Custom homes
Architect-designed homes built to perform for decades.
New beautiful homes designed around how you actually live and engineered using high performance principles, right up to Passive House level from the first sketch. Airtight, quiet, comfortable in every season, with air you can feel is cleaner.
Why SV Built
We partner with your architect (or bring one of ours) to turn a brief into a home that performs, ages well, and doesn't cost a fortune to run.
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Energy performance is the baseline.
Most builders quote Passive House as an extra. We design every home to a minimum performance target from day one — you can pay to exceed it, but you never have to fight for it.
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We build a small number of homes each year.
Our cap is deliberate. It keeps our attention on your project, our trades familiar with our detailing, and our rework rate low. You get the same site manager from day one to handover.
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Pre-construction does the hard work.
Before we break ground we've priced the full scope, resolved the junctions, and stress-tested the build sequence. That's where a custom home is won or lost.
Included
What's included in every engagement.
- Passive House modelling and thermal performance targets before design is locked
- Airtightness testing at shell completion and final handover
- HRV (mechanical ventilation) design integrated with the architecture
- Material and finish schedule with low-VOC, healthy-home alternatives
- Fixed-price head contract after pre-construction — no surprise claims
- Weekly progress reporting and live schedule access through the build
Ideal for
Owners commissioning their long-term home, working with an architect or open to one, who value building performance and honest craft over floor-area-per-dollar.
Further Reading
Every SV Built custom home is a high-performance home first — airtight, well insulated and built to perform for the life of the home. For the detail: what defines a high-performance home in Adelaide, how a Passive House is built to the standard, and what it costs to build a custom home in Adelaide.
FAQ
Custom home questions.
- Can you build a custom home to Passive House standard?
- Yes. Passive House and healthy-home principles are the baseline for how we build, not an add-on. We can deliver a fully certified Passive House, or apply its principles — airtightness, continuous insulation, high-performance glazing and heat-recovery ventilation — to the level that suits your brief and budget.
- Do you build from our architect’s plans, or design in-house?
- Both. We build from your architect’s documentation, and we also work with clients from the earliest concept stage. Engaging a builder early — before the design is locked — is where the biggest gains in performance, buildability and cost certainty are made.
- How long does it take to build a custom home in Adelaide?
- Construction typically runs around 10–14 months from site start to handover, depending on size, site and complexity — with design and approvals completed before we begin on site. We give you a realistic, site-specific programme up front and keep you across it throughout the build.
- How many homes do you take on at once?
- We are a boutique builder by choice, taking on a deliberately limited number of homes at a time so each one gets the attention to detail it needs — which is why we ask clients to apply to build with us.
