The Builders Collective Foundation principles
Be the change
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Driven by a passion and commitment to lead change in the residential building industry.
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To collaborate using high levels of communication, documentation, cost planning, risk management and transparency to all stakeholders - being clients, staff, suppliers and the wider community.
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To be a good responsible, ethical and financially sound company / business, that is driven by holistic system processes. To do what is right for people, the economy and the planet.
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To build ensuring Best Practice and Quality Assurance, which covers many facets of the Building Design and Construction;
✓ It means buildings that last longer, cost less in the long term, and perform at a high level of amenity.
✓ High value (as distinct from cost) internal and external materials, finishes, fixtures, fittings, operating systems and plant equipment.
✓ Operating cost that result in lower on going running cost, implementation of off-grid systems when applicable.
✓ Easily maintained, requires minimum effort and cost to maintain in the best condition.
✓ Durability of materials that resist the impact of both regular and irregular wear and tear.
✓ Longevity, longer lasting materials against wear and tear to achieve a longer service life and replacement cycle.
✓ Sustainable materials that reduce energy consumption and increase the building’s environmental sustainability –lighting, heating ventilation and cooling, water collection and re-cycling, high thermal retention and insulated building envelope including solar control glazing, natural ventilation options, low embodied energy, use of re-cycled building materials.
✓ Occupational health & safety; safety materials and systems that as far as is practical reduce OHS risk – for example: slip resistance to floors, visual contrast adjacent to hazardous, restraint around fall height risks, for aging in place and accessibility.
✓ Circulation and space planning, the inclusion of adequate and appropriate area allowances for living, while focusing on compact well resolved, multi-use and / or multi-generational spaces.
✓ Adequate cost rates, inadequate results in either reduced building quality or lower area allowances. With either scenario the implications of a poorly informed cost planning equation is a building with poor performance outcomes.
✓ Contingency Allowances A critical inclusion to Cost planning is Contingency allowances which are typically included to address two cost categories –Design contingency and Construction contingency.
‘Best practice’ high quality is different from the notion of ‘gold-plating’ where the means justifies the end outcome.
To educate and advise clients to have knowledge to make empowered and informed decisions, to make it easy for them by having conversations that normalise the impact of their decisions on their life and the planet. That gives them social and lifestyle incentives for behaviour changes that lessen their footprint
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To make impactful cost decisions that lessen individual clients debt obligations and home running costs, but do not adversely affect the ongoing viability of your business. By means of building design, value engineering, materials selection and construction programming.
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To learn, research, read, train and educate, to innovate and adapt practices for continuous improvement.
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Pay it forward to support community events and charities