Company: Greenville
Company Description: Greenville is a woman owned business, headed by well-known Australian businesswomen innovator, Beverley Honig, excelling in a traditionally male dominated industry. Greenville Developments repurposes shipping containers into remarkable, high-tech carbon-neutral infrastructure eg popup mobile shops, offices, homes and buildings, positively impacting the world's carbon footprint
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Startup of the Year - Consumer Services Industries
 Nomination Title: Greenville Developments
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the achievements of the nominated organization since 1 January 2022, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
A video of up to five (5) minutes
- If you are submitting a video of up to five (5) minutes in length, provide the URL of the nominated video here, OR attach it to your entry via the "Add Attachments, Videos, or Links to This Entry" link above, through which you may also upload a copy of your video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc64na1Uc_8
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: Briefly describe the nominated organization: its history and past performance (up to 200 words):
Total 197 words used.
Led by entrepreneur Beverley Honig, Greenville Developments is an icon in the Circular Economy Industry (see https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7168730074177892352/)
Beverley leads a passionate global team of design/build professionals making a difference to the environment by building affordable, eco-friendly and aesthetically remarkable buildings. It is a business with a purpose, established to create new standards in smart building by upcycling shipping containers into carbon neutral working and living spaces whilst eliminating wasted containers. In 2022 it officially commenced building carbon neutral, affordable shops and cafes, shipping precincts and homes, women’s retreats, safe havens, manpads, granny flats, kids caves, and student accommodation. Greenville believes in the power of sustainable simplicity, the importance of affordability and the necessity of green spaces, from liveable cities to outer growth zones or undeveloped areas in need of revitalisation.
"Together we make the world a safer, cleaner, more affordable place to live and work in". Ultimately, it creates a greener, cleaner , more caring planet, one shipping container at a time. Greenville has teamed with one of the Nation’s most benevolent Foundation to enable mobile rooms to feed the disadvantaged, and provide homes for homeless. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4SUlg25-c&
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Outline the organization's achievements since the beginning of 2022 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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Since March 2022, Greenville Developments was selected as a preferred supplier to the Australian Government, selected for its sustainable supply of modular, carbon neutral buildings, uniquely made from shipping containers, Producing an innovative vessel at an affordable cost in record time, and creating world’s first carbon neutral FutureLab for STEM research based on a 7 star eco-rating model
Greenville Sustainable Pods are a game changer in the Circular Economy and Premium Developer of Carbon Neutral Sustainable Buildings, and the first of an Innovation City of modular buildings.in July 2020 Greenville was commissioned by the largest Oil and Gas Company in the Southern Hemisphere to build incredible high tech Innovation Lab in the world. The humblest of shipping container transformed into a Futurelab – using latest 5G, largest Cisco Webex screens and a popup roof with automated arms that opens and closes at the tip of a button. Doors and windows expand/ contract with electronic actuation, materials used rated 7 star to comply with the hottest Karatha desert and cyclonic conditions, using Solar and wind energy.
Its purpose –to enable world class research and development - the first team invited to collaborate inside the FutureLab was a group from MIT, benefiting future research and development in an inspiring space.
see https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7168730074177892352/
See https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7169195623869505536/
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 250 words):
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They are 100% carbon neutral (unlike prefabricated containers that use unsustainable, toxic material).circular economy outcomes resulted in a reduction of primary material consumptions and rescue of abandoned shipping containers from port docks, minimising waste and raising building standards
in 2022, they have been named as icons on the Circular Economy. They use Airplane Fuselage salvaged from airplane graveyards as modular furnishings and fittings, breathing new life into a decommissioned airplane fuselage by converting it into a building fully equipped to go off the grid.
Truckable, modular, fast and affordable, Greenville’s achievements are unique because Greenville is a start-up building company run by a women and using lady tradies. Its products are unique and innovative and all handmade. This is a craft and a form of leadership which is highly unique in the building industry today, where everything is otherwise flatpacked and commoditised.
There isn’t any company like Greenville who produce remarkable upcycled shipping containers from end to end for the unique purposes outlined.
Its achievements are significant because the growth of the FutureLab means bringing innovation and sustainability into a newly formed innovation city, made for future researchers and developers to be inspired, collaborate and create great things out of STEM- science, technology, engineering and maths.
in 2022, they opened up afresh, developing their FutureLabs prototype, they use innovative technology and patentable designs, and developing sophisticated IoT, Webexes and 5G, Greenville units started flying out of the door used for innovative spaces, bushfire victims and COVID isolation hangouts.
- You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
Total 36 words used.
see https://www.greenville.com.au
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc64na1Uc_8
see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldox1ECeCQs&
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4SUlg25-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XU95QGi7hs
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7168730074177892352/
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