Lendlease is set to deliver electric vehicle (EV) charging stations nationwide across its key retail and office precincts, boosting its current infrastructure to meet growing customer demand.
Lendlease will install approximately 80 charging stations across retail and office assets over the coming months, creating an EV network allowing electric vehicles to be charged while customers and tenants attend its centres and precincts.
The charging stations will be available at 16 commercial and office precincts nationally, including Barangaroo and Darling Square in Sydney and Melbourne Quarter in Victoria, as well as shopping centres, including Macarthur Square and Erina Fair in New South Wales, Sunshine Plaza in Queensland and Lakeside Joondalup in Western Australia.
Office tenants and retail visitors with electric vehicles will be able to schedule charging sessions, control power output, access charging session records and adjust solar self-consumption levels through the initiative.
Barangaroo, Sydney
The market-leading scheme will prime Lendlease’s significant asset portfolio to accommodate the rise of electric vehicles driven by its customers and tenants, and further supports Lendlease’s position as an industry leader in sustainability.
Vanessa Orth, Managing Director, Investment Management Lendlease Australia said: “Customer demand for EV vehicles is on the rise and this initiative will future-proof our commercial and retail assets to ensure we have the appropriate electric car charging infrastructure, with the ability to adapt the technology as required.”
“We remain forward-thinking on introducing key sustainability-focused infrastructure within our developments to ensure our assets are adaptable now and into the future to meet our customer needs, while accelerating us on our pathway to achieving absolute zero carbon by 2040.”
Sunshine Plaza
The charging stations will be supplied by EV technology company Everty. This contract award makes Lendlease one of the first property companies in Australia to install EV charging stations across its property portfolio of retail and commercial assets. Lendlease’s operations team will have access to a variety of features such as scheduled charging sessions, control power output, access charging session records and more.
“The transition to EVs is inevitable and we are excited to work with progressive companies like Lendlease to deliver the EV charging infrastructure of the future,” says Everty CEO and founder Carola Jonas. “EV drivers need access to EV charging infrastructure at work, at the shops, at home and in many other places and this is an important step as we move to future-proof buildings.”
Everty is a technology (software) company that provides EV charging solutions and a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform to companies installing EV charging infrastructure. The software allows EV charging station operators to monitor, manage and monetise their charging infrastructure assets and provides an interface to EV drivers for the use of chargers. Everty’s software enables efficient management and operation of physical assets (EV charging stations) as well as the integration of cars and charging infrastructure with the electricity grid.
