The First Purpose-Built Office Building In Australia

“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs” (Sassi, 2006).

Council house is first purpose built office building in Australia and also known as CH2 and located in Melbourne CBD, which is at 240 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. CH2 is one of the biggest sustainable building in Australia, which is owned by city of Melbourne and has achieved maximum six Green Star rating, certifies by the Green Building Council of Australia on 22 March 2005 (Green Building Council of Australia, 2014). CH2 building construction started in 2004 and was completed in 2006. Building occupies about 12,536 m2, architected by City of Melbourne in association

The top layers of pace are the faster layers while the bottom two layers are the slowest layers. Such as art/ fashion and commerce are the fast layers and culture and nature are the slowest layers and provide long-term supporting structure. The system works, when each layer respects the pace of the others (Thorpe, 2007). CH2 provides a comfortable, adaptable and stimulating working environment for its users, the staff of Melbourne City Council (Morison, 2005). Technology has big impact on the design of the office environment, which include reducing the reliance on visual forms of surveillance and security, and instead relying on individual motivation and electronic forms of data protestation. The installation of floor access wiring and modular furniture systems will combine with flexible management practice to enable staff to work effectively with new digital technologies (Drake, no date). CH2 contains the sustainable technologies, which are not new, but they have never been used collectively before in Australia. Such as undulating high thermal mass concrete celling which improve air circulation, photovoltaic cells, a water mining plant, rood top solar panels, glare control throughout the building, ‘shower towers, a green roof, roof mounted wind turbines, solar shading and automatic night-purge windows (Climate Leadership Group, 2011). These all technologies are profit oriented to the building environment, workers who work there and economical. Council House 2 is shaped to particular culture standard in working environment and physical context is mainly based on sustainable. CH2 design team choose key accommodation principles intended to create new and fresh place based on work process instead of worker hierarchy, this is because to provide a high level of natural interaction between staff in different