Eco Habitats
Architectural Designers
About us
Eco habitats is an Architectural Design company that specializes in designing eco friendly homes.
We pride ourselves on being able to provide innovative design solutions to meet all our client’s requirements. We believe that architectural design should be environmentally sensitive and promote sustainable building practices.
To show our commitment to this, we are a member of the Green Building Council and members of our team are Homestar Practitioners & Homestar Assessors What does this mean to our clients? We have access to the latest information and research into green building best practice, which enables us to offer you up to the minute advice for your project. As trained Homestar Professionals the team at eco habitats is able to give you guidance on the best combination of design and sustainability features for your building project.
The company Director, Lesley England, originally studied and completed an Honours Degree in Industrial Design at Brunel University, back in the UK. She then went onto work as a Product Designer for over a decade. After immigrating to New Zealand back in 2007, she took the opportunity to start on a new career path and returned to study. Whilst studying a Diploma in Architectural Technology she gained experience in an Architectural Design office, drawing up house plans for building consent applications. After completing her Diploma (with Merit), her ambition to design award winning homes led her to set up her own Architectural practice. She has since become a Homestar Practitioner and Assessor and has decided to specialise in designing and building environmentally friendly homes, as she is passionate about building warmer and healthier homes with a reduced environmental impact.
Services
Feasibility Studies
Not sure about purchasing a piece of land or unsure about what you can do with your existing site. We can undergo a feasibility study. This will enable you to purchase your property with confidence or proceed with your building project knowing that is feasible.
Concept Design
We take your project brief and turn your ideas and thoughts into 3D models & images. This enables you to easily review the different design options for your project. We then work with you to tweak and adapt the concept designs until you are 100% satisfied with our proposal.
Developed Design
Your chosen concept is developed into a set of drawings, which will enable us to give you a build cost for your project. Once the house specifications and build cost are agreed upon, we can then offer you a fixed price contract for your approval.
Building Consent Application
The drawings are then developed into a full set of construction drawings for submitting to the council. We take care of all the documentation that is required for a building consent application. We prepare the Architectural Specification and handle all the paperwork. If the council have any queries while processing your application, we also take care of these and ensure that the whole process proceeds smoothly.
On Site Observation
If you would like to ensure the builder builds exactly to the plans we can be engaged to carry out on-site observation
Homestar Rating
As Homestar Assessors we are fully qualified to assess your house according the Homestar tool guidelines and an award a Design and Built Rating. This will add more value to your property when you come to sell, as the buyer will be confident they are buying a warm and healthy home
Lifemark Rating
Lifemark® rated homes are designed to be usable and safe for people of all ages and stages. They are easy to live in – for a lifetime. We recommend this service if this is your retirement home as it will enable you to live in your home for a s long as possible
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Business details
- Category:
- Architectural Designers
- Verified ArchiPro member since:
- 2019
- Associations:
- New Zealand Green Building Council
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