C40 Reinventing Cities: Zero carbon apartments

Reinventing Cities is a global competition for innovative, carbon-free and resilient urban projects

SITE LOCATION: Henderson - Auckland, New Zealand

COMPLETION: Ongoing

COLLABORATORS: Province Developments, Sills van Bohemen, Studio Nord, Resilio Studio, Tricia Love Consultants, Sust, GWE, Te Kawerau A Maki

Re/volve Energy collaborated with a diverse multi disciplinary team to develop Te Kopua, our vision of a Zero Carbon urban mixed use development for The Alderman Carpark in Henderson.

The concept demonstrates an environmentally, socially resilient and sustainable community, designed in partnership with local iwi, with inter-generational outcomes that increase the health, well-being and housing opportunities for people connected to the area.

Through the design features including:

• efficient building form & thermal envelope

• a micro-grid incorporating onsite PV generation and energy storage distributing energy

• efficient centralised hot water production

• low carbon material selections and construction techniques,

the buildings are expected to be zero carbon, realise a total reduction in lifetime carbon emissions of 97% when compared with a standard development in New Zealand of similar scale and density.

See the winning projects here.