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Today's typical Australian home is built effectively as a large, leaky tent.
The average Australian home is built fast, cheap, and to minimum standards. It's built with little, or no, consideration for how a family will realistically enjoy it, how long it will last, or what energy is practically needed to keep it warm in winter, and cool in summer.
Building a healthy, robust, energy efficient home should be the standard, not a luxury.
It is possible today to design a home that's future focused: a home created to function well now; as a family's needs grow and change over time; and a home created to minimise, or even counteract, carbon production to build, and to run.
If you're building a home, build it better.
Building better demands specific, and purposeful design.
Design with conscience for our future.
Design and build better, today.
Our designs are purposefully focused on achieving environmentally sustainable design, with optimum performance outcomes.
We consider characteristics of each primary material: how much carbon is required to produce it, how will it be brought to site, how long it will enhance the quality of the design, and how long will the materials last.
It's also important to consider how a material will affect the thermal performance, and the health performance, of a home. Done well, this enables a home to require minimal energy input to run, as well as being a comfortable, and quiet, home to live in.
"Buildings are a critical piece of our transition to a lower-carbon future. They are where we live, where we rest, and where we work – and they are responsible for about 40% of global energy consumption and about one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions."
World Economic Forum, 2021
Today, the typical average Australian household uses approximately 40% of its electricity consumption for heating and cooling.
It's possible to design better!
We can, and we should.
It's possible to create a home that's up to 90% more energy efficient than a typical Australian home.
Purposeful, passive design has the potential to analyse – and minimise – heat flow and energy loss.
Through a strategic design regime of materials selection and combination, plus appropriate infrastructure selections, this enables a holistic and mathematically calculated system. It creates a healthy, robust building.
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