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They say a milestone is a significant moment in one’s life. If that is true, then this 15th year that we have held our national Sustainability Awards is quite important to me.

Although I was not there for all the early years from 2006 onwards, it is with a sense of pride that I can witness what has become Australia’s longest-running national built environment sustainability awards programme.

It’s been well-known that architecture is much more than a building on a plot of land. It reaches beyond the necessities of shelter to strive to become a work of art and a reflection of our zeitgeist.

Recognition of good work helps evolve the industry and foster credibility for new players. It can also help inspire future generations to find their own voice and learn from the giants who came before them.

But sustainable architecture also reaches another level. Our awards programme recognises the efforts of licensed architects and building designers who have developed and demonstrated ways to decrease greenhouse gases, reduce energy use and demand, and conserve water use in the built and/or natural environments.

Equally important is the creation of durable, comfortable, and healthy spaces. The awards attempt to raise the public awareness of the current climate crisis and the massive role played by construction, maintenance, and operations in the built environment.

To all those the entrants, I’d like to say that your projects were all worthy of a cavalcade of trophies, regardless if you won or not.

To our wonderful judges, I as always, am indebted to your intelligence, integrity and intuition.

To the Events, Sales, Production and Editorial teams, you should be proud as punch with what you have achieved in what have been utterly unprecedented circumstances.

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Appointments SUZANNE TOUMBOUROU BECOMES NEW HEAD OF AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF RECYCLING The Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council (ASBEC) has confirmed the departure of Executive Director and Sustainability Awards Judge Suzanne Toumbourou, who has been appointed CEO of the Australian Council of Recycling.

Working within the role for nearly a decade, Toumbourou has had a major impact within the sector, recently overseeing the delivery of Built to Perform, an industry led pathway to a zero carbon ready building code in collaboration with ClimateWorks Australia. The program informs the COAG Energy Council’s ‘Trajectory for Low Energy Buildings’, paving a cross-jurisdictional pathway for net zero buildings in Australia.

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A RAFT OF PROMOTIONS AT DESIGNINC DesignInc has completely altered its Melbourne leadership team, with the internal promotions of five members of staff, reflecting the confidence the practice has in its people and to increase the diversity of styles and viewpoints within the studio.

Jane Sayers and Kieran Leong have been appointed as Principals, while Cameron Smith, Michelle Harris and Simon McKeown have all been elevated to the position of Senior Associate.

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TWO KEY APPOINTMENTS FOR ARCHITECTUS Architectus has made two new appointments to its national Interior Architecture team, with Stirling Fletcher joining as a Senior Associate, and Sara-Jane Bacon to Associate.

The practice hopes the strategic appointments will strengthen Architectus’ Interior Architecture and Workplace design capabilities and will be instrumental in the firm’s delivery of design excellence nationally and within the local Perth and Sydney markets.

Fletcher held an Associate Principal position at Woods Bagot in Perth and prior to that was the Regional Leader of Geyer Perth. He has worked as a design consultant on many city-shaping projects in the Perth CBD including KPMG, PNG Bank, VGW and Quadrant Energy, in addition to global projects with South32 and BHP. In his new role as Senior Associate at Architectus, Fletcher will work closely with landlords, tenants, and user groups to develop the next generation of innovative and transformative workplaces.

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Former Tzannes Directors Mladen Prnjatovic, Ben Green and Chi Melhem have teamed up to form EM BE CE – a Sydney-based practice exploring new ways of living together.

Deriving its name from a phonetic rendering of the co-founders first name initials Mladen, Ben and Chi, the studio combines their collective experience in residential design, planning and urbanism, that includes everything from bespoke private homes, to city-scaled projects and precincts.

GXN HAS TWO NEW PARTNERS Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard and Susan Carruth have joined Lasse Lind in the leadership of GXN. The new leadership structure reflects GXN’s maturation into an independent consultancy, applying knowledge grown through research projects to architecture, urbanism and product design, the company says.

Kåre joined GXN in 2016, after receiving his MSc in Digital Anthropology from University College of London in 2014. He received his DPhil degree at University of Oxford in 2020.

After nine years of practice in London, Susan received her PhD from Aarhus School of Architecture in 2015 and joined GXN in 2018, following a role as the Danish Head of Sustainable Development at White Architects.

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Since the early 2000s, Sheldon has been ably assisted by Co-Director and architect Michael Mandl — who is set to step back from his full-time position at GroupGSA in favour of a consulting role. Mandl says working alongside Sheldon was straightforward due to the similar approach they share in completing various tasks.

Carr has announced the promotion of Stephanie Poole, which will see the architect move into an Associate position. With a career spanning 10 years, Poole has been key to the development of the business direction in larger scale multi-residential and boutiquecommercial sectors.

Previously working on projects such as Frame House and Gippsland Spa, Stephanie is currently leading Brunswick Yard, which starts on site later this year. The project fuses architecture, interiors, landscape and streetscape into a contemporary multi-residential offer comprising 122 apartments. The architect recently delivered the project’s highly engaging display suite that offers a compelling alternative to the traditional model of selling apartments.

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GroupGSA Managing Director Mark Sheldon is handing the reins to four long-serving directors, in a changing of the guard that the practice describes as a ‘natural evolution and transition’.

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Previous Sustainability Awards winner HY William Chan has been elected as Curator of the Global Shapers community for the World Economic Forum.

Remaining in Sydney, Chan will utilise his expertise in design thinking and city-making strategy, as well as engaging business stakeholders and the wider public with design entrepreneurship.

His move into the innovation and sustainability leadership domain builds on his professional practice honed at leading design firms including Hassell and Arup Foresight + Innovation.

Most recently at Cox Architecture, Chan facilitated the development of the firm’s future focussed global sustainability agenda, and held positions at the annual general meeting as well as the board of management design and marketing committee.

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“Try to convince your clients to build small” HAMISH MACDONALD SPEAKS TO ENVIRONMENTALIST, CONSERVATIONIST, EXPLORER, PUBLIC SCIENTIST AND FORMER AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR, TIM FLANNERY.

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HAMISH MACDONALD: Where are we now with climate change?

TIM FLANNERY: We are in the early stages of the really detectable impacts. We’ve seen an increase in heat waves, in the average length of heat waves, in the average temperature experienced in the heat waves, and in the length of the heatwave season. We’re still in the early stages and the projections are we’ll see much more severe impacts in the next twenty years or so. Fires have obviously gone through a sort of phase-shift.

Prior to the Black Summer fires of late 2019/early 2020 the maximum area during the fire season was about two per cent of the temporate broadleaf forests. That year it was 21 percent. That kind of quantum leap into a new fire regime is also being seen overseas in places like California, Southern Europe and Siberia. That’s a different phenomenon: we’re not just seeing a gradual increase but a leap into a new system. Those fire conditions are obviously affected by the overall climate.

Then the warming trend and the drying trend in South-Eastern Australia is now quite advanced. In 2018-19 it was the driest year ever in South-Eastern Australia, and the driest year ever in the Murray-Darling Basin. Those conditions are starting to deepen as well, so we’re starting to see water stress. Eighteen months ago, regional towns in NSW were

running out of water, part of this ongoing trend of drying and heat. And that is going to affect cropping and the Murray-Darling scheme and all sorts of communities in many ways.

And we are seeing an increase in the energetics of the climate system. Hurricanes, cyclones and storms getting stronger. And we’re getting an increase in rainfall intensity: the amount of rain that falls over a given period of time. It’s a global phenomenon that’s felt in Australia as well. What it means is the drainpipes and drainage systems we have built in Australia for a previous climate now are not capable of taking the volumes of water that we are increasingly seeing flow during these periods of increased rainfall intensity. So, it’s an engineering problem, left from an earlier time.

HM: What about sea level rises?

TF: It’s one of those hidden, creeping problems.

If you travel around coastal Australia and keep your eyes open, you’ll see these coastal erosions almost everywhere. In some places like Stockton, on the north side of Newcastle, there’s quite severe coastal erosion which is affecting infrastructure and has seen the abandonment of several buildings. And in parts of Port Phillip Bay, Torres Strait, Southwest WA, and the coast of metropolitan Sydney. Sea level rise is going to continue for many decades and the various problems are going to be exacerbated.

HM: What can be done at this point?

TF: We’re still in the early stage: The overall take-home message for those four problems is that the trend is now set, so that nothing we do now will affect outcomes over the next twenty years. Those problems are going to get substantially worse over the next twenty years, regardless of what we do. If we act very soon, if we act hard and fast, twenty years from now we may see those problems start to mitigate, to get less worse from their peak, about 2040. But if we don’t act hard and fast, they’ll continue to grow. And we may trigger tipping points in global climate systems that drive the warming regardless of what we do.

HM: The Paris Agreement target keeping warming from pre-industrial levels to preferably 1.5 degrees. What does that mean?

TF: That would be the safest level, but sadly it looks like we’ve lost that opportunity already. This isn’t widely acknowledged politically, as it’s quite unpalatable. But the best projections suggest we can top out at 1.7-1.8 degree warming then by drawing down CO2 in the atmosphere to get back down to 1.5 degrees. It’s relatively safe though there’s still substantial impacts. At two degrees warming you start to see a whole lot of undesirable outcomes.

HM: Largely for your work on climate change, you were voted Australian of the Year in 2007.

How has the world gone since then?

TF: Since 2007 between a quarter and a third of all the greenhouse gas that’s ever been admitted that has ever been emitted by our species over our entire history has been released into the atmosphere. Over that brief period, 15 years, the problem has grown enormously. We haven’t made the difference we needed to.

HM: What can we do with our habitats?

How do sea changes and tree changes need to be modified? Can some kinds of dwelling be sustained if they can’t be insured?

TF: I would say it’s Senator McKenzie’s job to make sure that nobody suffers through the transition. There’s no need for anybody to suffer: there’s going to be masses of new economic opportunity. If the government gets on the front foot early, there’s no need for anyone to suffer. If we leave it late, and industries collapse and there’s unemployment because of poor planning by government we will have people suffering.

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TF: Again, you really need a Federal Government push for that to happen. You need large dollars. With primary steel production you have blast furnaces costing some $700 million and they need to be rebuilt or relined every few decades. Port Kembla’s just at that point now.

What they are saying is maybe we can convert one or two of the nozzles that take the coal to the blast furnaces to hydrogen.

But that’s a very slow uptake of these new technologies. If they had really strong government support – I’d suggest building a whole new steel plant that’s going to run on hydrogen. We’ve got great demand for steel at the moment and we could certainly do with a second plant. And over time they run the existing blast furnace into the ground, and by the time the new one is finished

HM: What would you say to people like the Nationals minister Bridget McKenzie who say that it won’t be the people in Vaucluse or Toorak who suffer from moving to net-zero but the regional centres?

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HM: The NSW government has moved against the black roof seen in many new housing estates – how useful is that?

HM: What about converting the big emitting industries, like the steelworks at Whyalla and Port Kembla?

