At our current retrofit project, we have designed around and over an existing footprint to short circuit lengthy and often very costly local authority approval processes. Throughout these retrofit journeys with our clients, we undertake a design… Click here to read the full article
Sustainable by name, sustainable by nature!
It is definitely celebration time this Monday for the Sustainable Team!
This morning we came in to work to receive our 25 Year Milestone feature in The Community Chronicle. This year, Sustainable is celebrating 25 years within the building and construction industry. We are so excited that we get to share our story with our local community!
Share in our celebration by joining us for the rest of this year. Keep up to date with our latest and greatest stories via our social media platforms – Instagram, LinkedIn & Facebook. Also, don’t forget to check our website space for more exciting Sustainable news.
To kick start the celebration, check out our little celebration video below:
In 2017, Sustainable undertook a journey with Tobias and Hilke Volbert to design and construct their affordable, adaptable and environmentally conscious Recipe House. Throughout their journey to create their dream home, they engaged in and trusted our Sustainable process to come out with a truly individual and sustainable home.
Watch “The Kingfisher Recipe House” video below to grasp an understanding of the Sustainable Recipe House journey.
Brett McKenzie sheds light on the reality of today’s housing developments. Here at Sustainable we aim to inspire people to take on the responsibility to create design lead homes that create better community living rather than contribute to larger social and environmental issues.
“So yes the housing stock may be cheaper, but effectively you are buying cheaper products [and] a cheaper system. In the long term, if you have a design lead process with long term thinking, you end up with a more cost effective home diluted over a longer period of time.” — Sustainable CEO Brett McKenzie
Sustainable ensures that our design lead homes perform unbelievably from a sustainable and energy perspective. In considering the environment and sustainable concepts before constructing the building, ensures that we are maximising passive energy.
Through our design and construction expertise, Sustainable helps you generate recipe design savings, of both time and money. Cost is further reduced through our waste management approach – recycling 98% of the construction waste.
Sustainable understands sensible design, considering compass-north and solar-north, and positioning homes based on the orientation of where the sun comes up and goes down.
STORY & PICS: TOBIAS VOLBERT MAILDM
Join Tobias Volbert as he discusses his Sustainable journey. Tobias, Hilke and the boys, even three years on, still enjoy and engage with the pleasures of their Sustainable Recipe House.
If you are interested about Sustainable’s key principles in constructing the Kingfisher house, read the following article: Sustainable News – The Kingfisher House.
Recipe on Crowley showcases how design led urban in-fill housing can continue to deliver the Queensland way of life through natural space and engaged community.
If you are interested in developing house and land options that have the market edge check out our Sustainable Communities page.
Building Sustainable Communities
Melbourne-based journalist, Angela Fedele, interviewed Sustainable CEO Brett McKenzie as a guest speaker on the PROTECT Podcast in 2021. They discuss sustainability and its benefits from a design, performance and community point of view. [Listen Now…]
