Sydney’s Certified Passive House Builder
Your children will
grow up healthier
in this home.
Marvel Homes are certified passive house builders in Sydney, designing and building healthy, high-performance homes. Two engineers across every project, backed by a tight, skilled team. Five to eight homes a year, because that is the number that works.
Certified Tradesperson
Passive House Association
HIA MemberQ3 2026: 2 build slots left•2027 enquiries open
See how we build→22°C
A stable temperature year-round, on a fraction of the energy.
Continuous
Fresh filtered air exchanged throughout the day.
−80%
Versus a standard Sydney home. Certified.
Why it matters
The air inside your home is what your family breathes every day.
Of our time is spent indoors
Indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor
ACH, Passive House standard
Sources: US EPA · Passive House Institute
Passive house construction solves this. The building envelope is sealed, and fresh outdoor air is continuously filtered and brought inside while the warmth is kept in, with none of the recirculated, stale air that standard ducted systems rely on. See how it works.
How we work
When design and construction are separated, the brief gets lost between them.At Marvel, both are held by the same people throughout.
Your brief, your block, your budget. We hold all of it from day one. There is no handoff between a designer and a builder. It is the same two people from the first conversation to the keys.
A designer who has never managed a build, and a builder who never read the original brief, are working from different understandings. That gap is where budgets blow out.
The arc of a project
From the first conversation to the day you get your keys, here is the typical timeline for a Marvel project. We move as quickly as the site, the approvals, and the brief allow.
1 month
Survey, planning controls, and brief review. We confirm feasibility before a single line is drawn.
3 months
We design it alongside the real cost. If it can't be built well within your budget, we find out in month one, not at tender.
1.5 – 3 months
A CDC takes around 6 weeks. A DA can take 2 to 3 months. We confirm the right path for your block before the design starts.
15 months
Principal-led delivery. Mo or Ibrahim on site at every critical stage, inspecting against the passive house standard, not a checklist.
What we hold
together
Four things that must resolve together.
A home build goes wrong when any one of these is treated as someone else’s problem. At Marvel, they are always the same person’s problem.
What the family actually needs to live well.
The brief that matters is rarely the one from the first meeting. It is what emerges over months of conversation: the work-from-home setup, the allergies, and the nuanced needs of every family member.
What the block will and will not allow.
Orientation, heritage overlays, and stormwater mapping. Most of these are invisible until someone reads the survey carefully. We do this before a design is drawn, not after a DA is refused.
What the project genuinely costs to build well.
A real budget comes from understanding the site and brief together. When design and construction sit with the same team, the cost agreed at the start is the cost at handover.
What the standard actually demands on the tools.
A complex fall or structural challenge must be understood as a construction problem while the design is still being drawn. This prevents expensive discoveries at the frame stage.
Our position
Where we hold the line.
This is not what we offer. It is what we refuse to do, because each one protects your home, your budget, and your peace of mind. If you are comparing builders, this is the honest part.
We do not build at volume.
Five to eight homes a year is deliberate, the balance where price, quality and attention all hold. Keeping to a handful means we can give your build our best, from the first sketch to the last detail.
We do not water it down.
Choosing to upgrade your finishes is your call, and a good one. What we will not do is quietly drop the build standard to make a price look cheaper. The envelope and the structure, the things that keep a home healthy and lasting, are never what gets cut.
We do not lowball to win the job.
Some builders win the job with a low number, then the price climbs once you are committed. We price the real scope up front, in a proper preconstruction phase, so the figure is honest from the start and you stay in the driver's seat.
We do not guess at how it performs.
Most homes are handed over on a hope: that they will be warm in winter, cool in summer and cheap to run. We measure ours before you move in, so the comfort and the running costs are known from day one, not a surprise in your first power bill.
Selected projects
Recent projects.
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Client Story
See how we build healthier homes.
“We want to stop being cold in winter. And my wife has allergies. And we need space to work from home.”The Lilyfield brief.
He kept turning up the heating. It never helped. We rebuilt it as a certified passive house, the allergy problem is gone, the house stays at 22 degrees year-round, and the double-height living room sits on a 2.65 metre fall.
Consistent 20–25°C year-round.
Minimal heating or cooling.
Built for the Australian climate.
Certified to the Passive House standard.
Client
Reflection
“Through every phase the team were professional and always available, and they simplified complex conversations so we were all on the same page. I’d recommend Marvel Homes, and passive houses in particular.”
Project Walkthrough
Thirty seconds inside a finished certified passive house.
Mo Amin + Ibrahim Amin
Founders, Marvel Homes
The next step
Five to eight projects a year. Is yours one of them?
Book a free 20-minute call with Mo or Ibrahim. Bring your site address and rough brief. We will tell you straight whether it is a fit and what a realistic budget looks like.
No sales calls. We respond within one business day.