Football club with sustainable design Completed in 2015, Port Melbourne Footbal l Club Sporting and Community Facility, in Victoria, was awarded Sustainability category winner at the 2015 National Australian Timber Design Awards. k20 Architecture delivered the project, including materials and labour, to promote locally sourced and manufactured materials.
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clean-fill status. The soil was relocated to
timber, with a high
other parts of the site, thereby diverting
carbon sink, was used
landfill impacts concurrently reducing the
in the design to provide
associated costs of relocating the soil.
a cost-effective out-
The building included low-energy
come. Standard, off-
light fittings, sustainable plywood lin-
the-shelf and locally sourced timber
ings and extensive use of plywood in
materials and timber components were
place of plasterboard, with the use of
procured and k20 also ensured that local
plasterboard limited to the administration
labour was commissioned to skilfully
offices. Further ESD initiatives included
assemble and construct the building.
incorporating underground rainwater
The location of the building was
tanks for toilet cisterns and landscape
identified, based on k20 Architecture’s
irrigation, solar hot water units, exhaust
requirement, to retain all healthy trees.
systems with makeup air, low energy
Council’s arborists assessed the site to
and high-performing mechanical supply
ensure no healthy trees were removed
air conditioning systems.
during the construction process and as-
The building is also highly insulated,
sisted to identify which trees could be
exceeding minimum standards, and in-
removed while work progressed within
cludes double-glazed thermally broken
the tree protection zone.
glazing systems.
Low-grade contaminated soil on the
The design solution around this high
site was re-used and re-blended to meet
efficiency rate included the use of an open
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