96 | Warmer, healthier, cheaper T Kelly Deeks Nest Residential homes feature passive house and energy efficiency measures like airtight construction, mechanical ventilation heat recovery (MVHR), thermally broken triple glazing, and superior foundation insulation. Canterbury: Nest Residential BUILDING MASTER ELECTRICIANS Nathan - 021 791 397 | elec@drenp.co.nz RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • SHOP FIT OUT • DATA & COMMS Roofline Canterbury Ph 349 8439 · www.roofline.co.nz For all your roofing and cladding contact Deal directly with the owner Competitive pricing guaranteed Specialists in all your house joinery Commercial Joinery Fit-outs PROUD TO SUPPORT NEST RESIDENTIAL 253 Lincoln Road, Addington. www.towerkitchens.co.nz ph - 03 3387846 | email: grant@towerjoinery.co.nz Energy efficient property developer Nest Residential is building New Zealand’s best homes in our country’s best suburb, with three new townhouses targeting Passive House Certification Low Energy Build, now under development in Church Square, Addington. Simon Fenwick and Mark Teesdale of Nest Residential have a passion for making better quality, modern housing more accessible in New Zealand, and in the past eight years, they have brought several developments to the Christchurch market. Simon says Nest Residential builds warmer, healthier, and more efficient townhouses than any other developer in New Zealand, and without the unattainable price tag. “If you’re going to build a Passive House or a low-energy build without any experience or any building connections, it is generally going to cost you $1.5 million,” he says. “What we are trying to do is bring our homes in at only 10% more than a standard build. In Poulson St Addington, we are selling these low energy townhouses at $975,000, and that is including solar panels and battery back-up.” Nest homes feature passive house and energy efficiency measures like airtight construction, mechanical ventilation heat recovery (MVHR), thermally broken triple glazing, and superior foundation insulation. In their bid to encourage people into better buildings, Simon and Mark have trialled different building rating systems and Passive House New Zealand is one they supported. “We like having someone else checking our buildings and checking our insulation. The Passive House rating system means someone apart from me is saying this is a good building.” With the average Christchurch home using about 120-150kW of energy per square metre on heating and cooling, Passive House’s low energy building certification is given to homes that only use up to 30kW per square metre. Less than 10 New Zealand homes have achieved Low Energy Build certification, and Nest Residential is targeting this for all three townhouses in Poulson St. “Passive House is growing. There is a strong but niche market of people who realise we need better builds. At the rate we are heading, this standard of building is going to be the minimum within 10 years. Why not aim for it now?” Last year, Stuff named Addington New Zealand’s best place to live with its Sweet Spots interactive tool, citing its youth, vibrancy, and affordability as making it a place where people are living happy lives. Simon and Mark picked it in the 1990s when they started renovating old homes. “It was such a cool and semi-industrial suburb,” Simon says. “The prison had closed a few years before, and it was always going to get better. It’s close to the city, close to Hagley Park, and close to the hospital, with an interesting mix of architecture and history. That was our gamble, but it would be fair to say it never really paid off until after the earthquakes happened.” Addington came away from the quakes relatively unscathed, and with the Addington Coffee Co-op starting up in 2008, it was one of the few cafes open after the earthquake, “When everyone, I mean everyone, needed coffee. “We build so people can become the part of the community. One of our main strategies is to build warm homes close to coffee. As long as you’re within 200m of coffee, you can’t really go wrong can you?.” “What we are trying to do is bring our homes in at only 10% more than a standard build.”
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