TMCO helps buildings across Australia and New Zealand achieve Green Star and NABERS ratings with practical, cost-effective strategies that improve performance, support compliance, and demonstrate sustainability.
Ratings like Green Star and NABERS are a means to a better building, not an end in themselves. We give practical, cost-effective advice that improves performance, supports compliance and demonstrates sustainability.
Thermal modelling for integrated design of services and thermal envelope. Using both dynamic and static modelling software, we offer design analysis across residential, commercial and industrial applications:
We guide projects through Green Star, NABERS and other rating tools, and translate the requirements into practical design decisions. This might include:
Sustainability decisions made early, from orientation and thermal envelope to services and controls, set the performance of the whole building. Early input delivers a better rating for less cost.
We set out the sustainability options with their pros and cons, capital and running costs, available funding and payback comparisons, so you can make an informed decision with no nasty surprises.
We model performance within the architect's actual model, using Revit and ArchiCAD, so sustainability is designed in, not bolted on.
Our team members designed one of the highest Green Star rated (6 star) buildings around, the Christchurch City Council Civic Building.
We have many firsts, including New Zealand's first NABERS whole-building rating, its highest NABERS rating, its first certified carbon-zero building and the first Green Star church, many of which have won awards.
Sustainability set as a goal at concept stage is far cheaper to achieve than one added later. Early input shapes orientation, envelope and services for the whole project.
