St Andrews Primary School
Project Overview St Andrew’s Parish Primary School is a Catholic school situated in Clayton South, Victoria. A school dedicated to providing an extensive education to its students, St Andrew’s is one of a number of schools who are embracing tubular daylighting systems to reduce energy costs and improve student performance.
Hempcrete Home – Residential
BACKGROUND: This project has very much been an exercise in getting the solid beginnings of an ecologically sustainable, long-term, off-grid family home from a tight budget in a sub-tropical climate. The earthy rendered form of the building emerges from the site, complementing and embracing it’s natural setting. Thick hempcrete walls
Queensland Tafe – Acacia Ridge Campus
Project Overview Queensland Tafe Acacia Ridge Campus an industry-standard building and construction facility which allows for training – across a wide range of different trade areas including painting, decorating, plastering, glass and glazing, tiling, flooring, and roofing. The training spaces replicate both commercial and residential settings, giving the students as
Ruffey Lake Park Boulevarde Public Amenities, Doncaster Vic
Project Overview The Ruffey Lake Park Boulevarde Public Toilets is a refurbished facility with universal accessible toilet cubicles catering to all genders and abilities. A changing place facility will be added in 2023 incorporating Solatube’s. Objective A universally accessible public amenity facility with sustainable ongoing operational costs. Solution •
Oaks Hotel, Cairns NQ
Project Overview Construction of a 5-storey, 76-room, boutique hotel in Cairns, with a roof top bar and garden. The hotel was built above live retail tenancies, including some with 24-hour trading operations. Objective The project room layout demanded the delivery of Daylight to Internal rooms with no windows to the
Improving natural light in Australian schools
Project Overview Echuca Twin Rivers School Echuca Twin Rivers School provides Echuca’s western growth corridor with a new, purpose-built, education facility replacing: Echuca South Primary School, Echuca West Primary School and Echuca Specialist School. Objective Throughout the school, interiors designed to elicit a soothing, sensory experience whereby the quality of
Natural light the benefits to your workplace
Natural light in the workplace: valued more than onsite cafes, fitness centres and childcare, new research finds Workers spend on average 5 hours and 42 minutes at their desk each day. Today the design of an office can be almost as big a drawcard as the business itself – especially as more employees
Natural light shines
Harnessing daylight Manufacturers of high-performance daylighting systems, Solatube utilises advanced optics to significantly improve the way sunlight is harnessed and diffused within commercial and residential interior spaces. The innovative Australian company is renowned for revolutionary cost-effective designs that introduce light to traditionally challenging areas. Florian Mehler has specified
Lighting the way to a smarter future
WA educational facilities using the benefits offered by daylight The enormous psychological benefits of incorporating natural light into built environments are well documented. Educational spaces are no exception. Solatube technology is helping this crucial interplay to happen, with an increasing number of Australian schools benefiting from the advantages of introduced
Winner of Best Use of Skylights Commercial 2016 – Manea Trade Training Centre WA
Kent Lyon Architect were challenged to bring additional daylight into all training facilities and administration areas. Some areas had minimal or no natural daylight as they were internal rooms. Kent Lyon Architect investigated various Daylight systems that would meet their project specific requirements in allowing the Trade Centre to effectively
Hammond Park School
Solatube Australia were set a task to develop a combined daylight and artificial (Led) unit so that a “one process fit” would enable savings in the supply of lighting solutions in classrooms. The Solatube SolaMaster LED unit saves the client approximately $6,000 per classroom by incorporating daylight and artificial light
Penrhos College WA
The objective Penrhos College was to be able to completely or for the majority of occupied daylight hours to not use the “hungry” energy consuming artificial lighting systems originally installed when the Sports Centre was built. The project consisted of two multipurpose areas/basketball courts. Solatube were able to provide Daylight
