This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
MELBOURNE developer Grange Development has lodged an application to develop the world’s tallest $350 million hybrid timber tower.
If approved, C6 will be a 183m high residential building located at 6 Charles Street, South Perth. It will be Western Australia’s first carbon negative building.
Designed by Fraser & Partners, C6 will be constructed using approximately 7,400m3 of timber leveraging Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Glue Laminated Timber (Glulam) and Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL).
Demonstrating the innate renewability of mass timber at a commercial scale, structural engineers working on the project have determined that it will take just 59 minutes to regrow the entire building’s 7,400m3 of timber in one sustainable forest region alone. All the necessary timber required to build the apartment floors, columns and beams can be regrown from just 580 seeds, the total of which can be held in two cupped hands.
The core building structure alone is forecasted to sequester over 10,497,600 kgCO2eq compared to a traditional concrete structure of similar scale. This energy saving equates to roughly 4,885 economy class seats on a Perth to London long-haul flight.
The proposal currently includes provisions for 245 one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments set over 48 levels, a 500sqm rooftop with an edible garden, dining and entertainment space, and 1650sqm of communal wellness amenity.
At ground level, C6 will include a 2000sqm four-storey, split level, open-air piazza with a playground, cinema, horticultural zone, F&B and entertainment precinct, equivalent in size to over 85% of the site, gifted back to Council and the community.
“The built environment is one of the three major drivers of catastrophic climate change, alongside transport and agriculture. With promising technological advances in both the transport and agriculture industries now working towards drastically reducing global carbon footprints, the property industry is lagging dangerously behind,” said James Dibble, founder and director of Grange Development.
“If we get this right, we should never have to rely on building another solely concrete or steel tower in our lifetime” Dibble said.
