AGE DEFYING BRIDGES - AND LOW CARBON!

Great work by Cleantech Innovation Geelong and partners.

SPL are delighted to have supported this fantastic Procurement for Innovation project for a few years. It shows what a refreshing approach to procurement can achieve: enabling collaboration across research, industry, public sector and others, capturing and enhancing skills in the market as well as significant life cycle reductions in carbon.

'The bridges are made from a world-first geopolymer designed to be maintenance-free for at least 100 years. The new geopolymer is extremely long-lasting and uses up to 80 per cent less greenhouse gases in production than concrete. The concept for the bridges came out of a ‘procurement for innovation’ process, inviting companies to come up with a solution to an unmet need – in this case the costly maintenance and waste problem associated with traditional bridges'.

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