TF: It’s impossible to say. Nuclear power is singularly unsuited to Australia. They are extremely large plants. To be economic they’ve got to be about 2,000 MW. They take an enormous amount of water. And with 2000 MW and above, maybe 4000 MW, where are you going to put that in Australia? Somewhere between our two largest population centres, somewhere on the coast – where I imagine it will be disputed by every community in that region. Even if the government said tomorrow, we’re going to mandate the building of this thing, my guess is we would still not see a nuclear power station for 15 or 20 years. They’re like the submarines. You’ve got to buy special crucibles and the last time I looked the Chinese manufacturers had a waiting list of 18 months before they even start. So, the whole thing is just way too late. And people talk about these small, modular nuclear reactors, but the truth is there’s not one small nuclear reactor in any electricity grid in the planet. It’s hypothetical, and I don’t think any government is going to take those risks when you’ve got wind and solar getting cheaper by the day. What you need is remediation of the poles and wires, and storage.

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TF: The first steel ever made with hydrogen has just been made in Sweden, a tiny bit to be used

by Volvo in some of their prototypes. So, in years to come people might be able to use green steel, but at the moment it’s not available. If you’re in Queensland there are a couple of companies that offer carbon-neutral concrete, which is a big saving. If you’ve got a builder willing to countenance it, it’s worthwhile looking at carbonneutral concrete. They’ve got a fantastic record so far: they’re stronger than conventional concretes.

They’re about three per cent more expensive but they’re ideal for acid soils for example or salty sub-surface. They last very well. The thing really is to build a bit smaller. You look at houses now, often more than 300sqm, that’s just a massive waste of space for most families. So, building smaller would be the single biggest contribution you could make.

TF: For individuals we are doing incredibly well. We have the highest rate of solar PV on rooftops. It’s partly due to government schemes but it’s also something Australians have adopted wholesale. State governments are varied in their approach, but increasingly there’s a trend towards carbon-neutrality in new industries. The states are responsible for the bulk of the energy sector so that’s been a good thing. At the federal level there’s been a lack of leadership in a whole lot of areas. One of them is the interconnectivity of the grid. If we had a holistic Australian approach to this, we could be so much more cost-effective and so much faster in transitioning to clean energy sources. When it comes to the electrification of transport, the Federal Government’s got a massively important role, and they’re just sitting on their hands. They’re pushing gas, and we should be moving away from gas as early as we can.

HM: Do you think that as part of their net-zero package the current government might try to edge us into nuclear power generation?

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HM: As part of the effort to decarbonise Australia, what can the person building a house do to help? Use green steel instead of brick, concrete and timber for example?

HM: Overall, how is Australia doing in moving towards net-zero?

the world could be in a very different place in terms of steel production.

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TF: There is an issue around defending some dwellings, depending on how things develop in the future. You are looking at a triage situation.

These issues are going to become very front-ofmind for governments over the next decade or so, because the impacts are just going to be ever more severe.

There’s only a limited pool of funding that a government has, so a decision has to be made about what we do in particular circumstances.

Coastal erosion is one: do you defend buildings that are facing ever-greater flood risk every year? Do you stay and defend, and bear the cost of that? Or do you see evacuations and abandon some of those so you have enough finances to defend other properties that are more defensible? There are some tough decisions coming up in that area.

TF: It’s quite important. We have a sort of heat-sink effect in some suburbs. You go to a ski field with black gloves on – it’s quite cold around you but the black gloves are quite warm, because sunlight is being degraded into heat energy when it hits that black surface, creating local heat. That’s exactly what black roofs do in a suburb. A whole suburb of black roofs has this massive heat effect. There are some really great paints you can use that are highly reflective, that send most of that sunlight back into space.

We should be looking at similar things for roads, and other surfaces as well. The new heat waves are already the greatest killer of all the climate phenomena in Australia, and are set to get worse, so why wouldn’t we do all we can to minimise that local risk? That’s a pretty cheap solution, painting your roof.

HM: If you had a message to architects and builders in Australia now, what would you be saying?

TF: I would say: Try to convince your clients to build small. Smaller is generally better.

And there are lots of low hanging fruit in building – it’s quite important to be informed about those and to take those opportunities.

They are inexpensive and no-regrets type of things. The roof colour is a good example. So be prepared to a change of building for a very different future.

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Is education the key to designing better cities?

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Urban designers who understand how natural and built environments affect each other and articulate the evidence supporting their design proposals will be more effective advocates for the sort of change cities need now to combat climate change and become more sustainable.

Society requires urban designers who understand social dynamics and can comprehend, analyse and apply relevant policies and regulations in designing places that work for all sorts of residents, workers, commuters, and people at rest or at play. Urban designers and planners have the role to create proposals, guidelines and policies that promote the above.

The challenges urban centres face are multifaceted and will require an integrated approach to planning and design strategies in order to minimise risks to urban communities.

Postgraduate study helps planners and designers respond to these challenges by enabling them to acquire substantive skills to design neighbourhoods and regulate development to withstand floods, heat and other climate phenomena.

Postgraduate study can also teach process skills, or how to better engage community residents in complex decisions involving housing construction and the environment such as building in coastal zones and how local and state governments can collaborate more effectively.

Postgraduate degrees should aim not only to equip planners and designers with a range of skillsets, but also to educate them about the value and importance of working with other disciplines, stakeholders, and voices. Tertiary education provides professionals with the knowledge and skills to see the big picture.

Despite the level of specialisation that a degree can provide, it also enables graduates to approach challenges with the holistic and comprehensive perspective that is required to tackle and solve these complex problems.

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year’s floods in New South Wales and coastal erosion on the Northern Beaches of Sydney were extreme examples. The expanding urban edge is increasing the exposure to bushfire risk, which affects household insurance premiums.

Rising sea levels increase the risks of land erosion and storm surges for housing located on coastlines. Increased building on river floodplains, which diminishes the ability of land to absorb runoff, exposes residents to more extreme flooding.

To rise to this challenge, we need to rethink urban development to mitigate the impact of climate volatility on the people who make cities their home. Furthermore, we need to reconsider the contribution that cities themselves make to greenhouse gas emissions. The conventional approach of single-purpose neighbourhoods, where residents are dependent on their cars for travelling for work, shopping and recreation, simply exacerbates the problem.

Population growth poses its own challenges.

The traditional response has been to increase densities, but density needs to be done right.

Some of the key principles to be considered are access to nature, careful design regulation, mixed use neighbourhoods with lots of ways of getting around, and population concentrations proportional to the level of infrastructure in place.

Designing and developing more sustainable buildings and communities demands an integrated approach that aims for a balance between preserving and enhancing our natural environment and resources, promoting more equitable and connected communities, and supporting long-term economic growth.

But cities are highly complex systems, driven by competing interests, where growth is regulated by multiple agencies at various levels of government. This makes it difficult to establish neutral forums in which issues can be resolved and optimum outcomes found on the basis of objective discussion.

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Australia’s major cities are home to almost three-quarters of all Australian residents, with the Australian population predicted to reach between 28.3 and 29.3 million people by 2027 and 40 million by 2050.

For Australian cities and towns to continue to grow in a sustainable way, many of the key decisions required to successfully cater for climate change need to be made right now, and this is creating demand for more skilled urban designers and planners.

Cities are engines of economic growth, but their expansion both puts pressure on the natural environment and exposes city dwellers to the sharp edge of global warming. Urban planners and designers are at the forefront of developing our urban environments and promoting better design and sustainable planning practices by addressing the challenges raised by climate change and limited resources: how can we achieve the same economic benefit while doing better by the natural environment and urban residents in creating more sustainable cities and buildings?

Climate change impacts cities significantly and in different ways. Despite the warning signs seen in the past few years, greenfield development on city fringes is continuing, taking over agricultural lands and putting food security at greater risk, while diminishing bushland and other green areas that are fundamental for stabilising temperatures in inland locations.

Such housing developments also reduce the protective tree canopy and increase hard surfaces, pushing up temperatures and negatively affecting both people’s health and the locale’s biodiversity. All of this impacts a city’s liveability and productivity, and the built environment, including infrastructure such as roads, bridges and transport.

Nature has a way of reminding us that our actions matter. The 2019-20 bushfires, this

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Melbourne architecture won’t benefit from group thinking The City of Melbourne is forming a panel of experts to take on architectural designs, eschewing the traditional ways of visionary designers, writes Elroy Rosenberg.

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Melbourne needs to lift its architecture game, so we’re told. Deputy Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece published an op-ed in The Age which, with great gusto, elucidated the dire architectural situation in which Melbourne finds itself mired.

Recent reporting into the swathe of highrise developments dotting either side of the Yarra points squarely at endemic poor design: excessive noise, including groaning and creaking; notoriously combustible cladding; and, in Reece’s words, towers which ‘are nothing more than spreadsheets in the sky’.

So far, so good — until we unearth the piece’s double-purpose. Not merely an argumentation, it also plays press release: the City of Melbourne, Reece reveals, is proposing a new Design Excellence Program. The program, a reinforcement of the Central Melbourne Design Guide approved by the CoM in 2019, will include the formation of two bodies — the Melbourne Design Review Panel (MDRP) and the Design Excellence Advisory Committee (DEAC).

The former is a panel of ‘leading’ industry figures that doles out ‘multidisciplinary advice’ on proposed projects; the latter consists instead of a ‘platform for industry, academia, and community to engage in a range of topics’.

The idea isn’t quite so novel as one might think. There is already a Victorian Design Review Panel (VDRP) established by the Office of the Victorian Government Architect (OVGA).

It lists 86 architects, urban planners, designers and more as members on its panel. (The Melbourne panel would initially consist of up to 12 members.)

The VDRP began as a three-year trial scheme and was evaluated in 2013 by SGS, an urban public policy consultancy firm. I asked Andrew McDougall, who worked on the VDRP evaluation and is executive director at SGS, how his team of five undertook their almost six months of evaluating. The process, he assured me, was totally independent, although the VDRP, as SGS’s clients, were allowed to read, continuously comment on and provide context for the evaluation as it developed.

SGS was set a series of questions by the VDRP relating to how “efficient and effective” the panel was, and how well it “delivered on its objectives.” This was done in part by interviewing all panellists individually, as well as undertaking specific case studies. In the end, SGS deemed the program “effective.”

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purports to achieve, never works. It will likely bring a sense of greater unity and consistency to our CBD, as the construction continues unabated for many years.

A friend of mine, Spencer, an urban planning graduate working in Europe, also made this point: “There’s definitely an Australian Ugliness aspect to this, maybe a committee like this could finally bring a universal and distinctly Australian aesthetic to Melbourne.”

I’m sure it would.

Except one has only to examine contemporary architectural practice to guess where this might lead. There’s the liveability aspect, first of all.

Dr Goad expressed a scepticism that the current mode of highrise design, which allows only for the “unhealthy minimum” of liveability within the building’s glossy exterior, will be much reversed by an MDRP. He also acknowledged both the possibility and the danger of the MDRP seeing itself as “surrogate design editors”.

But then there’s also the aesthetic notion, too.

Australian buildings seem only to get uglier as we keep putting them up — a recent block of ghastly colour vomit and unending curves, the Springvale Community Hub, won the AIA Award for Public Architecture. A skyline full of that? Hooray for consistency; to hell with taste.

The influence of Boyd’s book, The Australian Ugliness, is as much in the Deputy Lord Mayor’s thinking as it is in mine, or Dr Goad’s, or in Spencer’s. And so let’s refer back to the holy book once more. How do we avoid uglification, Boyd asks himself? Not through changing tastes arbitrarily, he says, but ‘by way of cultivating the quality of ideas in design’.

