1. Gore Highway: Building sustainability for the future AustStab Awards of Excellence 2014 FK Gardner & Sons Group Innovation or Excellence in Sustainability in Pavement Sustainability Sponsored by

2. Overview Project: rehabilitate flood-damaged Gore Highway for DMTR Desired outcome: to make a more resilient and sustainable highway Mission: “No harm to the environment” Australia’s largest Foamed Bitumen Stabilisation (FBS) project - 6.3k tonnes of lime and 7m litres of bitumen.

3. Innovation and challenges Green solution to 2013 flood event sees materials recycled back into pavement Hydrated lime chosen to reduce powder risk to local cotton crops “Hungry boards” developed to capture waste lime from mixing bowl Lime Filtration Device invented to prevent dust escaping into atmosphere. HUNGRY BOARDS LIME FILTRATION DEVICE

4. Evidence of success Cost savings to including $50,000 of waste lime Project successfully delivered to client expectations and 17 days ahead of variation deadline Key lesson: New benchmark set for FBS projects with technical paper co-authored with DTMR.

5. Gore Highway FBS The journey