Grocon’s Pixel Building is a carbon-neutral ‘office of the future’ that exists in Melbourne right now. This eye-catching building on the Carlton Brewery redevelopment site ticks just about every green box you can think of.
Behind its colourful pixelated facade is a building that can generate more energy on site than it uses and is completely water self-sufficient. The new materials and technologies tested on Pixel are now being incorporated into Grocon’s other construction projects. One new material – a concrete that can halve the embodied carbon in concrete mix – is now commercially available.
The Pixel Building has achieved a perfect Green Star score and will achieve the highest-ever environmental rating for buildings using the LEED and BREEAM rating schemes. Approximately 740,000 buildings are registered worldwide under these three rating schemes and Pixel is at the forefront of them all.