Yet it seems to me that Boyd is pointing not in the direction of panel-driven art, where genuine attempts at beauty and sophistication are quashed for the averaged-out quotient of “expert” taste. Rather, he’s pointing in the direction of the development of a proper sensibility. If true, it would necessitate a greater focus on architectural education, as opposed to an attempt to retrofit decent design onto fundamentally bad ideas, which is more or less the goal of the MDRP. If our “game” is to be lifted, we might consider specifying exactly what “game” we want to lift.

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sense provided the aegis for the MDRP, we are explicitly told its mission: ‘to create a culture where design excellence is an obsession.’ Is this really the reasoning behind the MDRP? It may perhaps be a vestige of the fact that building and development remain the great tectonic force of Melbourne, both financially and otherwise.

‘Design excellence’ can thus be construed as a kind of euphemism, referring not to qualitative measures of aesthetic achievement but rather to a standard that serves to perpetuate a demand for more and more “excellent” buildings. The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) would be licking its lips at the prospect of our construction boom continuing indefinitely — for “excellent” is never quite excellent enough, is it? After all, Melbourne’s “game” can’t be “lifted” with just one nice-looking building.

Never mind the mayoral complexities at play here — and by mayoral complexities, I mean the indismissable truth that during her election campaign in 2019, Lord Mayor Sally Capp – Reece’s senior – famously supported the redevelopment of Federation Square’s Yarra building into an Apple store. The Yarra building, one of the most unique in Melbourne, houses the Koorie Heritage Trust.

But the proposed redevelopment was worth $100 million to the city and Capp, a former executive director of developer lobbying group The Property Council, tilted towards the money.

She won the mayoral election; but the building plans, instantly met with scorn from the court of public opinion, were eventually jettisoned.

Now the CoM is making aesthetic, almost sensory arguments for the establishment of the MDRP. On this point, I am even more certain that the MDRP is ill-begotten. We quite easily forget that architecture, like all art forms, cannot exist on its own; it belongs to a period, a politics and a corresponding aesthetic. And neither can we forget that great architecture, in Melbourne as anywhere else, is a totalising vision, usually of one person, which transcends its period.

The hoary and heralded buildings which make our city special – Shell House, the Majorca Building, Mitchell House, the Nicholas Building, Alkira House, the Manchester Unity Building – are the product of visionaries (Seidler, Norris, Wardrop, Barlow) who exceeded their epochal ‘expectations and processes’.

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So what about the MDRP? “It’s probably a good idea,” McDougall said. “The benefits [of a Review Panel] are fuzzy, but it’s about how you explain them.” McDougall argues that if an MDRP is “designed similarly to the VDRP” then it will be a net benefit for our city.

Dr Philip Goad, Australia’s leading architectural academic and Chair of Architecture at the University of Melbourne, agreed, although with a slight caveat that much depended on the MDRP’s terms of reference and the composition of the panel itself. He also emphasised the need for the CoM to “look at the regulatory environment” in which shoddy highrise buildings were being greenlit.

He directed me to Sydney’s SEPP 65, an apartment design guide that ensures “standards” of design and planning for apartments across the Sydney metro area — a guide which “speculative builders and architects don’t like”.

Yet in light of Reece’s op-ed, one wouldn’t be blamed for suspecting something amiss here, something not quite right. Of course, no one within mere eyeshot of the CBD would dispute the veracity of Reece’s diagnosis. Robin Boyd, Australia’s greatest architect, once described Melbourne’s city plan as “a dressmaker’s floor strewn with snippings of style”.

That was 1960. Boyd would be positively aghast at the coarse mishmash of styles for which our city has since become renowned. So renowned, in fact, that it’s even in the Wikipedia page. But reading his piece, the prospect of yet another review panel couldn’t help but seem, on the face of it, a slight misdirection. I called a friend who had studied architecture at the University of Melbourne to see if my senses were fooling me. “I don’t think so,” he said.

“With these sorts of things, you’re always asking: what are they really?”

What are they really, indeed. What is the MDRP really and why is its job to ‘provide independent, multidisciplinary design advice’ to the City of Melbourne, considering that to this journalist’s knowledge, it has no binding authority?

Why would the City of Melbourne claim great concern with aesthetics, with ‘character, style and sophistication’ and with Melbourne losing its appeal when we know that property in the Hoddle Grid is to them worth $40 million every year, at the very least, in sale and rent revenue?

Reverting to the text of the aforementioned Design Excellence Program, which has in some

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Currently, homelessness and the demand for social housing is expediated by the health, social and economic impacts of COVID. The supply of quality crisis accommodation is essential to alleviating this issue. With the prevalence of these issues and the arrival of the lockdowns, the completion of Wesley Edward Eagar Centre (WEEC) and its safe and dignified accommodation couldn’t have come sooner.

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understood our ethos and have enhanced each space to communicate the value and worth we see in each person. Can a building change the way you feel about yourself? I like to think this one can.”

The upgrade to WEEC responds to the ongoing gentrification of vibrant Surry Hills, whilst celebrating its heritage. The facade design elevates the existing fabric with clearly decipherable yet complementing interventions.

The remediated Heritage Chapel and its brutalist extension above, are in contrast with new lightweight bronze clad elements and glass recesses. The materiality, rhythm and vernacular of these, reference the historic layering of the facades on site.

The cladding is perforated in places to provide light and ventilation to the spaces beyond, whilst providing a feeling of enclosure and safety.

The 1847 neo-classical façade and entry sandstone colonnade is activated by a contemporary landscape design. The spotted gum and steel seating, both compliments yet is clearly distinct from the heritage fabric.

Lush natives and drought resistant planting reflect the bustling, green Bourke Street the centre sits among.

The spacious vaulted chapel is broken down by timber, metalwork and glass interventions that create moments of respite, and informal and formal social spaces. The placement and language of these insertions reference the heritage façade, maximise daylight, and improve vision across the space. An incision of glazing opens the ground floor to the laneway behind, bringing in light and air, but providing sense of enclosure with the overlay of a perforated bronze screen.

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Wesley Mission is leading the way in a renewed consciousness of the dignity of persons impacted by homelessness. Thus, equality in design and the deinstitutionalisation of social housing is paramount in the renewal of the Wesley Edward Eagar Centre.

The core principles of the WEEC are Home and Place: creating a sense of belonging for the most vulnerable in Surry Hills. To reflect these principles, the refurbishment prioritised the dignity, comfort and wellbeing of its guests, placing these at the forefront of the design; from the upgrade of the heritage chapel and support service rooms within, to the internal refurbishment of guest rooms and new communal amenities. Wesley Mission CEO and Superintendent, Rev Stu Cameron, captures this stating, “I see care and commitment communicated through every detail of our refurbished centre. Scott Carver very quickly

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“I feel humbled to have helped remove some of this fear by creating an open and welcoming place”

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I like to think this one can.”

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“If they can feel their shoulders relax and their eyes raised and their spirits lifted, then we are off to a good start,” says Rob Seaton, the operations manager of Wesley Mission’s homeless services.

The upper guest levels house 40 larger reconfigured rooms, with increased light and ventilation. Each of these rooms have now been provided with an ensuite; to create sense of ownership, improve dignity and to promote guest safety. Colour and texture is used to generate a soft, calming, homely space of residential character. Safety has played an important role in the details, from fixtures to furniture design. These furnishings create a place for also maintaining identity, where one can collect objects/interests and accumulate being; a home.

A new lift, communal kitchenette, laundry and lounge is included on each of the guest levels to promote responsibility, social interaction, and ultimately rehabilitation.

Durable yet homely finishes are used, such as LVT flooring, composite stone benches and commercial grade bespoke furniture.

The staff offices and break spaces on level 6 are opened to the refurbished garden terraces.

These are calming spaces of retreat for clients and staff. A client herb garden is included along with planting and furniture to create a place of retreat for residents away from the bustle of Surry Hills. The result is a balance of community interaction and quiet relaxation.

Here the perforated bronze screens provide safety, air and ventilation to the terrace, whilst providing a visual connection to the city beyond.

Rodney Paesler, Managing Director of Scott Carver says “it is so easy to under appreciate the vulnerability invoked by homelessness, and so I feel humbled to have helped remove some of this fear by creating an open and welcoming place in the refreshed WEEC. The simplest way to remove the stigma of not having a home, is to have one. Wesley allowed our design for their guests to feel every bit as their home, removing all notions of a transient institution.”

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Fibro shacks are synonymous with the Australian coastline, but what happens when they reach senility?

You recruit an architect.

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Bones House derives its name from the fibro cartilage that the contemporary timber additions wrap around like muscle and skin. Much of the house’s original footprint has been reused, in an attempt to maintain character.

The client’s brief called for a refined home with a highly detailed application of material, while holding a warm aesthetic. Shepherd set to work on devising a home with an earthy palette that channels the seaside intentions of the iconic fibro shack.

Bones House is more renovation than replacement. Half of the original dwelling’s roof has been retained and repurposed to create a raked roof. The high ceilings allowed Shepherd to utilise highlight glazing, thus improving the house’s ventilation.

The open-plan kitchen and dining area serves as the heart of the home, which spills out onto a deck. The interior and exterior spaces are divided by bifold doors, that do away with the feeling of disconnection a wall would if sat between the spaces. This ensures that guests are entertained in an area that moves outside, that doesn’t feel disjointed. The emphasis of timber in both spaces also ensures the transition between inside and outside is seamless.

Timber is the defining feature of Bones House. The material is utilised on the ceiling and floors, as doors and as storage. Citing adaptive reuse techniques, Shepherd recycled elements of the roof to utilise timber that was already onsite. Cavity masonry walls control the home’s climate all year round, and are purposely exposed to further the robust textures already seen within the home.

Giving a humble fibro cottage a new lease on life, Lachlan Shepherd Architects created a home that connects to its landscape via its textural palette and living spaces.

The timber-laden home is comfortable and contemporary, while still remaining able to channel it’s previous existence.

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Although choosing products made from renewable or recycled materials is a critical component of sustainable design, it’s also not the only requirement to consider. Truly sustainable products will also focus on designing out waste and pollution during production with a greater emphasis on durability, reuse, remanufacturing and recycling to keep products, components and materials in circulation for as long as possible.

Specifying products for sustainable landscape projects also involves preferring locally designed and made building solutions. This, in turn, benefits the communities in which we live as we support those individuals and their families.

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The Australian construction industry is among the country’s biggest contributors to waste and emissions. Between 2016-17, 6.7 megatonnes (MT) of construction and demolition waste went into landfills which is almost a third of the total waste deposited in landfills during this period across ALL industries.

This ‘take-make-waste’ approach has implications for the future of our planet. Earth is a finite resource – the more natural resources we extract and the more waste we generate, the closer we get to an environmental disaster.

To avoid such an event there is a need for a far-reaching transformation in how we approach the built environment to create a more sustainable future.

Councils, Landscape Architects and Designers are well placed to make a considerable positive impact on the Australian construction industry. After all, they are responsible for the parks, green spaces and community areas which are the very thing at risk if we continue extracting, consuming and discarding resources at our current pace.

