Goodman awarded the first NZ Industrial 6 Green Star Built rating
A multi-warehouse project in Highbook Business Park has earned New Zealand’s first-ever industrial 6 Green Star rating (6-star Green Star Design and As-Built NZ v1.0 certified Built rating).
Developed by Goodman Property Trust, Tāwharau Lane was awarded the rating by the New Zealand Green Building Council; the independent rating recognises the development’s ‘exceptional sustainability features and resource efficiency’.
Andrew Eagles, NZ Green Building Council’s CE, says the Tāwharau Lane was designed and built to world-class standards.
“Congratulations to the team at Goodman on an outstanding achievement,” he says. “It exemplifies global best practice.”
The multi-warehouse development in Auckland’s East Tāmaki includes three stand-alone buildings across 8,315sqm. The orientation and profile of the buildings were carefully designed to make the best use of the site while creating view shafts to the adjacent Tāmaki River and Maungarei/Mt Wellington volcano. Each highly sustainable and energy-efficient workspace was constructed from lower-carbon materials to reduce embodied emissions, with a carefully managed development process to minimise waste and other environmental impacts.
Given its name by manawhenua Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Tāwharau Lane means to shelter or take refuge, inspired by Tai a Te Wharau, a traditional stopping point on Tāmaki River’s historic trading route.
A business case for
sustainability
The buildings’ green credentials offer what the developer describes as superior working environments, improving productivity and reducing operating costs for leaseholders pH7, Garmin and Chemist Warehouse.
Darryl Burn, pH7 managing director, says it also helps deliver to the expectation of their international market.
“It helps us with larger multinational customers who are increasingly expecting companies to be not just worried about the bottom line but also trying to reduce their environmental footprint,” he explains.
Goodman CEO James Spence says this shows there’s a real business case to create industrial facilities of this quality.
“Our customers shared the vision for lower emission, more resource efficient and resilient buildings, even while it required extra design input and the use of more innovative materials and construction techniques.”
Committed to a low-carbon future
“The 6 Green Star Built rating from the New Zealand Green Building Council reinforces our commitment to a low-carbon future,” says Spence. “It represents world leadership and provides independent confirmation that we are developing the very best industrial facilities in the country.”
Eagles adds, Tāwharau Lane is typical of Goodman’s world-leading approach to sustainable design.
“Goodman’s commitment to achieving Green Star certifications for all new developments is the sort of leadership we need to see in Aotearoa if we are to achieve our ambitions to decarbonise our built environment and meet the uplift in requirements for reporting and disclosure,” he says.