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Study Predicts Cool Roof Energy Savings Underestimated
To explore just how much the inclusion of micro-climate effects in energy modelling can impact predicted cool roof energy savings, BlueScope and Stockland initiated a modelling study to account for above roof micro heating using a Stockland shopping centre's 15,000 square-metre roof as a reference case.
QLD
Dalyellup College
Wound around existing trees and sporting an overarching steel roof befitting of its semi-rural location, Dalyellup College reflects the essence of its environment. It’s an achievement of which David Gulland, principal of Hassell, is most proud.
WA
Fitzgibbon Community Centre
Using weathering steel to reference the site’s former role as a dumping ground, Richard Kirk Architects’ sculptural response for a new community space asserts the importance of place and poetry of raw materials.
QLD
Dunc Grey Velodrome, Sydney
The track cycling venue for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games won a national award for Sustainable Architecture in 2001 for its environmental efficiency.
NSW
The GAP Residence
Architect Ralph Bailey’s design for his own residence ripples with ideas absorbed from its rainforest surrounds, the traditional corrugated steel Queenslander and ancient thermal chimneys.
QLD
Bastian Townhouse
Troppo Architects has reinvented an old Adelaide brick home using a lightweight steel solution to add an upstairs ‘townhouse’ which captures spectacular views.
Completed February 2010, SA
Swan Street House
Iredale Pedersen Hook has taken an ‘archaeological’ approach and selected sympathetic materials to make an arresting addition to a suburban Perth house
Completed April 2008, WA
Hinkler Hall of Aviation
Taking cues from the local landscape of pioneer aviator Bert Hinkler’s birthplace, the overlapping cladding of the Hinkler Hall of Aviation subtly references the bi-plane he flew from London to Darwin in 1928.
QLD