The environmental footprint of a concrete cutting job is mostly what leaves the site: offcuts, slurry, dust and truck movements.
This page sets out how Perfect Concrete Care keeps each of those down, in New South Wales and Queensland.
Precision before removal
We locate services and reinforcement with GPR scanning before anyone cuts, so there are no wrong holes to fill and no cut and re-cut. Openings, penetrations and slab sections are cut to the marked line and lifted out whole where the site allows.
On a structural cut that difference is measured in tonnes of concrete that never becomes waste.
Where the concrete goes
Clean concrete offcuts go to a recycler for crushing into road base and aggregate. Reinforcement steel is stripped and sent as scrap. Mixed waste, for example a slab with an old membrane on it, is separated on site so the clean concrete still gets recycled and only the coated layer goes as waste.
Weighbridge dockets come back to the client on request.
Got a waste diversion target on your project?
Tell us at quote stage and we will plan the cuts, bins and dockets to meet it.
Water and slurry
Wet cutting keeps silica dust out of the air. The slurry it makes is captured with vacuum units and either dewatered on site or carted as a liquid waste, depending on the job. It does not go down the stormwater drain.
Grinding and polishing run dry with extraction where the finish allows it, which cuts the water use to nil.
Fewer, better truck movements
Crews carry the gear for the job and the waste bins are sized to it, so we are not running half-empty trucks or waiting on a second bin. Working from both Marrickville and Brisbane means shorter runs to sites in each state.
Live buildings
A lot of our work is in hospitals, shopping centres, offices and plant rooms that stay open. Screening, negative-air units and after-hours scheduling protect the people in the building, and they also keep dust out of the ventilation and off the surrounding streets.
Keeping ourselves honest
Concrete Care works to the Perfect Group Integrated Management System, which covers environment alongside quality and safety. Site practice is reviewed against it after jobs, and this page will be updated when the practice changes, not before.
Perfect Concrete Care acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Traditional Custodians of the country on which we live and work. We pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians and Elders past, present and future, and honour their connection to the land and ongoing contribution to society.