Together with Boral and Prime Design Pools, Australian Living is constructing the first residential swimming pools to use Envirocrete, Boral’s green concrete.
Australian Living’s first ‘Eco-Challenge’ project is the development and construction of four new sustainable homes at Rose Bay, NSW. The four homes will showcase how sustainability can be applied under one roof and each home has a different owner who has chosen their own architect. Australian Living has been assisting and educating about how they can build a home that goes beyond the current state sustainability requirements.
Australian Living defines a sustainable home as one that emits close to zero carbon emissions by not relying on traditional energy sources and one that has minimal impact on our environment. One of the four homes has scored a BASIX equivalent 8 star rating for thermal performance.
For the pools the concrete uses waste or recycled cementitious materials and aggregates in quantities that can contribute two points to the Green Building Council of Australia’s Green Star rating scheme.
Tas Kipriotis from Prime Design Pools says: “This is the first time that we have used green concrete in the construction of a pool and at first we were unsure as to how it would turn out. There were a couple of teething problems but these were quickly sorted out and the end result was as good as a pool using standard concrete.”
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