A builder walks through the Aldinga project, a U-shaped house designed to capture views of the Aldinga Hills. The team used online project management to keep a remote Victoria homeowner involved throughout construction. A recent blower-door test hit 3.2 air changes per hour, showing how tight the detailing is.
Here at Oldinga with the homeowner living in Victoria, we've been able to use our online project management system to keep him up to date on what's going on and what's coming up, and he has really enjoyed being able to feel like he's part of the build even though he's not physically here to see it. Right now what we're doing is just taking care of the house. We're going to receive his furniture in a few weeks. We'll put all that together for him so that when When he can finally leave Victoria and come home, he will have a finished house to come to. Our goal with this house was to achieve a home that obviously performed really well energy-wise, but picked up the beautiful views of the Oldinga Hills behind us. This house appears quite simple as a U-shaped design, but it has a lot of little details, and making sure that all those details are just perfect was one of our biggest challenges, and most importantly, that those details will actually continue to look good and work well for the life of the building. We've had the house blower door tested and we achieved 3.2 air changes per hour. This is a fantastic result and really shows that even when you have a home with a lot of architectural details built into it, you can still achieve a high level of airtightness. The homeowner has stuck with us through a couple of architects, and we're really pleased that he understands the importance of working with your builder from the start. I see this as a really positive thing.
