Category: Podcasts
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253: How to build a Passive House family home on a tight budget
Joseph Lyth is building his family home on a very tight budget. He’s also building to the Passive House standard. In this interview, he shares some of his insights into why we must change the way we’ve been building ‘wooden tents’ in New Zealand, and how to go about creating a fit-for-purpose family home with…
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252: Let’s Change the Building Code
The Ministry of Innovation Building and Employment (MBIE) has released its consultation document for the 2021 proposed changes to the New Zealand Building Code. This represents a great opportunity to positively impact the future of building standards. But does it go far enough?
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251: How to get paid for sustainability advice
Danielle King moved into the sustainability field about fifteen years ago and has built up her consultancy Green Moves Australia with a diverse range of services. She now has a large library of resources, and some great tips for how to get paid for providing sustainability advice.
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249: How to Build a Healthy Home for an Ideal Lifestyle
I’m sure that many lifestyle block owners have days when they feel like a farmer, though they would rarely claim to be one. Similarly, people who design their own home then pick up the hammer, don’t claim to an architect or a builder. Mike Pickering almost did become an Architect. He changed his mind at…
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248: What Does a Passive House have in Common with an F-111?
Scott Stewart used to fly in high performance aircraft. Now he helps designers with the high performance details of Passive House homes.
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247 How to Become a Passive House Builder
Hamish White is Director of Sanctum Homes in Victoria Australia. He’s a registered Domestic Builder with a marketing degree. Since discovering Passive House, Hamish has been inspired to become a business the focuses on providing clients with beautiful, high performing energy efficient homes. Architects, designers and other builders should be encouraged that there’s a market…
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246: Hawea Flat Passive House
The Hawea Flat Passive House in the middle of the South Island is a very special home. It boasts a number of ‘firsts’ for New Zealand and the journey of its creation has arguably changed more than just the way Jonathan Holmes lives. Jonathan used to work for Contact Energy, where among other things, he…
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245: Your Surroundings are Everything
Michelle Rohrer-Lauer is an interior designer and business owner with nearly four decades of experience. She works with discerning clients out of her studio in Chicago, but her approach to sustainable design is applicable everywhere. Check out Michelle’s work at Michelle’s Interiors.
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244: The Best Type of Builder for Home Performance
Jason Scheurer has always been a business owner and he’s always been motived to learn. Today, he and his wife Penny own and operate Best Techs Contracting where they design, build and remodel with a focus on home performance. I connected with Jason during an online Passive House event recently. In this interview, Jason describes…
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243: Efficient Electric Home
Richard Keech lives in a zero-carbon home in Melbourne. After some time in the Royal Australian Air Force and then as a software engineering and consultant in the private sector, Richard now helps people to understand energy. Specifically, renewable energy and energy efficiency. In 2015, Richard published The Energy Freedom Home, a handbook on “how…