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Moving Australia towards net zero: The winners of Sustainability Awards 2022

It has never been more important to elevate pioneering sustainable design to the national stage. The 2022 Sustainability Awards winners embody the talent, innovation and technology that will move Australia towards net zero.

Moving Australia towards net zero: The winners of Sustainability Awards 2022

After two years of virtual events, the 2022 Sustainability Awards were back in their original and popular live format, this time at Sydney’s Shangri-La hotel. 

The 250-strong crowd celebrated the year’s most outstanding people, projects and products in the world of sustainable built design, recognising the contribution that these exemplars have made to the ongoing betterment of our environment. With rapid change needed across the country and the globe, it has never been more important to elevate pioneering design to the national stage, promoting the talent, innovation and technology that will move Australia toward net zero.

In terms of these, our 16th annual awards, we cannot stress how important it is to have these awards in a live format and as such, it goes without saying that the winners were also highly appreciative in being back in our ‘old’ format.

Throughout the evening, 16 winners and 10 honourable mentions were celebrated, with master of ceremonies Peter Colqhoun inviting some of Australia’s leading talents to the stage to accept their awards. 

With COP27 happening and the realisation by many in the world that we have been living unsustainably for so long, the need to use our powers of design to at least minimise our carbon footprint has never been clearer than before.

Insofar as the night goes, there are so many people to thank for the success of this year’s Sustainability Awards. We’d would like to thank the 2022 Jury, led by Dick Clarke, for their unwavering support of the event, and the time and expertise they bring not only to judging, but also to guiding the program and ensuring its continued place as Australia’s most celebrated sustainable built design awards.

The 2022 Sustainability Awards, and the Sustainability Summit (held immediately before the Awards at the Shangri-La and online), have been made possible thanks to our official event sponsors: Best of the Best and Carbon Neutral Partner Autex Acoustics, and category partners Big Ass Fans, BlueScope, Bondor, Electrolux, ForestOne, GH Commercial, Holcim, Kaolin, Network Architectural, Next Timber by Timberlink, Sika, Siniat, Stormtech, Verosol and Wood Solutions

So all that is left to announce are the actual winners of the 2022 Sustainability Awards:

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Best of the Best

Proudly partnered by Autex Acoustics

Winner

Pepper Tree Passive House | Alexander Symes Architect

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Barton Taylor.

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Commercial Architecture (Large)

Proudly partnered by Network Architectural

Winner

Four Pillars Gin Distillery 2.0 | Breathe

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Anson Smart.

Highly Commended

Iron Creek Farm Stay | Misho + Associates

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Misho Vasiljevich.

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Commercial Architecture (Small)

Proudly partnered by Big Ass Fans

Winner

ANZ Breathe | Breathe

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Tom Ross.

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Education & Research

Proudly partnered by Next Timber

Winner

s.e.e.d. – a new demountable classroom | betti & knut architecture

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Bettina Steffens.

Highly Commended

SVSS – Double Streaming Building | Denti

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by adnic-photography.

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Multi-Residential Dwelling

Proudly partnered by Electrolux

Winner

Terrace House | Austin Maynard Architects

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Derek Swalwell.

Highly Commended

Nightingale Ballarat | Breathe

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Kate Longley.

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Single Dwelling (New)

Proudly partnered by Stormtech

Winner

 The Hütt 01 Passivhaus | Melbourne Design Studios (MDS)

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Immanuel Bosse.

Highly Commended

 Cascade House | Core Collective Architects

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Adam Gibson.

Highly Commended

Thistle Hill | Light House Architecture & Science

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Ben Wrigley.

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Single Dwelling (Alteration)

Proudly partnered by Bondor

Winner

Pepper Tree Passive House | Alexander Symes Architect

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Barton Taylor.

Highly Commended

Phoenix House | Harley Graham Architects

Sustainability Award - 2022 Winners
Photography by Andy Macpherson.

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Adaptive Reuse (Alteration/Addition)

Proudly partnered by Wood Solutions

Winner

Sue Hutton’s Stephenson’s Mill | Hector Abrahams Architects

Photography by Neil Waldron.

Highly Commended

SubStation No. 164 | fjmtstudio

Photography by Toby Peet.

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Landscape & Urban

Proudly partnered by Holcim

Winner

Riverside Green | Hassell 

Photography by Scott Burrows.

Highly Commended

Pavilions Residences by Mirvac | Mirvac

Photography by Murray Fredericks.

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Public Building

Proudly partnered by Siniat

Winner

Glenroy Community Hub | DesignInc Melbourne

Photography by Dianna Snape.

Highly Commended

Eden Port Welcome Centre | COX Architecture

Photography by John Gollings.

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Interior Design

Proudly partnered by GH Commercial

Winner

Built/Substation No. 164 | fjmtinteriors with fjmtstudio

Photography by Toby Peet.

Highly Commended

Department of Transport, Victoria | packvonhartel

Photography by Nicole England.

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Green Building Material

Proudly partnered by Forest One

Winner

SR2 – Systems Reef | BVN & the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Image courtesy SR2 Design Team.

Highly Commended

Water Yuludarla Collection | Milliken

Photography by David Sievers.

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Smart Building Ideas

Proudly partnered by Verosol

Winner

Gabrielle’s Home | BluKube Architecture

Photography by Dallas Nock.

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Editor’s Choice (Social & Community Outcomes)

Proudly partnered by Sika

Winner

Bay Pavilions Arts + Aquatic | NBRS with Donovan Payne Architects

Photography by Alexander Mayes.

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Emerging Sustainable Architect/Designer

Proudly partnered by Kaolin

Winner

Marni Reti | Kaunitz Yeung Architecture

Lifetime Achievement

Proudly partnered by BlueScope

Winner

Chris Nunn | AMP Capital

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The Sustainability Awards will return for its 17th year in 2023, with entries opening in the coming months. 

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