Benefits Of a SmartHome

Superior Thermal Comfort

1. Warm in the Winter: During the winter when the sun is lower in the sky, your home's passive design will maximise light and warmth from the sun.  Thermal mass features will absorb the suns heat and radiate warmth back into the room when the sun has gone. Your homes thermal envelope will ensure that this heat is retained rather than escaping outside, keeping your home warm and cozy throughout the evening.  
2. Cool in the Summer: During the summer when the sun is higher in the sky, your home's passive design and thermal envelope will block the heat and stop the sun from directly entering your home.  Thermal mass features will absorb the heat you don't want in your home during the day and release it later in the evening when its more useful. When there is a breeze blowing, your SmartHome will maximise natural cross ventilation through the entire home, and release hot air through high vents or windows, keeping your home naturally cool in the summer.
3. Stable indoor temperature: The design and thermal properties of your SmartHome creates a more stable indoor air temperature all year round, maximising comfort levels, reducing energy costs, and eliminating condensation altogether.

Energy Cost Saving

Free warmth, light, and cooling: Our SmartHomes simply make the most of the services nature has to offer, the result is free heating, lighting, and cooling, and significant energy savings. Combine this with energy efficient heating, lighting, air conditioning, and appliances, and you are set to enjoy a superior quality of living, at a fraction of what it costs to live in a conventional home.

Health & Wellbeing

A healthy, safe, and secure home. Many people believe that when they choose 'the sustainable option' they will need to make a personal or financial sacrifice to do so.  Perhaps this is true in a lot of cases, but not with our SmartHomes. Every benefit that is created for our planet, also provides a direct benefit to you.  Using non-toxic building materials and products ensures your SmartHome is both healthy and safe.  Producing less green house gases results in energy cost savings for you. Combine this with the latest security and home automation technologies and enjoy the peace of mind of total safey, security, and wellbeing in your home.

Taking Care of Our Planet & Our Children

Feel good: By building a home with a lighter ecological footprint, you are contributing towards maintaining the health of local and global ecosystems. These ecosystems provide us with all of our oxygen, clean water, waste assimilation, food, soil development, climate and temperature stability, and all of the natural resources we use to create the quality of life that we enjoy. Most of these services cannot be substituted, which means that when they are gone, they cannot be replaced, and all life on Earth will suffer as a result. It's important that we do our part now to protect the integrity of these natural systems, because it's our children that will inherit the world we leave behind.

Value for Money & Return on Investment

There are four main ways in which you will receive an excellent return on your investment, both qualitative and quantitative:

1. Receiving free warmth, light, and cooling means real energy costs savings all year round. Energy efficient technologies such as solar panels and heat pumps also enhance your energy cost savings, and although there is an initial upfront cost, over time they will repay themselves completely through the cost savings they provide.
2. Your SmartHome will have enhanced resale value compared with conventional homes due to all the added features and benefits they provide. In the future, the quality and value of homes will be defined by their thermal performance, level of sustainability, energy efficiency, as well as the construction and finishing quality.
3. Our SmartHomes are built to high quality standards, with only the most durable and reliable materials and products. Budget homes look great for the first couple of years (but perform badly), and then they can begin to look cheap and shabby. It's not long before money is required for maintenance, replacements, and touching up. Our SmartHomes stay looking good for years, saving our clients money in the long run, because quality lasts the distance.
4. Although it's difficult to put a monetary value on it, the superior level of thermal performance and living comfort your SmartHome will provide for you and your family will amaze you. Be warned, you will never be able to go back to living in conventional home (without total dissatisfaction). So although you can't put a dollar figure on it, the value you will receive from living in a healthy, warm, dry home is literally priceless.