Ecobuilt Homes
Builders
About us
We wanted to prove to you the benefits of investing in features that make a house sustainable and energy efficient, so we moved our family of four in!
We invite you to join us in the comfort of a family home to view and experience an Ecobuilt Home for yourself.
Energy efficient, environmentally-friendly homes for down to earth people
At EcoBuilt Homes we design and build houses that are both environmentally friendly and people-friendly too. Designed for energy efficiency, an EcoBuilt Home harnesses the natural resources of sunlight, water, energy and air to create a home that is warm, comfortable and healthy to live in. Whether you’re building new or enhancing an existing home, our team can work with you from concept designs through to plans and building. Site-specific for your unique section, your home will be designed for optimal use of the sun and enhanced by your choice of energy efficient building options that not only pay for themselves, they save you money too. At EcoBuilt Homes we share our client’s eco-friendly values and work hard to deliver affordable, environmentally sound, energy-efficient living that is a pleasure to call home.
When you choose EcoBuilt Homes, you get:
- A designer and a builder who both listen to and understand your dreams (and budget!)
- Reliable, honest and down to earth builders who share your respect for the environment
- Materials that are selected from sustainable resources wherever possible
- Quality workmanship by a Licensed Building Practitioner, backed by the Certified Builders Guarantee
- Lifemark Design Standards achievement
- A transparent, fixed price contract with no hidden costs
- Your home built on-time, and on-budget
- A commitment to building a better future for Canterbury and Cantabrians
Eco Features
At EcoBuilt Homes, we bring together engineers and contractors with an environmental focus on renewable energy, sustainable materials, water conservation and site development. Working closely with you from the design stage, we will present a range of options to enhance and maximise your home’s energy efficiency. These can include:
Rainwater storage
Rainwater is a free, perpetually-renewing water supply. Installing a rainwater tank is relatively simple and inexpensive, and the benefits are ongoing. Rainwater is a good source of water for using on your garden. It can also be used for washing clothes, flushing the toilet, and – when properly treated or purified – for drinking and other household uses.
Deep eaves for sun/shade
Shading of the building and outdoor spaces reduces summer temperatures, improves comfort and saves energy. Direct sun can generate the same heat as a single bar radiator over each square metre of a surface. Shading can block up to 90 per cent of this heat.
Ventilation
Warm air in the building can be allowed to rise and flow out upper openings to the outside, forcing cool outside air to be drawn into the building naturally through openings in the lower areas
Exterior cladding
Use of locally manufactured materials such as plantation grown timbers like macrocarpa, eucalyptus, cypress or recycled hardwoods.
Solar power and water
North facing solar panels to harness the sun’s energy to warm and heat your home and water.
Electrical
Millions of dollars are wasted by stand-by appliances each year. An easily accessed and monitored power switch turns off all stand-by appliances when not required.
Heating
A stylish solid fuel burner strategically located in the home provides warmth and boosts hot water heating.
Floors
The sun’s warmth is absorbed during the day and then radiated into the home as the temperature cools at night. This is created by the density of the floor (concrete, brick, tiles or earth) storing heat from the sun and then slowly radiating the heat back into the surrounding area as the outside temperature cools.
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- Category:
- Builders
- Verified ArchiPro member since:
- 2018