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Our panelised prefabricated system is the best way to build a high performance, highly energy efficient and healthy home in Sydney and NSW.
PASSIVE HOUSE
PASSIVE HOUSE
Our prefabricted Passive House system creates the healthiest, most comfortable and high-performance building that you can live in.
Our Passive Houses are designed to optimise natural light and warmth, whilst minimising unwanted drafts and airflow. This creates a truly comfortable, highly energy efficient home that’s warm in winter, cool in summer, free from uncomfortable draughts and unhealthy dust and mould.
Our Passive Houses you will typically reduce your energy bills by 80-90% for heating and cooling, compared to a traditionally built home. So your house can easily be net zero for energy use.
The Passive Houses and renovations built with our building system meet the most rigorous building performance standards, delivering what’s important today and into the future: health, comfort and highest-level energy efficiency.
Every one of our Passive House and energy efficient homes and renovations has:
- Double and triple glazed windows and doors to eliminate condensation and hot and cold transfer
- Super insulation to floor, walls and roof to eliminate any cold and hot spots in the house and to prevent the build up of any mould
- Airsealed construction to eliminate unwanted airflow in your house through the windows, walls and floors
- No thermal bridges to eliminate hot and cold spots that can develop in floors, walls and roof structure
- Optimal orientation to maximise natural light and warmth and cool
- Mechanical ventilation to provide fresh filtered air inside whilst preventing warm or cool air from escaping
Airsealed Construction
A standard house has significant air leakage from the inside to the outside, and from the outside to the inside. This causes uncomfortable drafts in the house, hot or cold spots and potential condensation and mould build up.
Air leakage from a house also causes the heating and cooling system to be heating or cooling the new external air that continually enters your house.
Air leakage in a standard house is very common through and around windows, through and around external doors and through flooring and roof framing.
The key to delivering all the comfort and health benefits possible in our Passive Houses is ensuring the home is airsealed and that it has none of this air leakage.
Our prefabricated, panelised building system is specifically designed to eliminate any air leakage in the building, so you’ll always feel comfortable – and you will have the healthiest indoor environment possible.
Overview
PREFABRICATION FOR NEW HOUSES AND RENOVATIONS
Our prefabricated systems allows freedom of design, while providing speed in construction and GUARANTEED quality
When we prefabricate the building envelope (floor, walls and roof panels) of your home or renovation in our factory-controlled conditions, we can ensure precision manufacturing, predictable delivery time frames and quality control that is guaranteed to meet Passive House performance standards.
Our prefabricated building system is what is called closed panel. This means that the floor, wall and roof panels are fully insulated, membrane covered, airtight and watertight straight out of the factory.
Our prefabricated building system is fully compliant with the National Construction Code (NCC) and with the Australian Standard for Timber Framed Construction (AS 1684.2)
For OWNER BUILDERS our prefabricated design and build system is the perfect way to have the structure of your house built to an ultra efficient or Passive House standard by us, leaving you to complete the rest of the build.
The on-site construction time is reduced to a fraction of traditional site builds, which reduces the cost of building and it eliminates any exposure to unpredictable weather. Our prefabricated envelope is typically installed on site in 1 – 2 weeks and the house is watertight and can be locked up straight away.
ECLIPSE CUSTOM. Our flagship custom prefabricated system
ECLIPSE EFFICIENT. Our efficiency focused prefabricated system
Design freedom with prefabrication
MANUFACTURE
DELIVERY
INSTALLATION
Prefabrication doesn’t usually bring to mind design freedom, but at eclipse, our prefabricated, panelised building system allows enormous design flexibility.
Are you an owner builder?
Then our prefabricated design and build system is the perfect way to have the envelope of your house built to an ultra efficient or Passive House standard by us, leaving you to complete the rest of the build. This means we guarantee the quality and performance of the most complicated part of the build for you.
Our design and build system is highly customisable to allow you to create the home you want, on the site you have. We can prefabricate, deliver to site and install your house it in a fraction of the time it would take with traditional site-built construction. Because your house is prefabricated, then compared to traditional site built construction it will be built to a far superior quality and will have guaranteed airtightness.
Roof Cassette panel
SERVICE CAVITY BATTEN
AIRTIGHT LAYER AND VAPOR CONTROL
TIMBER RAFTERS
INSULATION
OSB ROOFING BOARD
ROOFING BATTENS
WEATHER BARRIER
Wall Panel
SERVICE CAVITY BATTEN
AIRTIGHT LAYER AND VAPOR CONTROL
TIMBER STUD FRAMING
INSULATION
OSB BRACING
CLADDING BATTENS
WEATHER BARRIER
Enjoy living in your home for a lifetime.
At Eclipse because we focus on high performance and Passive House design and building, and use our decades of experience in the building industry, we are dedicated to leading the way in Australia.
All our projects are built to last, so we know you’ll enjoy the health and happiness that living in your Eclipse house will bring you for many, many years.
ABOUT US
eclipse
At Eclipse, we are experts in our field.
We use building science and industry-leading prefabrication techniques to design, manufacture, deliver and install healthy, high-performance Passive Houses and energy efficient homes and renovations.
For us, it’s all about ensuring that we look after you.
We want our clients to enjoy living in the most energy efficient, healthiest and most comfortable homes on the planet.
We want the design and building process to be as fast, cost-efficient and fuss-free as possible.
We collaborate with architects, designers, and home-owners to create high performance homes and Passive Houses.
Our manufacturing facility is located in Sydney, Australia and we can supply and install our system anywhere on the east coast of Australia.
Meet our team
MEET OUR TEAM
We can design your house and renovation or collaborate with your architect and designer who have a commitment to high-performance design and construction.
Our dedicated and highly skilled team brings craftsmanship and attention to detail to create vibrant, durable, healthy homes.
Darryn Parkinson
Darryn is one of the directors of eclipse and has over 35 years’ experience in construction project management. For the last 20 years, Darryn has worked in the area of sustainable design and construction. His desire to build the highest performing and healthiest buildings along, with his knowledge of building science, led him to Passive House construction. Darryn is also one of the first Certified Passive House Tradespeople in Australia.
Darryn brings to eclipse strong leadership and a genuine desire to build extremely high quality and sustainable buildings. Working closely with clients, architects and designers Darryn is a frank and open communicator whose focus is always on ensuring clients enjoy a trouble-free experience, resulting in a home of outstanding quality with strong environmental credentials.
Sharon Hamilton
Sharon is one of the directors of eclipse and has over 35 years’ financial and business management experience across a diverse range of business operations. For the last 20 years, Sharon has worked in the area of sustainable design and construction. Sharon is a CA who brings to eclipse a rigorous financial and business acumen which ensures that the company is always in a position to deliver projects of the highest sustainability credentials.
Sharon has a strong belief that all buildings should be healthy for the occupants, free from harmful chemicals. Sharon’s desire is for eclipse to be a business that makes a difference to the world we live in. She believes that if you build the house right, it can change the way you live.
Contact us
We’d love to hear from you
eclipse passive house pty ltd
factory:
unit 5/106 station Rd
seven hills nsw 2147
australia
post:
po box 260
avalon nsw 2107
australia
abn : 67 635 389 641