2009 Built Environment Award

In April last year, leading property group Lend Lease unveiled its flagship green building, The Gauge, at 825 Bourke Street, Victoria Harbour (Docklands). It is among Australia’s first buildings to receive a 6-star environmental rating by the Green Building Council of Australia. It features a blackwater recycling treatment plant in the basement which recycles 92 per cent of waste water per year, an on-site gas-fired co-generation system that harnesses waste heat, redirected stormwater to irrigate landscaped areas, chilled beam cooling, parking for cyclists, and two atriums to buffer against heat. Internationally, Lend Lease has signed on to a program with Bill Clinton’s Climate Change Initiative, to make environmentally-friendly modifications to existing buildings in its portfolio. And this year it was included for the first time in the prestigious Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies.