Warwick Savvas

Warwick’s approach to living architecture projects is based on an integrated understanding of green infrastructure in urban environments, and a thorough knowledge of living architecture, integrated water cycle management, water sensitive urban design, building thermal performance, structural capacity. This stems from an architectural, building construction as well landscape and ecological perspectives.
He is fully conversant with the design, refinement and implementation of living architecture and green infrastructure elements within a wide range of projects.
His expertise in green infrastructure and living architecture includes balcony greening, green roofs, green walls and green façades. He is also highly knowledgeable about Water Sensitive Urban Design, Integrated Water Cycle Management, and greening streets through the integration of soil volumes for trees with the grey infrastructure of pavements, underground services, and the provision of landscape on podium.
Warwick was a member of the Technical Reference Group on the Growing Green Guide for Melbourne, and completed the feasibility assessment for demonstration sites for green roofs, walls and facades as an adjunct to this.
He has also delivered the demonstration green roof for the 1 Treasury Place ‘Green Our Rooftops’ project for the City of Melbourne, Department of Environment, Land and Water and Planning, the Department of Finance. He also designed and delivered the green façade to the Platinum Tower, City Road for Multiplex, as well as a number of other green roof and balcony greening projects.
Warwick lead the design and implementation for landscape, ecological and green roof works at the Victorian Desalination Project, which incorporates the largest extensive green roof in Australia, and over 225 hectares of indigenous re vegetation. He was pivotal in realising the performance requirements for the green roof and the design outcomes of major engineering elements within the project.
Warwick has presented green infrastructure design solutions at two ‘Greening Cities’ Conferences, the World Green Roof Congress in Copenhagen in 2012, presented at a number of Making Cities Livable Conferences, as well as the 9th International Urban Design Congress on Living Architecture in Singapore in 2015. His expertise on how to successfully incorporate vegetation into built form is unsurpassed.