This Gold Coast commercial property could be world’s most efficient and sustainable building

As far as COVID-19 passion projects go, deciding to revolutionise Australia’s commercial workspaces by proving it was affordable to create healthier, better buildings, was a doozey.

Add the restrictions of the pandemic, escalating material and construction costs, and even a work-from-home revolution that called into question the ongoing viability of office spaces, and it was a project that came with more than its share of challenges.

The result, a building called CORNERBLOCK that has just opened on Queensland’s Gold Coast, is a building like no other.

It is the world’s first commercial building to pursue the trio of the Passive House standard for energy efficiency, the Green Star standard for the sustainable design, construction and operation of the building, and the WELL Building Standard for how the building impacts the health, well-being and comfort of its occupants.