The Vicker Ridge
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House Notes – The Vicker Ridge
When you think sustainable homes, you probably don’t picture a luxury home, big swimming pool with waterslide, multiple fridges, home theatre, regular clothes dryer use and certainly not outdoor air conditioning. Yet the Vicker Ridge incorporates all of the above and achieves the highest standards of sustainable performance.
The Vicker Ridge is an owner built regenerative high performance home in Logan Village. The project quality, style and performance debunks numerous stereotypes of sustainable living.
In the past year, it took on the toughest sustainable building performance test in the world; Net Zero Energy and Net Zero Water simultaneously. The result? It surpassed zero and achieved Net Positive status on both. This means over 12 months, the house exported more surplus electricity than what it used. It also harvested more rainwater than it used, treated and reused all its wastewater on site without chemicals.
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The Vicker Ridge Triple Net-Positive Home
Sustainability Features
- Energy efficiency:
- Efficient lighting
Efficient appliances
Energy monitoring
- Energy efficiency:
- High use of retailer controlled off-peak tariff
- Passive heating cooling:
- Shading
Cross ventilation
- Active heating cooling:
- Ceiling fans
Evaporative
- Water heating:
- Solar hot water (flat panel)
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Above ground storage
Greywater system
Blackwater
Stormwater management
Low flow shower heads
Low flow taps
Drip irrigation
Storage connected to
- Above ground rainwater storage Type:
- Corrugated steel tanks
- Above ground rainwater storage Size
- over 100,000 litres
- Storage connected to
- Garden
Whole house
- Water harvesting and saving
- Segmented gutters, high performance rainheads, commercial leaf eaters, 150mm stormwater pipes, Redwater diverters
- Sustainable materials:
- Some recycled materials used
- Insulation Type:
- Ceiling
Internal and external walls
- Ceiling Type:
- Earthwool formaldehyde-free, based on renewable materials
- Ceiling Rating:
- R3.5 ceiling + Anticon under roof sheeting R1.8
- Internal / External Walls Type:
- Wall Batts
- Internal / External Walls Rating:
- R1.9
- Renewable energy used:
- Solar PV grid connect
- Estimate of annual savings:
- $5,000/year
- House Size
- 413m2
- Window and Door Types
- Louvre windows
Clerestory windows
- Number of bedrooms
- 4
- Number of bathrooms
- 3
- Garden / Outdoors
- Drip irrigation
Edible garden
Organic
Composting
Native plants
Chickens
- Healthy home features
- Low VOC paints,
- Housing Type:
- Standalone House
- Project Type:
- New Build
Continual Improvement
- Builder
- Owner Builder