AWARDS WINNERS 2020 timber and expansive windows. The car park even incorporated bioswales for water reuse and feature landscaping intricately integrated with the façade.
Excellence in Construction Awards 2020 Best Sustainable Project Hacer Group Pty Ltd Burwood Brick Works Shopping Centre Burwood Brickworks is like no other retail shopping centre. Having an urban farm, café and chickens on the roof certainly goes some of the way to delivering on this. It is designed to be a leader in the sustainable development and was delivered by Hacer Group. Hacer Group were required to deliver a shopping centre with 3 major tenants; 3 minimajors; cinemas and 40 14
speciality tenancies while integrating the most stringent Environmental criteria to satisfy the requirements of Green Building Council of Australia and International Living Building Institute (ILBI). The centre achieved a 6 Star Greenstar As Built rating. The overall structure included a basement car park, a 4,000sqm deck over the car park and approximately 2,000sqm for an urban farm tenancy. The façade was largely precast using recycled crushed brick and also incorporated, salvaged brickwork, salvaged
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In addition to this the project was required to meet the Living Building Challenge (LBC) of the ILBI. This means that the building had to meet the requirements of a number of key areas grouped under the headings, Place, Water, Energy, Health and Happiness, Materials, Equity and Beauty. During the construction process, the focus was on material compliance, waste mitigation and reusing salvaged products. Material compliance involved obtaining and reviewing all ingredients that make up each component of every product installed, applied or placed on site. There were in excess of 850 ingredients that need to be avoided as they are considered worst-in-class materials/chemicals with the greatest impact to human and ecosystem health. The procurement strategy needed to ensure at least 20% of the projects products/cost were sourced within 2000km, 30% within 5000km and 25% within 9000km from the project site to satisfy the living economy imperative. In the end, over 80% was sourced within 2000km. This was achieved by focusing on the selection of materials from salvaged opportunities wherever possible. For example, utilising the formwork from the concrete pours as a hanging installation and as wall cladding in the main car park entry travelator lobby. As part of the Green Star criteria, 90% of construction waste had to be diverted from
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