WISE DRAFTING PTY LTD - PLANNING AND DESIGNING
Environmentally efficient design can be simple changes to window positions, materials used and even merely floor plan layout. These simple additions to design can make a house not only more efficient and environmentally friendly, but also more comfortable to live in from reduced temperature fluctuations and more natural light.
From such basic changes we can design more dedicated environmentally friendly and energy efficiency homes such as Straw Bail and Timbercrete:
Straw Bale Homes
Wise Drafting can design your Straw Bale Home for you. You may like an entire house constructed in Straw Bale or a feature wall only as part of other designs. Straw Bale has excellent energy efficiency qualities as well as being an excellent reducer of sound transmission. The best thing about straw bale designed homes is the beautiful looks and wonderful thick walls. They make a very unique home that is entirely yours. You can owner build with council permission and proper authorisation or we can assist you with a specialised builder in Straw Bale.
Timbercrete Brick
Timbercrete is a relatively new building method using (approximately) a 12 kg brick which has similar appeal to that of mudbrick without the issues of making the bricks yourself. They are lighter than mudbrick in both weight and colour, and structurally support the house with the roof sitting on top of the bricks rather than requiring a seperate timber structure. Timbercrete brick has excellent energy efficiency properties and also reduces sound. We can design a house in this beautiful brick making you the owner of a true energy efficient and distinctly unique home.
Alternative structure is a single leaf veneer wall like normal brick veneer with a timber frame allowing for a more traditional structure with the look of timbercrete
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The look of a properly designed environmentally friendly house adds to the practical reasons for working with such a home.
Properly orientated and well designed homes using substantial building materials makes for a wonderful dream home.
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SOUTH AUSTRALIA
ADELAIDE SOUTH
SOUTH COAST
MURRAY LANDS
Energy Efficiency Reports for building approval
We will complete the Energy Efficiency Report requirements for your house approval process under the South Australian Housing Code and the Building Code of Australia as part of your building approval process. (This may vary depending on approval requirements).
Straw Bale construction with a render coating lends to a beautiful home that is entirely yours. It uses renewable resources and in fact a waste product of farming in many circumstances. It is very strong, long lasting and highly energy efficient.
Straw bale homes are extremely energy efficient and look great. Straw is used as the wall in-fill which is then rendered over. The walls are supported by timber frame structure and therefore the straw itself only acts as an insulator and keeps the wind out so to speak.
Walls are 500mm thick and are extremely substantial in their look. Much like an old stone wall in apperance.
It is a very solid structure when built properly and is one of the ultimate true energy efficient design homes.
Different stages of a Wisedrafting designed Timbercrete Brick home at the Aldinga Eco Village
Internal single leaf wall
structural beam to be stained
full structural walls on slab
window sills with brick features
