Goal: As part of the Stage 2 full-cycle approach for building your home, these regular meetings have begun so that members can share their designs and lessons learned. The loose format is a member's talk about their home; an expert speaking about some topic; and a Q&A workshop for members to bring their ideas forward or questions about their house design.

Page Structure

We will put the presentations and videos here for each meeting within the week after, and also try to find other talks and material about members' home and collate it here for all to benefit.

Circles and teams

• Sustainable Design Appraisers (SDAs) – help with your design and scorecard
• Building Review Panel (BRP) – if your design meets the standard, BRP stamps your drawings before they go the State planning portal
• Member building meetings - monthly forum for members to design home, learn, include experts and arrange speakers
  1. Member Building Group – members, SDAs, and experts (Architects, engineers, builders, assessors, designers) to help members with designs
  2. Members and non-members are welcome

Regular Monthly Meetings on NEV Building Design

One of the popular changes to the building standards was that the current level of support in helping members should be increased, with regular meetings, and communication in various media including in SLACK, in the NELN newsletter and in Despatch emails.

Members are keen to share their designs and are rewarded in our scoresheet for doing this, so these will present opportunities for this, as well as benefits to newer members designing their homes.

Members Building Workshop 1

Sat 26/2/22 - 12:50pm for 1-3:30pm via Zoom

Dan & Deb Mohr's home design - 74% reduction in NatHERS cooling load

How to design a sustainable heatwave proof house (80% reduction in NatHERS cooling energy). Includes a video clip of Graham Hunt explaining the main features to keep the house cool.

Plus overview of houses in Stage 1 (materials, design features) - from John Shiel

Plus breakout rooms and Q&A.

Temporary Place for these assets:

Videos

Introduction - John Shiel - 4 mins, 30MB download

Dan Mohr's video - 45 mins, 350MB download

Graham Hunt's short video clip on technical features - 30 seconds, 11MB

John Shiel's variety of houses and materials in Stage 1 video 15 mins, 130MB

Powerpoints

Variety of houses and materials in Stage 1- John Shiel - sustainable houses

Graham Hunt's on technical features (TBD)

Dan Mohr's presentation (TBD)

Members Building Workshop 2

Sat 23/4/22 - Mbr Building Workshop

Lowering Building Costs at NEV

The case study was by George Gilmour on Overcoming Owner Builder Cost Challenges

Architecture expert and Building Standards Consultant Graham Hunt will also speak about lowering costs, with respect to design, builders and materials.
Attendees discussed their status and designs, and there was good feedback about the day.

George's Presentation is:

Graham's Presentation is:

Videos

Here are the 2 Vimeo LINKS for the 2 videos - they can be streamed to any device, or you can listen to the video file on your phone:

George Gilmour - Overcoming Owner Builder Cost Challenges - 50 mins

Graham Hunt - Building Affordably - 50 mins

Cost Estimating Spreadsheet - Eilean Watson with input from experts

2022 Watson-Home and Land Cost Estimation Spreadsheet

Members Building Workshop 3

Sat 25/6/22 - Mbr Building Workshop

Designing Sustainable Healthy Homes - minimising the risk of moisture issues etc, balancing ventilation with how tightly sealed a home is, with the local climatic conditions (e.g. cold nights).

We had great talks from experts Dr Mark Dewsbury and Member Building Biologist, Mikala Dind. We also reviewed the ventilation systems of members Geoff Cameron and Tony and Theresa Farrell, but unfortunately they were not available to attend.

The main slides are here with details of the member ventilation systems, including calculations at the end that show how to design your own ventilation system (we ran out of time to cover this in the workshop):

Mark's slides are here

Mikala's slides are here

Videos

Here are the Vimeo LINKS for the videos - they can be streamed to any device, or you can listen to the video file on your phone, like a podcast:

Intro and Agenda - John Shiel - 2 mins - slides are above

Designing Healthy Homes - Dr Mark Dewsbury - 30 mins - slides are above

Healthy Homes - Mikala Dind - 20 mins - slides are above

Member homes - Geoff Cameron Home Walthru and Tony and Theresa Farrell System