An Archicentre Sustainability Assessment can help you turn your existing home into a more sustainable home.

Your home is one of the largest and most important assets you have, but is it a sustainable one or will it cost you a fortune to run?

Most established homes were neither designed nor built with much regard for energy efficiency or water conservation. This is true even for recently built "spec homes". Poorly planned (and often badly renovated), they can be incredibly expensive to heat and cool.

Ironically, many of our earliest homes came complete with verandas and water tanks, but recently these features have been abandoned and homes have become bigger, more energy-hungry and more water-thirsty than ever before.

As energy and water costs rise, our challenge is to try to improve the sustainability of our existing homes...to reduce their demand for energy and water but at the same time maintain or more usually improve our quality of life.

Energy costs will continue to rise. The introduction of a carbon price will increase energy costs further but you will receive tax cuts and other assistance to offset this..........but why not pocket the government assistance?

Many Australian home-owners want to make their homes more sustainable to do so. A recent Archicentre survey found that almost 80% of our architects' clients were keen to install a solar-boosted hot water service, nearly 75% were interested in energy efficient lighting and over 90% wanted a water tank.

With so many people concerned enough about the environment and with so much information available these days it should be easy to make homes more sustainable, but with so much information available and so much of it seemingly contradictory, what should you do at your home?

You may be wondering where to start...start with an Archicentre Sustainability Assessment!

Archicentre Accredited Architects have been designing sustainable homes for years and they can explain how you can improve the energy efficiency of your home and minimise its energy and water consumption.

An Archicentre Accredited Architect will identify the improvements that you can make to your home and provide you with a written 'to-do' list to guide you through the process.

Our Archicentre Sustainability Assessment Report includes:

• A written report listing all of the architect's recommendations
• Access to our energy-wise and water-wise Fact Sheets
• Discounts on our full range of Archicentre products to help you save money on your future needs.

Archicentre Accredited Architects are:

• The most highly qualified building experts
• Quality endorsed by the Australian Institute of Architects
• Covered by $10 million professional indemnity insurance
• And Archicentre is covered by $10 million public liability insurance

Do you want to make your home more sustainable? Want to be more energy efficient? Want to save money? It's Easy! To arrange a Sustainability Assessment or to get an obligation-free over the phone quote, call Archicentre on 1300 134 513, or submit a Booking Enquiry with your details and we'll call you!