The benchmark for sustainable, collaborative building practices.

Introduction

Ngā Mokopuna, which forms part of the Victoria University of Wellington campus, is the university's first Living Building Challenge® building, with a focus on wellbeing and sustainability, to match the university's sustainable growth initiative. The Living Building Challenge® (LBC) is a global, performance-based, certification program defining today’s most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment. The philosophy is to create spaces that reconnect occupants with nature by creating buildings that generate more energy than they use, capture and treat all water on site, and are made using sustainable materials.

Client

Tennent Brown Architects are an award-winning practice with sustainability deeply embedded in their philosophy. Having worked together on previous projects, Tennent Brown engaged Sabre to collaborate and supply a suite of premium products that met the strict criteria of the LBC project.