Sampsa's masonry stove is nearly finished! Albie came from Maine Wood Heat in the USA to teach us about how to make these…
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Finnish Masonry Stove Course
Central Otago Polytechnic
Place: Clyde, Central Otago New Zealand
Time: February 5th to February 12th, 2010
Teachers: Albie Barden – Professional Mason from USA
Participants: Approximately 8. Fee approx. 1200 NZD. Food included. Does not include accommondation.
a) Freedom camping at the site. b) campin…
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Commendations
Commended for Vision: The Plant Room for revitalizing Wellington inner city apartments with a bolt-on garden room; Waikato for SIP panel design and backyard sleepout; Whareuku for low-cost housing for rural north island; BACH 101 on Rangitoto Island for only retrofitting what was needed; Ecocrib for considering products that work in concert with the homeowners to make using less energy and water fun and easy; Te
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Designing A Better Way - SHaC09 opens at Unitec on 9th November and forms part of our Cumulus Aotearoa Conference -
http://www.unitec.ac.nz/unitec/conferences/cumulus/en/cumulus-aotearoa_home.cfm
Please drop by to see the exhibition before it travels to Otago for the SHaC09 S
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The Plant Room has submitted some renderings of their ambitious inner-city apartment retrofit.
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Keeping it so simple (KISS)
The key is good insulation moving the barriers that prevent insulation from working and using New Zealand's number 1 sustainable product Pinus Radiata in a panel system.
* The design is simple, the construction unique and simple, the materials plentiful.
* With plenty of glass to the north and little to the south, heat loss is minimal.
* With high levels of insulation in the floor, walls and ceiling.
* Venting to give comfort and take away the condensation.
* You ma…
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David is one of our Adjunct Professors and today he starts a 2 day workshop on 'nourishment through design' with our 1st years Product Design, Object Design and Interior Design students...... we are all looking forward to what will surely be both an exciting an worthwhile two days.
I will publish photos and possibly video of the workshop to the
UNITEC SHaC Ning site
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For more information on the working process adopted by Unitec's Product and Landscape Design programmes see our
NING site.
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Masonry Stove Workshop
October 30-November 8 2009
Clyde, Central Otago
Albie Barden, from Maine Wood Heat, USA will be teaching a 7-10 workshop on how to design and build a masonry stove. This workshop will be on site in Clyde. Contact Otago Polytech, Cromwell for more information.
Straw Bale Design & Construction Workshop
November 7-13 2009
Clyde, Central Otago
This 6-day workshop is in conjunction with the SHAC project. With the straw bale house construction underway, partic…
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Construction of Sampsa's home in Clyde is now underway with foundations being formed and poured. The salvaged tilt-slab panel that our Engineer, Paula, found was stood last week. It's great to have saved a great hunk of concrete from heading to the landfill. This panel is being used as a retaining wall on the lower level.
The Autoflow septic system, has been delivered to the site and will be installed soon. It's great to have the project in underway! Pictures will soon follow.
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We visited the site last week, the basic observations of the site are: that the back section behind the house will be well sheltered by the existing rows of trees surounding it, the land is mostly flat however it does slope slightly downhill, Oakely creek is to the left hand side of the property,Oakely creek is in the gully there is a ongoing replanting project taking place down there, the creek is surrounded by trees which can be seen from site,the main road can also be seen looking across the…
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SHAC Team Canterbury Engineers produced a story book for school children to teach the basics of insulation, draughts, and using the energy from the sun for heat.
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EECA is sponsoring SHAC teams by funding Home Energy Rating Scheme (HERS) assessors to work with each team.
Two sponsored assessments per team will allow changes to the design to be made based on the results.
A Home Energy Rating is an assessment of the energy efficiency performance of a home. This includes:
* How well the building’s design, materials, construction and orientation enables it to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature.
* The efficiency of a home’s two biggest energy users: t…
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Teams are required to submit a report to SHAC on the 9 October 2008. The submitted reports will be made available for download on the SHAC web site.
The reports will have the following sections:
1) Introduction
Include team logo
2) Description of Build or Retrofit
Describe your design or key design elements for build or retrofit
Include a concept sketch/design/or drawings. An sketch indicating key design features is helpful for communications and judging. Include drawings.
3) Judging Criteri…
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Zero.Plus - a SHAC Team from the UoA School of Architecture and Planning has an exhibition opening 11 Sep, on until 4 Oct 2008.
[arc/sec] - Reactive Architecture
on Thursday 11 September, 5.30 p.m. at
St Paul St Gallery, AUT, 40 St Paul St, Auckland Central
The exhibition will show the project Zero.Plus, which is part of the SHAC competition. Six interactive installations will demonstrate concepts around reactive architecture.
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Hi
A pleasure to meet you all at the last meeting in Cromwell on Friday evening. Some very interesting discussions and a great presentation from Sven and Sarah on the ins and outs of straw bale housing. So good that Sampsa could be available through a web chat from Finland
FYI - I was approached by Southland Times for a photo to accompany an article which should appear in the coming days. Here's that image so you don't get a fright when you pick up the paper:
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Opus International is supporting SHAC Teams by providing a technical review service for each team.
SHaC teams are to contact the Opus facilitator (David Taylor) and submit a
stage 1 design review request. Call David at 04 471 7025, or email him at david.taylor@opus.co.nz and he will call you.
• David Taylor to provide an Opus team with the appropriate mix of skills
and at the required location.
• First stage preliminary review - 9 hours per team
• SHaC teams to contact the Opus facilitator (…
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