15 April 2024

Sustainable House Day with special guest Jamie Durie

| Shayna Siakimotu
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Jamie Durie holding a plant

Head to the Display Village at Whitlam for the Sustainable House Day event with special guest Jamie Durie on 21 April. Photo: Suburban Land Agency.

Head to Whitlam for the national Sustainable House Day event at the Suburban Land Agency’s Display Village on Sunday 21 April! Uncover advice and inspiration on sustainable living and building practices and trends.

With special guest and international award-winning landscape designer and Logie award-winning television presenter Jamie Durie, this event promises a day filled with insightful panel discussions, hands-on demonstrations, live music and fun kids activities so the entire family can enjoy.

Looking for ideas and inspiration? Explore over 10 display homes, each showcasing diverse sustainable living solutions and boasting highly energy efficient, thermally comfortable designed homes. Learn from the experts who designed and built the low-carbon and multi-generational homes, showcasing a series of sustainable design features

Indulge your tastebuds with induction cooking workshops from renowned chef Mal Hanslow of Pilot & Such and Such restaurants, and see how induction cooktops offer energy-efficient, safe and easy cooking solutions.

Plus enjoy kids activities, live music and delicious treats from Whitlam’s Heartbeat Café.

What’s on for the day

Jamie Durie presents his Growing Home project

Join award-winning landscape architect and television presenter Jamie Durie as he provides firsthand experience of building his own sustainable home, the challenges he faced and new approaches he learnt along the way. Explore how to make sustainable choices inside and outside your home!

Induction Cooking Demonstrations with Mal Hanslow

Indulge your tastebuds with induction cooking workshops from renowned chef Mal Hanslow of Pilot & Such and Such restaurants, and see how induction cooktops offer energy-efficient, safe, and easy cooking solutions.

SLA Platinum and Gold Home Tours

Learn about building sustainable, resilient homes as our experts walk you through the SLA Display Homes. Oriented and sealed for good thermal comfort, equipped with solar panels and batteries to power the all-electric, energy efficient appliances throughout, these homes are designed to demonstrate best practice in sustainability.

Expert panel discussion

Join Jamie Durie as he hosts an expert panel discussion featuring local industry leaders as they explore best practice tips and tricks to designing and building a sustainable home. Hear from Jane Cassidy from Australian Institute of Architects, Greg Weller from Housing Industry Australia and Petra Oswald from SLA as they dig deep into the benefits of designing homes with a smaller footprint for bigger sustainable outcomes.

This event is part of Renew’s nationwide Sustainable House Day program. View the full program.

The details

What: Sustainable House Day with special guest Jamie Durie
When: Sunday 21 April, 11 am
Where: SLA Display Village in Whitlam
Cost: Free, registrations essential.

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