Category Achievements

Management

Green Star Accredited Professional engaged from sketch design to practical completion

Comprehensive commissioning and quality monitoring contractually required, including 12 month commissioning building tuning period after handover, with a minimum of quarterly reviews and a full re-commission after 12 months

Appointment of an independent and experienced commissioning agent

Provision of a Building User's Guide to enable the building to achieve its intended
environmental performance

Contractor implementing a comprehensive Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for
the works and have ISO-14001 accreditation

Commitment to greater than 60% recycling of construction waste

Indoor Environment Quality

50% improvement of fresh air rates from Australian Standard AS 1668.2:1991

Air change effectiveness of the air conditioning system to exceeding 0.95 in accordance with ASHRAE F25-1997

Carbon dioxide monitoring and outside air control system for all air handling units

Improved lighting to provide a daylight factor of greater than 2.5% to more than 60% of the NLA

High frequency ballasts specified throughout the NLA

Artificial lighting levels that have a maintained luminance level of no more than 400lux

60% of the office space within 8m of external windows

Thermal modelling undertaken to predict excellent levels of occupant thermal comfort with a predicted mean vote range of -0.5 to 0.5

Aural comfort for building occupants by providing a low noise air conditioning system and maintaining internal noise levels at an appropriate level in office areas

The use of low-VOC and low-formaldehyde materials throughout the building

Dedicated tenants exhaust provisions provided to ventilate tenancy photocopy rooms

Energy

A 4.5 Star base building NABERS design

Electrical sub-metering for all substantive energy uses and for each floor and tenancy

Lighting power densities of less than 2.0W/m2 provided to reduce tenant energy
consumption whilst maintaining appropriate lighting levels

Comprehensive lighting control system linked to access control system

High performance double-glazed low-E glazing specified throughout the building

Low temperature Variable Air Volume (VAV) air conditioning system throughout, coupled
with high efficiency chillers

Transport

25% reduction in maximum local planning car parking allowance

Provision of small car parking spaces equating to 10% of all car parking provision

Extensive cyclist facilities including secure basement bicycle storage, showering and changing facilities for 5% of the building occupants

Visitor bicycle storage provision provided

Excellent CBD location providing frequent bus, train and ferry services throughout Perth

Water

Water saving fixtures used throughout the building whilst maintaining amenity standards suitable for building occupants

Installation of the first commercial grey water recycling system in WA providing treated water for use in toilet flushing

Water sub-meters for the major water uses in the building, with all meters linked to the BMS system to provide a leak detection system

Reduced cooling tower water consumption through effective water management

Fire service test water re-use into the grey water system

Materials

Dedicated storage area for separation, collection and recycling of office consumables

100% fully integrated fit-out to minimise material wastage

60% of structural steel to have a post-consumer recycled content of greater than 50%

Sustainable timber specified for all base building construction timber products

Land Use & Ecology

Building development on a previously occupied site

The development site is not of high ecological value

Emissions

Zero ODP refrigerants and insulants used throughout the building

Refrigerant leak detection and recovery systems specified

All stormwater leaving the site is to be filtered before leaving site

Reduction in water flow to sewer

Effective exterior lighting design resulting in negligible light pollution from the site