Passive House Builders Newcastle & Lake Macquarie Regions

Are you looking for the Ultimate energy EFFICIENT and HEALTHY home ?

Than look no further a “Passive House” could be the standard you have been looking for, for your upcoming New Home Construction or Major Extension or Renovation project.

Why build to a “minimal standard” when you can build to the best thermal performance standard available for your family or project and safeguard your biggest lifetime investment all while minimising your energy bills and achieving a healthy filtered indoor air quality and an all-year-round indoor temperature of 20-25 degrees? All whilst being completely mould, vermin, and condensation free?

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Mastery Constructions can assist you in achieving a “Certified Passive House” or “Certified EnerPHit Standard” (Retro fit/ extensions and renovations passive house standard).

We are a Certified Passive House Trades Person.

WHAT IS A PASSIVE HOUSE

EXPLAINED:What is Passive House.

“Passive house” or PH Is a phrase given for an innovative way in constructing and designing

a building to achieve “high performance” which will enable the building to maintain a

comfortable temperature of 20-25 degrees all year round and throughout the different

seasons with minimum heating or cooling demanded required. The German based principal/

method know as passive house once achieved also creates a mould and condensation free

home whilst the occupiers of the home get to enjoy clean filtered indoor air quality.

The building achieves these targets through several design/ performance elements executed

in the building and within the building structure and building envelope which are set out and

benchmarked by the “Passive House institute”. Every project is reviewed and modelled

with PHPP software with all your project data and geolocation information to ensure the

benchmarks are hit prior to construction.

With a PH house the building envelope detailing, consisting of the floor construction method,

wall cladding, roof cladding, window and door frames and their glazing values respectively,

their thermal performances/ U value calculations of these components for your home are just

one of the key differences and benefits compared to normal construction we see here in

Australia.

The Passive house certification is achieved when your building meets the performance

requirements set out from the Passive house Institute.

Passive house also has benchmarks for retro fitting their methodology to projects consisting

of renovations and extensions.

Passive house to us means a high-quality build with unmatched thermal performance

safeguarding your largest investment for the present and what the future may bring.

WHY SHOULD I CONSIDER

PASSIVE HOUSE STANDARDS

WHEN ITS GERMAN BASED PRINCIPALS

The Passive House Standard was developed over 25 years ago, has spread to over 40 countries and the scientific principal behind the standard, has been proven time and time again.

UNIQUEly Calculated to your

Specific GEO LOCATION and Design

Every Passive Project despite its geographical location is modelled within the PHPP software utilising your exact geolocation and climatic data, making it suitable for any location and with the 15 years of research and development into the tested excel algorithms which will yield your building heating, cooling and primary energy demand, a building’s heating and cooling loads, its tendency to overheat, and much more. This powerful tool can also be used to dimension ventilation systems and determine the energetic effects of the substitution of any product or of any design change.

PHHPP produces highly accurate results, as proven on thousands of projects worldwide. It both facilitates planning and serves proof that the Passive House or EnerPHit standards have been met.   

5 key Principals

SOURCE:PASSIVEHOUSEAUSTRALIA.ORG

The 5 key Principals of a passive house are

1)Exceptionally high levels of insulation

2)well-Insulated window frames and glazings

3)Thermal bridge free design and construction

4)An airtight building envelope

5)Ventilation with highly efficient heat or energy recovery.

Interested in Building a

passive house project.

Now is the time to safeguard your biggest invest you’ll make and the health of your family. Let’s build a passive house together and know you are making a difference to your carbon footprint,Heath,FINANCIAL investment and the quality of your home.  

Key Benefits of a Passive house:

-Have your project designed and tested for thermal performance prior to construction. So, you

achieve great benchmarks of performance for your unique individual geolocation and your building

design.

-Have your building performance tested through the PHPP mathematical and scientific data input

calculator/ and criteria met specific for your geo location.

-Have your building achieve key performance benchmarks set out by the “Passive house institute “of

Germany which is far superior to any Australian standards for thermal performance of a building. This

absolutely smashes Basix or Nathers criteria

-Live in 20- 25-degree thermal comfort all year round

-Decrease your thermal energy load/ heating demand and cooling demand and save on electricity

bills.

-Lower your Carbon foot.

- Have fresh filtered air supplied to you all year round regardless of the temperature or the seasons or

if the wind is blowing or not blowing.

- Live in a consistent air pressured environment.

-Live in a high-performance acoustic building blocking out unwanted external environment noises.

-Be mould and condensation free. (that was big this year in winter)

-Increase the thermal target benchmark of your building performance for your home’s future integrity

with ever changing BCA and Australian standard requirements, know you will be outperforming all.

-Protect your biggest financial investment from being outdated and redundant.

-Keep your Co2 levels in your building to a controllable healthy level.

-Eliminate Bush fire smoke/ back burning smoke, by a ventilation bypass within your PH ventilation

unit

-Eliminate reliability of opening a window and door for ventilation.

-Eliminate road noise and Co2 emissions from cars entering your building. (Typically, on main roads,

this is achieved as you are not required to open a window and door to achieve ventilation/ comfortable

temperature internally.)

-Eliminate pollens from infiltrating the building.

-Have high performing windows and doors to reduce heat loss and gain.

-Eliminate unwanted vermin from entering/ infiltrating inside the building envelope.

-Let your building breathe and release vapour and not create underlying long-term issues for the

building or its structural components.

Does a Passive house Interest you?