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Designing the Future: Melbourne Weekly Cover Story (Downloadable PDF)

11 August 2010
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Above: The Koedyk kids enjoy more than their 5 minutes of fame on the deck of our HIA Award Winning renovation – featured as the Cover Story in Melbourne Weekly and on the giant billboard of The Age building on Spencer Street.
In this week’s edition of ‘Melbourne Weekly’ magazine, Linley Wilkie interviewed our Designer and [...]

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Energy efficient house design: how much is each energy star really worth? (Free downloadable PDF)

3 August 2010
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At the recent State of Design Festival, we prepared a number of home energy cost calculators that helped festival attendees answer the question:
“How much is each additional energy star really worth?”

In this post, we’ll compare the energy cost savings for the same house finished to different energy star ratings.

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Pixel Building Melbourne: 5 architectural lessons to apply to your new home

27 July 2010
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Welcome – you’ve just discovered one of our most popular posts!
If you got here because you are researching Sustainable Architecture for your property, you may also be interested in these articles:

Introduction to a 7 part series called ‘The 7 Pillars of Sustainable Architecture’
Does Sustainable Architecture pay off?

Alternatively, if you are ready to start the [...]

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State of Design 2010: Door Prize winner + your Top 5 questions answered

20 July 2010
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6500+ visitors, 23 workshops and 4 days later – its hard to believe that the State of Design Festival is behind us!
Thank you to everyone who stopped by and said hello – we loved that you felt just as passionately as we did about environmentally sustainable Design + Build!
In this post:

We announce the winner of [...]

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Sustainable Housing by Design: The Lunchtime Sessions

20 July 2010
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Over the course of the State of Design Festival 2010 we had more demand for our Sustainable Housing by Design workshops than we had places available.
As a result we will continue to hold a limited number of extra workshops over special, lunchtime sessions until the end of July!

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Does sustainable architecture pay off?

14 July 2010
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Australians no longer need to be convinced of the merits of sustainability for environmental reasons.
But how much value does Sustainable Architecture actually add to our house price?
Fortunately, a little known experiment that commenced over ten years ago in the ACT, can help us answer the question:
“Does Sustainable Architecture pay off?”

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How to win at VCAT

27 May 2010
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A client recently approached us with a problem.
His proposed Dual Occupancy drawn up by another firm was refused its Planning Permit by local authority, Yarra Ranges Shire Council.
He asked us if we could help him at VCAT to overturn the Council decision and gain his Planning Permit.
We ended up securing his Planning Permit – WITHOUT [...]

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State of Design Festival 2010: Free workshop!

11 May 2010
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State of Design Festival 2010: Free workshop!
Brutal Art Design + Build are pleased to announce our participation in the upcoming State of Design Festival:
State of Design 2010- Victoria’s Design Festival

When: 14th – 26th July, 2010
What: We are conducting a FREE, one-on-one Sustainable Housing by Design Workshop with property developers and new home builders.

Mark your calendar, [...]

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How to get a Planning Permit: Don’t design for VCAT

4 May 2010
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Conventional wisdom amongst property developers attempting to secure a Planning Permit in Victoria is: “Design for VCAT”.
We’d like to suggest some unconventional wisdom: “Don’t design for VCAT”.
Here’s why …

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Planning Permit Victoria: How to get a “Yes” from Council

28 April 2010
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Recently a client approached us to test the waters for a potential 6-unit development in Banyule Council.
What we ended up proposing to Banyule Council fell short of the “300 m2 per lot rule of thumb” and had no precedent for this type of project along the entire street.
Yet Council Town Planners were delighted with our [...]

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