Cairns owners already knew the wet season is not a metaphor. Statewide, the same logic applies: design for the worst week, not the display-home Saturday. These essays cover wind, heat, rating tools and water.
Heat, wind, water, drought
Climate and resilience
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Essays in Climate and resilience
Climate and resilience · 26 August 2024
Water tanks, stormwater and drought-ready custom homes
Queensland will flood you and then refuse to rain. How to design tanks, overflows and a garden that can survive both moods.
Climate and resilience · 22 July 2024
Insulation and glazing north of the Tropic
Ceilings that radiate, glass that glares, and why a tropical custom home needs a different envelope conversation than a southern star rating pamphlet.
Climate and resilience · 29 April 2024
Passive cooling for Queensland custom homes
Orientation, eaves, trees and a breeze path you can draw — the cheap tonnes that still beat a bigger air-conditioner in a subtropical and tropical house.
Climate and resilience · 18 March 2024
NatHERS and energy efficiency in Queensland
Stars, glazing and the 7-star pathway — how to use the rating tools without letting a software score design a tropical house you will hate.
Climate and resilience · 5 February 2024
Cyclone-rated homes for coastal Queensland
Wind regions, debris, roofs and the wet-season calendar — what a custom home on the Queensland coast must do besides look like a holiday.