48 Assembly Drive, Dandenong South

The facility at 48 Assembly Park Drive, Dandenong South is an existing warehouse complex comprising warehouse spaces, an office building, cafeteria, staff car park, hazmat store and dangerous goods store.

As part of the major redevelopment, the project includes the construction of new two-level offices, new hardstand areas and comprehensive refurbishment works across the entire site. The project is committed to achieving a minimum 4 Star Green Star Buildings v1.0 rating.

erbas™ SUSTAIN was appointed to undertake an Upfront Carbon Emissions assessment in accordance with Green Star Buildings v1.0 Credit 21 requirements. The assessment covers Modules A1–A3 (raw material extraction, processing and manufacturing), benchmarking the Proposed Project against a Reference Project established using the GBCA’s Upfront Carbon Emissions calculation guide default specifications for low-rise buildings.

Material lifecycle data was sourced from the EPiC Database 2019 and the ICM database, supplemented by product-specific EPDs where available.

The assessment demonstrates that through targeted material substitution and low-carbon concrete specification, the project achieves a 90.77% reduction in upfront carbon emissions against the Reference Project, far exceeding the Green Star Credit 21 minimum requirement of 20%. The single largest saving came from the suspended slab system, where the adoption of mesh reinforcement combined with low-carbon concrete mix delivered a 54% reduction in that element alone.

This project demonstrates how erbas™ SUSTAIN’s systematic approach to upfront carbon assessment, combining detailed bill of quantities analysis, EPiC and ICM database modelling, and strategic material optimisation can deliver exceptional embodied carbon reductions for large-scale industrial refurbishment projects, setting a benchmark for sustainable warehouse development in Victoria.