{"id":88123,"date":"2023-11-25T19:42:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=88123"},"modified":"2023-11-25T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:42:16","slug":"these-apartments-were-built-just-five-years-ago-now-theyre-being-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/these-apartments-were-built-just-five-years-ago-now-theyre-being-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"These apartments were built just five years ago, now they\u2019re being demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Save articles for later<\/h3>\n<p>Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.<\/p>\n<h3>Key points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Buildings account for 66 per cent of all emissions across the City of Melbourne.<\/li>\n<li>By 2050 embodied carbon could account for 85 per cent of carbon emissions from Australia\u2019s building stock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A 12-storey apartment block in North Melbourne that was built only five years ago will be knocked down and rebuilt in what experts warn points to the city\u2019s fixation with disposable buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Melbourne voted on Tuesday night to approve the demolition of the RMIT Village development on the Haymarket roundabout and turn it into a new 19-storey student housing building with build-to-rent apartments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.126%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/e082e383ec5ce058c7e20403ea395a39c81051d3\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\"><\/p>\n<p><span>The RMIT Village building earmarked for redevelopment. <\/span><cite class=\"ojLwA\"><span>Credit: <\/span>Jason South<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Deputy Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece said it was concerning in the midst of a climate emergency to be asked to approve the demolition of the large, near-new Flemington Road building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking a wrecking ball to a five-year-old building is wasteful, and creates waste,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot let Melbourne become a city of disposable buildings \u2013 a city where new buildings are built on the cheap, to be knocked down every 20 years or so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will end up with a throwaway city of junk buildings, as well as an unacceptable environmental cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buildings account for 66 per cent of all emissions across the City of Melbourne and Reece said adopting sustainable building standards was critical to reducing the city\u2019s carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to see a stronger commitment to upgrading existing buildings for extended use, where viable, as a more carbon-efficient alternative to demolition,\u201d Reece said. \u201cWe need to construct buildings to last, not cheap disposable rubbish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Zohar, planner with planning consultancy UPco, represented the building\u2019s owners at the council meeting, and said the site was \u201ccurrently looking pretty tired\u201d and was \u201cgrossly underutilised\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Zohar said the owners had considered retrofitting the building, rather than demolishing it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.796%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/9b046d6a12a74948f02c3a2a8b7d3810d281e52b\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\"><\/p>\n<p><span>The site of the proposed RMIT Village redevelopment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at what we\u2019re offering, what is a significant contribution to student facilities with much larger scale communal areas out there [in North Melbourne] is something that can\u2019t be achieved by retrofitting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Reece urged Melbourne to ensure disposable buildings didn\u2019t go up in the first place and push for viable alternatives to demolition such as retrofitting and adaptive reuse.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said the proposed RMIT Village redevelopment met the planning controls for the site so issuing a permit for the demolition and construction was \u201cthe correct decision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let the word go forth that the era of the disposable building is over, and the construction of new low-grade buildings with a short life span will not be tolerated in the City of Melbourne,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.873%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/f23b47c8fbc4e908e1bf653b7e61be9f750c4e94\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\"><\/p>\n<p><span>The City of Melbourne approved the demolition of the existing building and construction of a new building at the RMIT Village development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just across the road from the RMIT Village development at the University of Melbourne, a Retrofit Symposium has been taking place for the past two days.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Bell, City of Melbourne chair in urban resilience and innovation, said Australia was \u201cbehind the eight-ball\u201d compared to the rest of the world when it came to retrofitting buildings, as developers opted to do knockdown rebuilds instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur planning system is getting better at delivering energy-efficient buildings, but it doesn\u2019t yet consider the energy used to construct a building or resources wasted in demolition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>By 2050, Bell said embodied carbon, the amount of carbon emitted during construction, could account for 85 per cent of carbon emissions from Australia\u2019s building stock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn London, developments like [RMIT Village] are assessed on full life-cycle impacts, including materials and energy wasted when buildings are demolished,\u201d Bell said. \u201cThat means there needs to be very strong justification to demolish an existing building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Victoria\u2019s planning system does not require developers to consider the whole lifecycle of their projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are to meet our carbon emissions targets, we need to account for carbon wasted in demolition of buildings and carbon emitted to build new ones,\u201d Bell said.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. 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