Our Green Buildings Site Visits are back, highlighting four of Tāmaki Makaurau’s most innovative sustainable buildings. Learn from the people who brought these buildings to life, as they delve into the challenges and highlights, and see the benefits of sustainable design for both tenants and businesses.
Tickets are limited, so be sure to book in!
Date: Tuesday 13th August 2024
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Precinct Properties, 1 Queen Street
Targeting 6 Green Star Rating (built rating process underway)
Deloitte Centre ‘Te Kaha’ 1 Queen Street, is Auckland CBD’s newest destination demonstrating embodied carbon savings through smart design and green operational policies. Discover a location where sustainability thrives through a meticulous review of building systems, ensuring efficiency and maintainability across the precinct. The building boasts resilient features such as advanced drainage systems and backup power solutions, enhanced air quality measures exceeding industry standards, water conservation measures, waste diversion strategies, district cooling, heat recovery, and LED lighting strategies for energy efficiency. Occupancy wellbeing is at the forefront of the building design; from panoramic views, natural light, EOT facilities, access to public transport, cultural artwork, natural light and acoustic and thermal comfort measures.
Argosy Property, 105 Carlton Gore Road
6 Green Star Office Built v3 Certified Rating
105 Carlton Gore Road incorporates a plethora of environmental and sustainable features, reflecting a commitment to minimising its carbon footprint. Throughout the design and construction process, existing materials were carefully assessed for Greenstar, with an emphasis on reuse to reduce waste and embodied carbon. The building has features and services focusing on climate adaption addressing increasing temperatures, rainfall, wind and reducing operating costs by incorporating energy and water-saving initiatives and encouraging waste recycling. Energy conservation features such as intelligent LED lighting, heat recovery air handlers with Co2 control, 60kW solar array, heat pump chillers and ec ability fan coils, improve overall occupant comfort and lower the operating carbon footprint.
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Cooper and Company, 15 Galway Street
5 Green Star Design & As Built NZv1.0 Rating
Hayman Kronfeld is a first-class example of reducing embodied carbon whilst meeting the needs of a modern office environment that uplifts occupant wellbeing. Building longevity is a huge sustainability highlight, as the building is already over a century old and the refurbishment ensures it will most likely last for at least another century. Some green features include a significant reduction of carbon emissions from materials by retaining the existing structure, energy-efficient LED lighting and HVAC systems, and waste during construction mitigated, with 70% of waste diverted from landfill and at least 80% of the building’s gross floor area is covered by a commitment to set measures and report on its environmental performance.
University of Auckland, 10 Symonds Street
6 Green Star Design Review Rating
The B201 project was born from a desire for the University’s estate to set a positive example of sustainability in Aotearoa. The University decided to turn this unloved, and poorly performing building into an example of how adaptive reuse can be transformative and as good, if not better, than demolition and replacement. Some green features include reduced energy use and GHG emissions compared to a standard building, predicted water consumption 75% less than a standard building, excellent access to public transport, significant reduction in the amount of construction waste sent to landfill, green roof planting, and a new façade with optimised window-to-wall ratios, high-performance solar glazing, and targeted external shading.
