Urban development and master planning

The planning and design of sustainable communities requires a high degree of integrated thinking and the application of experience to site-specific challenges. The team at Co-Perform can help at a number of levels including engineering-type calculations for energy, water, carbon and materials assessments, preparation of design advice to help shape decision making and options analysis, as well as evaluation of schemes against applicable performance benchmarks.

• Green Star Communities
• Land use planning, community infrastructure, transportation
• Energy and water infrastructure
• Design guidelines
• Materials and resource recovery

Co-Perform would welcome the opportunity to discuss how our services can assist with your project. Call us on (03) 9042 5677 or e-mail on admin@co-perform.com.au.

Planning approvals and building approvals

Our primary objective is to help you navigate a path through the planning process and to remove as many obstacles as we can. We have trusted relationships with a diverse range of relevant authorities and a clear understanding of their values, policy frameworks and how they make decisions. These relationships and experience across many projects helps us to advise you on any necessary design modifications and/or potential risks so that they can be addressed very early in the design process.

• Planning scheme advice (e.g. achieving the ESD objectives in a cost effective way, balancing competing ESD objectives, Melbourne Planning Scheme 22.19)
• VCAT representation
• Planning application reports
• BESS (built environment sustainability scorecard) assessments
• Best practice water sensitive urban design (WSUD) concepts
• Daylighting assessments
• NCC/BCA compliance assessments and advice (Section J)

Co-Perform would welcome the opportunity to discuss how our services can assist with your project. Call us on (03) 9042 5677 or e-mail on admin@co-perform.com.au.

Green Buildings

The team at Co-Perform has a great depth of experience when it comes to the design of sustainable buildings in Australia and overseas. We appreciate that designing an innovative green building can present unique and complex challenges that require sophisticated engineering solutions, but we also know that sometimes it’s just about good design and getting the basics right. Our priority is to make sure that our role in the design process is clearly articulated and tailored to the needs of the project without introducing any unnecessary complications.

• From inception through construction and commissioning to operational performance
• Project brief preparation
• Improved indoor environmental quality (IEQ)
• Passive design
• Energy
• Cogeneration plant
• Water
• Materials and resource recovery
• Post occupancy evaluation (POE)
• Existing building upgrades

Co-Perform would welcome the opportunity to discuss how our services can assist with your project. Call us on (03) 9042 5677 or e-mail on admin@co-perform.com.au.

Rating Systems

Each year seems to herald the arrival of another rating system for evaluating building performance and at Co-Perform we’ve had direct experience with most of them in both the local and international arenas. We constantly strive to derive as much value as possible from the application of rating systems to ensure that they are much more than just a tick-box exercise, ensuring of course that we don’t forget to tick all the boxes on our way to compliance.

• Green Star for office, multi unit residential, retail, education, office interiors (fitout), healthcare, industrial and public buildings
• NABERS for offices, hotels, retail
• BESS
• NatHers/First Rate
• Better Apartment Design Standards
• MUSIC and STORM (Melbourne Water)

Co-Perform would welcome the opportunity to discuss how our services can assist with your project. Call us on (03) 9042 5677 or e-mail on admin@co-perform.com.au.

Building Simulation

Many years of experience has taught us that computational modeling needs to be used appropriately and carefully to ensure that it supports an agile design process that is required to achieve a well-integrated design solution. All of our building analysis is tailored to the specific project requirements and is used to supplement, not replace, the experience of the design team. By using streamlined analysis processes we ensure that design options can be readily investigated at an early stage whilst ensuring that the final design meets all of the necessary compliance requirements.

• Daylight and solar radiation
• Energy and building systems
• Stormwater and consumption modelling
• Thermal comfort and overheating
• Natural-ventilation

Co-Perform would welcome the opportunity to discuss how our services can assist with your project. Call us on (03) 9042 5677 or e-mail on admin@co-perform.com.au.

Government Programs

Verification, support and funding from Government programs can help the positioning of your building in the marketplace. Certain Government programs raise awareness and/or provide robust comparative ratings of your building with respect to the competition. Support funding is available for certain segments of the market and this can assist with upgrading and repositioning your assets for competitive advantage. At Co-Perform we have excellent experience and relevant accreditations with most of the major Government programs.

• Better Commercial Buildings
• NABERS and Commercial Building Disclosure (CBD)
• Victorian Energy Efficiency Target (VEET,/VEEC) - White Certificates
• 1200 Buildings
• Environmental Upgrade Finance (UEF)
• City Switch

Co-Perform would welcome the opportunity to discuss how our services can assist with your project. Call us on (03) 9042 5677 or e-mail on admin@co-perform.com.au.

Energy Management

Energy management and ratings provide many benefits: reduced energy costs; reduced risk to energy price escalation; attraction of tenants. On the latter point of tenants, Co-Perform note a growing contractual trend for large organisations to require professional services providers operate from buildings that achieve certain NABERS benchmarks; thus adding an additional driver toward energy management. At Co-Perform we have a wealth of expertise in all facets of building upgrades from rating and auditing through design to implementation. Our service offering is supplemented by a significant depth of knowledge and experience in building services engineering.

• Ratings for commercial, retail, hotel and residential properties, mandatory disclosure
• Demand management
• Energy surveys, audits and reports
• Thermal storage
• HVAC, lighting, control, hot water and generation systems
• Energy modelling

Co-Perform would welcome the opportunity to discuss how our services can assist with your project. Call us on (03) 9042 5677 or e-mail on admin@co-perform.com.au.

