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Roger Bateman Designing Better Products

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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Tim Bishop The Plant Room Renderings

The Plant Room has submitted some renderings of their ambitious inner-city apartment retrofit. Continue

Added by Tim Bishop on October 15, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Sarah Johnston Pics of Jobsite Progress August 31 2009

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Added by Sarah Johnston on September 29, 2009 at 10:31pm — No Comments

Tim Bishop Team Waikato to SHAC 09 House at Waikato Home Show 1- 4 October

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… Continue

Added by Tim Bishop on September 23, 2009 at 8:43pm — No Comments

Roger Bateman David Trubridge Workshop at UNITEC

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 UNITEC Continue

Added by Roger Bateman on August 18, 2009 at 6:15am — No Comments

Roger Bateman UNITEC Product Design and Landscape Design

For more information on the working process adopted by Unitec's Product and Landscape Design programmes see our NING site. Continue

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Sarah Johnston Workshops

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… Continue

Added by Sarah Johnston on August 10, 2009 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Sarah Johnston Construction Underway

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. Continue

Added by Sarah Johnston on August 10, 2009 at 2:41pm — No Comments

amanda Site Visit

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… Continue

Added by amanda on March 11, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Tim Bishop Team Canterbury - Mac's SHAC

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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Added by Tim Bishop on January 23, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Tim Bishop EECA to Sponsor Home Energy Rating Assessors for SHAC teams

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… Continue

Added by Tim Bishop on September 16, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Tim Bishop Team Reports Due 9 Oct

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… Continue

Added by Tim Bishop on September 16, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Tim Bishop ZeroPlus Team Exhibition

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. Continue

Added by Tim Bishop on September 8, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Tom Walter Great meeting - here's some photos

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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Added by Tom Walter on July 7, 2008 at 3:50pm — No Comments

Tim Bishop Opus International Consultants Supporting SHAC Teams

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 (… Continue

Added by Tim Bishop on July 2, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Tim Bishop Setting Targets for More Sustainable Living

SHAC Teams met via video conference on 11 June 2008 to discuss technical targets for more sustainable housing. The SHAC Judging criteria require teams to make progress by reducing energy and water use, waste production, and material use, while maintaining a comfortable indoor environment (IEQ), retaining affordability, and supporting a sustainable community. Teams are questioning and verifying their visions of sustainable living by setting targets or goals for their houses in each of the SHAC… Continue

Added by Tim Bishop on June 12, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Tim Bishop Student Films SHAC 09 Project

Jane Adcroft has produced a short promo piece on the SHAC project. Jane is a student at the University of Otago's Natural History Film-making course. "The Sustainable Habitat Challenge is such a great project," said Jane, "It is exciting to be able to contribute and promote SHAC." Jane's video is available below. Contact Tim Bishop at 0800 SHAC 09 or tim@shac.org.nz for a high-res copy on DV tape. Jane can be contacted at jane_adcroft@hotmail.com. Continue

Added by Tim Bishop on June 4, 2008 at 9:18pm — No Comments

Tim Bishop Water Conservation with Maggie Lawton

SHAC teams were at a video conference on 14 May 2008 on Water Conservation with Maggie Lawton of Braidwood research and consulting. Download a pdf of the slide show here Maggie presented these slides, below:
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Added by Tim Bishop on May 14, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Tim Bishop Book List for SHAC Teams

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Added by Tim Bishop on May 1, 2008 at 4:35pm — No Comments

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