The thing that Jamie Durie convinced to share the history of his family on TV

The Australian audience will be about to take another look at the life of the Durie family with the second season of the growing house.

“It was quite difficult. It certainly took me and our family a lot, but I thought this was a very, very important project that I could share with Australia,” said Jamie Durie about the house, which he built on a 1069 m² block on the water in Sydney's northern beaches.

The 10-year process from the draft to completion was not only tedious, since the almost impossible slope, a seven-story design and dozens of new materials and technologies that integrate the long-term TV personality into his home decided.

Durie also added an element of the stress to the process by deciding to film his family on the screen and two small children's as four-episodes series on the seven network called Growing Home with Jamie Durie.

“It is the first time that I could incorporate cameras into my personal home and see what was really going on behind the scenes,” Durie explained to an audience of construction companies and construction industry leaders in the Future Homes Forum of the Housing Industry Association on August 29th in Sydney.

It was an audience that was prepared for the interest in the many modern building techniques that Durie used to build the house with four bedrooms called Belah House, which he finally completed at the end of last year.

But as he also shared, it turned out that many other Australians also had great interest in the ambitious, environmentally friendly build.

In fact, the show pulled over a million spectators for every episode and was very high in the demographic viewer between the ages of 21 and 29.

“It was really nice to see many younger, committed spectators,” he said, noticing that it is clear that the cohort takes care of the environment.

Interest in sustainable, innovative construction methods was the jumping point of the show, which Durie initially hoped to designate Green Home, but could not find any buyers for the concept.

A change in the name enabled him to radiate the show, and the completed TV presenter was ready to show his family front and the center to show that every Australian in relation to the environment, your home and the way of life decides.

Durie admitted what he created in Avalon is an “extraordinary home” and not what the typical Australian begins in taking over a building or renovation project.

“We wanted to build the Ferrari of ecobuilding and then so that the audience takes these lessons and maybe bring them into something else where people can accept some of these ideas and build them into their everyday life.”

For Durie, a key element of his house was to ensure that it was a safe harbor for the two family members suffering from asthma – his wife and little son.

Durie discovered that “it only absorbs five plants in an average living room to absorb 75% of the volatile organic compounds in their living room”.

But five weren't good enough for him. In Belah House, 230 plants live in specially buildings through the foyer and the main living room, whereby “the house essentially turns into a huge planted box”.

“We worked very closely with the asthma association,” he said, and informed decisions such as the removal of the gas connections of the property and the use of a low VOC color that actually absorbs 14.2 kilograms of carbon per bucket, “he said.

“We then painted and reached the entire building [the equivalent of] 21 trees that absorb carbon for a whole year only from the color we used on the building. ”

Other characteristics of the house are the use of Envisia concrete, a carbon-poor, low-carbon, low-carbon, low concrete product with high-strength concrete from Boral. Wood in many elements in the house – including the feature staircase – came from the parkide wood that uses the selective harvest that enables the forest to regenerate and stay healthy for the future.

A recycled kitchen cadaver showed how disused elements from other houses can be recycled into high Spec builds, and massive rainwater tanks and a recycling system from the planters help ensure that no water waste is wasted on the property.

An 18 -kW sun system on the roof complements geothermal heating and cooling systems that keep the house so comfortable that you hardly need any additional energy for temperature control.

Durie stated from the geothermal system that the technology is hardly new to domestic systems that have been available for decades-in Australia.

“Why is it a new language for us here in Australia? We call ourselves green, but in fact we are one of the most dirty nations on the planet. And that says with all honesty. This is a system that could be in Australia in every second home,” said Durie.

The second season of the growing house home

Of course, Durie admitted that it is a great leap in trust for Australians to approach technology that are new or not well understood, and only a few have finances to experiment as he could.

For this reason, Durie will not stand in the spotlight in the second season of the growing home in a single mega building, but several families who use a home building with innovative technologies will show how other Australians make their houses future-proof.

The focus will be on modern construction methods, such as: B. Preliminary increase, construction outside the location and 3D printing.

In order not to be left out, one of the builds for Durie and Family – ownership of her farm, which he will try 3D printing in a weekend.

Another ambitious project, Durie gave “I don't do anything through halves”.

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