Capo Di Monte

Client Dennis: J Francis Pty Ltd
Project Manager: David Hamlyn-Harris
Location: Mount Tamborine, Gold Coast Hinterland, Queensland
Value: $10M

  • Capo Di Monte is a water self-sufficient community
  • Wastewater is managed to have no adverse impact on the environment
  • The IWM system collects and recycles wastewater to deliver Class A+ water quality for toilet flushing and irrigation
  • Stormwater is managed to have no adverse impact on local waterways
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The Ecovillage at Currumbin

Client: Landmatters Currumbin Valley Pty Ltd
Project Manager: Seymour White
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
Value: $16M

  • World's best practice sustainable development
  • UDIA EnviroDevelopment program certified in all six categories: Ecosystems, Waste, Energy, Materials, Water, and Community
  • Civil engineers worked closely with the land and vegetation to reduce environmental impacts and optimise natural site opportunities
  • Clustered housing and 80% community open space. All works made to blend into the existing landform during construction

 

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Gold Coast Waterfuture

Client: Gold Coast Water
Project: Manager Gold Coast Water
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
Value: $5.8 billion over 50 years

  • Development of long-term strategy to secure the water supply to Gold Coast City using integrated water management principles.
  • David Hamlyn-Harris, Bligh Tanner Director, was Principal Engineer, Water Technology, in the Waterfuture team

 

 
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Pimpama Coomera Waterfuture Master Plan

Client: Gold Coast Water
Project Manager: Gold Coast Water
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland

  • Winner: Global grand prize and Australia-South East Asia Regional Prize for Planning, International Water Association Project Innovation Awards 2006.
  • Master Plan aims to reduce the demand for drinking water by nearly 85%, using rainwater, recycled water and water conservation to supply the community's initiatives.
  • Reductions in wastewater flows achieved using reduced infiltration gravity sewers (RIGS).
  • Water-sensitive urban stormwater design minimises runoff rates and improves runoff quality into local waterways.
  • Bligh Tanner Director, David Hamlyn-Harris, was Principal Consultant to the Pimpama Coomera Waterfuture team.

 

 
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Queensland Draft Guidelines for Decentralised Wastewater Systems

Client: Queensland Environmental Protection Agency
Project Manager: David Hamlyn-Harris, Bligh Tanner
Location: Statewide, Queensland

  • A reference document for local authorities, developers and communities throughout Queensland
  • Guidelines for the planning, design, implementation, management and communication of decentralised wastewater collection, treatment and reuse schemes.
  • Bligh Tanner ran information workshops on behalf of EPA for industry and stakeholders.
  • Guidelines apply to development plans for 21-1000 EP - the first guidelines ever developed for this size of project.
  • Bligh Tanner conceptualised, prepared and wrote the guidelines.

 

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Silva Park

Client: Trevor O'Rourke
Project Manager: Urban Blueprint
Location: Payne Road, The Gap, Brisbane
Value: $6M

  • 22-lot prestige subdivision developed as a model for sustainable urban development in a fringe area unsuitable to be fully serviced to normal residential standards
  • Rainwater collected at each house
  • Water tanks backed up from communal tanks trickle fed from town water supply
  • Greywater treated and reused on-site to minimise wastewater load on external services
  • WSUD system incorporating swales and bioretention filter to protect the local creek

 

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Sustainable Home Brisbane

Client: Natural Lifestyle Homes
Project Architect: Bligh Voller Nield
Location: Seventeen Mile Rocks, Brisbane
Value: $1.5M

  • Winner - Building of the Year and Water Efficient House of the Year, Housing Industry Association GreenSmart Awards 2006
  • Water management choices included rainwater capture, greywater and stormwater reuse, water-use monitors.
  • Sustainable materials choices included recycled materials, low toxicity materials and renewable materials.
  • The design worked with the natural contours and around existing trees to maintain biodiversity and retain local vegetation.
  • Minimal waste and transport costs reduced the embodied energy of construction materials

 

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Viret

Client: QM Properties
Project Architect: TVS Partnership
Location: Clayfield, Brisbane

  • The first BERS 5-star energy efficient eco-apartments in Brisbane
  • BT was responsible for structural, civil and water engineering
  • Features natural light and ventilation, and efficient water and energy use, including solar power and ‘living walls’.
  • All finishes and materials are sustainably produced and have low toxicity.
  • Rainwater tanks provide more than half the water needs of the complex.

 

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