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Decohousing Denmark

Likely the most sustainable smaller community housing project in Australia. Placed in the middle of the town of Denmark, a Common House on 5000m2 with 12 home units to be strata titled, are being built by AK Homes http://akhomes.com.au/ and the future residents with no profit margin. It is 60% built and most sustainability features are obvious to see.

Decohousing Denmark was designed by H+H Albany http://www.hharchitects.com.au/, have a NatHERS rating of 8.5 predicted to rise to 9.1 upon completion, they are constructed of Hempcrete with double glazed windows, Gyprock roofs with skylights, R6 bats and Anticon insulation.

Awnings, large rainwater tanks, as well as; greywater systems, stormwater management and drip irrigation systems make the most of water to sustain the permaculture gardens, orchards, green walls, native water wise plants and edible gardens.

The gardens are home to chickens and bee keeping.

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Sustainability Features

ENERGY AND WATER EFFICIENT FEATURES

- Energy efficiency:
- Efficient lighting
  Draught proofing
  Energy monitoring
  Smart home features
- Passive heating cooling:
- Shading
- Passive heating cooling:
- home rating minimize any need for passive heating / cooling
- Active heating cooling:
- home rating of homes and common house minimize any need for passive heating / cooling; only small pellet heater in Common House
- Water heating:
- Hot water heat pump
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Above ground storage
  Greywater system
  Stormwater management
  Low flow shower heads
  Drip irrigation
- Above ground rainwater storage Type:
- Large rainwater tanks
- Above ground rainwater storage Size
- 184,000 ltr

SUSTAINABLE & RECYCLED MATERIALS

- Sustainable materials:
- hempcrete external walls throughout, recycle kitchen in Common House
- Recycled and reused materials:
- Timber
  Kitchen/bath cabinets

INSULATION SPECIFICATIONS

- Insulation Type:
- Ceiling
  Internal and external walls
- Ceiling Type:
- Gyprock with R6 bats and anti-con under roof
- Ceiling Rating:
- R6
- Floor Rating:
- R 2.0
- Internal / External Walls Type:
- External hempcrete, internal gyprock with R2.0 insulation
- Internal / External Walls Rating:
- External R4.1, Internal R2.0, party walls R4.0

RENEWABLE ENERGY SPECIFICATIONS

- Energy star rating:
- 8.5-9.1 (likely to be more)
- Renewable energy used:
- Solar PV grid connect

COSTS AND COST SAVINGS

- Cost estimate of sustainable home/features:
- total $4.9 million, individal including share of common house and land, features - $385,000 or $465,000
- Estimate of annual savings:
- $2000 per person per year?

HOUSE DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS

- House Size
- 12 home units, 8 x 80m2, 4 x 130m2
- Window and Door Types
- Double glazing
- Universal Design Features
- Disability access
  Multi-generational
  Adaptive design
- Universal Design Features
- community clustering of homes, integrated solar/battery system, shared land for orchards/gardens.
- Number of bedrooms
- 2
- Number of bathrooms
- 1

GARDEN AND WASTE REDUCTION

- Garden / Outdoors
- not yet in place, list above indicates aspirations
- Garden / Outdoors
- Drip irrigation
  Water wise plants
  Edible garden
  Organic
  Permaculture
  Composting
  Community garden
  Native plants
  Green walls
  Bee keeping
  Chickens

HEALTHY HOME FEATURES

- Healthy home features
- lime render and lime-wash paints, hempcrete (humidity and insulation)

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