On Friday 3 February, Landcom will open Net Zero, its flagship Eco-Living Display Home at The Ponds in Sydney’s north-west.

The eight star home is self-sufficient in energy, water and waste management and showcases leading-edge design and technologies.

Landcom opened the first of three Eco-Living Display Homes, ‘Benchmark’, in June 2011.

Clarendon Homes was selected by Landcom to construct the Net Zero home as well as the earlier Benchmark and Greencycle homes.

These three homes comprise its innovative Eco-Living Display Homes suite which highlights sustainability concepts and products for the project home industry and general housing market.

The Net Zero home has been designed to challenge conventional thinking when building a home.

The company says the objective is to make people think more carefully about how a home is conceptualised and built. There are virtually no bills for electricity or water because all costs have been controlled by the design and materials used in its construction.