Sustainable
An Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD)
This will be a benchmark ESD building that provides considerable energy and environmental savings whilst achieving high levels of comfort for the community of people who work within the building.
Lifestyle Working has a commitment agreement to target a 5 star Australian Building Greenhouse Rating (ABGR) certification and has attracted extraordinary attention from government and leading design organisations such as DEGW.
The overall environmental performance of the building has been assessed using the ABGR rating tool as a guideline.
The ABGR star rating evaluates the energy efficiency of the building in terms of energy consumed and resultant carbon dioxide emissions of the lifts, car park ventilation, lighting and air conditioning etc. The ABGR is again assessed on a star rating system from 1 star (worst performing) to 5 star (best performing). The project is targeting an ABGR rating of five stars. The first strata building to do so.
The collaboration of ecological and environmental initiatives within Lifestyle Working includes natural ventilation, rainwater harvesting, solar panels, passive energy solutions, recycled timbers and optimum temperature control options for individuals to select. These will not only benefit the environment generally but also provide considerable savings in running and maintenance costs as well as providing more comfort and choice for the buildings occupants.
- One of, if not the largest water harvesting tank in Australia for any building of its type in the country
- 286 kilo litres, or the equivalent of approx 5 swimming pools of water storage in the basement - thats nearly 4.5 million litres of water NOT being drawn from Sydneys Warragamba dam per annum!
- One of the largest amount of PV solar panels of any building in the country, to substantially generate power for the supply of the common area electricity needs - a huge saving!
- Waterless urinals - thats an estimated saving of approx 1.14 million litres of water PA
- Recycled timbers substantially through the public spaces designed by Patio and Jamie Durie
- The public space is naturally ventilated with clever engineering and design providing air flow and convection currents
- All suites are air conditioned as well as naturally ventilated