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IDS-10: Lendlease Residential Aged Care
About the project
This project is one of a series of Integrated Design Studios (IDS’s) to be carried out under i-Hub. This studio will use the Lendlease Residential Aged Care Facility on the University of Wollongong’s Health and Wellbeing Precinct as a case study.
Integrated design aims to empower architecture with engineering and technical performance, to produce “towards zero energy” facilities that will reduce operating costs and assist to combat climate change.
The IDS’s will generate improvements in integrated design processes as well as yielding design ideas for the building typologies they are concerned with. Renewable energy technologies will be a key focus.
| Project title | Integrated Design Studio IDS-10 Lendlease Residential Aged Care |
| Project number | IDS-10 |
| Project location | Wollongong |
| Lead partner | University of Wollongong |
| Project partners | – |
| Project participants | Lendlease, Stantec, MIEngineers, COX, ARUP |
| Start date | 02/2021 |
| End date | 11/2021 |
| ARENA/i-Hub funding | $72,693 |
| Total project cost | $201,777 |
Need
The residential aged-care sector faces a number of specific challenges in the move to absolute zero carbon. Not least of these is the current reliance on natural gas and the need for increased levels of thermal comfort whilst reducing energy consumption. Furthermore, the sector has been at the focus of concerns regarding infection control in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This residential aged care IDS will produce innovative design concepts that will be a crucial part of Lendlease achieving its ambitious target of absolute zero emissions by 2040 with possibilities of applying these strategies to the wider aged-care sector.
Action
The Integrated Design Studios (of which this is one), will be carried out at a number of universities (UoM, QUT, and University of Wollongong), they provide an environment where integrated design processes can be tested and refined on different building typologies.
The IDSs bring together academics, industry consultants, and clients assisted by undergraduate and masters level students to explore integrated design.
Output will include findings on how to best enable integrated design as well as student produced collateral on design ideas for aged care facilities.
Outcome
This project is expected to contribute to the development of a robust integrated design process able to be extended to industry to change the way design traditionally occurs on projects improving carbon performance.
It will also produce design ideas specific to aged care facilities that may be adopted by the client, project participants, or the wider aged care sector. The use of renewables technologies will be a key focus.
Additional impact
Integrated Design by its nature is an inclusive process that will produce designs that better serve society as a whole. As well as improved technical (energy) performance, design outcomes are expected to also provide increased community and societal benefits.
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