Certified Passive House achieved!
We are now the 160+ certified passive house in New Zealand! 
Thank you so much to those who helped us achieve this!
Count of certified Passive Houses in New Zealand:
We’ve got CCC for our house!
There are unfortunately people in the New Zealand building industry (we hope are few) who placed obstacles in our way and ripped us off despite my family bleeding out under life-threatening conditions. We hope there is real justice in this life at the end.
Despite the bad people, more importantly, we want to thank all the genuine people who had their hearts in the right place and supported us in our passive house-building journey.
The next and final step is to complete the passive house certification. Hopefully, we can share more positive news soon.
Manufacturer – Izodom 2000 Polska
As a part of our building journey and closing off the year 2024, we would like to start sharing more about the products and businesses we worked with and that supported us.
We want to begin with an international company Izodom 2000 Polska (www.izodom.pl) established in 1991. This is the main structure of our house and is called ICF (Insulated Concrete Formwork). The Izodom walls require no thermal insulation, and provide a building with no thermal bridges, which is fast, resistant to moisture and fungi growth, and durability lasting over 150 years. The technology has a certificate of the Certified Passive House Components issued by the Passive House Institute in Germany.
Cheers to the year 2025!
A sign of life, 15 months later . . .
At the bottom of hopelessness and life-threatening hurdles in our passive house-build journey, we want to believe there are a mountain of opportunities. We are still alive and closer to finishing. We wanted to share a small glimpse of our house and the beautiful moment caught on camera today.
It’s a pity that we couldn’t find the pot of gold as folktales tell.
Could we promise that we will be back? No, and if we do, we will not be the same. Soon the tales of our unexpected journey will be brought to daylight the good, the bad, and the ugly ones.
As for now, we enjoy this rare moment of beauty and hope.
Richtfest celebration
The roof shout (Richtfest) is considered a long-standing tradition and milestone in construction.
We celebrated it and hope that smashing traditionally a glass will turn off some of the bad luck and negative experiences with our building journey. There is still some work to be done until we can finally move in and share more to help others have a smoother building journey.
2nd Open Construction Day – Roof Shout
Our next open Passive House Construction Day is on 6 May!
We celebrate the completion of the next construction stage – the house envelope and roof shout! 😀
Here is the link to register on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/6xfcv38Bp
We hope you can be inspired and build a passive house that is energy-efficient, warm, and lasts for generations. 
We look forward to seeing you there!
1st Open Construction Day
Are you interested to consume up to 90% less heating energy than a conventional house in New Zealand?
Come check out our passive house during construction in Orewa this Saturday (01 October 2022)
Here is the link to register on Facebook:
We hope you can be inspired and build a passive house that is energy-efficient, warm, and lasts for generations.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Retaining walls have been passed by Council
Our two retaining walls have been passed by Council, hitting the 2nd milestone of our building journey! 
The first of 2 Izodom New Zealand containers will be on site this week. The foundation earthworks and slab for our house are about to begin.
Watch out for our next post for the first open construction day, coming soon.
Spatenstich
We hit a milestone in our building journey!
Today we had our traditional “Spatenstich” (ground-breaking ceremony). Nevermind the sandals 
Our constructors are passive house specialist Izodom New Zealand, building for passive house certification and Homestar 8 or above. Keeping wastage to the minimum is one of the many sustainability goals.
We look very much forward to driving up week by week to see the progress of our beautiful home. 
Ground-breaking ceremony is very close now
Due to Covid-19 Pandemic, the Auckland border further delayed things but the construction fence is up and the first delivery of goods arrived on site this week. Containers from Europe are in transit as well.
Final preparations are underway and the long-awaited official ground-breaking ceremony is very close now.
Bring it on! 
