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What are the 10 categories that define the decathlon? Each one is judged as a separate contest: There’s architecture, market appeal, engineering, communications, solar application, comfort zone, hot water, appliances, home entertainment and energy balance. How many staff and students were involved? There were more than 50 students and faculty members. There were specialists from marketing to graphics, construction through to hospitality. Who do you see as the most likely market for your house? It’s primarily aimed at retirees and downsizing empty-nesters. It doesn’t have a huge footprint and that’s part of the future for plenty of people to live in houses that are a better fit.
IT’S A TOP-LEVEL PERFORMANCE GLAZING SYSTEM THAT ALLOWED US TO BE EXPANSIVE RATHER THAN INTROVERTED
Jack Breen University of Wollongong (UOW) and TAFE What are some of the major alterations you made to the old fibro standard? At first glance you would never pick that it had been a fibro home. It’s really a quite major conversion that had to be livable and energy efficient. We knocked out walls to convert three very small bedrooms into a more spacious two-bedroom home with a separate kitchen, living and dining rooms. We also connected with the outdoors using windows and doors incorporating Viridian PerformaTech ETM double-glazing. We also removed two sections of wall and added clip-on pods manufactured off site and added to the house.
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