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Your Energy Efficient & Passive House Specialists

Up to 95% of allergens filtered from your home

All-year comfort at 20 - 25°C throughout the entire home

Up to 90% energy savings

Live Better - in a High-Performance Home

A home that enhances your wellbeing while cutting running costs – sounds too good to be true?…. It’s not!

Our high-performance homes are designed to provide you with a healthy, comfortable, and quiet living space, complete with fresh, filtered air and up to 90% savings on heating and cooling costs.

Imagine………

  • All year comfort 20-250C throughout your entire home – every room usable all year
  • Up to 95% of allergens filtered from your home – a healthy sanctuary
  • Up to 90% savings on heating and cooling – a massive saving on energy bills
  • Controlled humidity with the risk of condensation or mould removed – benefitting the health of you and your home

If this resonates with you, the secret lies in prioritising the building envelope. Our skilled & passionate design-build team will integrate a proven, scientific approach that takes your needs and constraints into account—no gimmicks, just lasting benefits. The outcome? Happy homeowners in homes that truly perform.

Expert Hands & Exceptional Homes

A team with extensive expertise and knowledge helping families into genuinely healthy and energy efficient homes.

Your dream home should be a sanctuary.  It is your opportunity to create one that is healthy, warm, sustainable, and energy efficient. But achieving that requires real expertise and a team with genuine commitment to performance for every home, and every family.

That’s where we come in.

We’ve always believed a home should offer more than just the minimum. Concerned by the performance and health of code-minimum builds, we led the way as one of New Zealand’s early adopters of Passive House and energy-efficient design. Since 1998, we’ve built architectural and hillside homes across Canterbury and in 2011, we made high-performance design the standard for every home we create.

We are trusted by homeowners and industry professionals alike for our experience and proven track record in delivering homes that are outstanding in both quality and performance.

We don’t push one option, we listen and understand your aspirations and constraints.  We offer advice from years of experience.  We are upfront with what can be achieved for your unique circumstances, and we do absolutely everything in our power to provide you with the best performing home possible.

We want every client to live the dream we are fortunate to live ourselves – a truly healthy sanctuary, genuinely comfortable all year round throughout every room with little reliance on energy for heating and cooling.

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Design & Build

We custom-design our homes to meet the unique needs of our clients. Performance and energy efficiency feature in all our designs, extending to certified passive homes, architectural and hill builds.

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Plan Range

Our high-performance plan range offers affordable homes designed with energy efficiency, health, and comfort in mind. All homes incorporate passive house principles and are energy-modelled.

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Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)

A thoughtfully designed and constructed building envelope is the key to creating a truly high-performing home.

One of the most effective ways to achieve this is by using Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) – a method that delivers both performance and efficiency.

SIPs are high-performing, thermally efficient composite panels that replace traditional framing, bracing, and insulation. They offer superior insulation, airtightness, and structural strength and ductility, making them a versatile choice for high-performance buildings.

Most of our designs incorporate SIPs, and as one of New Zealand’s most experienced SIPs builders, we also provide a pre-assembly and installation service.

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Visit Our High Performance Show Home

Location

2 Benn Street, off Amberley Beach Road, Amberley
(1 minute drive off State Highway 1)

Open Hours

Thursday – Friday: 12pm – 4pm
Sunday: 10am – 2pm

By appointment outside of these hours – please call 021 402096 or 03 6601103

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Don't Just Take Our Word For It

Incorporating Passive House Principles into an Architectural Energy Efficient Home

“If I had to isolate one thing, the quality of the build has been amazing, the communication across has been great and we’ve developed a good working relationship from end to end across Brent’s team and all his chosen subcontractors.”

“It is so peaceful and it’s hard to explain the calmness of these homes – you need to experience it.  It’s quite something.

“In year 3 our annual power bill was $283  <<< yes that is a full year total!!!!  I checked it twice!  That is fully loaded, no gas or anything….if we removed the spa our power would be zero.”

– Iain McMillan

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