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Perched in the treetops of Mt Archer, the Treetop Boardwalk and park revitalization conducted by Rockhampton Regional Council and Design+Architecture has ensured that the picturesque mountain-top doesn’t go astray. Capitalising on the location, a local council’s vision has turned a beautiful natural landscape into a go-to picnic, event and tourist locale.

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The project’s key deliverables include the construction of a new outdoor amphitheatre and elevated boardwalk, as well as a playground for children and picnic facilities for those who want to revel in the park’s views.

The 200-seat amphitheatre plays host to a view of Rockhampton and the Fitzroy River, enabling the community to host weddings, fitness classes and local concerts.

The revitalisation of Mt Archer has resulted in an array of tourists utilising the amenity on offer. Social media has drawn plenty of visitors to the site from afar, boosting tourism numbers and justifying the revitalisation program. Public accessibility and sustainability were also crucial components of the design in order to ensure the space would provide spectacular, disability-accessible views with minimal impact on the natural environment.

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sandstone retaining walls that follow Mt Archer’s existing natural contours and negated the need for any local flora to be removed.

Universal design principles are on show with the elevated boardwalk, that is wheelchair-friendly and non-obtrusive, allowing all visitors to fully immerse themselves within the landscape. The existing terrain has remained intact, with the boardwalk only touching the slope when needed. It weaves through the trees like the Mundagara or Rainbow Serpent (Fitzroy River), that lies at the bottom of the mountain.

The boardwalk offers a range of experiences in each section. Various lookouts and informal gathering spaces provide opportunities where locals and tourists can explore, learn and connect with nature and share the many stories of the local region.

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Allowing all visitors to fully immerse themselves within the landscape.

The materials have been thoughtfully curated in order to minimise the risk of fire and to increase sustainability and longevity. Concrete was used for the footings, galvanized steel for the balustrades and structure and native ironbark timber for the boardwalk and handrails. To honour the traditional custodians of the land, local indigenous Darumbal art is gently weaved into parts of the balustrading, edged on aluminium and stainless steel.

To complement the amphitheatre and boardwalk, a play-based park featuring a range of natural, indigenous inspired play equipment and abundant outdoor seating were also installed, making Fraser Park a true family-friendly destination. A network of inter-connecting concrete walkways provides easy, disability-accessible access to all features of the park including a new, sustainable amenities block, welcome area, and car park facilities. The Rockhampton Regional Council and Design+Architecture have devised a space where tourists can properly take in the surrounding views, while adding infrastructure that allows for an increase in community events that are a drawcard for local residents and tourists from surrounding areas.

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information about the different door sizes and types that are specified for a project.

Door scheduling involves complicated nomenclature that requires specialist knowledge to fully grasp. Miscommunication or conflicting requirements make it difficult to specify the right door systems, which can lead to delays in installation, hardware defects, and change orders. There is also the reputational cost associated with these outcomes.

Poor document management almost always leads to costly variations. When door scheduling is done, traditional practice involves the design team extracting all the door and frame parameters out of Revit or ArchiCAD and into Excel. When this occurs, any changes to door or opening solutions become harder to manage as the document becomes static.

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is transportable. With a 16sqm footprint, the ‘pod’ features an ensuite, small kitchen, porch area and ample storage space.

Timber is the defining material of the pod, with recycled plywood a cost-effective material that is durable and high performing. All pods are carbon neutral, ensuring they are a sustainable entity that will make them an even more appealing asset to combat homelessness.

Built by Oxygen Building group, the prototype pod cost approximately $80,000 to complete.

Forage Built is aiming to reduce building costs to $50,000 to ensure affordability for those in dire financial conditions.

Forage Built’s homelessness solution is centred around community, with the homes to exist in a larger village. Villages will play host to a larger pod for onsite case or social workers, as well as a larger communal pod in the centre of the site that will consist of a kitchen and laundry, with space for events and skill-based workshops.

All of these features enhance the feeling of community and provide seamless transition to permanent housing and the workforce.

Dormant car parks and vacant lots awaiting development are spaces where a village can be established on a temporary basis, and then can be relocated to another block when required due to their modular design.

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Designed by Forage Built, the prototype is a response to the lack of affordable housing for those that experience homelessness in South Australia.

The design brief was formulated by the Forage Built project team. Upon surveying the brief, Andrew Steele recognised the document required more rigor to respond with a balance of evidence and innovation.

The team undertook an extensive consultation and survey process, speaking to the intended end-users to decode the brief and truly understand how they would best use the space in order to create a space that serves the needs of those using it in future.

The concept of The Calyx 16 prototype stems from the idea of a protective layer around a flower bud, witnessed with the white-painted timber facade that wraps the building. Drawing on Studio Nine’s specialist sector experience in small lot housing and contemporary principles, Steele focused on minimising circulation space, maximising light penetration and improving cross ventilation within the singular pods, ensuring spaces are multi-use and adaptable for changing needs, whilst also ensuring the decisions made referred back to the team’s commitment towards biophilic design.

A suitable alternative to motels and share houses that are stereotypical solutions for homelessness, the Calyx Project centres around personal space. Designed by Andrew Steele, the Calyx-16 is a single occupant dwelling that

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One of the most obvious sources of water use in any build is bathroom and kitchen taps.

These fixtures are an important part of daily life, facilitating activities such as cleaning, cooking and drinking. Therefore, it makes sense that fitting builds with smart, waterconserving taps can make a huge difference in the sustainability of the build.

One such example is Waterlogic’s Billi water systems, which provide under bench instant boiling, chilled, sparkling and still filtered water. Other features include water-cooled technology, space-saving underbench footprints, specialty dispensers and models that do not require cupboard ventilation cut outs or grilles. According to Waterlogic, this makes the units easy to install, energy-efficient and suitable for use in small and medium commercial businesses as well as residential applications.

Key benefits include patented Firewall UVC technology that is proven to be 99.99 percent effective against COVID-19; BioCote antimicrobial protection that restricts the growth of bacteria and mould around the dispensing area; and high-performance filters that remove contaminants that can cause unpleasant tastes and smells.

Use of these products can be seen in Ramsay Health Care’s Hollywood Private Hospital, with a total of 81 fit for purpose water dispensers used in the build. The dispensers were a key part of Ramsay Health Care’s newly implemented sustainability strategy, which focuses heavily on the reduction of single-use plastics such as water bottles. Indeed, in the first two months of the new strategy Ramsay was able to eliminate the use of 5.5 million plastic items which would have ended up in landfill.

Speaking of sustainable tapware, the Autoflo Pillar standard is another good option if you are looking for a hygienic sensor tap solution.

Activated when a user places their hands in front of the sensor, the Pillar Standard has a number of other smart features, including a 72-hour automatic flush after last use (removing the possibility of stagnant water), economical power consumption and constant self-monitoring of power when operating on battery mode.

According to the company, sensor taps can reduce water usage by up to 60 percent. This is because sensor taps prevent users from leaving water running when soaping their hands or washing their face, or spending time setting the water temperature to a particular level.

This will soon be seen in practice at JCU’s new student accommodation project in Townsville.

Designed by Nettleton Tribe, the build (which is expected to open in 2022) includes around 76 Pillar Standard taps in the public bathroom areas.

The taps were chosen due to their numerous sustainable features, including a WELS 6 star rating that will help contribute to the project’s targeted LEED Gold Sustainability Rating.

Another interesting tapware option is Geberit’s HyTronic Sensor Tap, an electronic touchless tap that operates with self-sustaining power.

The taps use a small generator, making them independent from mains power or battery power.

Essentially, whenever the tap is in use, the flowing water charges the accumulator through a hydroelectric turbine which produces electricity to ensure the tap is operational at all times.

According to Geberit, the ecological impact of these taps is 50 percent less than batteryoperated taps and 80 percent less than taps with an electrical connection. They are also easy to install in a standard bathroom as no power point is required, with the added benefit of reducing costs, saving power and eliminating the need to change flat batteries.

It is also worth noting that the HyTronic Sensor Taps were used in the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 1.6 million square metre district will be home to 34 high-rise complexes, and is the largest mixed-use financial district in the world to achieve LEED Platinum certification. The sensor taps (along with the rest of Geberit’s bathroom products) contributed 10 points towards the LEED certification for this project, according to the company.

Finally, if you are looking for sustainable tapware with a particular focus on water purity, Galvin Engineering has a range of smart products designed to ensure no or very little (less than 0.25 percent) lead is leaching into the water supply. The range also includes battery-operated smart control options, which allow for retrofit application into remote installations without the need for power supply.

Some of Galvin’s water solutions can be seen in use at the Cox Architecture-designed Optus Stadium in Perth. For example, to meet the project’s challenging water usage limit, Galvin developed and installed a sequential urinal flushing system with hygienic hands-free activation. Addressing health concerns around lead content in water, Galvin’s R&D team also produced electronic lead-safe drinking bubblers that meet the venue’s water conservation goals while ensuring the delivery of safe drinking water.

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DRAINAGE GRATES When it comes to water management in a build, the products you specify for the outside are just as important as the products inside. Drainage grates, for example, can play a very important role in managing waste and stormwater.

One good solution is the NeXTGeneration 26 Midnight Grate from Lauxes Grates. Designed for indoor and outdoor applications, this 26mm deep grate is made from durable corrosion free and rust-proof aluminium, and is available in a UV stabilised matte midnight black.

The grate effectively contains and controls wastewater, while enabling safe and efficient water usage. One key benefit is that it requires only a one-directional slope on the floor, which means it can run the entire length of a shower, driveway, pool or other water exposed area.

Lightweight and malleable, the product also offers on-site customisation and quick in-ground installation, making it a convenient choice for a wide range of projects.

For a solution more geared towards urban spaces, Weldlok’s civil grating is a suitable option. According to the company, the drainage grates are designed for compatibility with precast structures and to ensure safe access and serviceability for teams in the field.

“The newly developed proprietary removable hinged design of the Weldlok Pit Grate range allows access for service and can be bolted down for security. Grating patterns are interchangeable with this design, so should needs change over the project development, tops can be easily replaced, eliminating the costly impact of replacing the entire system,” says Brent Frampton, Civil Specialist at Nepean Building and Infrastructure.

Weldlok also has a range of access covers and grates certified to AS3996-2019 by SAI Global, as well as appraisal by the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) for its Ductile products.

“Many LGAs have already approved the Weldlok Ductile range for use, easing the burden of planning,” adds Frampton.

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Just as much as taps are a key part of everyday life, so are our appliances. Choosing smart, sustainable appliances can be an effortless way to help occupants save energy, water and in turn, money. Washing machines, for example, are an appliance that has the potential to be water and energy-intensive if the product itself is inefficient or used on the wrong settings.

To avoid this, one good option is Electrolux’s 10kg front load washer, AutoDose system, which is Wi-Fi enabled with a 5 star energy and 45 star WELS rating. Designed to clean clothes at 30 degrees in less than an hour, this product uses UltraMix technology to ensure that washing clothes at 30 degrees is as effective as washing them at 40 degrees. This helps to preserve colours longer while using energy more efficiently. The washer also uses Vapour Refresh technology to quickly refresh and iron out clothes. According to the company, this saves on water consumption, extends the life of the clothes and reduces overall environmental impact.

