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AGDF welcomes new Board Member – John Tuxworth

BE Collective is proud to advise that our Managing Director, John Tuxworth, has been elected to the Board of the Australian Green Development Forum.

The Board recognises John’s formidable experience in green development, following on from his first sustainability project working on Greenwich Millennium Village in 1998, with signature European architect, Ralph Erskine. Since that time John has championed sustainability in a number of Australian forums, been registered as a Green Star Professional, exhibited sustainable installations, and provided sustainability consulting for commercial, multi-residential and architectural homes.

“It is an honour to be elected to the board”, Mr Tuxworth says. “It is great to be working with a formidable team of like-minded professionals. I plan to infuse an engineering perspective and assist with publications in order to enhance both value and national membership”.

Mr Tuxworth will continue his hands-on day-to-day involvement with BE Collective, and continue to lead our small sustainability team.

Learn more about BE Collective’s Managing Director here.

Award-winning architectural home – ‘The Living Room’

BE Collective are very proud to have supported Aardvarc in achieving their award-winning result with ‘The Living Room’. This residential project features off-form architectural concrete and a seemingly free floating green roof. We designed the slender roof element to facilitate drainage using finite element analysis software Ram Concept.

The project has featured in multiple publications, and has been recognised with a commendation at the 2015 AIA Brisbane Awards.
Check out more information about the project here. (more…)

BE Collective’s work on Channel 7: Brisbane’s Largest Green Wall Development

‘One of the hottest designs in Architecture’.

Verde, the 12-storey, 82 apartment, development in West End will feature one of the largest green walls in Brisbane. Structural, civil, plumbing & drainage, traffic & ESD engineering consultancy services are being provided by BE Collective. The 12,000 plants making up the green wall will be irrigated by a grey water treatment system, also designed by BE Collective.

See more about the project on Channel 7, and on our project profile page. (more…)

Verde Green Wall Workshop

We recently spent a stimulating afternoon work-shopping Queensland’s largest green wall with Verde Design Group, In Earth Designs and VCP Developments.

The 670m2 of green wall is going onto two elevations of an 80 apartment building at West End. 

VCP Developments loved the landscape scheme so much they named the building Verde – which is Spanish (from the Latin veridis, viridem) meaning Green.

The workshop at BE Collective’s Brisbane office covered multi-disciplne design and construction aspects, including orientation, plant stock, water demand and reuse, fertigation, drainage, waterproofing, architectural detailing, and of course structural support (including long-term creep of the walling system).

The green walls will be afforded security of supply via a recycled stormwater system.

For more information on the project, and some glossy images courtesy of BrisbaneDevelopment.com, click here.