Our Perth team traded screens for shovels on a planting day with Trillion Trees at Guildford Meadows — infilling previous years' work, boosting plant diversity, and getting a timely reminder of just how dry this winter has been.

Infrastructure development carries a significant environmental footprint, driven largely by materials that are resource-intensive, carbon-intensive and usually locked in early on a project. Sustainable procurement builds environmental, social and governance considerations into every procurement decision, what to procure and who to procure it from, and its benefits go beyond emissions reduction, improving project efficiency and reducing ownership and operation costs over time.