We have a very small environment and sustainability team here and working with the Edge team felt more like working as part of a larger team rather than just engaging external consultants to help us out. They took the time understand how our business worked and cared about what we needed and I really hope we're able to work together again in the future.'

Project: PTV Sustainable Procurement Support, Client: PTV, Date: August 2018
Probuild
'The Edge team was very organised, helpful and reliable during their engagement. We were able to achieve a genuine value-for-money outcome for the project's ESD aspirations thanks to Edge's involvement and particularly, their LCA contribution.'

Project: Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment, Client: Probuild, Date: March 2015
Fresh Catering
'You have inspired us to take a serious approach to be sustainable'

Project: Sustainability tender support, Client: Fresh Catering, Date: May 2017
Lake Macquarie City Council
'Very happy with the project as completed, excellent management'

Project: Resilient Housing Guidelines, Client: Lake Macquarie City Council, Date: October 2013.

We work in partnership with our clients to embed sustainability within their projects and organisations.

Supply chain best practice project. Farm to Fork – Sustainability product category assessment using environmental and social life cycle assessment.

Life cycle assessment and advisory during the revision of Green Star’s PVC credit.

Life cycle assessment modelling and advisory.

Edge Environment have delivered the Life Cycle Assessment Masterclass for the Green Building Council of Australia since 2009. The class introduces attendees to the concepts of Life Cycle Assessment, the methodology and Life Cycle Assessment tools that they can use in their professions.

Sydney Light Rail sustainability bid services for the Connecting Sydney consortium

LCA comparison of road design and material selection options

Life cycle assessment of plastic products, including recycling and allocation options for Braskem in São Paulo.

Development of Green Building guidelines and checklists in partnership with Manidis Roberts

Development of marginal abatement cost curves for the construction and cement sector in the state of São Paulo (Apoio ao desenvolvimento de estudos de mitigação para o Estado de São Paulo), in collaboration with the University of São Paulo and CETESBE (Companhia de Tecnologia de Saneamento Ambiental).

Life cycle inventory data collection for the Building Products Life Cycle Inventory database “Thank you to you and your team for the perseverance and professional manner in which you extracted the raw data from our members upstream and downstream businesses creating the individual and Australian Steel reinforcement LCI data sets for both reinforcing bar and reinforcing mesh. It is a relief to have met the Nov 2010 deadline and we all look forward to the launch early 2011.”

Facilitation, recruitment and module deliver in the business partnership program Sustainability Advantage.

Life cycle assessment modelling, tool development and advisory.

Development of life cycle inventory and carbon emission factor data for Sydney Water’s environmental footprint tool.

Edge Environment have been commissioned by CMAA to work with National Standards’ masonry product committee to develop the ISO14024 compliant Product Criteria Report. “Quality results from a dedicated team of professionals” – Max Headroom

Development of a Building Sustainability Strategy for the Northern Territory Government’s Department of Planning and Infrastructure

IDIEM – Edge Environment are providing expert life cycle assessment input to the EcoBase project in Chile. The Technology Development Corporation together with Fundación Chile IDIEM are leading the development of a sustainability information platform that will enable the Chilean industry to assess the environmental impacts of building products and materials.

Life cycle inventory data collection for the Building Products Life Cycle Inventory database

Edge Environment are developing a Construction and Demolition Waste Brochure to facilitate the development of effective markets for potential wastes. The brochure will be a communications tool to illustrate effective markets for reusing waste from the construction and demolition sector, including concrete, bricks, wood and glass in a variety of infrastructure end uses.

Energy Efficient buildings research and advice, contributing to National policy and regulations. Projects include establishing archetypes for residential housing energy efficiency measures and market research for energy efficient window systems.

Research and Analysis of solutions relating to waste including alternative processing methods, industrial ecology, product stewardship and improved production and consumption leading to better social, environmental and economic outcomes.

