The University of Sydney | Engineering + Technology Precinct

The University of Sydney Engineering and Technology Precinct (ETP) is a step toward achieving the university’s ambition to make a more sustainable campus, including strategies to reinvigorate and retain existing structures wherever possible.

Introba (formerly Integral Group) used OneClick LCA to perform a life cycle assessment on the ETP design, 50% of which consists of a pre-existing structure. Compared to a business-as-usual demolition and construction project, the ETPs strategy will result in the following reductions of environmental impacts throughout its lifecycle:

-26% Greenhouse gas emissions
-49% Ozone depletion potential
-27% Acidification
-27% Eutrophication
-32% Formation of ozone lower atmosphere
-48% Abiotic depletion

The redevelopment of the campus’s 1960s electrical engineering building will include a refurbishment and the addition of a new, 10-story wing, including new research and teaching laboratories.