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 Stage 2 Members via Zoom on Sat 5/2/22 of the recommendations from this committee, with the assistance of Grant Rickey, Stage 2 Development Manager; Jon Ellis, Secretary BRP; Graham Hunt, Architect from DHW; and Andy Marlow, Architect from Envirotecture.
Graham Hunt
Graham's presentation on how to achieve a low cooling energy for NatHERS in "Cooling Strategies"
Andy Marlow links -
Other References:
John Shiel's BZE book (peer reviewed including by Graham Hunt) and free on the web as a pdf - "Cooling Your Home - Home Retrofits, Appliances and Adaptions for a Hotter Future".
This averages 3 houses with simulation energy from NatHERS for cooling, and ranks the best strategies - retrofits, appliances and behaviour
https://bze.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Cooling-your-home-24-Nov-compressed.pdf
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 text version of the Stage 2 review is available here for members. A document with major differences to Stage 1 standards will be created too.
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.
Inaugural Members Building Meeting:
Sat 26/2/22 - Dan & Deb Mohr's home design - how to design a sustainable heatwave proof house.
12:50 for 1-3:30pm via Zoom. Talk, plus expert plus breakout rooms and Q&A.
Circles and teams
A set of questions and answers from our presentations can be found here NEV Building & Landscape Standards - Stage 2 Recommendations - FAQs
In the area below, please leave any questions for our Building Standards working group.