In collaboration with Re/Volve Energy, TUA provided expert support and consultation to the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT), for a masterplan review of their Tewa Banks development. TUA gave guidance in order to support improved sustainability and wellbeing through development.
The Challenge
Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust wanted to understand how to innovate and create stand-out liveability and sustainability outcomes, all with the goal of creating leading-edge housing developments, that improve the lives of residents and their local community.
The Solution
TUA supported the trust in understanding how to achieve this, supplying them with the knowledge and tools to adopt best-practice design, sustainability and wellbeing principles. TUA provided a Development Guidebook to support this project, and also for them to carry forward into future projects.
The Journey
A masterplan for the Tewa Banks development had been lodged to the Queenstown Lakes District Council for resource consent approval, but QLCHT then identified the opportunity for it to better align with the objectives of the trust, in their vision to innovate and challenge current thinking in residential development.
The work involved for TUA to support them in this mission included scoping and visioning, urban design and housing research/case study analysis, carbon and life cycle cost analysis, and sustainability policy review; to lead to the development of the final, custom recommendations and advice.
