ebode bulletin # 9 - August 2011
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Kiwi home design company goes
carbon neutral
Celsias New Zealand /June 2011
Kiwi company ebode is all about building architecturally designed passive solar sustainable homes. And now it has upped its eco credentials a little more by becoming the first carbon neutral-certified home design and build company in New Zealand, achieving carboNZeroCert certification.
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ebode bulletin # 8 - April 2011
Welcome to the first newsletter for 2011. This bulletin was due to go out in the first week of March, but it just didn’t seem right when the country was still in a state of shock and grief about the earthquake in Christchurch. Fortunately members of the ebode team, and our friends and families in Christchurch survived the quake relatively unharmed, although in some cases not without serious damage to property and in all cases with their lives completely disrupted. Our thoughts are with everyone who is suffering at this time.
In view of the devastation caused recently in New Zealand and worldwide by natural events, we have changed the format of this newsletter slightly, replacing our featured home with a special on what elements of your home could help you and your family if you are affected by a natural disaster.
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TV3 news - 6th April 2011
New data collected throughout winter and summer from NZ’s first eco home has shown whether its trendy features really work. Eco home with a mind of its own
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Nature, enter me
HOME NZ Magazine /April 2011
An eco-home in suburban Auckland is designed to insure guilt-free warmth all year round. The ebode home in Westmere, Auckland includes an extremely comprehensive insulation and heating system, based on careful use of the principles of passive solar design.
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Future Perfect
ALIVE Magazine - March 2011
When renovating an old bungalow looked prohibitively expensive, Brian Dickey and his wife Ro Gravit looked at other options and found that they could have a truly sustainable home without breaking the bank.
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ebode bulletin # 7 - December 2010
Perhaps it has been our amazingly busy year, but it seems inconceivable December is already upon us. It has been fantastic to meet so many people who are interested in sustainable living – with all of our consultants still busy with enquiries after a huge amount of interest at the Wellington, Canterbury and Auckland Home Shows in September and October.
In addition to those already completed or in construction, we have recently signed contracts for several new ebode homes, and look forward to helping more New Zealanders into sustainable homes and lifestyles in 2011.
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In the event of an emergency - live here
By Andy Kenworthy - HOME NZ Magazine /Dec 2010
A new house in Auckland brings big eco credentials to the heart of the suburbs
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HOME 2010 Building & Renovating Guide
HOME New Zealand’s 2010 Building & Renovation Guide
ebode Director of Design Niel de Jong featured in an expert Q&A in HOME New Zealand’s 2010 Building & Renovation Guide
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Setting the standard - ebode's Westmere
BUILD Magazine October / November 2010
Starting with the design, the planning of any urban house is usually heavily dictated by the contour, size and shape of the site. Add in district plan constraints and the requirement for good passive solar design, and it can be difficult to tick all the boxes.
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ebode bulletin # 6 - September 2010
This month some exciting new appointments, the development of a fantastic new product, and the completion of a milestone project have kept the ebode team incredibly busy for the last few months.
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Follow our Urban Eco House Project
ebode has just begun building the first urban sustainable ebode home in the inner-city suburb of Westmere, right in the heart of Auckland City - demonstrating that sustainable designs can be perfect for urban environments and lifestyles.
This ebode designed and built to the highest specifications using ultra efficient European style "tilt and turn joinery" and will use a grid-connected, photovoltaic system to generate its own power, collects it's own water and uses our passive solar principals to make it's own heat and ventilation.
Follow the build on the ebode Face Book page
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Smart house can predict weather
By JANIE SMITH - Auckland City Harbor News / June 2010
With the ability to predict the weather, sense the temperature and open or close windows accordingly, a Westmere house will be more like another member of the family than just a home.The environmentally sustainable house features a prototype climate control system where sensors in the floor and walls measure the temperature.
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Living with nature in mind
Good Magazine / June-July 2010
Building a new home? Ebode sustainable home designs rate at the top of the pack.
We know that the decisions we make when we build or renovate will impact not only on our quality of life but also on the environment. But if you want your new home to be sustainable, where do you begin?
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Are green homes too expensive?
By Kevin Ireton - Green@Home Magazine /
Aug 2009
"If a 380 sq. meter house with green features costs more than you are willing to pay, it might not be the green features that make it too expensive. It might be the size of the house."
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ebode bulletin # 5 - September 2009
This month, The Green Star residential rating tool is gearing up to be the one stop shop for New Zealand home owners and prospective buyers wishing to evaluate the eco efficiencies of their homes...Jette de Jong from ebode talks about how ebode will interface with the Greenstar tool and what this will mean for the New Zealand housing market in the future. Also ebode at the Auckland Homeshow and Natural kitchens - an integral part of ebode homes.
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Keeping heat sustainable
By Allanah Ryan - New Zealand Herald /
June 2009
Allanah Ryan, a consultant with ebode
homes, looks at the environmentally
responsible options available when it
comes to heating our homes....
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Greg Fleming talks to designer Niel de Jong about building
homes which are designed to keep themselves warm in winter
and cool in summer....
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Go with the flow
By Annabel McAleer - Good Magazine /
April-May 2009
Building a new home is fraught with compromise—storage space versus floor area; kitchen budget versus bathroom budget—but never more so than when building an eco-home. Engineering requirements and consent issues must be weighed against complex energy calculations, ethical and environmental considerations, and computer models for weather of all seasons—then, of course, the inevitable budgetary constraints.
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The green design & build
By Bette Flagler - Life & Leisure Magazine /
March 2009
When choosing a
design-and-build
company, consumers
can find some that are
a deep shade of green.....
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Stop the rot
By Andy Kenworthy - Idealog Magazine /
Autumn 2009
The Kiwi housing stock is a shambles: damp, drafty and usually facing south. Andy Kenworthy examines what it would take to jump-start a green housing revolution....
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ebode bulletin # 4 - march 2009
This month, well known eco architect and author Johann Bernhardt joined Niel de Jong in our design
practice, ebode studio. Originally from Germany, Johann has been a practicing eco-architect in New
Zealand for many years and is considered one of New Zealand's foremost experts in sustainable
design.
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ebode, New Zealand’s truly sustainable housing company, has adopted Toyota Prius hybrid electric cars as their fleet vehicles....
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New Zealand’s electricity consumers have again been left vulnerable by the failure to ensure this country has adequate long term energy supplies, Sustainable Electricity Association New Zealand said today.
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“What is the payback period?”
By Mike Bassett-Smith and Shane Robinson
Powersmart NZ Limited
This is the most common question asked on the
subject of solar electricity.
We seem to be naturally curious about a
technology that can produce a long-term supply
of electricity with no continuous financial input,
environmental side effect, or significant change
to our lifestyle. Yet industry, consumers, and
government only seem able to relate the value
of the investment to its energy ‘payback’.
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Greening your home
Herald on Sunday /
March 2008
Not only will eco-design make your home greener, cheaper to run and sweeter to live in, it may boost its value. Nicola Shephard gets expert tips on how to green up your home....
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Green wave breaking
Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 19 August 2007
Clean and green? Not New Zealand houses, according to an international expert who says even our eco-houses are an embarrassment. Ruth Laugesen reports....
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