Sanctuary Magazine Issue 9 - Prebuilt Green Home Profile
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Merricks residence
Designer Location Project type Cost
Modscape Merricks, VIC Prefabricated house $550,000
Photography Peter Glenane
Made to order Prebuilt modular houses
by Toby Horrocks Strand-woven bamboo flooring, used throughout the home, is dense and hard wearing
Water Saving • Bluescope Corrugated Zincalume 8800L rainwater tank
Passive Heating & Cooling • Austral insulated panel R3.7 and Aircell R2.0
Active Heating & Cooling • Futura ceiling fans
Building Materials • Recycled blackbutt timber from Urban Salvage • Embeltons strandwoven bamboo flooring The Merricks house was delivered with 13 trucks and 25 workers; 13 hours later it was fully installed, with services connected the next day. The homeowners were delighted. “We’d done big renovations before, and the savings in time, effort and hassle with prefabrication are amazing.”
Lighting • Philips Lumiled LEDs
Paints & Finishes • Berger Breath Easy low-VOC paints
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few years ago, architecture firm Pleysier
design, after which the drafting team produce
The homeowner also selected her own finishes,
Perkins came to Prebuilt with their “Mod”
plans. The owner of Prebuilt’s Merricks house is
like the tiling around the fireplace and the recycled
design for a prefabricated house. Their five metre
a former employee of Prebuilt, so she was very
timber floor boards. Prebuilt now offer her design
wide by 16 metre long modules are the maximum
familiar with how it works. She says the whole
as a standard floor plan.
size you can fit on a wide-load truck without special
process took less than a year, including getting
permission, and can be arranged in just about
planning approval for subdividing her land.
any configuration. According to Prebuilt’s Melissa Sydney, “they are like huge pieces of Lego”. During the design phase, clients work with the Prebuilt design team to develop a site-specific
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In her design, the Merricks homeowner chose
The
Mod
has
a
in the walls, and every window is double glazed. “We generally hit 6.5 stars,” says Melissa Sydney. Even though the Merricks client installed an airconditioner last summer, “I didn’t use it once”.
steel
deck
under
the
floor, but the rest of the structure is traditional timber stud framing.
to minimise the use of steel and aluminium for
Because of the lightweight construction of their
embodied energy reasons. “I went with all timber
modules, Prebuilt crank up the insulation – R1.1
window framing and timber footings,” she says.
Air-Cell in the floor, R3.1 insulation in the roof, R2.0
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Prebuilt Merricks
Designer Location Project type Cost
Prebuilt Merricks, VIC Prefabricated house $330,000
Photography John Gollings
Sustainable features
The
Millennium House Keeping it simple By Jenny Brown
Water Saving •B iolytix waste water system (www.biolytix.com) Comprises underground greywater tank using a combination of charcoal filters, netting, microbes and worms to treat water. Piped to garden.
Passive Heating & Cooling • CSR Bradford R4 Glasswool ceiling batts, R2 wall batts, Aircell R1.5 underfloor insulation • Shutters and pergola for shade
Building Materials • Plantation silvertop ash and Carter Holt Harvey Shadowclad external cladding • Plantation pine framing • Recycled blackbutt flooring
Glazing • 4mm toughened double-glazed windows
Lighting • CFL and LED
Active Heating • Nectre 15 pedestal wood heater (www.nectre.com)
OTHER • Mega Anchor building foundation system (www.mega-anchor.com.au)
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Designer Location Project type Cost
Modscape Merricks, VIC Prefabricated house $550,000
Photography Peter Glenane
Made to order Prebuilt modular houses
by Toby Horrocks Strand-woven bamboo flooring, used throughout the home, is dense and hard wearing
Water Saving • Bluescope Corrugated Zincalume 8800L rainwater tank
Passive Heating & Cooling • Austral insulated panel R3.7 and Aircell R2.0
Active Heating & Cooling • Futura ceiling fans
Building Materials • Recycled blackbutt timber from Urban Salvage • Embeltons strandwoven bamboo flooring The Merricks house was delivered with 13 trucks and 25 workers; 13 hours later it was fully installed, with services connected the next day. The homeowners were delighted. “We’d done big renovations before, and the savings in time, effort and hassle with prefabrication are amazing.”
Lighting • Philips Lumiled LEDs
Paints & Finishes • Berger Breath Easy low-VOC paints
62
63
A
few years ago, architecture firm Pleysier
design, after which the drafting team produce
The homeowner also selected her own finishes,
Perkins came to Prebuilt with their “Mod”
plans. The owner of Prebuilt’s Merricks house is
like the tiling around the fireplace and the recycled
design for a prefabricated house. Their five metre
a former employee of Prebuilt, so she was very
timber floor boards. Prebuilt now offer her design
wide by 16 metre long modules are the maximum
familiar with how it works. She says the whole
as a standard floor plan.
size you can fit on a wide-load truck without special
process took less than a year, including getting
permission, and can be arranged in just about
planning approval for subdividing her land.
any configuration. According to Prebuilt’s Melissa Sydney, “they are like huge pieces of Lego”. During the design phase, clients work with the Prebuilt design team to develop a site-specific
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In her design, the Merricks homeowner chose
The
Mod
has
a
in the walls, and every window is double glazed. “We generally hit 6.5 stars,” says Melissa Sydney. Even though the Merricks client installed an airconditioner last summer, “I didn’t use it once”.
steel
deck
under
the
floor, but the rest of the structure is traditional timber stud framing.
to minimise the use of steel and aluminium for
Because of the lightweight construction of their
embodied energy reasons. “I went with all timber
modules, Prebuilt crank up the insulation – R1.1
window framing and timber footings,” she says.
Air-Cell in the floor, R3.1 insulation in the roof, R2.0
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Prebuilt Merricks
Designer Location Project type Cost
Prebuilt Merricks, VIC Prefabricated house $330,000
Photography John Gollings
Sustainable features
The
Millennium House Keeping it simple By Jenny Brown
Water Saving •B iolytix waste water system (www.biolytix.com) Comprises underground greywater tank using a combination of charcoal filters, netting, microbes and worms to treat water. Piped to garden.
Passive Heating & Cooling • CSR Bradford R4 Glasswool ceiling batts, R2 wall batts, Aircell R1.5 underfloor insulation • Shutters and pergola for shade
Building Materials • Plantation silvertop ash and Carter Holt Harvey Shadowclad external cladding • Plantation pine framing • Recycled blackbutt flooring
Glazing • 4mm toughened double-glazed windows
Lighting • CFL and LED
Active Heating • Nectre 15 pedestal wood heater (www.nectre.com)
OTHER • Mega Anchor building foundation system (www.mega-anchor.com.au)
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