By The Urban Developer
Goodman has begun building a timber warehouse development at Moorabbin Airport, south of Melbourne—the first time the Sydney-based global industrial property group has trialled mass timber construction in the Asia-Pacific.
The construction, at Mentone about 23km south-east from the Melbourne CBD, will use about 630 tonnes of certified, sustainably sourced timber for the four flexible warehouse units totalling 15,600 square metres.
Goodman said it expected the mass timber construction to cut the project’s embodied carbon by about 24 per cent, compared to conventional steel structures, while still retaining structural integrity.
The development—at the eastern end of Boundary Road within the Moorabbin Airport Master Plan—will also include a 400kW rooftop solar array, eight electric-vehicle charging station, and smart metering to monitor and manage energy consumption.
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