Outside of the build, if you are working on a project where water tanks are involved, one thing you may also want to consider is a smart tank monitoring solution. One suitable example is Kingspan’s Smart Tank Sensor, which uses smart technology paired with the Telstra 4G network to manage and monitor water tanks remotely from anywhere, at any time.

Essentially, the product is able to provide an estimate of how many days of water usage is left in the tank based on average water usage. This data is tracked over one month, three months and a year, with all data available for remote access 24/7 on the Smart Tank app. And perhaps one of the best features of this product is its compatibility with all water tanks – not just Kingspan tanks.

According to Kingspan, this solution is ideal for councils who need to manage water levels in their LGA. Specifically, councils are able to determine how much water comes in and goes out, the amount of water the tank saves during a rainfall event and how much stormwater is prevented from entering the drainage system within their LGA.

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In general, this solution makes it easy for councils to understand the data and access reporting to help meet their smart cities sustainability goals.

Finally, it is worth mentioning a solution geared towards more challenging builds. An interesting example is the use of Saniflo’s Sanicom2 commercial grey water lifting station in a timber commercial building. In this case, the objective was to provide plumbing for coffee bars and kitchenettes on each level of the multi-storey building. The problem however, was that core drilling could compromise or degrade the integrity of the timber structure.

The brief stated that each floor was to be

designed to accommodate the individual client’s preferred kitchen location. As these were leased spaces, the various businesses operating in these spaces all had different amenity requirements. Therefore, it was not possible to use traditional plumbing to achieve each of the desired wet areas due to the building’s limited core drilling capacity.

According to Saniflo, Sanicom2 was able to achieve the desired wet areas, with the added benefit of design flexibility and cost savings for the client. The result is an architecturally impressive and functional multi-storey timber building complete with all the desired amenities.

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OPPOSITE Sustainability is particularly relevant to the architectural and construction sectors.

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Bluescope’s Colorbond Coolmax steel is a tailored roofing product designed to provide and maintain high solar reflectance. Available in a single colour, known as ‘Whitehaven’, Colorbond Coolmax is designed to reduce roofing temperatures, and in so doing, improve the overall thermal efficiency of the buildings on which it is used.

Manufactured locally and compliant with all relevant Australian Standards, the product is the result of real-world exposure testing and accelerated laboratory testing at sites in Australia. As a result, it has achieved a Nominal Solar Reflectance value of 0.77, a Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) of 95, and a three-year-aged SRI of 92.

To put that into context, a Nominal Solar Reflectance value of 0.77 means that the product in question reflects 77 percent of the sun’s heat. In other words, Colorbond Coolmax steel is an ideal product for those seeking to maximise thermal efficiency and mitigate the impact of Urban Heat Islands (urban areas that, of the nature of the built environment, become significantly warmer than surrounding undeveloped areas).

Windows are another important part of the thermal efficiency equation. However, while most tend to think immediately of glazing when windows are mentioned in this context, glazing is not the whole story. The most energy efficient windows feature quality glass, as well as insulated frames.

Because aluminium is an excellent conductor of heat, standard aluminium frames are not an energy efficient option. Broken aluminium frames – which include a reinforced polyamide strip that is fixed between the inside and outside aluminium profiles and creates an insulated barrier within the frame – are a better option.

The Thermaframe range of thermally broken windows and doors from Alspec, a market leader in the design and distribution of aluminium systems, is a good example.

Specified along with quality glazing, products from the range can reduce heat flow by up to 35 percent. But that is not their only benefit.

Apart from reducing energy consumption, they also carry low levels of embodied energy. They reduce condensation, deliver a high ROI, and future proof real estate assets.

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waste products associated with manufacturing, species loss, and more. With all of this in mind, here is a broad selection of the latest sustainable building products and their suppliers.

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Around the world, things are slowly changing.

Vaccinations rates are rising, there’s light at the end of the lockdown tunnel, and we are starting to think about a ‘new normal’ future.

Meanwhile, however, that other great global crisis – climate change – has not gone away. While COVID-19 has taken centre stage for the past 18 months or so, things like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent report have occasionally (and dramatically) returned our attention to climate.

Sustainability is particularly relevant to the architectural and construction sectors.

As the EU Energy Commission has noted, when the global construction and materials manufacturing industries are considered from a demand side perspective, they together account for largest human contribution to global net CO₂ emissions.

The built environment, in other words, is a huge part of the problem. And Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD) is the solution.

Put simply, specifiers need to reduce energy consumption. Naturally this involves employing things like thermal efficiency, but importantly, it also involves understanding the concept of ‘embodied carbon’ – i.e., all the carbon emissions associated with a product, including those linked to extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, transport and so forth.

Of course, climate isn’t the only environmental issue. ESD must also address broader concerns, such as deforestation, the use of toxic chemicals,

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SOLATUBE AUSTRALIA Solatube Australia’s Integrated LED Light Kit allows the integration of natural and electric light from a single fixture. The product works by harnessing the sun’s natural light during the day and providing energy-efficient LED lighting at night.

The lighting system includes a dimming option that can be paired with manual and automated dimming controls, which is perfect for offices and schools where lighting control and comfort is important.

The commercial Integrated LED Light Kit was developed in response to the demand for technology that would provide optimal lighting and energy savings. It’s an intelligent fusion of natural light and LED lighting that makes for a clean ceiling design.

The kit’s tubular daylighting devices (TDD) harvest daylight at the rooftop, transfers it down a highly reflective tube and distributes it evenly into an interior space through a diffuser at the ceiling – on both sunny and cloudy days – with virtually no commissioning or maintenance required.

While energy efficiency and cost savings are one thing, the Integrated LED Light Kit also delivers in terms of functionality. According to the company, the TDD provides the highest Light Transfer Efficiency (LTE), the most consistent colour Temperature Maintenance (CTM) and the best light-to-solar heat gain ratio of any daylighting system on the market.

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Ecopact is a low carbon concrete available from Holcim, a supplier of aggregates, readymix concrete, concrete pipes, and associated products. Even though it matches – or even outdoes – conventional concrete products in terms of performance, Ecopact uses fewer natural resources and includes less embodied carbon than those products.

This is possible because its manufacture involves replacing some standard cement with industrial by-products like fly ash, blast furnace slag, and silica fume. Available in a variety of strength classes, Ecopact can reduce embodied carbon by 30 – 60 percent, compared to the Australian National Life Cycle Inventory Database base case. Compliant with industry standards, Ecopact can be handled, pumped, and finished in the same way as conventional concrete. The type and strength of the product required depends on the specific application.

Importantly, Ecopact is the first low carbon concrete brand to be backed by a third party verified Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), which means that the embodied carbon reduction figures quoted by the company have been independently validated.

For those wishing to go even further in the cause of sustainability, Holcim now provides the opportunity to offset any remaining embodied carbon from its ready-mix concrete.

Known as Ecopact Zero, this provides full offsetting of cradle-to-gate carbon emissions through environmental projects that are certified by the Australian Government’s Climate Active program.

TARKETT AUSTRALIA A sustainable flooring solution, which has been manufactured according to the same formula since 1898, Tarkett linoleum combines natural beauty with comfort and durability. It is made from 94 percent natural raw materials and is available across a range of traditional marbled patterns and colours. Treated with the company’s xf² surface protection it can be relied upon for its durability, easy cleaning, and cost-effective maintenance.

With a focus on all stages of the product lifecycle, Tarkett is committed to sustainable production and the transition to a circular economy business model. As such, its linoleum flooring is not only fully recyclable but also the

first product of its kind, anywhere in the world, to have received Cradle to Cradle certification.

Further initiatives at its plant in Narni, Italy include an ambition to achieve net zero emissions, the use of heat exchangers that recover and reuse heat from ovens, and the installation of both a biomass boiler that produces hot water to heat the ovens and a closed-loop water recirculated industrial water system. On top of that, the plant produces 34 percent of the energy it uses on site and recycles 1,600 tonnes of materials recycled annually.

HOUSE OF BAMBOO Suitable for the construction of battens, slatted privacy screens, flooring, decking, cladding, benchtops, acoustic panels, shelves, steps, railing, partitioning, planters, feature walls and more, engineered bamboo delivers the look and feel of timber, but far outscores that more traditional material in terms of environmental friendliness.

Completely biodegradable, engineered bamboo offers greater tensile strength than concrete and oak but is lighter than maple.

On top of that, it absorbs four times the carbon and produces 35 percent more oxygen than trees. And, while forest products require trees to mature over a period of 25 - 80 years before they can be harvested, short harvest cycle bamboo is normally ready for harvest in just 5 - 7 years.

A simple grass plant, renewable harvest bamboo naturally regenerates itself after harvesting, is resistant to termites, and has a complex root system that helps prevent soil erosion and inhibit flooding.

Those sourcing engineered timber products from House of Bamboo can do so in the knowledge that it is the only Australian supplier to have achieved both Greentag Level A certification and the Platinum Healthrate. This means that their products rate well not only in terms of sustainability but also in terms of non-toxicity.

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Available from Futurewood, Enviroslat is a composite timber building material typically used for decking, screening, and cladding applications. Made from up to 90 percent recycled materials (namely HDPE/PP plastic, wood flour from sawdust, and rice husks), outdoor products carrying the Enviroslat branding require far less maintenance than timber products, do not require painting, and have no need for any other chemical finishes or coatings.

EnviroSlat is rot proof and termite resistant.

A Long life, pre-coloured material, it will not cup or crack, and is UV stable. Tested to suit Australian conditions, it represents a reliable, sustainable alternative to traditional timber products.

common rooms and staff rooms in schools; and for cafés and dining areas.

Employing an adhesive-free installation method, it can be welded and walked upon on the same day, and at the end of its life can be removed easily, allowing it to be reused or recycled. As such, it is ideal for busy public s paces where disruption needs to be minimal, plus there are no associated adhesive odours.

Altro Flooring and Walling manufactures and recycles its traditional safety flooring inhouse. On top of that, the product meets low VOC guidelines and does not contain phthalates.

Made with bio-plasticizers, it is 100% recyclable post-installation and can be lifted and reused after initial installation. Installed using a tape system instead of adhesive, it is available with EPD, HPD declarations from the company.

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With twelve colour choices, 14dB sound reduction, and excellent slip-resistance, Altro Wood adhesive-free is a safe, durable, decorative, and sustainable flooring solution for busy spaces. in terms of applications, it is recommended for bedrooms and ensuites in care homes and hotels; as an alternative to LVTs in student accommodation; for

Considering that leaks account for a significant percentage of total water consumption, particularly in commercial buildings, it follows that preventing leaks and using technology and data driven insight to drive efficiencies represent the next frontier in water sustainability.

Born out of a desire to monitor and improve sustainability, user experience, and maintenance

regimes, Caroma Smart Command is an eco-system of Bluetooth enabled bathroom fixtures which relay water consumption, leak detection, behavioural trends and more in near real-time to the Caroma Smart Command Cloud and/or a building management system (BMS).

More an amalgamation of fixtures than a single product, the Caroma Smart Command eco-system consists of touchless tapware, touchless toilet flush panels, automated urinal flush valves, an intelligent touch-screen shower interface, and leak detection and prevention valves.

