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Hill St, Carrington
A project both designed and built by Buildsmart Constructions, we are thrilled that this custom built home was the winner of the 2018 HIA-CSR Hunter Housing and Kitchen & Bathroom Awards in the following categories:
- Custom Built Home > $500,001 to $600,000
- GreenSmart Sustainable Home
- Residential Building Designer
This two-storey family home with separate office achieves a surprising amount of living space on its 10.5 by 25.5 metre, flood-zoned block in Carrington. The home achieves:
- maximising solar passive design principles to indoor and outdoor living areas
- a thermally efficient building envelope
- incorporating solar and battery storage and aiming for a net zero energy building
- maximising privacy from close-quartered neighbours
- incorporating as much recycled and low environmental impact materials as possible
- ensuring a sufficiently sized and smartly designed garage to enable storage of a large amount of the owner’s business equipment, and
- ensuring all habitable areas were 1 metre above the ground level to comply with flood zoning requirements