Sustainable House Tour Prevelly

Are you looking to improve the energy efficiency of your existing or future home?

Experience Passivhaus is a free event focused on exploring design and construction methods to achieve energy-efficient buildings. 

What to Expect

Led by Timo Bleeker, a local architect, you will experience how a completed building incorporating the Passivhaus principles “feels”. 

In this special instance the “Passivhaus section” of the home was an addition to an existing building built to minimum standard, meaning the difference between the two parts can be experienced side by side.

Join us after the tour for Christmas morning tea! 
 

You Will Learn...

• Building Resilience: How can we make our homes more energy-efficient? We will look at the importance of achieving a closed thermal envelope to avoiding mould and condensation risk.
• Health: Have you experienced draughts inside your homes? We will discover why sealing our buildings is important to achieve energy efficiency while keeping sufficient fresh air supplied when our windows and doors closed.
• Comfort: Feeling too cold inside your house in winter? We will discuss how internal temperatures can be kept at 20-25 degrees celsius without heating or air conditioning.
• Quality Assurance: We will undertake a practical blower door test to have you perceive draughts in action and understand their impact on your wellbeing and health. Once identified, rectification options are suggested.

 

Event Details

• Saturday 14 December
• Session 1: 9am-10am
• Session 2: 10am-11am
• Location: 25 Mitchell Drive, Prevelly
• Cost: Free

RSVP
Registrations essential. To register visit, the Passivhaus Event Page

Architect of the building: Neil Tweedie
 

What is Passivhaus?

• The Passive House standard is a well-established design and construction principle that delivers high quality, comfortable, healthy, low energy, and resilient dwellings that can be applied in all climate zones and building types.
• Passive House is a fabric first approach to building design. Indoor comfort and occupant health are the primary goals, while an energy efficient operation and extending the lifetime of buildings are the wider goals.
• Planning for Passive Houses rely on building physics and includes carefully integrated, minimal building services and technology. Passive Houses fulfil clearly outlined thresholds and undergo a quality assurance process confirming the planned performance is met on site.

 

About Timo Bleeker

Timo is a registered Architect, Green Star Associate and Passive House Designer with 13 years WA-based, and 5 years Germany based expertise. 

He has formed his expertise in the end-to-end delivery of building design projects ranging from new developments to alterations and refurbishments in the commercial, educational and residential sector. Since 2021 he is the Australian Passive House Association (APHA) representative for Western Australia.