Gillies Hall at Monash University

by Clare Parry
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2019-06-04 00:32:28
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International
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3114 / EN

New Construction

Building Type : Student residence
Construction Year : 2018
Delivery year : 2019
Address 1 - street : 47-49 Frankston-Flinders Road 3199 FRANKSTON, Other countries
Climate zone : [Cfb] Marine Mild Winter, warm summer, no dry season.

Net Floor Area : 5 185 m² Other
Construction/refurbishment cost : 21 100 000 €
Cost/m2 : 4069.43 €/m²

Proposed by :

Certifications :

Primary energy need :
61 kWhpe/m².year
(Calculation method : Primary energy needs )

Energy consumption

Economical buildingBuilding

< 50A

51 à 90B

91 à 150C

151 à 230D

231 à 330E

331 à 450F

> 450G

Energy-intensive building

Gillies Hall, at Monash’s Peninsula Campus, is Australia’s largest Passivhaus building and a significant project for Monash University as it moves to deliver on the ambitious Net Zero initiative. The new student residence is home to 150 students and is innovative for both the Passivhaus target and CLT structure. The project is fossil fuel free, with no gas use on site, and the extensive rooftop solar plant is expected to cut grid electricity use dramatically. The university expects the building to be at least 3 times more efficient than their other halls of residence, and have half of theem bodied carbon compared to the industry-standard concrete structure.

The project was subject to a fast-tracked delivery programme of just 20 months, successfully delivered using an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) process, modular CLT construction and highly engaged team. Certified by Clare Parry at Grün Consulting, the buildingis set to be Monash’s most efficient building.

In addition to rainwater harvesting and water sensitive urban design, the project also includes a landscaped dry-creek bed created to provide additional opportunities for recreation, manage stormwater flows during highrain events, and connect into the natural waterways of the campus.

Providing 150 student apartments plus two staff dwellings, and a range of collaborative and independent study nooks and communal spaces, the project was designed by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (JCBA) and built by Multiplex. ESD and building services were provided by AECOM.

See more details about this project

https://www.monash.edu/students/news/articles/gillies-hall-new-accommodation-at-peninsula2
https://passivehouse-database.org/index.php?lang=en#d_5941

Data reliability

3rd part certified

Photo credit

All photos copyright Peter Clarke and Jackson Clement Burrows Architects

Contractor

Name : Multiplex

Contact : Danielle Savio

Construction Manager

Name : Monash University

Contact : Rob Brimblecombe

Stakeholders

Certification company

Designer

Thermal consultancy agency

Contracting method

Other methods

Owner approach of sustainability

Energy and the technology it powers has become fundamental toour ever increasing quality of life.

But if we keep doing things the way we’ve always done, we’regoing to cause irreversible damage to our environment. It’s not sustainable,and it’s not fair to future generations.

We want to do more than live in a world where our planet canthrive – we want to help create it. That’s why we’re taking ambitious climateaction at Monash University.

Our goal? Net zero carbon emissions by 2030

Jointly developed with ClimateWorks Australia, ourstrategy encompasses five key pillars: energy efficiency measures, campuselectrification, addressing our residual emissions through offsetting,deployment of on-site and off-site renewable energy, and a sustainableMicrogrid, all with the aim of achieving net zero emissions for Monash's builtenvironment by 2030.

Architectural description

The project delivers a new student accommodation building comprising 150 student beds in the form of studio apartments, two apartments for residential support, and common spaces to support the whole campus residential community (250 people approx.) Meeting the aspirations of Monash Residential Services and delivering the high level pastoral care model that has defined on campus accommodation at Monash University.

As Australia’s largest cross laminated timber (CLT) buildingto achieve Passive House Certification, the CLT panels halve the amount of embodied carbon compared with typical concrete construction; to help Monash University achieve its “net zero” carbon target by 2030.

If you had to do it again?

The project was very successful, and utilised an open communication protocol. If we did it again, we would push local suppliers and sub-contractors further to develop local products for this type of high-efficiency products and services.

Energy consumption

Primary energy need : 61 kWhpe/m².year
Primary energy need for standard building : 200 kWhpe/m².year

Primary energy needs

Breakdown for energy consumption :

Whole of building use, with solar offset on site

More information :

Currently being monitored, since Jan 2019

Envelope performance

Envelope U-Value : 0 W.m^-2.K^-1

More information :

Cross laminated timber with external insulation

Building Compactness Coefficient : 1

n50

Air Tightness Value : 1

Systems

Heating system :

No heating system

Hot water system :

Heat pump

Cooling system :

No cooling system

Ventilation system :

Double flow heat exchanger

Renewable systems :

Solar photovoltaic
Other, specify
Heat pump

Renewable energy production : 100 %

60 kWp solar PV installed on roof, with remaining renewable energy demand from off-site systems

Solutions enhancing nature free gains : Passivhaus design to optimise free heating (solar and capture of internal heat gains) using heat recovery and high-efficiency envelope

Health & Comfort

Daylight modelling completed to ensure provision of daylight autonomy with installed windows and extensive shading

Calculated indoor CO2 concentration : Per Passivhaus principles, expected to remain below 600ppm

Measured indoor CO2 concentration : TBA

Calculated thermal comfort : Per Passivhaus principles, optimised thermal comfort to ISO 7730 guidelines. Maintained between 20-25degC with ceiling fans, modelled to achieve this for 99.9% hours

Measured thermal comfort : TBA

Engineered to deliver acoustic comfort in line with Passivhaus requirements

Product

HVAC, électricité / ventilation, cooling

Construction and exploitation costs

Total cost of the building : $34000000 €

Urban environment

Outer urban fringe location. The project also includes a landscaped dry-creek bedcreated to provide additional opportunities for recreation, manage stormwaterflows during high rain events, and connect into the natural waterways of thecampus.