Vision: Support a contemporary Ecovillage community at Narara that demonstrates economic, social and environmental regenerative capacity through Building Standards that encourage the building of sustainable housing.
Mission: Update the NEV Building Standards in accordance the requirements of new legislation (BASIX, NatHERS, council LEPs), the Stage 2 sub division as it affects the Hill Thalis guidelines and other experience gained during Stage 1.
Aims:
Domain:
Here is the presentation made to the Community Association on 2/10/21 of the recommendations from this committee.
The text is blue where there are changes to the initial recommendations made to the Steering Committee on 5/6/21.
The full Word version of the Stage 2 review will be posted here shortly for members, and it will identify the changes to the existing standards.
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. We are expecting these to begin in November, so please keep an eye out for notices.
There is a slide near the start of the presentation which presented these ideas in June to the CA and Steering Committee.
Circles and teams
We are building a set of questions and answers from our presentations, and they are list here.
In the area below, please leave any questions for our Building Standards working group.