New Zealand's first ten-star green apartment building.
"Daisy" developed by Ockham Residential, opened early in 2018, to a brief discussion about the absence of carparking, with the building located right upon the confluence of New Zealand's biggest motorways and Aucklands busiest arterials. With the entire 33 unit block perched upon 320 square metres of land, half the size of an average Auckland Residential section, the project has so much eco-mana that it can be proud of the lack of carparks.
And, there are a dozen other 'green' reasons why Daisy has made the ten star grade:
- 80 metres from one of Auckland’s busiest bus routes.
- Certified as a 10 Star Homestar Built Rating, the first 10-star rated dwellings built in Auckland and the first 10-star apartments in New Zealand.
- German Zehnder fresh air heat recovery ventilation systems to provide a warm, healthy building with low energy usage.
- Photovoltaic solar farm on the roof for on-site power generation powering common area lighting, lifts, and centralised water heating plant.
- A centralised water heating plant that uses Bosch heat pump technology.
- Rainwater harvesting system with basement storage tanks for re-use on site.
- External blind systems and low E argon filled double glazing to manage solar gain.
- Communal vegetable plantings and fruit trees on adjacent reserve.
- Highly energy-efficient electrical appliances, fixtures and systems targeting low long-term operational costs.
- Scooter and bike parking provided in the basement, accessed by a scooter lift from the lobby. Only two commonly owned carparks containing two shared cars, run through the City Hop car sharing system.
- All construction materials with recognised ecolabels, items with high recycled content, low VOC and environmental best practice (ISO 14001) manufacturing processes.
- Low formaldehyde/formaldehyde-free MDF used in all cabinetry.
