The Situation
Evoro was engaged to provide waste services during the demobilisation of two sites forming part of a $1.8 billion, nationally significant Sydney Metro tunnelling project, delivered by a Tier 1 infrastructure contractor and its joint venture partner.
Demobilising sites of this kind runs to strict timeframes, with financial penalties if the contractor isn’t off site by set dates. The client was struggling to get its incumbent waste provider to commit to pickup dates — putting that timeline, and the penalties attached to it, at risk.
Our Approach
Evoro attended site to assess an initial scope of a couple of IBCs of liquid waste, then quickly identified a far wider set of needs. This involved several key steps:
Assess the real scope on site
Look beyond the initial brief to identify every waste stream across the site — including 138 drums (205-litre) of grease the client urgently needed removed.
Commit where the incumbent wouldn't
The incumbent had quoted and held a purchase order but would not commit to a collection date. Evoro matched the price and committed to clearing the drums within three days, winning the work on the spot.
Deliver multiple streams in one engagement
Provide packaged hazardous waste removal, bulk non-DG liquid waste removal — including vacuum tanker work to empty tanks so they could be moved — and broader industrial services across three sites.
The Results
The 138 drums were cleared within two days. By reacting quickly and handling multiple waste streams in a single engagement, Evoro removed a compliance and timeline risk and kept the demobilisation on track.
An initial scope worth around $25,000 to $30,000 grew into approximately $330,000 of work across three sites, delivered over a four-to-six-week demobilisation window.
The engagement reinforced Evoro’s position as a responsive, one-stop provider on a major infrastructure project — trusted to deliver where the incumbent could not keep pace.
On a major build, responsiveness is the whole value.
Evoro’s scope was a small fraction of a $1.8 billion project — but being trusted to deliver inside a build of that calibre, at the speed a penalty-bound deadline demands, is the credibility signal. Speed and a single point of accountability are what kept the demobilisation on track.
“[CLIENT QUOTE PENDING — a line from WSU facilities or sustainability on reliability and compliance over the 15-year relationship.]”
