Green Civil uses cutting edge technology to monitor and enhance the performance of its machines, ensuring less idle time
Green Civil’s mission is to lead the way in environmentally conscious construction – and it is doing this with the help of eye-catching, custom painted machinery.
The company provides bulk and detailed excavation, grading, trimming, compacting, battering and associated landscaping services.
Green Civil Australia takes a holistic construction approach, considering every project’s environmental, social and economic impacts, with its aim to set new standards for sustainable construction.
The company’s extensive fleet of advanced plant machinery utilises 2D and 3D machine control technology, making earthworks its speciality, with improvements in overall efficiency and precision in design tolerances as well as a reduction in operator fatigue.
Notably, Green Civil’s fleet is also painted exclusively green. This is to highlight the company’s mission and one of its core values – sustainability.
Green evolution
Founded by Elio Del-Ben, Green Civil has grown from working primarily in the residential space to large industrial projects. The company has also expanded from its original base in Sydney, and now boasts operations in Victoria and the ACT.
“It has grown quite large over the last five years,” Green Civil Australia site engineer Kordell Payne says.
“Our services range from bulk earthworks through from detailed excavation to roadworks, concrete, retaining structures, stormwater and miscellaneous stuff such as line marking, landscaping and so on.”
Payne highlights the company’s growing fleet of machinery, mainly Caterpillar, and its use of 2D and 3D machine control technology to aid design tolerances and fuel efficiency.
“We will turn over machines in five-year timeframes to maintain that cutting edge performance to help us to remain competitive in the industry,” he says.
He adds that Green Civil’s machinery and associated technology is vital to achieving the company’s mission – to lead the way in environmentally conscious construction and foster a balance between infrastructure development and preserving our natural resources.
“That was at the forefront of our minds,” Payne says.
“We do it by using Cat technology in the sense of machine utilisation rates and productivity.
“Through that intel, we’re able to see information from the machine idling time to operation output, and then we’re able to monitor those to ensure that, when the machines are running, they’re operating to almost 100 per cent efficiency, and obviously minimising idle time as much as possible.
“And the same applies across the company – having that environmental consciousness at the forefront of our minds.
“We gather that data on a week-to-week basis and constantly monitor that to ensure that optimised performance across our machines is being achieved.”
Environmental focus
To promote the company’s mission, Green Civil’s entire fleet – and more – is painted green.
“All our fleet is Caterpillar that comes in as standard in Cat yellow,” Payne explains.
“Then they’ll go through to a spray painting service provider and they’ll paint it to our particular shade of green.
“That was the vision from Elio and it was instilled early on back when he first founded the company – to adopt that environmentally conscious aspect.”
The bold colour ensures that Green Civil’s fleet of machinery and company vehicles stand out on site.
“We could have upwards of 15 to 20 pieces of plant on site, including company vehicles,” Payne says.
“You definitely can’t help but notice the green machines, that’s for sure – everything’s green from head to toe.
“Elio does such a great job in making sure that everything is maintained to a high standard – presentation is key.
“All the machines are kept really well serviced, very clean, pristine inside and out.”
As the construction industry seeks new and innovative ways to be more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Green Civil is leading the way and is determined to ensure that continues.
By employing cutting edge technology to monitor and enhance machine performance, Green Civil is gaining a competitive advantage over competitors and, crucially, being more sustainable and environmentally conscious.
“It’s just something that we’re monitoring day to day even from a holistic perspective in terms of reusing recycled materials where possible,” Payne says.
This filters down into what Green Civil provides for its clients and what the company expects from its suppliers.
“Our suppliers do a great job in meeting our company focus, hence why we use them as suppliers.”
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