The roof shout (Richtfest) is considered a long-standing tradition and milestone in construction.   We celebrated it and hope that smashing traditionally a glass will turn off some of the bad luck and negative experiences with our building journey. There is still some work to be done until we can finally move in and share more to help others have a smoother building journey.   ..read more

Our next open Passive House Construction Day is on 6 May! We celebrate the completion of the next construction stage – the house envelope and roof shout! Here is the link to register on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/6xfcv38Bp We hope you can be inspired and build a passive house that is energy-efficient, warm, and lasts for generations. We look forward to seeing you there ..read more

Due to Covid-19 Pandemic, the Auckland border further delayed things but the construction fence is up and the first delivery of goods arrived on site this week. Containers from Europe are in transit as well.   Final preparations are underway and the long-awaited official ground-breaking ceremony is very close now.   Bring it on!   ..read more

Apologies for not updating earlier. It has been nearly a year since our last post. We now can close our horrendous experience. Click on this link to the website article by Stuff: “eHaus ordered to pay couple 24000 over quote to build passive house“ We had to take eHaus to the Disputes Tribunal where we could only make a maximum claim of $30K to at least get some money back. Overall, we still made a loss of nearly $20k, not considering the time wasted and stress. It was, is, and will be important to voice out bad performances especially if the other party does not rectify the issues in an appro ..read more

Prof. Dr. Feist said: Can we still solve the climate crisis?  DEFINITELY: If we soon decide to act meaningfully. AND: We then act in accordance with this decision. Last week we participated in an international webinar with the founder of Passive House Institute Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Feist. Very informative about the impressive passive house projects around the world. New Zealand has to speed up in building healthy homes. The below graph is from Prof. Dr. Feist from the latest press release from The International Passive House Association https://passivehouse.com ..read more

Are you interested to consume up to 90% less heating energy than a conventional house in New Zealand? Come check out our passive house during construction in Orewa this Saturday (01 October 2022) Here is the link to register on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2b9Rrd8Ij   We hope you can be inspired and build a passive house that is energy-efficient, warm, and lasts for generations. We look forward to seeing you there ..read more

Our two retaining walls have been passed by Council, hitting the 2nd milestone of our building journey!   The first of 2 Izodom New Zealand containers will be on site this week. The foundation earthworks and slab for our house are about to begin.   Watch out for our next post for the first open construction day, coming soon ..read more

We hit a milestone in our building journey!   Today we had our traditional “Spatenstich” (ground-breaking ceremony). Nevermind the sandals   Our constructors are passive house specialist Izodom New Zealand, building for passive house certification and Homestar 8 or above. Keeping wastage to the minimum is one of the many sustainability goals.   We look very much forward to driving up week by week to see the progress of our beautiful home ..read more

We hope it will help the industry to reduce delay, cost and speed up processes for future builds. Most importantly cost-savings to the end-customer in New Zealand.   Our window system (Gealan) with external shutters (Aluprof) is very common in Europe (60+ years) but yet relatively newish to the New Zealand market. There is always room to improve.   If you missed getting to see the webinar from Passive House Institute New Zealand about consenting our passive house windows with Sang Architects and August Millard or would like a rerun please find the recording and downloadable slides ..read more

We had to experience another winter in our owned leaky apartment unit. Bought the unit in 2016 and never imagined that the apartment complex built in 2009 would be part of the famous New Zealand leaky housing syndrome. The worse is that even now such poor quality homes are still being built, partially due to a lack of pride in delivering a genuine quality work/product to the end customer. The good thing is that it will be remediated in 2022 (currently scheduled for April 2022) but the bad thing is that we might be homeless while waiting for our new home to be completed. We now have the long-aw ..read more