Come and see inside and outside a truly sustainable home!
Our brand new home has been designed and constructed with sustainability front of mind.
We are thrilled to be able to be part of this year’s Sustainable House Day. It is important for this type of event to be held each year as it gives people the opportunity to see homes of the future and what is achievable in terms of sustainability.
Situated at 5 Strickland Street Rose Bay this home turns traditional building on its head, goes beyond regulation and raises the bar. Importantly, if you balance the scales correctly and look beyond the materials, it costs the same to build as a traditionally built home that complies with BASIX.
One of the feature differences with this home compared to other homes who claim they are ‘eco’ or ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ or ‘zero emissions’ is that it was constructed using sustainable building materials. The embodied impact of sustainable building materials is far less than traditional building materials.
Sustainable home specialists will be onhand throughout the day to answer questions.
We have designed our home with Caroline Pidcock, a leading sustainable architect in Sydney. Our home has an eight star rating for thermal comfort and scores extremely high for water and energy in BASIX.
You won’t find one brick in the house! We are using a wall system that is filled with green concrete and cladded with external insulation. All wood used in construction is certified plantation timbers. In fact, in our internal courtyard we are using beautiful old pillars from a bridge in Newcastle that was demolished.
We have insulated under the slabs, internal and external walls and the roof is a composite insulated panel. Each room in the house was analysed for thermal efficiency and a combination of insulation and thermal mass is utilised accordingly. Our home does not have an air conditioning system.
Before choosing building materials for construction, the products was scrutinised for their sustainability credentials. We have designed the house so that the bulk of our energy use will be supplied by a 3kw PV system.
Permaculture rounds off our sustainable home. We are directing recycled water to the specific plants that thrive drinking grey water. We have edible plants, vegetables, herbs, fruit trees and a green wall has been installed in our internal courtyard.
We look forward to welcoming you on Sunday 11th September 2011.
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