The Sharpest Tool in the Shed: Tradies Taking the Lead In the conversation around the quality of Australian buildings, the workmanship delivered by tradies often comes under fire. But even when homes meet the requirements of the building code, study after study shows Australian homes are still often too cold in winter, too hot in […]

Show #215 – Building a true Eco Home with Blue Eco Homes LISTEN TO THIS WEEK’S SHOW ON iTUNES, STITCHER OR SPOTIFY OR LISTEN RIGHT HERE: Love our new show tune in the intro/outro? It’s talented Australian independent artist Melanie Horsnell’s song “Birds”. So proud to support this wonderful Aussie artist and have her grace the show with her wonderful words and […]

Women Driving the Passive House Industry is iPHA’s newest interview series which aims to highlight the remarkable women working in the Passive House community. The iPHA team interviewed a handful of the many women who’ve contributed substantially to the growth of the Passive House Standard around the world. Here’s our third interview featuring carpenter-in-training Bethany […]

Award-winning home captures the beauty and vitality of Blue Mountains Intelligent design and materials selection were key elements that helped them meet their client’s brief, resulting in a beautiful and healthy home that went on to win two prestigious design awards. Blue Eco Homes worked with a building biologist to create a home that would […]

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A Blue Mountains house that maintains a steady 20-25 degrees without heating or cooling. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it.

This unassuming four-bedroom house in the bush is the only one of its kind in Australia. The home in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney has no gaps on the outside and is clad in fibre cement, giving it Australia’s highest bushfire rating. Builder Joe Mercieca and his wife Merylese, a former registered nurse, experienced […]

Australia’s first passive house built to the highest bushfire rating has been unveiled in the midst of an early start to the bushfire season, as experts gather to advise residents on fire safety. When Joe and Merylese Mercieca began building solar passive homes 15 years ago, architects, suppliers, and contractors told them it would not […]

Blue Eco Homes has launched the first Certified Passive House in the NSW Blue Mountains. A display home, it will be open to the public for Sustainable House Day on September 15, 2019. According to the company, ‘The Sapphire’ is one of the most energy-efficient houses in NSW, as well as one of the most […]