Case study:
From hand-held to real-time and intuitive monitoring

Mawsons Concrete & Quarries is a leading construction materials supplier based in Victoria and New South Wales. Managing 16 quarries, 40 concrete plants and 7 landscaping centres, the Mawsons team is committed to providing a healthy and safe environment for teams, contractors, customers and the greater community, as well as ensuring they treat the environment with respect.

Shari Rankin, regional resource development and environment manager for NSW, explains, “We're managing the environmental impact of a large number of sites on an ongoing basis. We need technology to help with this, and our old solutions weren’t working for us. We were having to do a lot of hand-held monitoring for noise and use deposition jars for dust. We had monitors, too, but they were very heavy and hard to use. We weren’t getting all the information we needed.”

The Mawsons team has implemented four SiteHive Hexanode Multi devices at different locations, which monitor noise and dust in a single device. Shari explained, “With SiteHive we have an accurate understanding of the baseline noise at the locations, and we’re then able to see if there’s additional noise due to quarry operations.”

The Mawsons teams across NSW and Victoria have access to SiteHive Enviro Pro and are using it on an ongoing basis. All team members can see the environmental impact of activity in real time. Shari says, “Everyone can see what’s happening in SiteHive Enviro Pro, so it’s a good visual reminder for people of their obligations.”

The Mawsons team also uses SiteHive Enviro Pro to manage surface water quality at their quarry sites. Lab results from water collected on site are automatically imported into their SiteHive Enviro Pro software, making them available alongside all their other data. This allows the team to interrogate and analyse the data easily.

Overall, using SiteHive Hexanode devices and SiteHive Enviro Pro software has helped the Mawsons team to do more monitoring, take proactive action as required, minimise environmental impact, and have safer work sites.