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Location / Island Bay, Wellington Designer / Peter Davis @ AD Architecture Builder / David Reid Homes Wellington Structural Engineering / Certa Floor area / 76m² Sustainable features Insulation (higher value walls floors and ceilings) Windows (double glazed with thermal break, Low E glass and arg

One day its all going to make sense.. great work happening up north. Follow the build progress, blog written by the homeowners “to be”… documenting every step of building their new SIP home, while being very much involved in every step. https://903westcoastroad.weebly.com/build-diary/and-lockd

Another enquiry into SIPs and electrical: "I would like to use ultra thin LEDs, but I keep reading that I should go with surface mounted LED strips and not recessed. Are there any new LED products out there that would work for recessed? I'm putting in 1.5" T&G prior to SIP roof, so hoping that would

Renowned architect, my professor in Europe, maybe 2005. Flat roof in EU was a little like Parapet walls in NZ. Or "No-Eave" design! He explained that all his large buildings in Germany, all his flat roofs work 100%. Outside Germany some seam to leak! And than he showed us the photo of a contractor

According to recent issue of BUILD MAGAZINE!!! https://www.buildmagazine.org.nz/assets/ebooks/B182/Build182.html Finally admitting timber studs are just too much of an issue in conventional timber framed buildings. Suggested solution is having a double frame to overlap layers of insulation and mini

Some well anticipated progress on SIPs in NZ. Acknowledgement and well needed attention from the country’s largest testing and research entity in NZ, Branz! https://youtu.be/no87ihYllsA

Say 10 years back, there was very little talk about performance of houses, insulation, passive house, passive solar etc. and I remember starting such conversations at every possible opportunity. Visiting builders on site, chatting with friends at a Cafe, designers/architects at conferences... But t