Our Portfolio
Leading energy compliance for iconic and large-scale projects
Energy Lab has worked on some of Australia’s most high-profile, large-scale, and innovative projects, delivering expert energy compliance solutions tailored to unique design and sustainability challenges. From major residential developments to landmark commercial buildings, our expertise ensures seamless compliance with NatHERS, BASIX, Section J and all National Construction Code energy efficiency standards. Explore some of our standout projects below.
Energy Lab and The Block
Powering Energy Compliance for Australia’s Biggest Renovation Show
Energy Lab is proud to be the trusted energy compliance partner for The Block, Australia’s leading home renovation TV show. Each season, we provide expert NatHERS energy ratings, Ecological Sustainable Design assessments, and general sustainability guidance, ensuring every season meets strict energy efficiency standards while achieving stunning design outcomes.
Re'em boutique hotel at Yarra Valley’s Helen and Joey Estate
Re'em Yarra Valley is a boutique hotel nestled in the heart of the Yarra Valley. Energy Lab conducted comprehensive energy compliance assessments for the hotel, restaurant and distillery ensuring that all regulatory requirements were met while optimising the building's sustainability and energy efficiency.
Good Friday Appeal Auction Home
Henley Homes and the Royal Children’s Hospital Charity Home
Each year, Energy Lab proudly donate time and expertise to provide energy efficiency assessments and compliance reports for the Henley Homes Charity Auction. These amazing homes are built and auctioned to support the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
Our contribution ensures the home meets all energy efficiency standards, helping to create a sustainable, comfortable living space while supporting an incredible cause.
Vision Tower in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD
Vision Apartments is a prominent residential skyscraper located at 500 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, standing at 229 meters with 70 floors. Completed in 2016, it ranks as Melbourne's second tallest building.
Energy Lab conducted comprehensive energy compliance assessments for Vision Apartments, ensuring full regulatory compliance while improving overall building performance and sustainability.
Cladding Safety Solutions for Hamilton Marino
Making Victorians safer by reducing the risk associated with combustible cladding on residential apartment buildings
Since 2020 Energy Lab has been working collaboratively with Hamilton Marino on numerous Cladding Safety Victoria projects across the Melbourne CBD.
Facade rectification works include the targeted removal and replacement of combustible Foam and Aluminium Composite Panel from construction surfaces that form part of the thermal envelope of a building.
The team at Energy Lab have designed and documented bespoke Performance Solutions based on the National Construction Code for document approval for rectification permits.
Performance Solutions range in scope and complexity depending on the scope of material yet consistently demonstrate an increase in thermal performance of the facade system when compared to the current as-built form.
Bakehouse Terraces by JAM Architects
Traditional terrace homes reinterpreted for today, these fourteen architecturally designed terrace homes offer the opportunity to live in one of Melbourne’s most sought after neighbourhoods.
JAM Architects has drawn on the heritage character of North Fitzroy, the laneway context of this location, and the needs of changing contemporary lifestyles to create a collection of modern terrace homes.
Energy Lab completed all town planning and building permit documentation to facilitate an enhanced level of energy efficiency.
NatHERS for Existing Homes
Expanding NatHERS energy efficiency assessments to all homes in Australia
In order to help understand the energy efficiency of all existing houses across Australia, Energy Lab has partnered with Opteon AUS to facilitate the CSIRO trials of NatHERS for existing homes.
Energy Lab has been contracted to test and evaluate CSIRO software and scale workflow processes to facilitate the largest paradigm shift in Energy Efficiency for all Australian homes.
Southern Cross Care Illoura Village by Smith+Tracey Architects
In comfortable surroundings, Illoura Village, Chinchilla QLD offers a close-knit community in a peaceful country environment. Enjoy a strong connection with the community with fun activities and social interaction.
Energy Lab completed all building permit documentation including a JV3 assessment for 81 self-contained rooms with additional computations for a cafe and multiple communal facilities.
Prahran Hotel by Techne Architects
National Commendation by the Australian Institute of Architects
The corner pub is an iconic and much-loved staple of inner Melbourne’s architectural streetscape and the streamlined Art Deco building of the Prahran Hotel is a favourite meeting place. This delightful project retains the original building but opens it up to a bold new extension organized around a double-height space and an inner courtyard.
“The answer came in a facade composed of enormous industrial concrete pipes big enough to contain seating booths. The concrete pipes are stacked vertically like an oversized wine rack and make a dramatic visual statement on both the interior and exterior”
East Street House by Kerstin Thompson Architects
Commissioning the design of a new home is a process that involves a multitude of milestones, from finding the right site and establishing a brief to negotiating during design and then building.
For many clients, this process ends once they move in. When the design has been guided and shaped by the owners’ ideas of who they are and how they want to live, it is fair to assume that the clients’ “dream home” will meet expectations from the day they move in.
Wayss Youth Transition Hub by Bent Architecture
Designed for social needs
The project was commissioned by the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) for Wayss, a charity that provides family violence and housing support in Melbourne’s outer eastern suburbs. The project comprises six one-bedroom and two two-bedroom dwellings, an administration building and a multipurpose space, all arranged around a communal garden.
As a youth transition hub, it is designed for young people between 17 and 21 years old who are at risk of homelessness due to family violence, mental illness or other crises. It is a place where they can be supported in developing long-term independence.
Richmond Warehouse by Techne Architects
“Retaining the warehouse aesthetic was really important to Dianne and Frank. That was made pretty clear from the outset,” says Steve McKeag, project architect at Techne Architects.
Indeed, it is those existing elements that give the project much of its character – a network of black steel struts crisscrosses the space, piercing the beautifully solid blockwork of the original structure.
On the east-facing street frontage, multi-paned, steel-framed windows gaze at the train line, just visible behind the fronds of the tall peppercorn trees opposite.
Aesop | Emporium Melbourne by Kerstin Thompson Architects
Calm and restrained with extensive use of spotted gum timber.
Emporium Melbourne is the long-awaited infill piece in Melbourne’s Golden Mile, the stretch of retail properties extending from La Trobe Street all the way down the hill to Flinders Street.
The opening of the new centre makes it possible, for the first time, to walk from La Trobe Street’s Melbourne Central shopping centre down to Bourke Street Mall without your feet touching the ground.
The Terminus Hotel by Techne Architects
Aficionados of Melbourne’s pub scene will fondly remember the mint-green Terminus Hotel, a classic drinker’s destination in the landscape of inner-urban Melbourne. After being closed for some time, the pub was recently purchased and given a new lease of life by prominent Melbourne hotelier Sand Hill Road in collaboration with its long-time architectural partner Techné Architecture and Interior Design.
Messing with a classic is a process fraught with danger, but even a cursory examination demonstrates that the team has managed to breathe new life into the shell without sacrificing the idiosyncratic vibe that made the place so special.
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