GREENLINK ESTATE | Helping Build Victoria's Premier Logistics Precinct

Greenlink Estate Stage 2: Building Victoria’s Premier Logistics Precinct from the Ground Up

Not all of the projects Uniform Safety Signs is proud to contribute to sit on public roads or government-funded corridors. Some of the most significant civil infrastructure being built in Victoria right now is happening on private industrial land, where master-planned logistics estates are being constructed from bare earth into fully functional, large-scale freight and distribution precincts. ESR’s Greenlink Estate at Cranbourne West is one of the most impressive examples of this type of development anywhere in Melbourne, and Uniform Safety Signs was pleased to supply signage as part of the Stage 2 civil works delivery.

The Project: Greenlink Estate, Cranbourne West

Located at 590 to 620 Western Port Highway in Cranbourne West, approximately 40 kilometres south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, Greenlink Estate is a landmark 79-hectare industrial development being delivered by global logistics real estate company ESR Australia. The site was acquired by ESR in July 2020 and has since been developed into what the company describes as a new benchmark for premium industrial real estate in Victoria, with an estimated end value of $700 million.

The estate is positioned to capitalise on Melbourne’s south-east as the state’s most established logistics precinct. Its location provides 800 metres of direct frontage to the Western Port Highway, with connectivity to EastLink within five minutes, the Dandenong Intermodal Terminal within six minutes, the M1 Monash Freeway within eight minutes, and Merinda Park Station just five minutes away. For logistics operators, distribution companies, and e-commerce businesses, that combination of freeway access, port connectivity, and rail proximity represents a genuinely compelling strategic location.

The estate is planned to ultimately deliver eight to ten large-format warehouses across the 79-hectare site, with a total floor area of 24 hectares and the potential to support over 6,500 jobs, contributing significantly to economic growth across Melbourne’s south-east.

The Scale of the Civil Works

Before a single warehouse can be occupied, the civil foundation of an estate at this scale demands an extraordinary volume of work. Rokon was awarded the bulk earthworks package for the site, and the scope of works across the various stages has been substantial.

Stage 2 civil works encompassed sewer reticulation, stormwater drainage, kerb and channel construction, and full pavement construction including the base and intermediate asphalt layers across the new internal road network. These works were completed well ahead of programme, with Council Practical Completion achieved within schedule. Separately, Stage 2A intersection works were also scoped to deliver the key internal and external intersection connections required to open up the next phase of the estate to construction and ultimately to tenants.

The site itself presented a number of significant engineering challenges. It sits at the base of a 650-metre catchment and contains a live creek running through the property, a constraint that required careful planning and a temporary creek relocation to allow the first warehouse to proceed. The eastern waterway component of the project involved the installation of major culvert structures, with culvert sets and associated endwall construction sequenced carefully to allow the waterway to be excavated progressively as each culvert set was completed.

The construction programme has been delivered in staged sequences to allow warehouse construction and civil infrastructure works to proceed simultaneously across different parts of the estate, a significant coordination challenge across an 80-hectare site with multiple active works fronts running at the same time.

A New Benchmark for Industrial Development

What sets Greenlink apart from a conventional industrial estate is the depth of commitment to sustainability and amenity that ESR has embedded into the development from the outset.

Every facility within the estate targets a minimum 5 Star Green Star Design and As Built rating under the Green Building Council of Australia framework, with the anchor tenant facility for CEVA Logistics achieving a 6 Star Green Star certification. Among the sustainability features across the estate are rooftop solar installations with high Solar Reflective Index roofing, rainwater collection tanks reticulated to restrooms and landscape irrigation, energy consumption management systems, LED lighting throughout, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure with provision for expansion. The estate also incorporates dedicated running, walking and cycling tracks through the green spaces, shaded outdoor seating areas, thoughtfully designed wetlands to support local flora and fauna, and landscaping using local and native plant species throughout.

CEVA Logistics, one of the world’s leading freight and logistics operators, was secured as the estate’s first tenant, committing to a long-term lease over a 37,000 square metre facility. Subsequent tenants including InterCentral Logistics, PFM Corp, and Focus on Furniture have followed, attracted by both the estate’s premium specifications and its strategic location. At the time of writing, 150,000 square metres of warehousing was under construction across the estate, with individual warehouse facilities ranging from 8,000 to more than 37,000 square metres in floor area, and clear heights of up to 14.6 metres for the largest buildings.

Our Role: Supplying Signage for Stage 2

Within a large-scale industrial estate civil works programme, the signage requirements span the full lifecycle of the construction and operational phases. During active civil construction across Stage 2, construction zone and traffic management signage is required to ensure the safety of civil workers, contractors, and any vehicles accessing the site. As civil works are completed and sections of internal road network are opened progressively to construction traffic and ultimately to estate users, permanent regulatory, directional, and safety signage must be installed in accordance with the applicable Australian Standards and local authority requirements to ensure compliant and safe operation of the internal road network.

Uniform Safety Signs was engaged to supply signage for the Stage 2 works at Greenlink Estate. On a project of this scale, with multiple active works fronts, staged practical completion milestones, and a delivery programme that required signage to be available at the right time and in the right sequence, reliable supply matters. Our team worked to ensure that every sign supplied met the required specifications and was delivered to programme, supporting the civil works team to maintain their ahead-of-schedule delivery performance without signage becoming a constraint on progress.

We are proud to be associated with a development of Greenlink’s calibre. Projects like this represent the future of logistics infrastructure in Victoria, and the civil works that underpin them demand the same rigour and attention to compliance as any public road project. That is exactly the standard Uniform Safety Signs brings to every supply contract, regardless of whether the road is a new CBD bypass or an internal estate access route.

Looking Ahead

With three civil stages now completed, major intersections operational, and six large warehouses constructed and occupied, Greenlink Estate is well on its way to realising its full potential as one of Victoria’s premier industrial precincts. Further stages of civil and building works continue to progress, and the estate’s reputation for quality and sustainability has already attracted some of Australia’s most significant logistics operators.

Uniform Safety Signs looks forward to continuing to support projects of this scale and ambition across Melbourne’s industrial development pipeline.

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