The Vicker Ridge 2015

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.

 

For more information on our project, see our facebook page;
The Vicker Ridge    Triple Net-Positive Home

Sustainability Features

Years Open
2015
ENERGY AND WATER EFFICIENT 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 & RECYCLED MATERIALS
    • Sustainable materials:
    • Some recycled materials used
INSULATION SPECIFICATIONS
    • 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 SPECIFICATIONS
    • Renewable energy used:
    • Solar PV grid connect
COSTS AND COST SAVINGS
    • Estimate of annual savings:
    • $5,000/year
HOUSE DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS
    • House Size
    • 413m2
    • Window and Door Types
    • Louvre windows
      Clerestory windows
    • Number of bedrooms
    • 4
    • Number of bathrooms
    • 3
GARDEN AND WASTE REDUCTION
    • Garden / Outdoors
    • Drip irrigation
      Edible garden
      Organic
      Composting
      Native plants
      Chickens
HEALTHY HOME FEATURES
    • Healthy home features
    • Low VOC paints,
Location
Logan Village QLD 4207
    • Housing Type:
    • Standalone House
    • Project Type:
    • New Build
      Continual Improvement
    • Builder
    • Owner Builder