Sustainable Habitat Challenge
In a nutshell... The Sustainable Habitat Challenge (ShaC 09) is a national collaborative project for teams around New Zealand to design, develop, and build sustainable housing in their local community.
Team design updates are out! Download the October 2008 Design Update or order a printed copy today for $25.
Teams have achieved awareness of more sustainable building ideas and practices. See the SHAC team media references
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Teams overcome the practical challenges
Getting the SHAC teams together and designing a house has not been easy. Each team has struggled in their own way, for financing, for organisational support, designer time, or builder time. "Our design has become more simple, while still meeting many of our goals," reports Alex Hills of The Plant Room.
While the exterior design has become focused, the designers working on interior and fittings are in the exploratory phase. Unitec students are working for Team Ecocrib. Their student blogs have sprung up covering Coordination, Decking and Waste Management
> read moreStudent Filmmaker Profiles SHAC Jane Adcroft, an MSc student in the University of Otago Natural History Filmmaking course, has produced a short video on the Sustainable Habitat Challenge. Broadcast quality tapes are available on request. See the video >>>
