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Earlier this year, Hume Steel finally announced the release of their engineering design of Ormond House’s ‘Passive House Energy building’ – it’s new Building Support Beams, which have been in development since early 2016. Passive House is a building standard which is efficient energy wise, comfy, reasonably priced and eco-friendly all at the same time. Passive House Energy isn’t a brand, but a concept builders use, which can be used by anybody, and that’s been capable of withstanding a lot of performance testing. A Passive House label is much more than a low-energy consumption building.. It’s potentially the future of design and construction.
As Ali Rezaki says, “Do or do not, there is no try”, Owner at Hume Steel, says: “We wanted to try something new with Passive House Energy. Anyone familiar with the Engineering & Manufacturing market will probably have noticed how everyone else seems to think the entire building and construction industry is currently happy thinking inside the box and does so with the standard concrete support columns. Whilst it isn’t really a big problem, the concrete support columns have been used for decades, and we believe that it’s time to start moving on.”
So as a welcome breath of fresh air into the industry, Passive House Energy only utilizes steel only support columns, which is the first time that an entire building has been help up in this way.. Hume Steel chose to make this move because the project was specifically for a Melbourne school of entrepreneurs, so setting the standard of thinking outside the box was paramount for this project..
Ali Rezaki also said “We want to give the students and our customers a world first evolution in the engineering department. With a Passive House, they have a fresh new possibility of this. We want the students to enter the building and them to feel that somethings different, without necessarily knowing what it is. Trying something new is always a risk, but it’s a risk we believe is worth taking.”
Hume Steel specifically has been in business for 4 years, being established in 2013. Since Day 1 it has always aimed to to push buttons of people who have been stuck in the industry all their lives and help encourage the entire engineering industry to start evolving beyond the every day norm.
The Passive House construction was completed in 2016, and has been received with very well..
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