Business After Hours – Colliecrete Project

The October Business After Hours was hosted by the Colliecrete Project. Over thirty arrived at Black Diamond Lodge to hear from the Colliecrete team.

Attendees to the event at Black Diamond Lodge were presented with an in-depth look into the project, covering why Collie was chosen as a site, community benefits of the project, mix designing, commercial viability, product development and testing through to field trials and environmental sustainability.

Colliecrete Project Engagement Officer Kathy Miller:

“The Colliecrete team is pleased to wrap up Phase 1 of the McGowan government funded Colliecrete research project through Murdoch University by presenting the Collie Retired Mine Workers Association Inc and the Collie community with a park bench made entirely from Colliecrete for Phoenix Park. This demonstrates just one of the types of products that can successfully be made from Colliecrete, which is a high-tech product incorporating fly ash from the power stations in Collie with other industrial waste byproducts to produce a fit-for-purpose material with up to 80% less carbon impacts than traditional concrete, and which is lower in cost and just as strong and versatile. “

“We thank the many, many Collie businesses who have collaborated or provided services to the Colliecrete project over the last 18 months.”

“The Colliecrete team members are now actively progressing a number of different projects to forge ways forward to ultimately create a new geopolymer concrete industry as part of Collie’s Just Transition.”