Sustainable, environmentally friendly Homes in New Zealand. Airtight building practice should be the norm to achieve a Healthy home for families.

1. Harakeke Eco - Homes

2. Why more Sustainable Homes should be
available in New Zealand?
Harakeke Eco Homes are constructed from timber
 Around 20 million cubic meter of round wood is harvested each year
 Logs made up slightly less than one-quarter of the value of forestry-product exports
 New Zealand has got the image of a beautiful, green country: Why don’t we embrace it?
 Building with timber is healthy, sustainable, environmentally friendly and strong
 Building a small sustainable timber home reduces the Carbon Footprint.
 Example on a 122 sqm home
 Concrete structure: 42.7 tonnes CO2
 Timber structure: 2.44 tonnes CO2

3. Mission & Sustainability & Environment
• Our Mission Statement is simple:
• Increase Health & Comfort to live in a sustainable, environmentally friendly home. Saving
money on running costs and protect the asset against condensation and mould. Our target
market: First home buyers & Investors.
• Building a house can be quoted in dollars, but actual the running costs have got an impact
on our environment that can be much harder to measure.
• Modern house construction should minimise financial costs and environmental impact
• True sustainability incorporates building materials, renewable energy, and harmony with
the environment or landscape

4. Smaller Homes: A booming market…??
Smaller, sustainable homes are booming across the globe:
• It’s affordable
• It’s timeless
• It’s beautiful AND green
• It’s cool in summer and warm in winter
• It provides prosperity for the occupants
• It is healthy
• It provides opportunities for investors to attract good quality
tenants

5. Eco Friendly Cabin Design For Forest Vacation House With
Modern Wood House Design

6. Sustainable House Design overseas

7. Prefabricated Panels - fast & precise

8. The Fall House California
Copper-clad to patina over time.

9. Eco-Pod with “Abodo” Cladding

10. Sustainable environmentally friendly
homes itself is not new, but small Eco-
Homes, designed & build by Harakeke,
offers a point of difference, and creates
an exceptional opportunity for First Home
Buyers and Investors, for the New Zealand
Market

11. Harakeke Eco Homes will start in Chch
• The company will start 2016 in Christchurch with their first project
• Our Team works with Licensed Building Practitioners, who want to
build sustainable homes
• Delivers the kit-set to clients
• Anticipate 12 – 16 weeks build time after consents inclusive timber
foundation

12. Harakeke Eco Homes are low on their running
costs
• Through airtight building envelope, less heating & cooling
costs
• Surplus energy costs, pay back into the mortgage
• Less financial stress
• Pay faster the mortgage down
• Re-invest into another investment, or enjoy the surplus of
cash and create security for your family

13. Harakeke Eco Homes provide exceptionally
desirable living
Harakeke incorporates green building elements including:
1. Ventilation system – no pollution, no condensation –
2. PVC double glazed windows – Preferable Timber windows
3. Airtight membrane from Pro-clima to keep the timber
construction “dry as a bone”
4. Blower Door test to achieve an airtight building. Goal is to
get a result of 3.0 air-changes per hour.
No risk of condensation or damp and dramatically reduced energy costs

14. Additional features – renewable energy
o Goal to achieve 10 Star rating
o 24/7 Solar Hot Water,
o 24/7 Solar Hot Water used for central heating
o A grey water treatment system, recycle water back to the
house,
o A high pressure pump to ensure strong water pressure
throughout the house
o Photovoltaic solar panels for electricity, connected to storage
batteries with a 230 V inverter

15. Off-grid features – renewable energy
• Wind power generator
• Hydro stream power generator
• Emergency energy back up generator
• Black water system recycled back into the garden

16. Key Points, Benefits & Goals
• Minimise running costs (energy)
• Minimise construction costs & time through pre-fab
• Mortgage Reduction
• Minimise ecological footprint
• Maximise accuracy through pre-fab
• Maximise desirability & attract good quality tenants
• Our goal is to offer this concept to investors to create a Rent to
Buy option for our First Home Buyers, who haven’t got the 20%
deposit to get a bank loan

17. Thanks for giving us the opportunity
Harakeke Eco Homes