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21 Jun 2023

Grid-interactive efficient buildings paper

Grid-interactive buildings are designed to use electricity in a smart and efficient way, shifting energy usage to times when it's both cheaper and cleaner, while helping to generate clean energy and reduce costs.

05 Jun 2023

Lot Fourteen

Lot Fourteen is a 6 Star Green Star Communities certified precinct, and the first precinct in Australia to be pre-certified as a WELL Community. Each building within the precinct must obtain a 6 Star Green Star rating and the Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre (EIC) will obtain a WELL building rating.

05 Jun 2023

Yitpi Yartapuultiku

Green Building Day is renowned for case studies that showcase industry innovation and 2023 didn’t disappoint. Audiences left talking about one case study in particular - Yitpi Yartapuultiku. It’s the story of a community space taking shape on the banks of Port Adelaide River and is inspiring industry as an example of meaningful collaboration with Traditional Owners, offering hope that ancient links between people and Country will be strengthened into the future.

31 May 2023

The Sydney Opera House: a world leading sustainability performance

Underneath its striking white sails set against the blue of the harbour, the Sydney Opera House is green-certified. Designed with nature in mind and building on its status as a UNESCO World Heritage Listed and globally renowned performing arts space, the Opera House has been working with Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) since 2013 to position itself as a world leader in operational sustainability performance.

30 May 2023

Burwood Brickworks

The project team improved upfront carbon outcomes through use of lower-strength concrete where feasible, limiting carbon-intensive materials, opting for carbon sequestering materials, reviewing EPDs, incorporating a significant number of salvaged materials, using high-recycled content materials, using structural materials as the final finish, and minimising waste.

30 May 2023

Quay Quarter Tower

The 46-storey, 188m tall AMP Centre was originally designed by Peddle Thorp & Walker and constructed in 1972. It is fronted by the AMP building featuring the American-inspired curved glass curtain wall “Sydney’s front door” providing a landmark entry to the city from the north and from the Harbour. The site is of historical and aesthetic significance as the first “skyscraper” in Sydney, now, a 6 Star Green Star rated project.

30 May 2023

SubStation No. 164

Sub Station No.164 featured the adaptive reuse of two heritage buildings, incorporating a striking steel and glass ‘bubble’ structure which appears to float above. The building offers 7,867 m2 of A-grade office space.

30 May 2023

25 King St

At 52 metres tall and 14,965 m2 of office NLA spread across 10 floors, 25 King Street is Australia’s largest commercial office building constructed Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and glue laminated timber (Glulam). As part of the $2.9 billion renewal of the Brisbane Showgrounds in Bowen Hills QLD, the project sits within one of Australia’s biggest urban renewal initiatives.

22 Mar 2023

Barangaroo Reserve

The site on which Barangaroo is built was used for fishing and hunting by the Gadigal people, the traditional owners for the Sydney city region. Barangaroo is named in remembrance of one of the key Aboriginal leaders in the late 1700s – a powerful woman of great integrity and resilience.