44 Ways #26: Choose for Longevity and Durability
Every time you choose a product, material or finish for your home, you’re also choosing how soon you’ll be repairing, refinishing or replacing it. Choosing for durability and longevity can be a useful...
View Article44 Ways #25: Include Eaves and Window Hoods in Your Finished Home
When renovating or building a new home, your eaves, and the design of hoods or awnings over your glass windows and doors, can be one of the most impactful passive solar tools available to you. And it...
View Article44 Ways #24: Install Insulation Correctly
You can specify the right insulation product, at the right R-value, and still not get the performance in your home you were expecting. Because how insulation gets installed matters just as much as...
View Article44 Ways #23: Choose Appropriate Insulation
Want to know how to choose appropriate insulation for your home when renovating or building new? More insulation isn’t automatically better, but there are ways to determine what to invest in for the...
View Article44 Ways #22: Review Building Wraps to Manage Moisture for Climate
Wondering how to choose the right building wrap for your walls and roof so moisture is properly managed? Discover why foil sarking is to be avoided in modern airtight, well-insulated homes, and what...
View Article44 Ways #21: Review Your Window Selection
Wondering how to choose the right windows and doors to support and improve your home’s thermal performance? Discover the two numbers, U value and SHGC, that tell you how well a window system will...
View Article44 Ways #20: Use Thermal Mass to Maintain Even Temperatures
Confused about thermal mass, where it belongs in your home renovation or new build, and how to use it to maintain even indoor temperatures year-round? Learn about the specific conditions to consider...
View Article44 Ways #19: Build Tight, Ventilate Right
So you want to build a healthy, sustainable and energy efficient home that ‘breathes’? Discover why homes don’t need to breathe, but the people inside them do, and how to design and build air...
View Article44 Ways #18: Measure Your Home’s Carbon Footprint
Wondering how to measure your home’s carbon footprint, and where the biggest reductions can be made in your sustainable home? Discover why embodied carbon can outweigh operational carbon in a modern...
View Article44 Ways #17: Get a WUFI Analysis Done on Your Floors, Walls and Roof
Wondering if the walls, roof and floors of your future home will actually manage moisture safely long-term? Discover what a WUFI analysis tells you about condensation and mould risk inside your...
View Article44 Ways #16: Use Other Options to Model Your Design Before You Build
Wondering what other tools you can use to model your home’s performance, beyond the compliance check required in your area? Discover what PHPP (Passive House Planning Package) can add before you...
View Article44 Ways #15: Use Energy Modelling During the Design Phase
Wondering how to use energy modelling to inform your home’s design, rather than just tick a compliance box? Discover why bringing energy assessment into the design phase, not after documentation, will...
View Article44 Ways #14: Use Renewable Energy to Supply Your (Reduced) Energy Needs
Wondering how renewable energy can make your future home more sustainable? Discover why reducing your home’s energy needs first is what makes your renewable energy dollars stretch further. Learn also...
View Article44 Ways #13: Select an Efficient Hot Water Unit and Get the Plumbing Layout...
Wondering which hot water system is genuinely the most efficient choice for your home? Discover why heat pump hot water units are increasingly the best recommendation, and why some plumbers still try...
View Article44 Ways #12: Store and Reuse Water for Greater Water Saving
Are you wondering if you can capture and reuse the water that falls on your home, rather than sending it to the stormwater drain? Discover what rainwater harvesting, greywater and blackwater systems...
View Article44 Ways #11: Reduce Your Water Use In and Around Your Home
Wondering where your household water actually goes, and how to design your project for real water efficiency? Discover how to choose water-efficient fixtures that don’t compromise on performance, and...
View Article44 Ways #10: Reduce Your Energy Use Through Your Selections
Wondering where your home’s energy is actually being used, and where the biggest savings can be made? Discover how to approach appliance and system selection so your home uses far less energy from the...
View Article44 Ways #09: Improve Your Indoor Air Quality
Wondering whether the home you’re designing is actually healthy to live in? Discover why indoor air quality is a sustainability issue, and what’s quietly impacting yours in the materials, ventilation...
View Article44 Ways #08: Future Proof Your Design with Accessibility
Wondering how to design a home that works for you through every age and stage of life? Discover why accessible design done well is sustainability in action, and how it helps your home avoid expensive...
View Article44 Ways #07: Create an Efficient Structural Design, Collaboratively
Wondering how to keep your project’s structural cost and material use under control when creating your sustainable home? Discover why bringing your structural engineer into the design conversation...
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