Investing in your future: Why choose a sustainable builder for a healthier, happier home
Modern technology and conscious practices paired together can help build more efficient homes. A sustainable home can reduce the owner's carbon footprint, lessen the impact of climate change, and allow homeowners to purchase a home with less economic stress.
The growing demand for housing in Australia and the pressing need to protect our environment make sustainability an essential part of building a new home.
As the demand for housing increases in both rural and urban areas, those in the construction and home-building industries must minimise their environmental impact. One of the major ways we can do this as a sustainable society is to take a closer look at modular homes.
Designed to optimise energy and water use, a sustainable home uses quality systems and researched practices to make it more efficient for homeowners. These practices and thoughtful design choices help our environment and the pockets of smart first-homebuyers and savvy investors.
So why choose a sustainable builder for a healthier, happier home?
Ensuring your builder understands what sustainability means to our environment and you as a future homeowner is essential to your confidence in building a sustainable home.
With many builders and companies using the word ‘sustainable’ in their communications, it's hard to know what is marketing jargon and what is absolute. We are here to help.
Being a sustainable builder was our intention.
We wanted to build sustainable modular homes made with Australian-made products, support Australian-owned and operated businesses, and use eco-friendly renewable materials where possible for every element of a Frontier Life prefab modular home.
To us, sustainability means aiding our local communities with opportunities to boost the economy and alleviate the housing crisis while making as little impact on our local surroundings as possible.
Our focus is on using cyclical processes to create long-term economic growth and meet our community's present needs without compromising their future environmentally or economically.
We make choices that help protect our local surroundings while considering the global impact prefabricated homes can have on the environment.
As advocates for domestic manufacturing, we see sustainable builders as ones who consider the following points when they take a closer look at the Australian Home Builder industry as a whole:
Australia's housing crisis
Housing affordability challenges for young Australians
The current rental crisis
Environmental impact of each home built
Living expenses for older Australians and retirees
Our way of supporting our great country includes practices that contribute to the growth and sustainability of our local industries.
Choosing Australian-made allows us to be a proud ally of our local industries while contributing to the growth and sustainability of Australian products, providing jobs for Australians, and ensuring the products we use are held to high ethical standards.
How can modular homes reduce our impact on the environment?
A modular home can offer a unique home ownership solution that minimises environmental impact by reducing building waste, utilising energy efficiency practices, and reducing each home's carbon footprint.
When comparing the sustainability of building a traditional home on-site to building a home in a controlled factory environment, there are measurable benefits to the environment when you choose a modular home. These may include:
Reduced transport required overall - less greenhouse gases
Little or no disturbance to the site's local flora and fauna
Reclamation of offcuts and building waste - less waste in landfill
Measured practices to reduce environmental toxins during production
Compared to a traditional home, these factors alone can significantly reduce the house's carbon footprint.
Construction waste contributes to up to 40% of landfills and many carbon emissions. By moving the home building to a controlled factory environment, the reclamation of materials and reduction in delivery and transport for each home is drastically affected, making modular homes an economical product and a conscious environmental choice.
Why choose a Frontier Life sustainable modular home?
As a pair of family-focused business owners, where our materials come from is important to us, both for our families and the wider community now and in the future.
By building sustainable modular homes that consider the materials used and their impact on our environment, we have built a range of modules that utilise standardised designs in each, reducing the amount of offcuts and waste compared to custom-designed homes.
Our cyclical processes eliminate material variances, use researched practices to reduce waste and ensure each home is built with energy efficiency in mind. But they are more than just structures built from pre-fabricated components; they are a home.
Frontier Life homes are designed with a focus on aesthetics, functionality, and sustainability; each module is beautiful and easy to live in.
Each prefabricated Frontier Life module showcases form and exudes functionality. It allows Australians of all ages to enjoy a home designed purposefully with their lifestyle and budget in mind, making for an affordable first home or wise investment choice.
Unlike conventional homes, Frontier Life modular homes can be moved, relocated, and repositioned multiple times without leaving behind structures that require demolition or creating wasted resources that result in landfill.
The fact that each Frontier Life module is built to last and can be relocated without the worry of damage is a testament to our cause: building sustainable, affordable homes for the present and our greater future.