FOR NEW BUILD & RENOVATIONS
FOR NEW BUILD & RENOVATIONS
We’ve brought together some of the Superhome Movement’s innovative experts to share their advice and clever ideas for creating a better quality living environment – your home.
Learn about how your home works as a system, and the importance of good design.
Understand the benefits and savings in lower power bills and better health for your family:
Our team of experts bring decades of experience and specialist knowledge to give you their insights, guidance and practical tips.
There are a range of options to suit your household needs, your site, and your budget.
Additional costs are often only minimal – some methods are actually cheaper than conventional builds – and will soon pay for themselves over the life of the home. There are a range of options to suit your household needs, your site, and your budget.
Superhome Design Guide
VIDEO INTRODUCTION
Bob love the video, pity about the fly/bug at end lol. Maybe actually start by saying WELCOME to the SH Design Guide and the Experts bit/video channels and then backgd? The new immediate focus on the GUIDE - new people in mind???
A Superhome is the sum of many parts - a combination of different systems. We have attempted to identify the important categories... we call them the “SUPER 6’. While the ultimate Superhome will combine all of these elements, we appreciate that can be out of many people's budgets... There is flexibility and choose what suits YOUR requirements and YOUR budget... Bob/Ronnie if you could help out on this (keeping as brief as possible). Bob, whilst we totally LOVE the TEN elements - for the Guide it may be much more accessible for the public to have less than more?
Click through to check out all the supporting technical detail on the links through each of these sections.
RONNIE/BOB, I think this is a really important factor. MANY people possibly think the first person to go to when building or renovating is a BUILDER, ie the Builder will do it ALL - design a house and build the thing etc. Maybe a brief intro here which will lead to a separate page where we might have people like Dan, John Creigton, Guy, Phil/Erika etc explaining their perspective, but more importantly that the BUILDER is NOT the ONLY element in the bigger picture. Obviously need to be very “BUILDER POSITIVE” while at the same time explaining that it goes “BEYOND ” just the builder...
Ronnie, brilliant idea. Need a powerful statement here re the building code. I've got a GO TO NEXT PAGE button, but maybe initially we don't need a separate page, we can always add that later (if we need to. Maybe jut a powerful statement here will suffice, let's face it, it's mentioned quite a bit elsewhere.
Too many Kiwi homes have problems, including dampness, mould, draughts, poor materials and poor air flow – and are cold in winter and increasingly now overheat in summer. Research shows significant impacts on our health, with high levels of childhood asthma and respiratory disease.
The New Zealand Building Code standards are at least 20 years behind international best practice.
If it’s time to upgrade your existing home, our Renovation Design Guide has advice and information on how to get the most out of your renovation, showing the most common house types and explaining the challenges and solutions for each.
Bob, the pix below are positional for now, I have included SANG, but can you maybe advise re a good mix???
BESPOKE CONSIDERATIONS
“Aesthetics, proportions, the relation to the environment, your neighbourhood, all that really fits in – who lives in that house, what is the lifestyle of my clients, what are their needs?”
Susanne Schade: Architectural Designer and Director, Architecta
SOLVE THE MOULD
“Mould is really under-rated as an issue in NZ homes – BRANZ data, Asthma Foundation information on moisture in homes, how it causes mould, what it does to our health? It’s something that CAN be solved.”
Marcus South: Regional Manager, Moisture Master
WHAT COST IS YOUR HEALTH?
“Biggest misconception with building a high performance home is the COST. We need to look at it as a holistic approach. It may cost you more in the outset... but what is your health worth?”
Dan Saunders: Director, Dan Saunders Construction and Director, Ecopanel
KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
“Sometimes people don’t even know what they want, I need to find out what they mean – or ideas that they don’t understand.”
Julie Villard: Architect and Eco-Design Advisor, Christchurch City Council
SEEING THE INVISIBLES
“Building a house is not easy – what can be overwhelming for home owners is you don’t know which is the most important part... you can change the colour of the kitchen later, but you cannot change what goes into your walls, into your structure – those are the fundamental parts of your house that needs to be decided at the get go.”
Hanshu Li: Managing Director, WarmthNZ
UNIQUE QUIRKS
“Each client is different, unique quirks, different shapes and sizes, different budgets & working with clients who see things, who are after more of a long term base in their design outcome, what their brief requirements are.”
Duncan Firth: Solarei Architecture
BUILDING BETTER DOEN'T HAVE TO COST MORE
“This perception that building better is putting more money into every project, is actually a fallacy when the design is done right from the beginning.”
Candice Smith: National Specification Manager, Kingspan Thermakraft
BIG DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN BEST
“The trade-off between ‘Size’ and ‘Performance’ of a build... Designs well thought out in use of space. You can reduce space and increase the specifications, think more carefully about how you use every square metre, you can afford the good stuff whether it’s the windows or the insulation.”
Martin Ball: Director, NK Windows
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