6 Ways You Can Disrupt The Future Of Housing

All the media channels tell us we are in the midst of a housing crisis. Housing affordability is at an all-time low and options for sustainability are limited.

Green Wave Projects has set out to disrupt the future of housing around sustainability and affordability which can be accomplished by adopting my 4 key principles which I will be expanding on in regular blog posts.  Subsribe to my newsletter to learn how to disrupt the future of housing.

Sustainability

What is sustainability? The carbon footprint of your home is not just about the materials that it has been constructed with, but the energy that was required to produce and transport it.  Most importantly the choice of materials used in your home has long term effects and benefit for your health.  Procuring materials from certified sustainable sources, recycled and local producers plays a role in reducing waste, lowering carbon emissions and impacting upon the finite resources of our planet.

Affordability

How do we achieve affordable housing? Home ownership is something that many aspire to and who doesn’t want to be debt free sooner?  Building affordable homes creates entry into the housing market.  Building homes in innovative ways, with higher efficiencies and better material selections can all reduce the upfront costs and decrease the ongoing maintenance costs leading to a more affordable future.

1.  Smart Design

Optimization of the floorplan and placement of the dwelling on the land can impact on the energy required to heat and cool your home, and also in the way that you use the spaces. Orientation, thermal mass, glazing sizes and positions and insulation all impact on the comfort level of the home.  Therefore, using a registered building designer or Architect from the early stages will ensure that smart design is imbedded in your home.

2.  Small Footprint

Small does not mean tiny.  The concept of living in a small footprint home might appear daunting, but consideration for the use of the spaces and how the occupants use them mean that no space is wasted.  Housing should be designed to adapt to the needs of the occupants over their lives in the dwelling. Housing sizes have increased whilst the number of occupants has decreased. Affordability is at the root of small footprint design.

3.  Self-Sufficient

This refers to your home being off-grid and not reliant on the network for utilities like electricity and water.  This is the ability for the home to operate sustainably with energy that has been generated by the sun and stored in a battery system.  Water can be harvested from the roof and stored in tanks and reticulated around the home. Because of these aspects the operation costs are reduced.

4.  Prefabrication

Prefabrication refers to any part of a building that has been fabricated at a place other than its final location. This approach greatly reduces the construction time and reduces downtime due to inclement weather. Other benefits include a reduction in construction waste, creating high quality, innovative buildings, increasing efficiency, decreasing time frames and costs and embracing new technologies.

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