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COMMUNITY ASSETS & INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE – OVER $5 MILLION
MERRI-BEK CITY COUNCIL GLENROY COMMUNITY HUB PROJECT TEAM
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Glenroy Community Hub
The Glenroy Community Hub is Australia's first public building to be certified as a ‘Passive House’ – a global benchmark for best practice in sustainable building design. The state-of-the art community facility meets the highest environmental design standards and demonstrates the council’s commitment to leadership in taking action on climate change. With a net positive energy rating, it exceeds the organisation’s commitment to delivering net zero buildings.
The $30 million building features a cluster of council and communitybased services that support health, wellbeing, and lifelong learning through an integrated collective impact approach to service delivery under a single roof. The complex includes a library, kindergarten, long day care and education service, neighbourhood centre, maternal and child health service, community health centre, and customer service centre.
Such an expansive design has gone on to support collaboration across traditional service boundaries to address local needs and fosters joint projects like the integration of various children’s services from integrated child care, kindergarten, play groups, and library programs.
This is further supported by off-site additions; linked to this new facility is an adjacent reserve, upgraded to include a new playground, community garden, public sculpture, and social enterprise cafe.
This significant investment is looking to develop better health and education outcomes in the community. The community is now being afforded better educational outcomes and employment pathways through increased participation in formal and informal adult learning, increased rates of kindergarten participation, and more involvement in lifelong learning. The healthier, connected community are now increasingly accessing community health services and maternal and child health services.
The community has described the hub as a welcoming place with open space and natural light that invites them in. Noteworthy alongside these built elements are connections to nature through the connecting park and included greenery that promote this welcoming experience.
