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Great opportunity to experience VILA for yourself. As part of an incredible building education initiative, SUPERHOME MOVEMENT, Vila Hanmer / Kereru House is opening its doors to people interested in building energy efficient, exciting architecture.   Come meet the owners, builders and myself and

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

This was a challenging project. Mostly challenged during the design process by design team, procurement team and also funding teams... but it wasn’t challenging during the build or now when everything is completed. At the end of the day SIPs made good sense for everyone involved. Now everyone feel

..built by experienced builder, Designed by passioned architect... There must be north of 300 SIP builds around the country.. lets look them up!

Location / Southland Architecture / VILA.nz  Building / Kennedy Building Structural Engineering (Foundation) / Constructure Floor area / 191m² • SIP walls and roof / Formance • Fully insulated concrete foundation / MaxRaft • Tripple glazed Timber windows / Thermadura • Solar orientatio

There are many projects around the country that deserve a mention. Lots of effort in making Kiwi families live in comfortable, healthy and exciting homes. Here is a great example of a close collaboration, even a partnering between experienced professionals in order to make things happen. I was per

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/damienmcgill_tapeboy-windowsanddoors-waterproof-activity-6794706180175491072-WUFE Great initiative from a SIP supplier, workshop installing the panels, taking care at the joints, protecting and applying the tapes from ProClima...

Location / Hanmer Springs Architecture / VILA.nz Building / Baumann Builders Structural Engineering / CGW Status / final building stage Floor area / 99m² + First floor (approx 40m2) • SIP walls and roof / Formance • All steel members on the inside of thermal envelope / no thermal bridging •

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-lockdo

Here is another great example of smart SIP architecture... https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=4wZQikN1ugM