Solving the puzzle
Designing an energy-efficient home is like putting a puzzle together. All the individual parts play an important role in creating the finished working home. Forget a couple of pieces and it doesn’t work the way it should.
When designing your home, studying your climate is the first step to getting it right. If you understand the environment that you are building in, it makes it easy to select materials that work with it. To do this you need to look at these key factors:
• How to maximise the northern exposure to ensure good sunlight enters the home.• The maximum and minimum temperatures in the area.• The wind direction during the different seasons.• Any adjoining features, hills, trees and buildings.
