Birkenhead College
- solar water heating
- rainwater harvesting
- passive solar heating
- cooling by natural ventilation
The College was designed with these sustainable features integrated to reduce energy and water consumption.
Cape Reinga Visitor Experience
- 100% rainwater harvesting
- Grey water recycling
- On-site sewage treatment
- Off-grid electrical supply
A minimal impact design with reinstatement of natural vegetation
Changing rooms
- Rainwater recycling
- Photovoltaics
Toilets and changing roms at Onepoto Domain. Rainwater is collected for flushing toilets and PVs charge security lighting.
Housing New Zealand
- passive cooling
- solar water heating
- passive solar heating
- thermal mass
- low energy
- healthy homes
Low energy housing development in Manakau with emphasis on reduced energy consumption and healthy housing.
Low energy Academy
- passive heating
- passive cooling
- high thermal mass
- sustainable urban drainage
- 100%daylighting
- natural ventilation
- double skin facade
Extreme low energy building designed to be able to operate off-grid.
Low energy housing
- Photovoltaics
- solar water heating
- sustainable urban drainage
- high thermal mass
- rainwater harvesting
- passive cooling
- wind turbines
- Vege gardens
Low energy housing for a UK Housing Association
Low energy offices, UK
- wind turbine
- photovoltaics
- rainwater harvesting
- low water use fittings
- natural ventilation
Commercial office development and conference centre in the UK with a significant contribution of on-site generated renewable energy
Massey Library
- passive underfloor cooling
- High thermal mass
- Rainwater recycling
- Daylighting
- Photovoltaics
Award winning library designed to be cooled by rainwater ducted under the solid floor. Naturally daylit and ventilated.
Napier pensioner homes
- Photovoltaics
- Solar water heating
- Low energy
- Healthy homes
- Energy efficient transport
Sustainable Pensioner homes for Napier City Council. A study that included higher insulation standards, solar water heating, and PVs to recharge electric scooters
Sustainable inner city housing
- High density
- Reduced parking
- Re-use of old buildings
- Brownfield site
- Low energy buildings
Mixed use, high density, urban
village in Birmingham, UK.
Master-planned on a brownfield city
centre site in order to reduce urban
sprawl and the consequences of
traffic congestion & pollution.
Completed 2000
The Skills Academy
- Photovoltaics
- wind turbines
- heat recovery systems
- rainwater harvesting
- sustainable urban drainage
- 100% daylighting
- solar hot water
2n• o. 1.5kw Swift wind turbines providing approximately 8,000kWhr of electrical energy per year.
• 98.8m2 of Photovoltaic panels estimated to provide 8,200kWhr of electrical energy per year.
• 10.8m2 of Solar HWS panels with an expected energy return of 3,900kWhr to hot water per year.
• 35m2 rainwater storage tank providing an estimated 80% of water for flushing purposes per year.
The Womens Academy
- passive cooling
- low energy
- daylight dimming
- natural ventilation
Tertiary education College in the UK, designed to exceed local codes and with a tower that cools the building by the 'stack effect'. Thermally modelled by the Building Research Establishment and monitored by Brunel University.
