Pixel's design includes tracking photovoltaic roof panels. Grocon's new Pixel building, the first carbon neutral office building in Australia, has achieved the highest Green Star ever awarded.

Pixel has achieved a perfect score of 100 points under the Green Star rating system for building design, with 75 points the benchmark for 6 star Green Star. It gained an extra five points for innovation, equating to world leadership.

Green Building Council chief executive, Romilly Madew, says Pixel was truly a green masterpiece, pushing boundaries and going above and beyond the "norm" in green building innovation.

"The Pixel Building, having achieved the maximum Green Star points ever awarded under Green Star, could arguably be said to be Australia's greenest building and is quite possibly the first building of its kind in the world," she says. "This building will redefine the way buildings are built in the future."

Included in Pixel's five innovation points were points for carbon neutrality, a vacuum toilet system, the anaerobic digestion system and reduced car parking.

The water initiatives in the project mean the building could be self sufficient for water - in this context, the project is water balanced as well as carbon neutral.

Pixel is also being assessed under the USA LEED and UK BREEAM rating systems, aiming to exceed the highest score yet achieved under either of those tools.

Designers of Pixel include architects studio505, sustainability and services engineers Umow Lai and structure engineer, VDM Consulting.

Pixel features a special type of concrete, known as Pixelcrete, which halves the embodied carbon in the mix.

"We also have the world's leading wind turbines, invented in Bendigo, the Melbourne University designed 'living roof', which re-introduces Victorian grassland species to the Melbourne area, and tracking photovoltaic roof panels," says Daniel Grollo, CEO of Grocon.

"The distinctive looking sun shade system on the exterior of the building will provide the maximum amount of daylight into the office space, while protecting it from too much glare and heat in the summer."

Pixel will also feature smart window technology, whereby windows will open automatically on cool nights to enable air flow into the building to cool the structure.

Architecture & Design Team

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