Brisbane’s 25 King is a timber building pushing boundaries in construction, sustainability and indoor environment quality

What goes into a timber building? What’s the difference between timber and crosslaminated timber? And will we start seeing more wooden buildings?-

The latest episode of AIRAH on Air is a visit to 25 King, Australia’s largest and tallest engineered timber office building. It was developed and built by Lendlease as part of a continuing $2.9 billion regeneration of Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds, in the inner suburb of Bowen Hills. The project featured ambitious rating design objectives, including a WELL Platinum Core and Shell rating and 6 star Design and As Built V1.1 Green Star ratings.

Following their keynote address at the Future of HVAC 2019, we speak to Danni Roberts, Affil.AIRAH, and Joel Fernandes of Aurecon, an engineering consultancy firm, on what it was like to not only deliver the structural engineering design, building services and ESD on the project, but also now occupy the building as its main tenant.

This episode is an adaptation of the April 2019 cover story (“King in the north”) of Ecolibrium, AIRAH’s industry journal. For more on Ecolibrium, please visit airah.org.au/ecolibrium and to read the original article by Sean McGowan, please visit http://bit.ly/2KTwgDm