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
- Construction/refurbishment cost : 21 100 000 €
- Cost/m2 : 4069.43 €/m2
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Primary energy need :
61 kWhpe/m2.year
(Calculation method : Primary energy needs )
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-peninsula2https://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
Construction Manager
Stakeholders
Certification company
Grün Consulting Clare Parry Passive House Building CertifierDesigner
Jackson Clement Burrows Architects Simon Topliss ArchitectsThermal consultancy agency
AECOM Nick Bamford Passive House and ESD consulting, Building Services, Structural & Fire EngineeringContracting 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.
Systems
- No heating system
- Heat pump
- No cooling system
- Double flow heat exchanger
- Solar photovoltaic
- Other, specify
- Heat pump
- 100 %
Health & Comfort
Product
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ComfoAir XL 4400

HVAC, électricité / ventilation, cooling
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ComfoAir XL 3300

HVAC, électricité / ventilation, cooling
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Maxi flat 2000

HVAC, électricité / ventilation, cooling
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Maxiflat 600

HVAC, électricité / ventilation, cooling
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.
Parking spaces
No parking
Building Environmental Quality
- Building flexibility
- indoor air quality and health
- biodiversity
- consultation - cooperation
- acoustics
- comfort (visual, olfactive, thermal)
- water management
- energy efficiency
- renewable energies
- maintenance
- integration in the land
- products and materials
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