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Verosol Australia supplied Ambience motorised roller blinds to Curtin University’s Legacy Living Lab to reduce heat and glare issues in the building. Beyond heat and glare control, Verosol’s blinds were also able to achieve significant energy savings for the lab.
The Legacy Living Lab (L3) was originally conceived and built to demonstrate the ‘circular economy’ concept in action, particularly addressing the waste generated in the building and construction process. It is now a place of innovation and research, where industry and academia meet to develop environmentally progressive ideas and present them to the broader community.
The L3 project met its initial objectives, generating only five tonnes of CO2 emissions during its build phase (instead of the 50 tonnes that buildings of its size typically generate). However, the building interiors were too hot and bright for anybody to work comfortably.