SBN EECA Z Energy Innovation Award – Te Mirumiru – Winner

We won a major NZ energy saving award tonight at the EECA awards for our design of an early childhood centre at Te Mirumiru in Kawakawa. We won the Innovation Award, and were highly commended in the Community Award. Well done to all the team – well deserved and great recognition for everyone’s efforts.

NZGBC Greenstar – Te Mirumiru – 6 Stars (highest possible)

Green Star, New Zealand’s rating tool for sustainable buildings, today awarded its 100th rating. The milestone is a major achievement for Green Star, which launched in 2007. Since then, Green Star-rated offices, industrial buildings and schools have been designed and built around the country, improving the quality and sustainability of New Zealand’s built environment. Three […]

IPENZ Arthur Mead Award – Te Mirumiru – Winner

Earlier this year Phil and Dan Lucas of Eco Design Consultants Limited were awarded the IPENZ Arthur Mead Award for the Environment and Sustainability. Below are some photographs of Phil and Dan at the ceremony earlier this year.

Swings and Roundabouts: Autumn 2013

Te Mirumiru is featured in the latest Swings and Roundabouts. The Early Childhood Council’s magazine, Swings & Roundabouts, is distributed quarterly to all early childhood centres throughout New Zealand Please excuse the hairy knees…

CCANZ Concrete Sustainability Awards – Te Mirumiru – Merit

Collingridge and Smiths’s childcare building at Te Mirumiru, Kawakawa, New Zealand has been awarded a merit for the use concrete, at the concrete sustainability awards in New Zealand. For more information see: http://www.sustainableconcrete.org.nz/page/entries.aspx?year=2012 Currently being assessed by the New Zealand Green Building Council, the building is expected to be awarded a 6 Star Green Star […]

Te Mirumiru ARCHITECTURE NOW

Te Mirumiru, Kawakawa featured in ARCHITECTURENOW For more information see: http://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/te-mirumiru/