LFA (Pacific)’s Redfern East Social Housing Project was praised for both its social and environmental sustainability achievements. 
Designed to enable local residents to remain within their communities, the Redfern East Social Housing project accommodates families, seniors and people with disabilities.
The project implemented best practice sustainability initiatives to address energy, water, transport, bio-diversity and community elements. Sustainable design features include gas boosted solar hot water heating, collection of rainwater in two underground tanks, photovoltaic cells and the insulation of cavity walls to improve thermal performance of the building fabric. The judges comment that the project achieves high level sustainable outcomes in both social and environmental terms: 
“Its 5 star score on the GreenStar Multi-Residential tool, reflects clever design and layout of buildings on a difficult site, to achieve good solar access and cross ventilation, with well resolved user adjustable shading and ventilation control details.”
Accepting the award, Alf Lester, director of LFA (Pacific), pointed out that sustainability should be inherent in the design and not just in “add-on” elements.
“At Redfern there is careful consideration of the site, microclimate and orientation, construction processes and use of appropriate materials .This, together with design elements such as cross ventilation, skylights and fixed and adjustable shading to minimise energy usage, saw the project awarded a 5 Star Green Star rating from the Green Building Council of Australia,” says Lester.
“LFA is excited and pleased that the Redfern East project has been recognised by the BPN judging panel as an exemplar of multi-unit housing which integrates sustainability initiatives with architectural and urban design,” he adds.