The Living Building Challenge® is the built environment’s most rigorous measure of sustainability.
It challenges projects to operate as beautifully and efficiently as a flower.
Living buildings draw on great design but operational performance is the key to certification.
Place
Water
Energy
Health & happiness
Material
Equity
Beauty
A building that comes to life from the ground up.
From the first day of construction, the team creating Burwood Brickworks had to approach the construction process differently. Bringing all builders and contractors along for the journey was necessary to ensure the rigor of the Living Building Challenge® was applied every step of the way.
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Better ingredients towards a more valuable whole.
Toxic materials pervade the construction industry, having an enormous impact on the environment, the food chain and the health of workers right across the industry. But there are better ways to build.
Read morePlaying beyond the rules.
When Frasers Property Australia set sights on the Living Building Challenge® at Burwood Brickworks, it was understood it would place enormous demands on the team, as well as the retailers. There were universal rules to follow and tenants rose to the challenge in their own ways. The experience has created shared learning throughout the retail industry.
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Traditionally, shopping centres are enormous consumers of energy, create pollution, and reduce biodiversity. Burwood Brickworks turns all of that on its head.
Read moreA shift from cookie-cutter retail towards biophilic design.
Where does the planning process start when you decide to embark on something that has never been attempted in retail before? From engaging with planning authorities to bringing architects and designers along for the journey, Burwood Brickworks has broken new ground.
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Burwood Brickworks makes a bold statement towards reconciliation, using the Living Building Challenge® requirement for Beauty to commission Indigenous artist Mandy Nicholson to create a striking installation artwork connecting the site to its traditional Wurundjeri heritage.
Read moreAll buildings leave a legacy. For most, this legacy can be crudely defined as being an environmental drain on the site they occupy. Burwood Brickworks will be a building that inspires change, leading by example and leaving a net positive environmental and community legacy.
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From the people of the Kulin Nation, to orchard groves and market gardens, to manufacturing the bricks prevalent in Melbourne’s iconic brick veneer homes, the Burwood Brickworks site has a long history of delivering for the community.
Read moreStephen Choi, Living Building Challenge Manager at Frasers Property, introduces the Burwood Brickworks Living Building tour.
Baby, you can drive my…
Living La Vida Local.
Travelator tree-meant. Look up, look down. Sing for your seat.
Do smile for me, Argentina.
Net positive!
Sharing is caring. Power down.
Breathe deeply and enjoy the show! Super fresh paint.
Waste not.
When it rains...
Food for thought. Ecological restoration.
Bio-what? Biophilia.
This is what I’m made of. Not seeing red.
Where I stand…