Overseeing these various fixtures, the Caroma Smart Command Cloud (the only device of its kind on the market) collates all data points, provides access to insightful reports, and enables proactive management of bathroom fixtures.

Caroma Smart Command Eco Valves learn building consumption patterns and warn of potential minor leaks; and also alert and isolate supply when major leaks are detected.

On top of that, by tracking hand washing activations, Caroma Smart Command can allow targeted preventative maintenance to prolong the life of fixtures and reduce emergency call outs. The data generated by fixtures can also help inform cleaning cycles and efficiencies.

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Exclusive from Network Architectural, ALPOLIC™ NC is a fully compliant range of non-combustible external facade materials suitable for use both internally and externally wherever non-combustible materials are required. It also comes with a 20-year Full Rectification Warranty backed by a globally-trusted manufacturer in Mitsubishi Chemical Infratec Co Ltd. It is characterised by high rigidity, light weight, excellent flatness, and being easy to cut and fabricate. Not only high performing, ALPOLIC™ NC panels are recyclable and environmentally-friendly, which are facts supported in its EPD. The EPD supports the sustainability of the product from the cradle to the factory sector, and allows industry professionals to use ALPOLIC™ NC as an important basis in the sustainability assessment of buildings.

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environmental impacts are considered, including carbon footprint, air, water and soil pollution, and resource depletion. Product performance, the company’s management system and other environmental certifications are also included.

The EPD should be a key requirement for specifying external facade products for all projects (re-clads and new builds) that are concerned in any way about the environment.

All EPDs registered with EPD Australasia, who are responsible for the development and communication of EPDs in Australia and New Zealand, are independently verified to ISO 14025, a relevant Product Category Rule (PCR) and the General Programme Instructions. For building products, the PCR is based on EN 15804 “Sustainability of Construction Works”.

All stakeholders benefit when a building product’s sustainability claims are validated against objective and transparent criteria.

With the range of cladding products on the market, it simplifies the process of making informed and direct comparisons among similar products. It also explains important aspects of production, distribution, usage and end-of-life options.

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As the global consumption of natural resources grows at an alarming pace, the specification of environmentally-responsible building products has become a “must have” rather than a “nice to have”. Architects, designers and specifiers can take action by choosing manufacturers that reduce the environmental impact of their products across the entire product lifecycle without sacrificing form, function or performance.

This is why using cladding products with Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) is becoming more common. Cladding materials like aluminium composite are often touted for their eco-friendliness, but only products with EPDs have sustainability claims backed up by independently-verified environmental data.

Mitsubishi ALPOLIC™ NC joins the ranks of such products, with its EPD produced by Good Environmental Choice Australia (GECA) in August 2021.

An EPD is an independently verified and registered document that communicates transparent comparable data and relevant environmental information about the lifecycle environmental impact of a product. Multiple

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to the garden, with a study and guest room on the ground floor as well as a double garage with storage. It also features a covered alfresco dining area plus a drying deck. Internal ramps join the living area and the garage with an internal lift to the first floor. Upstairs features a master suite plus two additional large double bedrooms, a TV and living room and a common bathroom and ensuite.

When it came to designing the roof for this Passive House project, Niall chose to work with Australian manufacturer Bondor for their SolarSpan product. SolarSpan is a long span residential insulated roof panel system that combines Colorbond steel roofing, Expanded Polystyrene with Fire Retardant insulation and a pre-painted ceiling in one. Healaithe says SolarSpan was selected for several reasons.

“The owners wanted to achieve a sleek roofline with classic overhanging eaves and being a long span roofing system SolarSpan allowed the creation of free-floating eaves without additional structure required”.

“SolarSpan was able to provide a lot of insulation in a very thin roof profile, achieving a R5.15 value over conventional roofing systems with R values of 4”.

Healaithe says a bonus was that the lightweight panels were very easy to install within a few hours of being delivered on site.

Once the crane had lifted the panels, two people could easily manoeuvre them and fix them into position without the need for additional steel and beams, additional flashings, cladding and fascia boards.

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“Passive Houses maintain very stable and predictable temperatures inside without large fluctuations all year round. Typically, temperatures never get below 18 degrees or above 25 degrees Celsius, and there is no difference in temperatures between rooms”.

According to Healaithe, it’s much easier to go ‘off grid’ with a Passive House, as they don’t have high running costs or energy needs, making them easier to achieve self-sufficiency.

“Solar panels and batteries can be installed so that the home can go off grid and operate as normal, which is attractive with climate change and energy uncertainty,” he says.

“The double and triple-glazed windows make Passive Houses much quieter. The occupants don’t hear the neighbours, noisy animals or traffic noise,” he adds.

Niall works exclusively on Passive House projects and acknowledges that while the homes he designs are constructed to meet all Passive House standards, some clients will opt not to independently certify as it is an additional $3000 to $4000 expense to the home post completion.

Healaithe is currently working on a Passive House project in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. The original design was commissioned while he was working at Third Skin Architects and the owners continued with Healaithe when he started his own firm, Sunpath Architecture.

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A Passive House has an airtight building envelope that is very well insulated, helping to regulate the internal temperature without relying on artificial heating or cooling. Instead, these homes are warmed from passive sources such as the sun, the heat emitted by occupants, or warmth given off by household appliances.

According to the Australian Passive House Association, Passive Houses follow five key design principles: airtightness, thermal insulation, mechanical ventilation heat recovery, high performance windows and no thermal bridges.

While more popular in Europe, the Passive House standard is starting to gain more traction in the Australian market. It comes as people are more interested in how to make their new builds as energy efficient as possible while maintaining indoor comfort and wellbeing.

Product Manager at green energy company Stiebel Eltron, Steffen Reich, says they have noticed a growing awareness of Passive Houses, particularly amongst second or third home buyers.

“The motivation ranges from doing the right thing for the environment to saving significantly on heating and cooling your home,” he says.

Certified Passive House Architect and Director of Sunpath Architecture, Niall O Healaithe, says Passive House living has many advantages.

“Passive Houses are healthier homes, as they are close to airtight and only use filtered air,” he says.

“The air quality inside the home is higher as the mechanical ventilation system eliminates pollutants like traffic fumes, smoke and pollen.”

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When it comes to sustainable builds, the Passive House model is a great way to achieve maximum energy efficiency.

The concept of a Passive House first emerged 30 years ago in Germany, and the standard means these homes are able to consume up to 90% less energy than the average home.

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“In one operation with Solarspan we provide the combined structure, roof and insulation and it is instantly weathertight and ready for airtight sealing,” he says.

The insulation the SolarSpan panels provide is complete, in that there are no gaps between joists, providing a fully insulated roof surface and taping the joint underneath, with no ceiling required. It is also a hard wearing and low maintenance product featuring Colorbond steel.

Light coloured roofing materials absorb less solar radiation, keeping cooler in hotter months than darker coloured roofing material.

SolarSpan offers a selection of light colours to ensure that the high performing expanded polystyrene core provides efficient, long-lasting insulation and comfort.

“When used in combination with Passive House design, SolarSpan is a highly energy efficient and durable addition to achieving Passive House design principles and performance criteria,” Healaithe says.

Another incredibly important element of Passive House design is eliminating any

thermal bridges to reduce the building’s energy footprint. Rigid XPS board, such as Styroboard XPS by Foamex is one such product that provides continuous insulation for the home’s exterior and under slab.

“Styroboard XPS is made from extruded polystyrene which has incredible air resilience, and is virtually impervious to water, so it doesn’t seal in water that can occur through condensation,” Justin Kelsey, General Manager of The Foamex Group says.

“Materials used to create a thermal barrier that don’t have these inherent product features can lead to issues with mould, mildew and rotting wood down the track,” he said.

Another key design principle for Passive Houses is airtightness. Creating an air-tight building means there are absolutely no gaps in the exterior shell of the building.

“One of the most important areas to insulate during construction is the perimeter slab edge of a building,” Kelsey says.

“Slab edge can be responsible for approximately 80% of the slab’s total heat loss. When there is

no insulation on the perimeter foundations, most of the heat is conducted along the slab and out through the exterior face of the footing. Insulating slab edges is paramount to the design of a building trying to achieve passive credentials”.

Justin said Styroboard XPS from Foamex is an ideal material for slab edge insulation.

“Extruded polystyrene (XPS) is a rigid insulation that is formed with polystyrene polymer but manufactured using an extrusion process. This rigid foam provides a strong, yet lightweight and flexible insulation solution which is resistant to water absorption, making it a long term, sustainable solution to reducing slab edge heat loss,” he says.

When they launched into the Australian market, MAXRaft used Styroboard XPS and Styroboard EPS to achieve their first Australian Passive House project, the Leongatha CLT House among the vineyards of Gippsland, Victoria, designed and built by Aphi Projects.

The thermal efficient design of the home utilised the insulation qualities of Foamex’s Styroboard XPS and Styroboard XPS products.

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Another very important principle of Passive House design is choosing the most energy efficient doors and windows which will allow the sun to warm the interior in winter and minimise it in warmer months. The windows generally need to be airtight and double or triple glazed.

According to Andre Griffs, Head of Design and Architectural Sales at BINQ, timber doors and windows are a great choice for Passive Houses because they can achieve high energy efficiency while also looking fantastic. Griffs noted, however, that since air leakage is a major factor in Passive House efficiency, not only is the material important, but the design and manufacture of the doors and windows is also critical.

“BINQ’s Archetto range of doors and windows have been formally tested by a NATA approved test lab and have achieved results that exceed the Passive House requirements,” he says.

BINQ has been collaborating with one of Melbourne’s leading Passive House builders, G-LUX Builders, on a project known as the Panel House in Warrandyte. When complete, the project will be a certified Passive House.

The Panel House has BINQ triple glazed blackbutt windows installed as they meet the PH standards for their Passive House while also being suitable for the site’s bushfire rating BAL29.

Mass timber glulam panels were used for the floor structure to enable long structural spans and limit the amount of steel in the structure.

Meanwhile, Structurally Insulated Panels were used for the wall and roof structure. These panels are great for speed, insulation and airtightness.

The home has a 20kw Solar PV system which will be set up for battery connection.

The owners chose to use Envirocrete from Boral, an environmentally friendly concrete mix that uses 40% less Portland cement and recycled water and sand. They also chose wood fibre insulation which is the highest performing insulation available as well as 30,000 litre rainwater tanks under the house and a highly efficient heat pump hot water system.

A Zehnder Q350 Heat Recovery Ventilation System will provide filtered fresh air while the Zypho drain water will provide the heat recovery, reducing the energy demand required to heat the water for showers.

The VRL-C heat recovery ventilation system ensures fresh and healthy air. Easy to install and ideal for retrofits, the unit purifies the air and reduces aerosol concentration — reducing fatigue, headaches, dry throat and eyes, asthma and most importantly, the risk of infections.

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The home will be complete with a green roof and wall and a freshwater mineral pool. On top of this, a circadian lighting system will provide automatic lighting that depletes blue light at night, encouraging higher levels of melatonin for bedtime.

Steffen Reich from Stiebel Eltron said mechanical ventilation heat recovery (MVHR) is a game-changer in household energy efficiency.

“Combined with the fabric conscious build and a necessary degree of airtightness, heat recovery ventilation can bring the energy requirements of a home down to near zero,” he says.

