Ertech Pty Ltd is the winner of the 2009 CCF Earth Award (WA Divison, Category 2 - Project Value $1-5million) for the Edith Cowan University Churchlands Campus Redevelopment - Demolition and Remediation Project.

The CCF Earth Awards have the specific aim of recognising and rewarding Excellence in Civil Construction.  The Earth Awards highlight:

• Construction Technique
• Environmental Management
• Project Management

The project involved large scale demolition in an established residential areas and immediately adjacent to an operating primary school.  At completion, 24 campus buildings were demolished including lecture theatres, a gymnasium, library, cafeterias and administration buildings.  Nearly 40,000m² of pavement was removed and more than 12km of existing services located, decommissioned, excavated and removed.

The contract required the project achieve a rate of recycling of at least 85% of all material demolished.  Ertech is proud of its achievement of recycling 90% of all materials generated from demolition work.

During the delivery of this 34 weeks contract, there were significant potential delays encountered including buried asbestos and working around contaminated soil.  Through a consultative approach with all parties Ertech was able to assist in developing solutions to these problems which still bought the project to completion in 30 weeks.  The project was also bought in under budget.