Responsible & Sustainable Residential Design

AlterecO2 conducts an investigation your site, understanding home design opportunities, constraints, plus site, planning and regulatory  limitations.  

If you chose a pre-designed home, we’ll assess its feasibility and make any design modifications that may be required in your brief or to suit your site.

If you require a custom building design, we’ll conceptualise your home and walk you through our streamlined design process to choose your fitout components.

We will provide detailed architectural drawings to illustrate the final constructed project. These drawings will specifically define the site plan, floor plans and exterior elevations for a responsible & sustainable residential design.

Exterior

You will have an opportunity to review external colours and materials including roof, cladding and windows.

Interior

Alterec02 has curated a series of Interior Packages and pre designed homes for you to choose from to suit your personal style whilst staying within the boundaries of the Construction Cost Estimate.  We’ve aligned ourselves with like-minded brands that ensure we consider cradle-to-grave sourcing, longevity, durability, and toxicity for our selections. 

Performance & environment

We will prepare a final performance assessment of the design to ensure construction detailing addresses the performance requirements of Passive House. This is also our opportunity to outline the ESD principles for your project, and the pathway to Net-Zero energy.

Price Check and Builder Intro

Our AlterecO2 homes have already been fully estimated by a Passive House Certified builder, your design team in conjunction with your builder, can guide you along the journey to ensure that what is proposed will avoid construction cost blowouts and will meet your budget.

Details

We will prepare a comprehensive set of drawings to enable compliance and construction of your home. We will detail all elements to ensure performance and quality measures are met. 

Specification

Our specification will outline all building products and materials required, plus the standards and tolerances to which we expect. The Specification and drawings will be incorporated into the builder's contract and the building permit.

Planning Approval (if required)

Report & Consent (if required)

Contracts

Once we’ve completed the design process, liaised with the relevant consultants and prepared our contract documentation, it is time for your builder to prepare a detailed cost summary and a fixed price contract. We will continue to liaise with your builder throughout this process.

Building Permit

We will work with your builder and building surveyor to obtain a building permit.

Quite often builders have questions and want to problem-solve issues throughout the build, which we are more than happy to accommodate and assist with.

We can also make ourselves available to help resolve any disputes or disagreements that may arise with the builder. For example, if you have any queries regarding progress claims or variations we can provide guidance and liaise with the builder on your behalf.

So, sit back, relax and watch it grow!