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Functionality vs Thermal performance

Functionality vs Thermal performance

  Don’t hang your hat on star ratings alone… It’s simple to measure the Thermal performance of a home with stars. It’s relatively simple to measure the Energy usage of people living in the home with money spent. But, what cannot be measured is the functionality...
What is Building Biology?

What is Building Biology?

Guest Blog by Building Biologist, Triin-Liis Harma   I’m a Building biologist… What does ‘Biology’ have to do with ‘building’? I hear ask… The answer is… If you care for your health…. Everything! We all know that we have to look after our first skin.. keep...
Are you going to pick up the cheque?

Are you going to pick up the cheque?

It’s fair to say our world is changing faster than any of us could have imagined. It’s said the human world has changed more in the past decade than it has in all the time Homo Sapiens have occupied the Earth. – Make of that, what you will. Needless to say our...
Melbourne homes are just like Swiss cheese…. Full of holes!

Melbourne homes are just like Swiss cheese…. Full of holes!

  I thought this piece may have been a month too late. When in May, the temperature in Melbourne was sliced in half from 25 degrees down to 12 degrees in a little over 2 weeks. And boy, did I feel it in the Victorian Terrace I call home! My home has double brick...
A brick for a brick, an Earth for an Earth…

A brick for a brick, an Earth for an Earth…

Give and take…… Not take and take some more! How long would your bank balance last if you just took from it? What about your garden… Are you limited to the amount of food you can grow? It makes sense that what we take from the Earth MUST be replenished! Surely,...
Gotta get your docs right!

Gotta get your docs right!

  You want to live in a perfect little oasis… It’s got to have everything you need and nothing you don’t! You want innovation… Or maybe self-sufficiency?!   We all know what WE want in our home… The key is to articulate what’s in your mind into a...