Engineering Happy Healthy Homes for People & Planet
Kia Ora, our passion is engineering happy healthy housing. We believe that access to warm, draught free, earthquake resilient housing should be the right of every New Zealander all across the motu.
We are experts in engineering healthy homes for people and planet, whanau and whenua.
SERVICES
We provide energy modelling and engineering services for new and retrofitted homes.
► Energy Modelling Service
► Engineering Service
ENERGY MODELLING SERVICE
Our energy modelling service allows you to test drive your new home before you build it, to make sure you get the salubrious living experience you dreamed of, when your home was being designed.
If you buy a new car, you’d test drive it first, so why not your new house?
It is important to consider whether you have the right amount of insulation in the right locations. Whether there is sufficient heating, cooling and ventilation to ensure your house is actually designed as Healthy Home. We can investigate different construction systems (floors, walls, windows, ventilation systems) to provide the optimum living environment for your requirements.
We can calculate your future annual power bill, check the efficiency and comfort levels of your doors and windows, and make sure your house doesn’t overheat in our warming climate. We can provide a payback period on energy efficient upgrades and much, much more, giving you a home that far exceeds minimum standards and meets your expectations.
We have the ability to help save you thousands of dollars over the life of your home, and often energy modelling will save significant amounts by correcting costly decisions in the design process too.
Engineering Services
Our engineering service encompasses Geotechnical and Structural design and monitoring services.
Geotechnical Engineering
There is no point building a healthy home, if it’s not sitting on firm foundations. We can carryout the appropriate site assessment for your site to determine your foundation design. The ground and the foundation on it are intertwined, much like a long-term relationship. When dark clouds rumble over the horizon or a sudden shake up happens, we don’t want our couple splitting or separating, now, do we?
Structural Engineering
We do more than just provide the resilient fully insulated foundation for your healthy home. We make the whole structure be resilient against the forces of nature. We do this with a full understanding of your drivers and ambitions for your new home. Being Certified Passive House Consultants, we have an excellent understanding of thermal bridging and the role that structure can play in reducing the effectiveness of insulation. We fully design the ventilation system to ensure that ducting doesn’t clash with important beams, joists and rafters.
Services in Cooperation
We feel that engineering and energy modelling go hand in hand to provide a wraparound service for you, our client. Who’s better to determine how energy efficient you home is and could be, that the people that make it stand strong, (Kia Kaha), in the face of all the elements it may face, today and into the future.
Our Recent Projects
Damien McGill is the director of the Healthy Home Cooperation. His mission is to change the way people design and build homes in Aotearoa. From providing free healthy home tips on social media and LinkedIn, to monitoring and indoor air quality in homes across Christchurch, including conducting product trials of ventilation systems and of course energy modelling. If it’s helping to create a healthy home, Damien and the Healthy Home Cooperation are the team you need. Whether you are just starting out in the process, putting the finishing touches on your dream design, or planning a healthy home renovation or retrofit, get in touch for a no obligation chat about making your next home healthy!
Damien is a Certified Passive House Consultant and as Canterbury Chapter Lead for The Passive House Institute of New Zealand (PHINZ), https://passivehouse.nz arranges educational and social events across Canterbury that he’s calling Passive House, Public House. Everyone is welcome, so come join us.
As well as new build homes, he has completed several healthy home renovations and embarked on his own multi-unit town house renovation in 2021, which is a work in progress.
Juliette Richards, Wanaka
“We wanted to make an energy efficient and healthy home and didn’t know where to start and where to go without spending stupid sums – Damien advised the best way to spend our budget with maximum results. He provided completely independent solid advice; you can save money by going for the cheaper option on this for example.”
“The thermal modelling helped us enormously– for example going for triple glazing on some windows gave better insulation while keeping to our budget. The identification of the potential overheating risk and the simple cost-effective mitigation strategy was really helpful.”
“I’ve already recommended Damien to others; in fact, I’ve raved about the service and support we had. What I loved the most was Damien was always just a phone call away and very happy to provide advice, whenever we needed it. I still phone him now with questions.”
For further testimonials and an insight into the work we love and are so proud of, check out our Mahi page. Let us provide you with a helping hand for your next healthy home build.
Kia pai tō rā.
Have a great day!
HEALTHY HOME COOPERATION
Healthy Homes for all Kiwis. Housing is about people. People working together in cooperation to provide Healthy Homes for people to live in.
Damien McGill: Engineering Happy Healthy Homes for People & Planet
