ENVIRONMENTAL

The Design and Management Team responsible for Pacifica Apartments has incorporated several initiatives within the complex to ensure that Pacifica Apartments achieves a Five Star Energy Rating and is at the leading edge of Student Accommodation apartment complexes in Melbourne.

These initiatives include;

• Installation of a Rainwater retention system to be installed within Basement. The stored water will provide the primary source of water to the communal laundry and individual apartments toilets for flushing with back up from public mains water.

• Planting of indigenous vegetation to the North facing common exterior terraces, which require minimal watering to the outdoor common area’s to reduce water usage and provide food and nesting opportunities for native wildlife.

• Whereas the typical apartment building will only offer electricity, Pacifica Apartments will offer the more environmental friendly natural gas for cooking, assisting in reducing our societies reliance on Brown Coal.

• Each apartment will have suitable opportunities to open windows for natural ventilation, relinquishing the need for noisy and inefficient air conditioners.

• The Facilities Manager will operate a Waste Management Plan that includes recycling of Paper, Plastics, Glass, Metals etc reducing the impact on our Landfill operations.

• Internal party walls in the majority of instances will be concrete tilt panel construction reducing sound movement between apartments as well as providing additional insulation, reducing heat loss.

Pacifica is at the leading edge of apartment design and construction in Melbourne. It will be one of the first apartment buildings to achieve a FIVE STAR energy rating under the Victorian Government's Green Building Program.