Sustainable Builders Yak
For Australian construction professionals building high-performing, sustainable homes and homeowners looking to create their own sustainable, high-performing home.
Sustainable Builders Yak
Latest Episodes
There's Nothing These Guys Won't Turn Into a Brick: Will Stewart, Natural Brick
What happens when you put hemp into a structural brick?Will Stewart, director and co-owner of Natural Brick, joins us to unpack how his team is rethinking one of the most familiar building products around, from what goes into the mix to ...
An Ex-AFL Ruckman's Plan to Put Solar on 500 Footy Clubs: Tom Campbell, Footy for Climate
Most climate conversations in sport start with the elite game. Tom Campbell starts with the clubrooms: a grassroots footy club whose power bill dropped from $9,000 a year to $900, with the $8,000 difference going straight back into the club.
Australia is Running Out of Timber: with Matt de Jongh, Responsible Wood
Australia is the seventh most forested country on earth, yet it imports around $5 billion more timber than it sells, and the gap grows every year. Matt de Jongh, a forester of about 25 years and now with Responsible Wood, the body behind timber...
We're Building to Yesterday's Climate: The NCC Risks Builders Face, with Ailie Gallant, Climate Scientist
Australia's National Construction Code climate zones and NatHERS and PHPP models built on them, are calculated from climate averages that are no longer holding. When Brian raises this, Monash University climate scientist Ailie Gallant stops and...
How Far Should You Push Performance? Rethinking High-Performance Building with Andy Marlow of Envirotecture
Andy Marlow's definition of efficiency in passive house and airtightness will annoy some people: it's doing the bare minimum required to clear the hurdle, which he says is much the same as being really bloody lazy. Andy is a director at Envirot...
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Hi I’m trying to find your website, but it doesn’t come up in a google search or typing www.dsva.com.au or any variants I’ve tried. Any clues? Cheers Brett I’m considering an earth floor in a straw bale house, for less slab. Have you done a pod on that?
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