Premier’s Design Award 2012 Finalist

Innovation & Excellence Awards 2012 - Property Council of Australia Nepean Award for Innovation

ARBS Awards 2012 - HVAC Project Excellence Award

National Master Builder’s Awards 2011 - Boral National Environment and Energy Efficiency Award

BPN Sustainability Awards 2011 - Large Commercial Award & Best of the Best’ Award

Australian Property Industry Awards 2011 - Presidents Award

Victorian Architecture Awards 2011 - Award for Sustainable Architecture

Premier’s Sustainability Award 2011 - Built Environment Award & Products or Services Award

FSC Developer of the Year 2011

Pixel 100% FSC Certified

Australian Business Awards 2011 - Best Eco Product – Pixelcrete

Master Builders Association Awards (Vic) 2011 - Best Sustainable Building

Melbourne Award 2011 - Contribution to Sustainability – Corporate

Green Building Award, New Buildings - Asia Pacific, Commercial Project Merit Award 2010

Banksia Award for Built Environment - Harmonious Man Made Landscapes 2010

Australian Private Business Award 2011 - Finalist

United Nations Association of Australia (Vic) 2011 - Finalist World Environment Day

Located on a key urban site at the former CUB Brewery, the Pixel Building is one of Melbourne and Australia’s most significant and ambitious projects. Scoring a perfect 105 Green Star points and 105 LEED points, Pixel is Australia’s first carbon neutral office building, generating all its own power and water on site.

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Interior of the Pixel Building in Melbourne, Australia.

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Solar panels on the green roof of the Pixel Building in Melbourne, Australia.

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Green roof of the Pixel Building in Melbourne, Australia.

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Stairs of the Pixel Building in Melbourne, Australia.

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(Future Office)
Pixel is a ‘Future Office’ – a prototype of the commercial buildings that will emerge when a carbon constrained environment demands a greater focus on energy efficiency. As a prototype, it enables an analysis of the ongoing implications of new technologies in the commercial building sector.
(Green Credentials)
Pixel radically pushed the boundaries of what is achievable in a Green Building. Many new sustainable building technologies were implemented, including a complex water capturing system, solar and wind harnessing, thermal cooling, water usage reduction through vacuum toilets, anaerobic digester to reduce waste from toilets and Pixelcrete, a specially designed concrete that contains half the embodied carbon of conventional concrete for the same structural properties.
(Facade)
A complex and colourful facade wraps the western and northern sides of the building, giving Pixel its iconic identity. A simple but intricate assembly of zero waste, recycled colour panels providing maximised daylight, shade, views and glare control.
The panels are supported by the Living Edge spandrels which create shading and grey water treatment as well as providing immediate personal greenery to every office floor. The facade wraps continuously around Pixel creating a vibrant and unique identity.
(Green Roof)
Furthering its green ambitions, Pixel’s rooftop is clad with fixed and tracking photovoltaic panels, vertical wind turbines and an extensive green roof. Pixel has been designed to capture, filter and process rainwater via its green roof and water storage systems. This volume of water, based on Melbourne’s annual average rainfall, would be sufficient for all the non-potable requirements of the building.
(Water System)
An innovative greywater system allows Pixel to utilise rain collection to meet the demands of the buildings non-potable water requirements. Rainwater is collected on the green roof, passes through a rainwater filtration and osmosis treatment plant and supplies the buildings vacuum toilets, basins and showers. Greywater from these units then passes through reed beds that provide passive greywater treatment

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Ng Teng Fong General Hospital

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Boronia Shades and Luminaires

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