The growth challenge facing the Gold Coast underpins the strategic drivers for these two critical infrastructure projects, which seek to:

1. Replace the supply of Boral’s existing WBQ, which currently meets approximately 25% of the demand for hard rock aggregates on the southern half of the Gold Coast and northern New South Wales.
2. Unlock the last undeveloped hard rock Key Resource Area (KRA) within the Gold Coast Local Government Area to continue the supply of up to 1.2Mt of greywacke resource per annum to replace the supply from KRA 70 located at WBQ.
3. Provide an innovative solution to deal with overburden generated from the RCKRA Project through its use in the WBCWRR Project, which in turn allows Boral to achieve a meaningful reduction in the disturbance footprint and resultant impacts on mapped environmental values.
4. Support the required rehabilitation of the existing void spaces at the WBQ as required under Boral’s existing EA EPPR00810513.
5. Continue to reprocess Boral’s concrete waste and recycled asphalt products that can be used in the manufacturing of Boral’s various construction materials, particularly when governments are now mandating – and customers are requesting – use of recycled materials in road, infrastructure, and building construction.
6. Providing a non-putrescible construction waste landfill that can be used for the disposal of construction and demolition (C&D) waste and dry commercial and industrial (C&I) waste streams. This avoids the need to either rely on the Council’s diminishing putrescible landfill air space or transporting it elsewhere at significant congestion and environmental cost.
7. Assist with C&D waste and dry C&I waste recycling on the Gold Coast and within the broader SEQ region.