Environmental Management

Our Mission: To protect and preserve the environment around us, by continually refining our methods and reducing our carbon footprint.

Environmental management planning is an integral part of our overall project approach, embedding environmental considerations into every aspect of our operations and activities.   

Our commitment to the protection and preservation of the environment is best demonstrated by our certification to AS/NZS ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems.

Our internal Health, Safety and Environmental Management Plan (HSEP) addresses how we will manage environmental impacts such as:

• Construction noise
• Vibration and dilapidation
• Air quality
• Soil and groundwater quality and conservation
• Water quality
• Protection of flora and fauna
• Visual impacts
• Aboriginal and natural heritage
• Hazardous waste and other dangerous materials

McMahon Services understands its obligations to avoid waste generation and enable the recycling and reuse of waste generated by our operations and activities. We have adopted a 0% waste target for our company operations and we are continuously refining our methods of waste processing to achieve this goal.

Winners of National CCF Earth Award - Category 2  

We were recognised for our outstanding environmental management and innovative solutions at the 2011 Civil Contractors Federation National Earth Awards. Our $2.5 million remediation of Housing SA's Birkenhead site involved the removal and treatment of 6000 tonnes of contaminated soils and 2000 tonnes of high level contaminated waste soils from the 15,000 square metre Mead Street location, using Australia's first Multiple Waste Treatment (MWT) facility.

Project Profile: Birkenhead Earthworks and Treatment Works

We are Carbon Neutral

As part of our commitment to sustainable development and to build on our existing environmental management initiatives, we are annually monitoring energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions,  reducing our carbon footprint and offsetting our unavoidable emissions using Australian Standard (NCOS 2009) compliant carbon offsets. We are proud to now effectively operate our business with a zero net emissions profile or as more commonly referred to as 'carbon neutral'. This process is annually audited by Balance Carbon Pty Ltd.