Eco homes will soon open at Gawler Caravan Park for the public to test run as part of a sustainable building challenge.
The nature-positive prefabricated modular designs will be part of a year-long study to determine how effective sustainable building standards are in not only reducing harm to the environment but actively improving it.
Built by Future Property Group, there will be two prototypes – one a green building with biosolar roof and greenwall, and the other a brown building with no greenery features to study the difference between them.
Render of the nature positive home by Future Property Group to be built at Gawler Caravan Park.
There will be two different prototypes to study the difference.
Future Property Group founder and managing director David Cummins.
They will strive to meet several standards in the Living Building Challenge.
These include producing more energy from sustainable resources than they consume, capturing and treating their water needs from rain, using sustainable and ethically-sourced materials that avoid harmful chemicals, protecting and restoring local ecosystems, and supporting physical and mental wellbeing.
Future Property Group founder and managing director David Cummins said the designs will prove there is a smarter, faster and more sustainable way to build homes.
Mr Cummins said the construction and property development industry, which he has more than 20 years of experience in, needed to be more research-led, especially when it came to carbon footprints.
“I don’t think I’m doing anything crazy phenomenal, I’m just listening to the research – we should be guided by research,” he said.
They’ll be modern inside and look like any other home.
The public will soon be able to test them.
They’re set to change the way homes are built.
Mr Cummins hoped the prototypes in Gawler, which were due to be finished in about July, would demonstrate what the next era of building could look like.
“The benefit of this accommodation is the public can book whenever they want, then we’ll analyse that data after,” he said.
Built in SA, he said all the materials used to construct the eco homes, except the windows, were made in the state.
“SA is literally the best state in Australia for embracing sustainable principles,” he said.
The aim was to deliver scalable impact, with every 100 units of upgraded equipment capable of reducing 300 tonnes of emissions per caravan park each year – the equivalent of 96 Sydney to Los Angeles flights.
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