Healthy Homes

Feel Healthy, Safe and Connected in Your Home.

Healthy Homes improve the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities through construction methods and environment design. Build a home that not only reduces environmental impact but also reduces impact on you and your family. Healthy Homes consider a variety of factors to ensure you’re in the right place, breathing the right air, using sustainable energy and protected from toxins and electromagnetic fields – all in ultimate comfort.

What Makes a Healthy Home?

To make a healthy home the selection of materials, design of living environments, ecological, economic, and social aspects are considered.

Indoor Air Quality

Supply of sufficient fresh air
Absence of chemical air pollutants and irritants
Absence of toxic moulds, yeasts, and bacteria as well as dust and allergens
Use of natural, nontoxic materials with the least amount of radioactivity
Have breathing walls that allow vapour to transpire and avoid condensation and mould growth

Water Quality

Whole house filtration, to exclude chlorine and other potential irritants
Drinking water filtration, to exclude fluoride and other irritants.

Electro-Pollution

Electricity wires need to be the shielded type.
Wires are kept away from sleeping areas, wherever possible.
Wires that lead to high powered appliances like heaters, are to be at a distance to sleeping places to reduce exposure to magnetic fields.
Bedroom position is considered in relation to street wiring.
Internal sources such as gadgets, appliances online and wifi are carefully consider, using timers and or shielding

Sustainability

The aim is to move towards a home that is as self sufficient as possible, with a minimal carbon footprint.
Considerations are – Minimised energy consumption
Sustainable energy generation
Use of local products and trades, if possible
Rubbish and materials are re-used or recycled
Grey water can be re-used in the garden
Rain water from tanks
Organic rubbish is composted, worm-farmed, mulched
The garden has edible aspects, like a herb garden, veggies, fruit trees

Comfort

Optimised room acoustics to achieve a pleasant, silent and authentic acoustic environment.
Use of natural light is maximised
Flicker-free lighting
Colours are warm, or change according to the circadian rhythm
Pleasant odour in the house.
Absence of solvents and dominant fragrances.
Strive to achieve a balance between insulation and ventilation to achieve a relative humidity around 50%
Smart design minimises fluctuations in temperature and/or offsets the need to heat and cool
Insect screens on all windows and doors.
Doors sealed at bottom
Ant caps and physical barriers against termites, rather than chemical ones.

Connected Living

Nurture the sensory perceptions of sight, hearing, smell, and touch
Maximise daylighting and choose flicker-free lighting sources and colour schemes that closely match natural light
Base interior and furniture design on physiological and ergonomic needs

Community Context

Design the infrastructure for well-balanced mixed use: short distances to work, shopping, schools, public transit, essential services, and recreation
Create a living environment that meets human needs and protects the environment
Provide sufficient green space in rural and urban residential areas
Strengthen regional and local supply networks as well as self-sufficiency
Select building sites that are located away from sources of contamination, radiation, pollutants, and noise

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Postal Address:
PO Box 4366
Winmalee NSW 2777