Delivering Boral’s half-yearly results this week, CEO Vik Bansal said the company’s trials of recarbonation of old concrete offered, "significant and material" opportunities for Boral to achieve its future emission reduction targets.
Dexus and Stockland have reported significant progress in cutting operational emissions, and are now targeting scope 3 emissions, according to their latest annual reports.
In an Australian first, property group GPT has had a logistics centre certified as being embodied carbon-neutral, while a new office block development is on track to achieve the same status.
A Victorian government department has objected to Cement Australia's plans to install new plant that would prepare industrial slag for reuse, and Defence is also wary.
ASX-listed industrial property group Goodman will measure its embodied carbon liabilities for all future building projects, according to its group head of sustainability James Vesper.
As it heads towards net-zero, property group Dexus aims to speed the deployment of rooftop PV on its industrial estates, and will rely on nature-based activities for carbon credits.