Council House 2

Designed by DesignInc, the Bonacci Group, Lincolne Scott and the City of Melbourne, CH2 sought to provide council’s employees with a healthy, energy- efficient building with superior air quality, while providing an exemplar of advanced sustainable design to others. Hansen Yuncken entered into a partnership with the City of Melbourne and the design team, ensuring a collaborative approach to delivering this innovative and challenging project.

CH2 was challenging, with lots of industry firsts. It was right at the start of the Green Building Council’s Green Star rating system and many product specifications were untried and untested or difficult to source. We had a great project team led by Paul Bolton who worked collaboratively with the City of Melbourne to deliver a project that met the challenges this aspirational building was setting for the industry.

It included recycled concrete, black water treatment systems, wavy concrete ceilings and heavy timber window installation. The project set us up for working on environmental projects and we went on to deliver the first six-star Green Star building in Adelaide among many others. The knowledge that the company derived from CH2 was significant.

— Louise Hansen, Director/Business Development Manager