Industrial and Logistics Sustainability

Charter Hall’s approach to sustainability is practical, platform-wide and integrated into how we do business, delivering value for our stakeholders.

Our Sustainability Framework focuses our efforts on where we can all generate the greatest value and make the most difference over the long-term.

It actively influences our strategic asset planning and integrates with our investment decision-making.

Our purpose and values guide how we deliver on the full range of economic, environmental and social impacts that we promise.

For over three decades, we have focused our efforts on where we can have the greatest impact and influence, building capability through meaningful climate action, partnering to provide enduring support for vulnerable youth and communities, and sharing economic prosperity and sustainable growth for mutual success.

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Industrial & Logistics ESG Highlights

ESG Case Studies

The Birds Of Naarm, Public Art Project Caring For Country, Public Art Project A Moment In Time, Public Art Project MidWest Logistics Hub Sustainable Design Light Horse Logistics Hub Sustainable Office Design MidWest Logistics Hub Sustainable Design

The Birds of Naarm

A bespoke mural artwork was created at MidWest Logistics Hub in western Melbourne, visible to those in the estate’s café precinct. The brief was to commission an artwork that had ties back to the land, in collaboration with a local First Nations artist.

‘The Birds of Naarm’ is a colourful mural by local artist Amina Briggs. The artwork is a response to the cultural and environmental history of Truganina and its surrounds, speaking to the combined evolution of traditional knowledge and modernity to adapt to the ever-changing times in order to survive.

Caring for Country

Tenant customer Cleanaway engaged local artists to paint a mural on the two water tanks at their development facility in Blacktown, in a high-visibility location to enable both the facility employees and the wider community to enjoy the artwork.

The theme of the mural is “Caring for Country”, and the story behind the artwork aligns with both Cleanaway and Charter Hall’s vision to continue to care for the lands on which we operate and to find ways to create a more sustainable future.

A Moment in Time and Memory

A bespoke art installation, “A Moment in Time and Memory,” has been created at Light Horse Logistics Hub in collaboration with artist Patrizia Biondi and consultants Art Pharmacy. This sculpture celebrates the rich history of the site, which has long been significant to the First Nations People, the Light Horse Brigade, and a Migrant Hostel, before becoming the logistics hub it is today.

Partnering for sustainable outcomes

MidWest Logistics Hub in Melbourne is targeting a 5 star Green Star rating, and illustrates how sustainability is embedded across design, materials, and operations.

Sustainable Materials:

Vicbeam supplied Australian-grown radiata pine, replacing emissions-intensive steel in the café and courtyard.
Result: 15–20% reduction in embodied carbon across the final precinct.

Green Infrastructure:

Alex Fraser provided Green Roads asphalt with 20% recycled content for the car park.
Result: 300kg carbon savings, equivalent to removing one car from the road for 8 months.
Future potential: 12 tonnes CO₂ reduction annually across new developments nationally.

Renewable Energy:

Café powered by 24KW solar + 10KW battery; warehouse supported by 20KW solar.
Site-wide: 4.1MW solar installed, powering 790 homes and cutting 4,000 tonnes CO₂ annually.

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Industry-first sustainable office design

Recently completed, we specified the office design to achieve high sustainability performance and a superior design aesthetic focused on occupant experience. The pavilion style design utilises natural timber and covered courtyard areas that blend indoor and outdoor spaces and improve thermal comfort.

Importantly, the use of timber provides an 80% reduction in the structural embodied carbon associate versus the conventional concrete and steel structure. Further, a 60% reduction in operational carbon is being achieved through strategic design and renewable energy solutions including working with our tenant customers and PPA providers on solar opportunities.

Sustainable, energy efficient buildings

Our assets are highly energy efficient, powered by renewable energy and support corporate occupiers net zero emissions ambitions.

Clean energy

We're partnering with our tenant customers for a clean energy future. Harnessing solar energy and storing it in advanced battery systems is crucial for energy resilience, reducing carbon footprints and managing energy costs, and we're utilising this clean energy solution across our Industrial & Logistics portfolio.

At Motorway Industrial Park in Queensland and Compass Logistics Estate in Western Sydney, we have installed battery storage units in partnership with tenant customers CEVA Logistics and HCL.

By actively partnering with tenant customers, battery storage technology assists us to manage the environmental impacts of the buildings, reduce energy costs for customers, and achieve greater energy efficiencies. Energy generated from battery and solar supports us and our customers' journey to net zero.

Motorway Industrial Park

Berrinba QLD

250kWh battery size

400kW solar array

Compass Logistics Estate

Eastern Creek, NSW

1,250kWh battery size

2,000kW solar array

Social Sustainability

We believe places have the power to transform, and we consciously invest in high quality industrial facilities that help our customers and communities thrive.

Our partnership approach extends to our communities with Charter Hall committed to community engagement and local capacity building in the diverse communities in which we operate across Australia.

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Morsl

We've partnered with Morsl, which offers a 24/7 self-service, healthy micro market to employees in warehouses, providing convenient access to healthier food and a healthier lifestyle. Employees who work in the industrial and logistics sector are faced with many environmental impacts to their mental and physical health, including long, physical work shifts, elevated noise levels, and limited access to healthy food options in and around their workplace.

HHTS

We're proud to be a Corporate Partner for Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds (HHTS), an organisation focused on improving the mental health and wellbeing of employees within the road transport, warehousing and logistics industries. We partner with our tenant customers to drive awareness, generate support, and create work environments that prioritise wellbeing through initiatives including RUOK in Trucks & Sheds, HHTS Roadshows and Nutrition programs.

SSI

We partnered with Settlement Services International (SSI), a not-for-profit organisation that supports newly settled migrants transitioning to life in Australia, to pilot an employment program across major development projects. The program provided pre-employment training for participants alongside our building and construction partners.

Future focused

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, with Charter Hall a founding member of Women in Industrial, an industry association that advocates for greater female participation in the Industrial & Logistics sector. In addition, Charter Hall supports career pathways for young people with active involvement at university events with UTS and UWS, and with mentoring opportunities including Girls in Property.

Contact

Anna Maras

Head of Asset Management

Sustainability