Design Guide Brief

New Planning Scheme requirements such as BESS and the Better Apartment Design Standards have highlighted conflicting requirements to limit facade cooling loads while at the same time raising interior daylight levels. Furthermore, the interpretation and application of these requirements varies across the various Planning Authorities, introducing significant risks that can increase project costs, cause inefficient iterative design processes and results in delays when trying to obtain Planning Permits.

These big risks can be managed by making a small investment in early-stage engineering advice. Co-Perform’s objective is to help the design team to develop a scheme that meets the Planning Scheme criteria and to facilitate the process of obtaining a planning permit.

For many developments the advice can be easy to implement, for example a change in glazing specification or modification to window size, but for other developments it can be more difficult, such as a modification to the internal apartment layouts, managing glazing areas and shading. In all cases it is best to be aware of the implications and required changes at the earliest possible stage of the design process.

Co-Perform would welcome the opportunity to discuss how our services can assist with your project. Call us on (03) 9042 5677 or e-mail on admin@co-perform.com.au.

Westall Library and Community Hub

Co-perform are commissioned for ESD services for the Westall Community Hub. The Hub is co-located at the Westall Primary School and Westall Secondary College site and provides a range of services including:

• A contemporary library.
• Children's services (kindergarten, supported playgroups, maternal and child health services and more).
• A range of community educational, health, welfare, support services and social opportunities.
• ​ESD features of the project include:
• GBCA 4 Green Star rating (self-assessed “equivalent rating”).
• High levels of daylight access.
• Attention to the passive design elements (glazing specifications, exposure/covering/insulation of thermal mass, blinds, natural ventilation, etc) and the selection of energy efficient equipment enables a 30% to 40% energy reduction.

Oak Park Sports and Aquatic Precinct (Moreland City Council)

Co-perform are commissioned for ESD services for this major sporting facility redevelopment incorporating new: 50m pool, learn to swim pool, play pool, water slides, gymnasium, multipurpose space, studio space and separate sports pavilion.

Significant sustainability aspects of the project include:

• Large photovoltaic array.
• High quality and low energy consumption pool water treatment systems.
• High efficiency lighting and air-conditioning systems.
• Heat pump hot water systems for significant energy and greenhouse emission savings with gas backup for peak times.
• Rainwater capture and reuse to service most of the toilet flushing, washdown and landscaping demand.

Cnr Ormond Rd and Pine Avenue, Elwood, Victoria

Approximately 30 apartments and ground floor retail plus a common underground car park.

• ESD strategy and planning reports (Sustainability Management Plan), thermal performance assessments, water sensitive urban design.
• City of Port Phillip Development & Design Awards 2018 - Multi-unit and mixed-use development category winner.

Carrum Family and Children's Centre

Co-perform provided the Sustainability Management Plan and Section J services for the new Carrum Family & Children’s Centre. The Centre delivers a state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor learning environment. The Centre includes intimate indoor spaces and the outdoor environment is considered just as important for children’s learning experiences:

• 4 playrooms totalling over 100 child care places.
• 2 Maternal and child health consulting rooms.
• ​ESD features of the project include:
• ​An “excellent” rating aspiration on the Sustainable Design Scorecard.
• Attention to the passive design elements (glazing specifications, exposure/covering/insulation of thermal mass, blinds, natural ventilation, etc) and the selection of energy efficient equipment enables a 30% to 40% energy reduction.
• Post occupancy ESD evaluation performed by Co-Perform.

101 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria

NABERS Base Building and Tenancy assessments.

• NABERS Base Building energy and water assessment for the whole building including basement, ground floor retail and 53 office levels with multiple tenancies.
• NABERS Tenancy energy assessment for the 101 Collins Street Pty Ltd Management Office.

Living Carlton - Stage 4,Carlton, Victoria

Approximately 80 apartments in 2 buildings over a common car park.

• ESD Planning Reports (including meeting the objectives of Clause 22.19 of the Melbourne Planning Scheme), Thermal Performance Assessments, STORM Analysis.
• Documentation reviews.

Living Carlton - Stage 8, Carlton, Victoria

Conversion of heritage buildings to 20 apartments.

• ESD Planning Reports, Thermal Performance Assessments, STORM Analysis.
• Documentation reviews.

Living Carlton - Stage 9, Carlton, Victoria

Approximately 100 apartments in 2 buildings over a common car park.

• ESD Planning Reports (including response to Clause 22.19 of the Melbourne Planning Scheme), Thermal Performance Assessments, STORM Analysis.
• Documentation reviews.
• Assistance through construction.

Essendon Fields House, Essendon Fields, Victoria

Operational office building comprising basement plus 3 office levels.

• Assessment and Reporting on existing energy consumption and energy conservation measures.
• NABERS self assessment.

Clarendon St, South Melbourne, Victoria

Shop and residence within the heritage precinct of South Melbourne.

• The residence incorporates innovative ESD features:
• To overcome an East-West only orientation, a centrally located glazed 3 story atrium with variable shading captures daylight and distributes warmth to the Living space and master bedroom.
• Phase change materials (PCMs) are incorporated throughout all rooms as a form of thermal mass. These PCMs even out temperature swings. It is expected that the home will require minimal or no cooling in summer.