“With a high level of airtightness required for Passive House buildings, it becomes critical to introduce fresh air into the building envelope, without vast amounts of energy literally going out of the window in the process”.

MVHR improves indoor air quality without the need to keep the windows or doors open by recovering the warm and cool air that would otherwise have gone to waste. They also clean the air from pollution and help to regulate humidity.

Steffen said other prominent elements in Passive House builds are solar PV systems and energy-efficient heat pumps for hot water.

One of Stiebel Eltron’s recent Passive House Certified builds was, in fact, the first large scale building in the southern hemisphere to achieve passive house certification at Monash University in the form of a new student residence.

The main objectives of the project were comfort, health and extremely low energy consumption. The 150 individual rooms were designed to be sustainable and environmentally

friendly. An important aspect was that the whole construct was powered by renewable energy. This is where Stiebel Eltron came into play.

The complex is fully electric, supplied with wind energy by the wind farm, Murra Warra, and draws solar energy from the 60kWp rooftop solar panels. As part of the all-electric-strategy, Stiebel Eltron supplied and commissioned three WPL23E three phase air sourced hydronic heat pumps for hot water.

When it comes to sustainability in building, the Passive House model is one of the most energy efficient models around. Passive House builds do require thorough planning and consideration from start to finish, but the end result is a super sustainable home, free from noise and air pollution that is very comfortable to live in year-round without any artificial heating.

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Designing glass roof systems to enable passive design A well-designed glass roof delivers exceptional insulation, ventilation, and weathertightness.

These benefits are in line with Passive House design principles that ensure a building delivers high performance, ultra-low energy use and maximum comfort over its lifetime. However, a lack of awareness of good design practice leads to solutions that have low thermal performance, limited functionality and poor condensation management.

For example, specifiers are using profiles designed for vertical facades to produce ad hoc glass roof solutions. Vertical glazing is not designed to be aligned horizontally and, without adequate drainage or internal ventilation, issues with moisture and condensation build-up are inevitable. Specifiers are also cautious of operable glass roofs due to concerns regarding thermal performance and water ingress.

Key Design Elements When designing a high-performing glass roof system, the following items should be considered depending on the application: • Regulatory requirements in the National Construction Code and Australian Standards;

• Testing for watertightness, air permeability and resistance to wind load; • The thermal performance of the overall design, including glazing; • Automation and integration with building management systems; • Environmental sensors for added functionality and convenience; • The benefit of operable glass roofs for natural ventilation and smoke relief; • Thermally broken frames to minimise heat loss and prevent condensation; • Secondary water drainage channels and internal ventilation to remove moisture; • Insulated glass units to minimise conducted heat loss; and • Internal and external blinds to manage excess heat gain and light.

Passive House certification Passive House is a voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building. Products that are Passive House Certified have been tested to uniform criteria to deliver excellent quality in terms of airtightness, thermal insulation, ventilation and thermal-bridge free

construction. Some leading glass roof systems carry this certification. Specifying such products can help ensure a design delivers high performance and comfort over the lifetime of the building.

EBSA - A natural choice EBSA Pty Ltd is a leading Australian supplier of operable glass roofs, window automation and architectural glass louvres. Driven by a strong focus on sustainability, EBSA offers the latest in operable facade technology that make buildings breathe.

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It has been said that the Architecture & Design Sustainability Awards is one of the longest running programmes of critical recognition for the architecture, design and construction industries, recognise all-round excellence in sustainable construction, including the overall design and delivery of buildings, public infrastructure and civil engineering projects.

But these awards are much more than that.

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The Sustainability Awards are not only given to

given to me – once again, making my job both

projects that demonstrate an immediate high

easier as well as an educational experience.

level of sustainable architecture or design, but

So, to Dick Clarke, Mahalath Halperin,

also those that have demonstrated long-term

Jeremy Spencer, Suzanne Toumbourou, Mike

sustainability, are accessible to all users and

Faine, Nermine Zahran, Sandra Furtado and

have made a positive cultural, social or economic

Meron Tierney, my personal thanks to you all

contribution to the local community.

for everything that you have done. It would be

The main point is these awards are not easy to win.

That’s because very few projects in Australia can easily be labelled as having these criteria,

remiss of me not to say that you have all made these awards far better with your skill, insight and credibility.

If there is one thing that we all should have

the winners here have shown that they have

all learned by now is that we as humans should

gone far and beyond what we normally see in

not annoy nature – COVID-19 is a reminder of

the built environment.

just how fragile our existence on this little blue

As the oldest built environment

rock really is.

sustainability awards in the country, it really

We can start by having a bit more respect for

does fill me with pride that this year, despite

the world and others around us. One way to do

all that was going on with the pandemic, these

that is to lower our carbon and waste footprints.

awards provided 103 entrants, 68 finalists and

The 15 winners of the 2021 Sustainability

15 overall winners – at a level of quality of have

Awards have done just that, which is why their

yet to see in our now 15-year programme.

achievements should be lauded, respected and

A huge thank needs to be given to our jury, who once again delivered a set of finalists that

if possible, emulated.

So, on that point, I give you the

truly reflect what is possible in the world of

winners of the 2021 Architecture & Design

sustainable design.

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ADAPTIVE REUSE Recognises the adaptive reuse of a building (heritage and/or new) that has minimal impact on the historical significance of the building and its setting, while also pursuing a design that is sympathetic to the building in order to give it a new purpose.

SMART DESIGN STUDIO SMART DESIGN STUDIO Completed in December 2019, Smart Design Studio comprises the adaptive reuse of a Post-War single storey industrial warehouse, into commercial and residential uses across a 3624 sqm site. The project is situated within the North Alexandria Industrial Heritage Conservation Area, which forms part of one of the largest known collections of industrial and warehouse buildings of its kind in Australia.

The retention and adaptation of the existing building was therefore the springboard for this innovative project. Most of the original building fabric was retained and restored, including brick facades, sawtooth roofs and steel roof trusses. The key innovation was to transform an existing warehouse into a carbon neutral building, targeting a six-star NABERS energy rating.

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WINNER OLDERFLEET MIRVAC WITH GRIMSHAW ARCHITECTS & CARR The 58,000sqm building uniquely integrates a modern 38-level commercial tower, drawing together premium-grade office and retail space, with one of Melbourne’s most important pieces of heritage architecture, the Olderfleet buildings. The workplace incorporates a 30-metre-high lobby with a unique art installation and a range of on-site services, from a wellness centre and luxurious hotel-style end-of-trip facilities to a childcare centre and an underground bar. It was the first building in Australia to achieve a Platinum Core and Shell Pre-Certification from the International WELL Building Institute, which recognises excellence in delivering healthy buildings and improving tenant wellbeing in a sustainable work environment.

Olderfleet also targets a 6 Star Green Star rating, 5 NABERS Energy rating, and 4 Star NABERS Water rating.

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WINNER ONA COFFEE MELBOURNE BREATHE Sustainability was always a priority for Ona, not an afterthought. Sustainability features include being 100% electric, induction cooktops, 20kW of solar on the re-insulated roof with remaining energy requirements provided by 100% Green Power. A rigorous carbon audit was undertaken to offset any greenhouse gas emissions. 5000 litre rain water tanks, organics waste streams, natural light and ample bike parking were incorporated into the design. Rather than space for cars, a multilevel amphitheatre, that in time will be run wild with greenery, was built by locals and for locals. Olderfleet also targets a 6 Star Green Star rating, 5 NABERS Energy rating, and 4 Star NABERS Water rating steel roof trusses. The key innovation was to transform an existing warehouse into a carbon neutral building, targeting a six-star NABERS energy rating.

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A childcare centre, preschool, primary, secondary or tertiary educational facility or a facility where an educational institution is a partner.

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AINSWORTH BUILDING, FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTUS Mass timber accounts for 95 percent (by weight) of the timber material used in the Ainsworth Building. Although mostly sourced from Europe, the ecological impact remains low due to the contribution of clean energy towards producing the mass timbers in Austria. 100 percent of the mass timber used in the Ainsworth Building is Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certified (PEFC).

Specific timber products used: • Floor system: CLT European Spruce • CLT shear walls: European Spruce • Glulam W-Columns: Victorian Ash • Glulam columns and beams: European Spruce • Roof system: CLT European Spruce / Glulam Beams European Spruce

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• Floor covering European Oak engineered timber floor/Solid Blackbutt • Internal timber panels: Birch Plywood / Blackbutt Plywood • Joinery and cabinetry: Birch Plywood / Solid Blackbutt • Stairs: Solid Blackbutt treads and rises • Exterior cladding: Blackbutt Ply external soffit.

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Following the original 1898 recipe, our Linoleum is made from 94% natural raw materials (linseed oil, wood and cork flour, resins) and is available across a range of traditional marbled patterns in a variety of colours. It is treated with our unique xf²™surface protection for extreme durability, easy cleaning and cost-effective maintenance. Tarkett Linoleum is the world’s first to be certified Cradle to Cradle® for its sustainable approach. tarkett.com.au

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WINNER DAVID COATES SUSTAINABLE BUILDING & DESIGN David is living proof & a fantastic example of a complete success in being able to achieve a sustainable home with a negative carbon footprint. Graduating from the school of life, gaining real life experiences from living & working in other countries abroad gaining a global concept for sustainable design, he has brought to Australia a very positive gift with his enthusiasm & proactive approach to making a real change. His journey began as a 16-year-old apprentice carpenter & has ended up as a cutting-edge sustainable designer. Over recent years, David has shown Melbourne his innovative renewable energy creations, that are not only ‘sustainable,’ in every sense of the word, attracting quite a lot of attention amongst the growing sustainably minded community, they are also extremely functional & aesthetically eye catching, with a ‘wow’ factor of originality.

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WINNER ECOPACT AND ECOPACT ZERO HOLCIM (AUSTRALIA)

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These include industrial by-products like fly ash, blast furnace slag or silica fume. ECOPact provides designers and contractors with easy solutions to achieve lower embodied carbon outcomes in their projects.

ECOPact is produced with significantly less cement making production more sustainable than standard concrete.

ECOPact is eligible for Green Star and Infrastructure Sustainability rating criteria.

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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT A person who has over their career, shown exemplary efforts in advancing the progression of the sustainable built environment in Australia.

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WINNER TONE WHEELER ENVIRONA STUDIO Tone has played a very public role in promoting architecture in Australia for five decades, starting from his student days in the 1970s and throughout his long career.

Tone founded environa studio in 1986, and through that practice’s output has consistently demonstrated leadership around sustainability since before it became a fashionable buzz word.

In recent years, he’s focussed on progressing sustainability ideals on larger-scale projects, and for projects for clients and end-users who don’t always enjoy the many benefits of good design. As well as designing and delivering private homes, environa has delivered project homes, retirement communities, a major sustainability overhaul of Kings Cross’ beloved Wayside Chapel (pro bono), new boarding houses, multi-res apartment developments and industrial buildings.

Tone strives to make architecture and sustainability accessible and approachable for a broad audience. And through his efforts, he has inspired progress and supported clients, collaborators, and the general public to invest in and place value on the creation of built environments that elevate social and environmental aspirations.

