Energy Efficient High Performance Building Options

Flexible options for your family's unique requirements

Energy Efficient High Performance Building Options

Flexible options for your family's unique requirements

Custom design or one of our high performance plans?

Our goal is to find that ‘sweet spot’ by delivering the best performing home tailored to your unique set of circumstances.

We specialise in creating healthy, comfortable, quiet homes filled with fresh filtered air and up to 90% energy savings on heating and cooling.

We achieve this by employing key principles as part of a comprehensive design and build process.  These key principles originate from Passivhaus.

  • Insulation
  • Airtightness
  • Thermal Bridges Addressed
  • High Performing Windows
  • Mechanical Heat Recovery Ventilation System

All of our homes, whether it’s design and build or one of our high performance plans, incorporate these five key principles. You choose one of 4 options below:

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Our Energy Efficient High Performance Building Options:

01.

Custom Energy Efficient Homes

02.

Custom Energy Modelled High Performing Homes

03.

Custom Certified Passive Homes

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Plan Range – High Performance

01. Custom Energy Efficient Homes

  • This level still delivers a home that performs well above the minimum building code, providing you with warmth, comfort, healthy air, and energy efficiency.
  • The same principles are applied as a passive house but there is more flexibility in certain areas of the design due to factors such as budget, site, or homeowner priorities.
  • At this level your home is neither verified through certification, nor is it tested and measured through energy modelling (PHPP).  This is important to understand if you are aiming for a specific performance level
  • It remains vital to use a design build team who know what they are doing, and avoid risky compromises.

Energy Efficient Home Examples

Lyttelton

SIPS Energy Efficient Home

Hanmer Springs

SIPS Energy Efficient Home

Cashmere

High Performing Energy Efficient Hill Build & SIPs

02. Custom Energy Modelled High Performing Homes

  • Performance benefits are maximised as the key design principles are all intrinsically linked, plus energy modelling (PHPP) is undertaken at the concept stage enabling qualified decision making around indicated performance outcomes.
  • The information obtained from PHPP can have significant benefits. It predicts how your home will perform and suggests areas of the design that could produce a better outcome, enabling informed decisions. PHPP starts around $2500 + GST.

Compared to our Energy Efficient level: Energy modelling is undertaken and an opportunity provided to tweak your design from the information obtained.

Compared to a Certified Passive House: The best performance within your constraints is aimed for, as opposed to the prescribed set of energy demands and the verification process required for passive house certification.

Energy Modelled High Performing Home Examples

Rangiora Show Home

SIPs Home Designed to Passive House Principles

Bowenvale Ave

SIPS Non-Certified Passive House

Cust

SIPs Home Designed to Passive House Principles

03. Custom Certified Passive Homes

  • A Certified Passive House (Passivhaus) is the ultimate in high performance home
  • It must meet the strict international criteria for a ‘Certified Passive House, including heating and cooling loads below 15 kWh/m2 per year, and 10 W/m2 at peak demand.
  • Certification is undertaken by the International Passive House Association (iPHA) involving testing, measuring and validation of performance. Energy modelling is completed using PHPP (Passive House Planning Package).
  • Due to the strict criteria, the cost of achieving certification is a lot higher.
  • The iPHA also offer an international ‘Low Energy Standard’. This level still prescribes performance levels and energy demands on a building, but they are lower than that of a fully ‘Certified Passive House’.
Strowan

SIPS Certified Passive House Plus

04. Plan Range – High Performance

Our latest plan range has been created to enhance accessibility to healthy, energy-efficient homes while offering clear upfront certainty on building costs. Affordability has been a central focus, without compromising on the core principles of high performance in design.

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