Sustainable Builders Yak
For Australian construction professionals building high-performing, sustainable homes and homeowners looking to create their own sustainable, high-performing home.
Sustainable Builders Yak
Latest Episodes
Why Australia is Running Out of Timber: with Matt de Jongh, Responsible wood
Australia is the seventh most forested country on earth, yet it imports around $5 billion more timber than it sells, and the gap grows every year. Matt de Jongh, a forester of about 25 years and now with Responsible Wood, the body behind timber...
We're Building to Yesterday's Climate: The NCC Risks Builders Face, with Ailie Gallant, Climate Scientist
Australia's National Construction Code climate zones and NatHERS and PHPP models built on them, are calculated from climate averages that are no longer holding. When Brian raises this, Monash University climate scientist Ailie Gallant stops and...
How Far Should You Push Performance? Rethinking High-Performance Building with Andy Marlow of Envirotecture
Andy Marlow's definition of efficiency in passive house and airtightness will annoy some people: it's doing the bare minimum required to clear the hurdle, which he says is much the same as being really bloody lazy. Andy is a director at Envirot...
Working 80-Hour Weeks & Losing $400K: Kyle Zanetto & Luke Davies on Running a Profitable Building Company
Kyle Zanetto lost close to $400,000 in a single year working eighty-hour weeks. Luke Davies sat $75,000 in overdraft with a maxed-out mortgage and had to sell his house. Both now run successful Tasmanian building companies — and together founde...
Ep #66 Underinsured and Wide Open: The Insurances Builders Must Have with Daniel Webber
Most builders are more exposed than they realise, and usually find out at the worst possible moment. In this episode, Daniel Webber of Webber Insurance, a broker who specialises in complex construction risk, walks through the cover ...
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Hi I’m trying to find your website, but it doesn’t come up in a google search or typing www.dsva.com.au or any variants I’ve tried. Any clues? Cheers Brett I’m considering an earth floor in a straw bale house, for less slab. Have you done a pod on that?
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