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WINNER BREESE STREET BY MILIEU DKO ARCHITECTURE, BREATHE AND MILIEU PROPERTY Designed as a collaboration between DKO Architecture, Breathe Architecture and Milieu Property, Breese St. was informed through careful study of the requirements of urban living anchored in nurturing community and championing sustainability. The architecture fits the narrative of Brunswick’s industrial heritage of the past while leading to a sustainable future. The design team prioritised ethics over aesthetics. Smaller footprints, less applied finishes, more robust materials and more efficient construction.

Aiming to build less and give more. Careful attention is paid to the lifecycle of each material used. Designed with material sustainability at the forefront, materials are recycled, recyclable, low carbon and locally

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sourced where possible. Breese Street’s residents will form a genuine community, one where neighbours connect – not over the fence in this instance, but while tending gardens on the rooftop. This ‘backyard in the sky’ includes native plants, beehives and a community vegetable plot intended to support a natural ecosystem which attracts wildlife. Barbeque, outdoor dining areas and communal workspaces again encourage chance encounters and social interactions.

The rooftop also includes a shared laundry and clothesline to reduce energy and water usage. A 20,000-litre tank collects rainwater to be redirected to garden irrigation, while a compost area will minimise food waste and contribute to the garden.

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The People Parkers recycled plastic mobile parklet facilitates the rapid, sustainable and considered reimagining of car parking spaces and roadways into temporary outdoor dining quarters. In 2015 People Parkers was born out of Glebe Point Road Trial Parklet Program which was a case study of how parklets could be used to improve amenity, community and business outcomes along Glebe Point Road.

Most parklets are custom and hence expensive or not robust for longevity, are not easily moved to multiple sites and hence the main aim of a tactical intervention is achieved short term, but the total sustainability question is not answered. Hence people parkers started developing a suite of movable, robust, re-usable, designed for disassembly parklet design that were recyclable and made from low environmental impact materials where possible. The aim was to provide a suite of products that could be employed anywhere to demonstrate how a street could be more than a place to park a vehicle which is and will be an essential question as we progress to car-share and shared autonomous vehicles in the future.

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WINNER LIGHT HOUSE ALEXANDER SYMES ARCHITECT Light House is an example of how a typical poorly designed dwelling that does not perform well thermally, from a daylight perspective or how it integrates with landscape can be converted to address each well whilst retaining the majority of the existing structure. The project is called Light House as it: • Create a well and evenly distributed day LIGHT home as the existing dwelling was poor on both fronts.

• LIGHT on embodied energy through conserving as much of the existing as

functionally possible and using low embodied energy for all new construction.

• LIGHT on operational energy via high efficiency envelope and high efficiency appliances and onsite renewables. PV / Heat Pumps running of solar only for pool heating / Sanden DWU / EV charging.

• LIGHT on biodiversity via increasing porosity onsite and planting endemic garden. The dwelling creates a connection to nature with all windows framing a view of landscape and creating a sense that you are not actually in quite a dense urban area.

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WINNER URBAN GREEN HOME BUILD SUSTAINABLE BUILDING & DESIGN energy urban dwellings are significant with cities currently accounting for up to 80% of worldwide energy consumption and 70% of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. At the core of this project was the desire to innovate, to showcase a revolution in sustainable building practices, not simply make minor improvements based on an evolution of standard practices.

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work with our company Sustainable Building & Design (SBAD), as we have a similar passion for sustainable living along with the skills & experience to have been able to bring this project to life. Building sustainable homes is imperative if Australian cities are going to meet UN Sustainability Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities). The potential benefits from low

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SMART BUILDING IDEAS A building that uses smart design or a range of automated processes to automatically control the building’s operations in order to help improve asset reliability, performance, and energy use.

WINNER URBAN GREEN HOME BUILD SUSTAINABLE BUILDING & DESIGN 23 Alexandra Road is a community of three 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom, single storey homes, each one to be light-filled, comfortable and with a small carbon footprint.

An 8.4-star NatHERS energy efficient rating, sustainable home completed in July 2020. The overall development has been to design and build 3 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom, single storey urban dwellings. These light filled contemporary homes, showcase what is possible when sustainability is embedded in the design DNA. The owners wanted to create comfortable, healthy & attractive homes with a small carbon footprint & low maintenance requirements.

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WINNER ECOPACT AND ECOPACT ZERO HOLCIM (AUSTRALIA)

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In this episode, we talk biophilic design, sustainability and how this can help with the challenge of climate change with Stephen Choi.

Stephen Choi is a UK-qualified Project Architect and Australian-qualified Project Manager. He co-founded not-for-profit environmental building consultancy, Architecture for Change, and is Living Building Challenge Manager at Frasers Property Australia.

Stephen’s work has included the development of global environmental assessment methods, designing and managing buildings and masterplans, embedding sustainable development into educational curriculum, and being Australia’s leading Living Building Challenge expert. Several of his projects – both private and public sector – have gained wide recognition for “progressing green building”.

Christian Hampson is a proud Woiwurrung and Maneroo man and with an extensive background in Indigenous Cultural Heritage management, with over 20 years of experience leading the design and delivery of heritage programs in the public sector.

Developing his passion for cultural heritage as a young man and through his long career with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Christian brings a cultural approach to collaboration, as well as a passion for great design and promoting Indigenous narratives across the Australian landscape.

Christian Hampson in 2018 also co-founded Yerrabingin, a visionary start-up that seeks to disrupt conventional approaches to ending Indigenous disadvantage and create intercultural opportunities for future generations to thrive.

Jorge Chapa is Head of Market Transformation at the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) who’s role it is to ensure that GBCA’s strategic priorities, partnerships, and product and services, including Green Star, accelerate the transformation of Australia’s built environment – delivering more liveable, resilient, and sustainable places for everyone.

In this exclusive interview, Chapa talks extensively about the features and benefits of Greenstar ratings, how the GBCA sees the built environment helping to address the challenges of climate change and the strategies behind tackling upfront carbon in order to achieve Net Zero targets by 2030.

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Positive about Negativity: Interface’s journey towards a restorative carbon footprint If we stop and think about the damage that we are doing to our environment we should reflect on the words of Hubert Reeve, Canadian astrophysicist and philosopher when he said “Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.

Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”

Ray C Anderson, CEO, and founder of Interface came to this realization in 1994 just over 21 years after he started up the company.

In 1994 when a customer asked what the company was doing for the environment, his response was “not much”. He lost that customer. Looking for answers he turned to Paul Hawken’s book “The Ecology of Commerce” and as he read, he had what he called his spear in the chest epiphany.

He clearly saw that, as a captain of industry, he was responsible for the pollution and biodiversity loss referred to in Hawken’s book.

He became convinced that there is only one business – the business of life. He reimagined everything - the interface, if you will - between industry and ecology, economies and ecosystems, the present generation, and future generations. Ray changed course and the change was dramatic. Interface became a company with purpose, Mission Zero©. That purpose was to reduce its environmental impacts to zero by 2020.

Interface celebrated success in achieving its Mission Zero© targets in 2019. Sadly, Ray, like the medieval architect building his cathedral, did not live to see his vision completed. He died in 2011.

Since Ray’s “midcourse correction” 27 years ago, sustainability has been imprinted in the Interface DNA and the company is now one of the most innovative global businesses when it comes to not just minimizing, but reversing, its impact on our natural environment.

“As the company neared its Mission Zero© goal it realized that doing no harm was not good enough and that the company had to become restorative” says Interface Sustainability Manager, Aidan Mullan, “Industry must repair the damage it has done”. In 2016 Interface set a new plan in action - Climate Take Back. “The key tenet of this plan is that if humanity has changed the climate by mistake, then humanity can reverse that change with intent”. Interface set a new audacious target, to become a carbon negative company by 2040.

Since 1996 Interface has reduced its carbon footprint by 76% and, to make all its products carbon neutral across their full life cycle, it has been necessary to purchase carbon offsets to neutralise the remaining emissions. “A company that declares it will achieve carbon neutrality or indeed carbon negativity, by using carbon offsets only, is greenwashing. Interface

recognises offsets as a necessary short-term steppingstone towards becoming carbon negative,” explains Aidan, “the key focus is real emissions reduction. Interface recently signed up to the Science Based Targets initiative, committing to Business Ambition 1.5°C. This means it will cut current emissions by 50% by 2030 taking it closer to its 2040 goal”.

“To achieve carbon negativity by 2040,” he continues, “requires innovative new technology and rethinking the raw materials that we’re using to manufacture our product and to reduce climate impact. The company has done this by making a substantial investment in its “Backings of the Future” production lines that will use recycled and bio-based raw material to reduce its carbon footprint. It is the innovative use of carbon sequestering bio-based materials that will take the company to its 2040 target”.

This year Interface launched its first carbon negative, cradle to gate, carpet tile into the Australian market. The Embodied Beauty™ collection is inspired by nature and designed to respect it.

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The Embodied Beauty collection lives up to its name and shows that the pursuits of beautiful design and sustainability are inseparable. In addition to the three cradle-to-gate carbon negative styles, as part of Interface’s commitment to Climate Take Back™, all of the styles that are featured within the collection are carbon neutral across their full product life cycle.

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PöLKKY GIANT: TIMBER ENGINEERED FOR AUSTRALIA’S OUTDOORS

NEW WEATHERGROOVE FUSION AVAILABLE NOW! Weathergroove Fusion combines the varying grooves from our popular profiles to create a unique style while retaining every measure of durability and safety. Our new Fusion profile is available in Natural and Smooth with a panel size of 3660mm x 1196mm.

Pölkky Giant is the natural alternative to traditional solid timber for use in weather exposed situations. It is ideal for use in any commercial or domestic construction. Pölkky brand products are engineered to last a lifetime.

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With over 60 years of experience designing appliances for Australian households and a dedicated team who look after builders, developers, architects and designers, you will find the best solution for your project with Westinghouse appliances. With cooking, refrigeration and dish care taken care of we have an appliance offering across the whole kitchen.

BRICK INLAY: AN INNOVATIVE FACADE SOLUTION

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

CAROMA OPAL COLLECTION The Opal Collection, a comprehensive and versatile range, specifically designed to enhance your independence in the bathroom without having to compromise on style.

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Discreet design features such as raised height toilet pans and integrated shelf space on basins are just some of the simple additions offered to reduce challenges for the elderly.

Brick inlay delivers the look and feel of traditional brick, with the time and cost savings of precast concrete panels. This reliable and proven facade system inlays real brick, porcelain, or stone tiles into precast concrete panels to create the look and feel of a traditional brick facade.

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AIRMASTER ® CLEARS THE AIR

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DESSO AirMaster is designed to capture more tiny dust particles than any other carpet solution on the market helping create a healthier indoor environment. Independent testing has found AirMaster to be 8x better than other smooth flooring solutions and 4x better than any other carpet solutions in reducing the amount of harmful fine dust particles in the air.

AU.DIPANEL BY ATKAR Superior looks, durability and highly effective acoustic control.

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Au.diPanel offers our widest selection of perforation options and a choice of substrates. Combined with our range of decorative surface finishes and our Integrated Acoustic Backing (IAB), Au.diPanel lends itself to tailoring for specific appearance or acoustic performance requirements.

Intelligent Interlocking Facade System

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Intelligent Installation Design

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