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Common-area efficiency is already being improved.
Q1 Management’s 2025 sustainability report describes expanded energy monitoring, LED retrofits and SkyPoint lift upgrades using carbon-rope technology that reduced lift energy costs by 25%.
Solar Studio · Gold CoastQ1.
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Queensland put solar on the roof. Q1 can take it vertical.
Queensland has embraced rooftop solar at enormous scale, but the model works best when every home has a roof of its own. Q1 changes the equation: use the tower’s vast common façade to bring the solar transition to high-rise apartment living.
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Solar should not depend on owning a suburban roof.
Queensland leads Australia in the number of rooftop solar systems. Q1 can show what comes next: use common vertical property to give apartment living access to a much larger solar surface.
Annual solar yieldQ1 · Surfers Paradise
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Outside commercial threshold
At a glance
What the building envelope could deliver
Qualified roof and façade surfaces are screened against the same energy and commercial assumptions used throughout this case study.
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Annual generation
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Annual energy value
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Modelled payback
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Grid-equivalent CO₂
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Installed solar area
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Project LCOE
Grid-equivalent CO₂ is modelled using the local grid factor. Actual market-based emissions impact depends on the building’s electricity procurement and renewable-energy contracts.
Energy & economics
Monthly electricity & LCOE
See how electricity generation and equivalent energy cost change through the year as solar resource, orientation and shading shift.
Monthly electricity & LCOE
Generation through the day
Height turns into surface area.
Northeast, north and northwest façades provide most of the modelled annual generation, while the roof contributes only a modest share. Q1’s height is not merely architectural — it creates the renewable surface the roof cannot.
Solar generation profile · month by month
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Where the electricity comes from
The northern half of the façade dominates the modelled generation mix. The result makes Q1 a true vertical-solar case rather than a rooftop project with decorative façades.
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The Solar Studio advantage
We model the building.
We model the building.
Then we follow the sun.
Solar Studio reveals the energy potential hidden across an entire building envelope — not just the roof. It combines advanced 3D solar simulation with the commercial metrics asset owners need to make a decision.
Advanced 3D building model
We recreate the building and its urban surroundings so the analysis reflects the real geometry of the façade, roof and neighbouring skyline.
Sunlight, tracked all year
Advanced ray-tracing follows sunlight through every hour of the day and every season of the year, revealing how solar access changes across the envelope.
A true shading profile
Nearby towers, setbacks and the building itself are captured in a detailed shading profile, separating consistently productive surfaces from those that spend too much time in shadow.
From solar potential to business case
We translate the solar opportunity into generation, energy savings, carbon reduction and payback — turning a complex façade into a clear investment picture.
Beyond rooftop solar
See where the building can generate, when that energy arrives, and which surfaces create the strongest commercial value.
Case study settings
The assumptions behind this view
These inputs define the Q1 Gold Coast case study and can be changed for a building-specific assessment.
Assumptions & inputsOpen to review the model settings
Indicative feasibility assessment. Results support early-stage decision making and should be followed by site, structural, electrical and façade-engineering review before project development.
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We can turn this model into a site-specific pilot scope — target surfaces, expected generation, integration pathway and indicative economics.