Hansen Yuncken is an industry leader in Ecologically Sustainable Design and Construction.

Our involvement in the design, development, construction and commissioning of many of Australia's leading Green Buildings, is testament to our industry leadership in Ecologically Sustainable Design. The following projects are a snapshot of our recent involvement in ESD projects:

The SA Water Building is an integrated project incorporating a 6 star Office Design base building, a 6 star Office Design Fit Out, and a 6 star Office ‘As-Built’ rating. In addition to these requirements SA Water had also stipulated the requirement for a 5 star ABGR/Nabers performance rating.

It is the first building in South Australia to gain a 6 star Green Star Design Rating, signifying achievement of ‘world leadership’ standard.

Some of the more notable features that demonstrate this project’s innovation include the incorporation of under floor displacement air conditioning utilising 100% outside air, a fritted veil to provide western façade sun shading, a self inflating ETFE atrium roof aimed at minimising structural steel work, PVC minimisation, flyash in concrete and a gas driven cogeneration system aimed at minimising peak power energy consumption.

“The VS1 (SA Water) project provided Hansen Yuncken with a number of challenges as Design and Construction Managers. The result was the delivery of a complex, landmark project 2 months ahead of schedule, within budget, which also achieved South Australia’s first six star Green Star rating and the highest rating at the time achieved in Australia.”

Richard Little, Synergy PM, Project Superintendant SA Water VS1 Building

Hansen Yuncken is working in collaboration the Green Building Council of Australia on this $40m project to develop a new health sector green star rating tool. This work will set an ESD benchmark for future hospital developments around Australia.

This early ESD project developed and tested environmental goals not previously incorporated in a single project. The project involved the refurbishment of an existing 3 storey brick, timber and concrete commercial building/warehouse requiring the addition of floors to the open warehousing area, the addition of a light weight fourth storey and opening up the structure to create a central Atrium and several side lightwells. Rain water and grey water recycling was incorporated as well as recycled materials, and innovative ventilation systems.

This multi award winning project achieved a 5 star Green Star as built rating. A dedicated automotive training facility housing, paint booths, workshops, classrooms and office accommodation. The building is predominantly a concrete structure, enclosed by steel and glass and incorporates innovative sustainable design features such as active thermal mass and night sky cooling systems. The design received a ‘commendation’ in the World Environment Day awards.

CH2 is Australia’s first 6 star Green Star rated building, and has become synonymous with the green building movement. Hansen Yuncken played a key role in developing the many cutting edge technologies that were incorporated into this world leading building. It features recycled concrete, recycled timber louvres, wind-driven turbines, ‘shower towers’ for natural evaporative cooling of fresh air, recycled water treatment systems as well as unique ‘phase change material’ cells as thermal storage for ‘coolth’.