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency

Life cycle assessment modelling, tool development and advisory. See also TE’s sustainability report: http://www.thinkingergonomix.com/Content/approach/sustainability/TE_SustainabilityReport_Sept2010.pdf

One of the Building Products Innovation Council’s (BPIC’s) goals is to establish a framework for the fair selection of building materials and products. BPIC is leading the building materials and products industry in providing robust Australian Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data as part of the AusLCI project. Through a program known as the BPIC ICIP project, BPIC is leading a consortia of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society and BRANZ in partnership with the Department of Innovation, Science, Research and Industry with the support and participation of BPIC’s major national representative associations. Edge Environment successfully project managed and contributed between 2007 and 2011 to deliver: • A consistent “level playing field” methodology for use in building materials and products Life Cycle Assessments (LCA). • An extensive database of LCI data for building materials and products all compiled in accordance with the methodology. • A database of replacement lives for materials, products and elements of construction used in Australian buildings. • A consistent set of ‘weightings’ for the relative importance of different environmental impacts adapted to the priorities of local stakeholders in different locations and climates.

Edge Environment and Fundación Chile are contributing to the Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System (SMRS) development and the Measurement Science working group.

Delivery of an award-winning (Flood Management Association of Australia) project to produce a set of guidelines for homes being built in flood prone areas. Follow on work included development of a method to rate the resilience of multiple houses and inform decision making about developing resilient communities and address insurance affordability.

Life cycle assessment modelling, tool development and advisory for the NSW RTA in development of their road carbon calculator.

Life cycle assessment modelling and design advisory for the Delta building using BP LCI methodology and data.

Delivery of a project to address adaptation to climate change. Conducted research to underpin the development of Council Development Control Plans to support the growth of Ballina into its aspirational future as a major regional centre.

Research and development of information to be provided to homeowners through the “Harden Up” website, guiding the adaptation of individual homes to be more resilient to increased frequency and intensity of natural hazard events.

Provision of research and advice relating to developing built environments resilient to extreme heat and bushfire.

Conduct of the climate change risk assessment for the Northwest Rapid Transit project; enhancing the TfNSW North West Rail Link reference case study with the detailed design from NRT.

A social value framework to measure the value to multiple stakeholder groups of health services in remote communities.

Life cycle inventory modelling. “We were impressed with the processes undertaken by Edge.The team delivered clear and comprehensive recommendations which were quickly implemented and successfully adopted.” – Vi Nyl

Life Cycle Model of the Algae Facility at Tarong Power Station. The Tarong Algal Synthesiser Plant Project, a joint venture between MBD and Stanwell Corporation, is exploring how typical power station waste streams (ash dam water and flue gases) could be utilised to intensively grow locally selected strains of algae and to ascertain whether such biomass could be used in animal feed or to make fuel. An Australian-first trial, the project is currently functioning with micro algal culture on Tarong Power Station flue-gas and ash-dam water. “The success of our project can be attributed to the knowledge and insight of Edge” – M.B.Done

Support Lion Nathan National Foods in assessing its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

NABERS Energy rating of Sanofi Aventis offices.

NorthWest Rail Link sustainability bid services Life Cycle Assessment and beyond Green Star assessment of the Brisbane HQ building

Sustainable and strategic procurement services

Carbon footprint of Old Leura Dairy in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney. Edge used hybrid life cycle assessment methodology to develop a full carbon (scope 1, 2 and 3) assessment.

Edge Environment and Fundación Chile are developing a life cycle assessment based environmental hotspot analysis and strategy for the Chilean poultry and pork industry.

Life cycle assessment of acoustic panel archetypes

Life cycle assessment research and modelling for magazine articles on bio fuels and bottled water.

M1M2 tunnel connection sustainability bid support services Energy Efficiency Opportunity services

Supply chain and Australian Packaging Covenant advisory

Organisational carbon footprint assessment and NABERS Energy rating of the NSW TF’s offices

Sustainability Considerations in Structural Design for the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers of NSW. “The report is a great effort in “myth busting”, and will be very useful in the structural design industry” Rod Johnston, ACSE