Materials & Embodied Carbon Leaders’ Alliance

MECLA is proud to partner with the Net Zero Construction Summit, happening on 5th March 2025 in Sydney and virtually. This premier event brings together industry leaders driving innovation, strategy, and policy in sustainable construction and infrastructure. Secure your spot before the 13th December 2024 to take advantage of the Super Early Bird rate (20% off) and use our exclusive code NZC10MECLA for an additional 10% discount!

Last week CEO of Matrak Shane Hodgkins presented 3 case studies on how Matrak's technology is enabling carbon and quantity tracking throughout supply chains, and a fantastic collaboration launched by the organisation with the China Building Materials Exhibition & Trade Centre to collect and report carbon data from overseas products. You can watch the presentation on our youtube now - and if you look closely, you can see the guest appearance of a very young MECLA collaborator👶

If you're looking for some embodied carbon 101 tune in to our co-hosted event in collaboration with SmartCrete CRC coming up on December 12!

Over the past year MECLA Working Group 5d – Construction Materials and Assemblies (WG5d) has developed low carbon specification guides for a large variety of construction assemblies. These specification guides provide details on the emissions associated with various products in Australia, and the opportunities and barriers to decarbonising them. Each of the guides has been developed in consultation with peak bodies from each industry, and provide an industry-wide standardised approach. The specification guides include clay bricks and roof tiles, cement bricks and roof tiles, and piping. In this MECLA Spotlight representatives from WG5d will introduce their specification guides, where the products are at in their decarbonisation journey, and discuss how they can be used.

MECLA members are encouraged to provide feedback to NSW Government's Engineering, Cost and Carbon Library (ECCL), a component of the Transport for NSW Common Data Model for Infrastructure. The ECCL is intended to save industry time and resources through design, tendering, and project reporting, streamlining carbon estimation to align with existing processes.

Congratulations to MECLA Partner Matrak on their announcement, working with a Chinese trade body to track data on real-time production, logistics, QA and carbon data for materials from a network of 30,000 manufacturers overseas. In the complex supply chains construction operates within, improving processes of transparency and data capture is crucial in our journey to decarbonise. This is exemplary work by Co-Founder and CEO Shane Hodgkins and his team! You can also read more about it in his LinkedIn article here: https://lnkd.in/gWivzvnJ

Hudson Worsley MECLA chair gives a minute with MECLA from the DBI (Decarbonising the Building Industry) international conference!

Mandatory climate reporting is here in Australia. But what does mandatory climate-related financial disclosure mean for the construction industry? And how might this new disclosure regime drive embodied carbon reductions in industry across supply chains? In MECLA’s Spotlight on Mandatory Reporting and Embodied Carbon experts from across industry including Darryl Stuckey, Jessica Richmond, Monique Isenheim and Mark Siebentritt come together to discuss the reporting framework and the strategic implications it has on their business practices and approaches to scope 3 emissions. The conversation will go beyond compliance to interrogate how mandatory reporting could drive systems change within industry, and how corporations can make it actionable.  

EEC's Buildings Energy Performance Summit is weeks away, and you've got just a few days to snap up your early bird registration! With the full program now live and over 30 speakers locked in across one jam-packed day, the Summit is Australia's premier event for the urgent conversations that will drive action across energy efficiency, electrification and demand flexibility. Make sure you're there! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gQDEgpkN

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