World’s tallest hybrid timber tower approvedFriday 13 Oct 2023
The proposed building at 6 Charles Street is named C6 after the periodic table’s symbol for carbon and would become the State’s first carbon-negative building. The City of South Perth had recommended against its approval as it believed the development did not meet “design excellence” in relation to amenity, legibility, and safety. But the project was approved unanimously at a recent Metro Inner-South Joint Development Assessment Meeting. The developer submitted the plans, designed by Fraser & Partners, to the City of South Perth in April last year. Grange Development founder and director James Dibble said timber as a building material had been around for centuries but mass timber construction and fabrication methods had made it a viable option to use only recently. “C6 represents the future of what is possible, except we will deliver it now,” he said last year. “If we get this right, we should never have to rely on building another solely concrete or steel tower in our lifetime.” Post-construction, Grange Development has committed to sharing its C6 research, design and construction documentation as a call to arms for other developers to take up, evolve and develop the building methodology. “We as a company are not driven solely by profit: we are driven by the need to urgently reduce our carbon footprint whilst delivering happier, healthier homes,” Mr Dibble said. “We want to encourage other developers to see what we have delivered with C6 and start to incorporate the methodology across other projects. If we can accelerate a paradigm shift into the use of more renewable building materials such as mass timber in a hybrid nature and see even 10, 15 or 20 per cent of future projects use mass timber in their construction in the next few years, we will have succeeded.” Photo: Grange Development Consulting Source: Perth Now | ||
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