The Cape continues to expand
Australia’s premium sustainable housing project, The Cape, in Cape Paterson, has opened its doors to its newest 8.2-star edition, Cutlers. This carbon neutral, energy and water efficient coastal home sits within the top 1% of sustainable homes in Australia.
The home features state of the art energy efficient design, construction and fit out, which combines to keep the home beautifully comfortable in all weather conditions, while reducing annual running costs to below $500 per annum, which is around 15% to 20% of the running costs of a state average home.
Named after one of our favourite local surf breaks, Cutlers was designed to fit into the ethos of The Cape sustainable housing development.
This single story dwelling has many integrated sustainability features such as rammed earth block walls, polished concrete and external timber feature panelling, zero VOC paints and excellent insulation, double-glazing, thermal mass and ventilation combining to achieve an 8.2-star energy rating.
The landscape features locally indigenous plantings and raised planters for food production. Cutlers is fitted out with energy efficient appliances including Sanden heat pump for hot water and Daiken Ururu 7-star split system for heating and cooling, Beko electric oven and induction cooktop, and is designed to run without gas or fossil fuels.
Water efficient appliances and 10,000 litre rainwater tanks plumbed into the house complement other energy, water and cost saving initiatives, including electric vehicle charge points and a rooftop solar array.
The home sits in Periwinkle Place in Cape Paterson alongside another completed 8.2-star home and another 4 homes being built to similar standards, in Victoria’s most sustainable greenfield housing project.
Cutlers is a short walk to parks, views of the ocean and a large urban food garden for our residents, as well as local swimming and surf beaches. All homes at The Cape have high speed broadband with fibre optic cable to the home.
The aim is to build out all 220 homes at The Cape to the same standards as Cutlers, providing residents with comfortable, high quality, light footprint living with low running costs.
“This wonderful new home represents a new and unique category of high comfort, low running cost, sustainable homes being offered into the Victorian housing market by The Cape,” says the Cape Director, Brendan Condon
“It sets the bar at the highest level for our residents to enjoy the benefits of a home that stays comfortable year round with wonderful passive solar design, and state of the art heating, cooling, cooking and hot water systems that use a fraction of the energy of traditional systems.”
“The home is a testament to the great efforts of our builders at The Cape, and we look forward to more homes being completed over coming months.”
Specs
Hot Water
— Sanden Eco Hot Water Heat Pump System with a Coefficient of Performance of 4.5
Renewable Energy
— 4.5kw grid connected photovoltaic system with Trina Honey panels and SMA Sunny Boy inverter
Water Saving
— 10,000L of rainwater tank storage connected to toilets and for garden useage
— Outdoor shower for after-beach use
— WELS 4-star rated taps, showers and toilets
— WELS 4.5 star rater Beko Dishwasher which uses 12.7l per cycle
— Native planting to gardens to reduce watering requirement.
Passive Design/Heating and Cooling
— Windows to north and south of rooms aligned to channel prevailing summer breezes through living spaces
— Thermal mass in the slab to help moderate temperature.
— Pressed Block walls internally for Thermal Mass made from locally sourced material and pressed onsite.
— House orientated East-West for good solar access from North in winter, louvres over windows for summer shading
— Minimal glazing to East and West
— Cross-ventilation throughout to purge any warm air buildup rapidly.
— Substantial insulation and double glazing retains winter warmth, air conditioning is not needed in summer.
Active Heating and Cooling
— Daiken Ururu Sarara 7 star Split system provided to Living area
— Sweep fans to all bedrooms.
Building Materials
— Weathertex Claddings including Exteriorboard. Weathertex products are the first manufactured product globally to achieve Platinum Greentag Certification
— R6.0 Knauf Earthwool insulation in ceilings
— R2.5 Knauf Earthwool insulation in external walls
— R2.5 Knauf Earthwool insulation in all internal walls
— Rhino reflective foil to external walls
— R1.0 Roof blanket under roofing iron.
— RMax ThermaSlab high density R1.0 EPS foam insulating boards under concrete slab
— Ceaserstone bench-top with engineered quartz stone, 95% natural stone 5% resin
— Mortar (and incidental concrete onsite) from independent Cement & Limes Ecoblend, 30% cement replacement with industrial waste products slag and flyash.
— Ecoblend concrete from Independent Concrete.
— Husqvarna HIPERFLOOR concrete densifier, odourless and VOC-free
— Colorbond corrugated cladding
— Feature panels of Radial Timber board and batten cladding.
— Primary external cladding timber is ECOply Textureclad 2000 by Carter Holt Harvey
— Prefabricated wall frames and trusses made from FSC timber
— Plasterboard from BGC Plaster which includes GECA Certification and up to 15% recycled gypsum and 100% recycled paper lining.
Windows and Glazing
— Trend ThermAL Windows Double glazed, argon filled, low-e windows throughout.
— Sunex Aluminium shade to North windows with blades set at 28’
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