Environmental Strategy

If you would like to find out more about MSAC's environmental initiatives across our world-class venues, click here to visit MSAC Institute of Training's 'Sports Facility Management & the Environment' 1 day session being held on 22 October 2010.

We are proud to be leading the way in best-practice Australian sport facility management, through our commitment to continuous environmental improvement across our venues.

In 2008/09 the SSCT Strategic Plan was updated to include environmental management initiatives and incorporate environmental management as one of four key areas against which the success of the Trust will be measured.

The strategies address the operation of:

The objective of these strategies is to develop an environment management and operation plan that is best-practice in Australian Sport Facility Management.

This Environmental ResourceSmart Strategy, along with the 2008/09 Strategic Plan is the foundation critical for achieving our environmental objectives. The following provides examples of our committment and progress to date as a resource smart organisation.

SSCT's Commitment

Our Environmental Strategy includes:

Participation in the Sustainability Victoria ResourceSmart Program with established environmental plan,
Investment in infrastructure and education to deliver Closed Loop recycling with a recycling target of 70%,
Operation of a Water Map strategy to reduce water consumption.

Environmental opportunities

SSCT is currently investigating opportunities for further environmental initiatives including the innovative application of technologies to improve water management, energy consumption and waste management.

Water Management

We have achieved significant reductions in our water consumption, with a total reduction across our venues of 31, 860 KL since 2004. MSAC achieved a reduction from 88,898KL to 66,964KL, while we reduced SNHC's water consumption from 21,223Kl to 12,307KL.

The total amount of water we have saved is equivalent to almost 13 Olympic swimming pools.

We have also been providing waste water to the Monash-City-Link-West Gate upgrade Project, and as part of the infrastructure to be able to provide this water, have installed pipeline feed to grounds reticulation.

Future opportunities
Proposed water management initiatives include the recycling of pool backwash water and rainwater harvesting which could lead to additional annual water savings in the region of 18,000KL.

Electricity Usage

Both MSAC and SNHC are achieving continuing reduction in electricity usage.

In the period 2006 - 2008/09, MSAC decreased total annual electricity usage from 7,493,847kWh to 6,890,332kWh. This is a total saving of 603,515kWh. This decreased MSAC's average usage from 624,487kWh per month to 574,194kWh per month. An average of 50,293kWh electricity per month.

In 2009/10 MSAC’s average usage has been 662,323kWh per month.

The total energy savings at MSAC since 2006 is equivalent to 799657kg of CO2 gas that has been prevented from entering the atmosphere.

Future opportunities
Future energy saving opportunities include new LED technology and redesign of lighting system controls that could result in annual electricity savings in the range of 3,055,339kwh, that is an annual greenhouse saving of 4,083T

Waste Management

Working with Closed Loop Recycling we have already achieved an average recycling rate of 55.65% at MSAC with a high of 63.71, and an average of 52.28% at SNHC.

This is a great improvement from last year's waste separation results which were in the region of 39% at MSAC and 21% at SNHC

We are now well on our way to achieving our objective to recycle 70% of waste by 2010.