The Project
LendLease established its Living Utilities business during the development of Barangaroo South. It was developed to improve the delivery and management of utility services, while also improving economic and environmental outcomes on its projects. It has since expanded into some of LendLease’s other large-scale projects across Australia.
Living Utilities owns and operates a two-level basement underneath the Barangaroo South commercial precinct. It contains a recycled water plant, centralised chilled water plant for air conditioning and an embedded electrical network. The business has also invested in solar panels and fibre solutions.
Barangaroo South is one of only 18 projects around the world to be part of C40 Cities’ Climate Positive Development Program. It supports projects striving for a climate positive emissions target of net-negative operational greenhouse gas emissions in the energy, waste and transportation sectors.
Barangaroo South’s recycled water plant, which is capable of supplying one million litres of water to the precinct and surrounding suburbs per day, will enable the precinct to become water net positive. Living Utilities is also aiming to eliminate the distribution of waste to landfill by the end of 2020.
