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Address

45 Dean Street, Toowong, QLD, 4066, Australia

Telephone

07 3870 7488

Fax

07 3870 4988

E-mail

Website

www.sustainablebuildings.com.au

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Specialising in the design and build of sustainable homes, waterwise gardens, landscaping and retrofit solutions.

Design
Sustainable are committed to creating living and work spaces that are at one with the natural environment. Each project has a clear objective in preserving the environment for future generations. This is achieved by a variety of interventions, firstly in the design stage; being responsible and accountable for our designs, designing houses and gardens that have sustainablilty as the fundamental design principle through to the construction phase by recycling as much construction waste as possible, reusing product from deconstructed buildings and minimising anything that goes to landfill from their projects.

Landscaping
Sustainable Landscaping's focus is on environmentally sustainable landscape design, creating Al Fresco areas that cope well with Queensland's harsh climatic environment.

Retrofit
Do you own an existing house that you want to renovate or 'retrofit' to be more sustainable? Small interventions can go a long way; for example, changing your old energy guzzling downlights and replacing them with compact flourescent and LED technology, changing your showerheads to AAA rated water saving devices and adding screens to minimise the solar impact on your house or installing water tanks are just some suggestions.

Construction
We've all heard the horror stories about architects presenting plans that builders claim are impossible to build, about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing ... but you won't hear that when you work with Sustainable. The reason we're able to deliver workable homes and buildings is because the members of our design team are heavily involved in and thoroughly understand the construction process. When designers and the construction team are actively interested in materials and the nature of building, it's the perfect storm needed to create a building of merit. It also enables us to deliver award winning homes even on difficult sites and steep slopes. It is the ability to understand the complete process, to design, manage and construct, that has won Sustainable so many highly acclaimed awards.

Water Solutions
Level 5 restrictions do not mean the end of a beautiful outdoor environment for your home. Sustainable can deliver a complete Water Solution for your home. We provide the tanks themselves, of many different shapes and sizes, the installation, the plumbing and electrics and most importantly the connection of the tank to an irrigation system for your garden.

Resource Recovery
Sustainable's approach to design, construction, landscaping, the environment and customers is holistic. We understand that, to get the best outcome for all parties, no one part can be viewed as independent of the other. That's why we've taken a particular interest in resource recovery.

Have you ever thought about all the resources lost when old buildings are torn down and replaced with new? Not only is there a severe environmental toll, but ever spiralling landfill and cartage costs means builders, and therefore consumers, are paying more and more in construction costs.

For years now, the team at Sustainable have been perfecting systems and processes to minimise such waste. The company has now teamed up with Force 5 (Qld & NSW) Pty Ltd to offer resource recovery, deconstruction and onsite recycling solutions for domestic and commercial building sites across Queensland and New South Wales

Sustainable Finance
Sustainable Finance provides finance solutions for your design and build, retrofit or landscaping project.

Remote Locations
Sustainable Remote Locations enable clients to build a sustainable home in the remotest of locations, on Islands and all kinds of difficult and sloping sites.

Recipe Housing
Sustainable's Recipe HousingT Homes have been developed in response to the escalating costs of traditionally built one-off designed homes. We developed RECIPE HOUSING TM as a response to the growing need we perceived in the market to fill the gap between 'project' homes and completely custom designed houses. Eventually RECIPE houses will be prefabricated off site and be delivered ready to be clipped together. At the moment, we are still in the development stages and the house will be traditionally built on site; however, we have streamlined the traditional architectural design and documentation process. The end result is a traditionally built architecturally designed house, unique to your site and your needs, without the traditionally associated costs