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Sunpower News

Sanctuary Magazine Speed Dating

Make a date to interview Sunpower Design and a number of leading sustainable designers in a speed dating event at the State of Design Festival 2010, Saturday 17th July 2010

http://www.sanctuarymagazine.org.au/articles/news/speed-dating-with-sanctuary

Sustainable Bushfire Resistant Homes

We have been working on designing a number of new homes to replace homes burnt in the recent bushfires, that are 7 Star, sustainable homes designed to the latest Bushfire Code. We have kept the design simple and modular in nature with 2 , 3 and 4 bedroom options. It will easily meet the second highest BAL standard, it will inlcude solar hot water, thrid pipe greywater, concrete slab, and screened double glazed windows, leafless gutters, fixed price contract built in 16weeks. Come and talk to us if you are interested.

Latest Awards

We have won the 2010 Abode Magazine award for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Home for the Birregurra project - see Awards page

Sunpower Design was awarded 3 awards for the Birragurra Sustainable home this week at the Building Designers Association Awards for 2009, they were Best Residential Design $300 - $500,000 2009, Best Environmentally Sustainable Home and Most Energy Efficient Home 2009. The project can be viewed under sustainable homes Birragurra Project. The awards are featured in Winners Magazine as well.

GreenLivingpedia

A number of Sunpower Projects have been featured on www.greenlivingpedia.org . Featured are the Surrey Hills, Hawthorn West and Moonee Ponds renovations and the Knoxfield new home. They are really inspiring projects that are truely making a difference, the Knoxfield is generating more power than it uses by 8.9kw per day.

Action Earth

Check out a video of one of our great sustainable renovations in North Fitzroy, the video shows host Ian Thorpe and owner Glenda Lindsay discussing the benefits of sustainable home design.

Latest Publication

A great new book "EcoStyle" by Siobhan O'Brien (New Holland Publishers 2005) has hit the shelves and features a number of Sunpower Design projects. It is a stylish resource book on sustainable design, easy to read and well researched. It is available in all good book stores.

Your Home Technical Manual Version 3

The updated version of Your Home Technical Manual. it is available for purchase from the ATA or visit http://yourhome.gov.au