Maintaining comfortable temperatures, energy efficiency, and healthy conditions consistently inside the home requires the intelligent combination of several elements:

• Insulation

• Heating and cooling systems

• Design to avoid overheating in summer

• Ventilation and natural air flow READ MORE

• Weathertightness

• Internal moisture control

This section of the Superhome Design Guide gives information about insulation, heating systems, and how to manage the risks of overheating.

Many of these elements of the home are pretty much invisible – sitting quietly behind the walls, up in the roof space or under the floor – and your only interaction with them will be to adjust a setting or check the monitoring system.

But even if these systems are not necessarily front-of-mind for homeowners and residents, they are crucially important for achieving a genuinely warm, dry, healthy home.

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