Builders first. Building performance ever since.
Built from practical experience
Stewart and Cameron Scholten are brothers, licensed builders and Certified Passive House Tradespeople.
For years, Scholten Group worked much like any other residential building company in the Northern Rivers, constructing new homes, renovations and extensions around Ballina, Byron Bay and the surrounding region.
Over time, our attention shifted towards what makes a building perform well long after the builder has left the site.
How does moisture move through the building envelope? Where does uncontrolled air leakage occur? Why are some homes comfortable, healthy and durable while others experience condensation, mould and poor indoor conditions?
Those questions led us towards Passive House and ultimately changed the direction of the business.
Passive House training gave us a much deeper understanding of airtightness, moisture management, insulation, ventilation and the importance of treating the building envelope as a complete system rather than a collection of individual products.
And then we had the opportunity to put that knowledge into practice.
The project that changed our direction
One project in particular shaped what Scholten Group would become.
Working with architect Kylie Mills and the wider project team, we constructed the first Passive House in the Northern Rivers at Ballina.
The completed home was certified Passivhaus Classic, with an airtightness result of 0.08 air changes per hour at 50 pascals.
Building to that level required an entirely different approach to conventional residential construction.
Every junction mattered. Every penetration mattered. Airtightness, insulation, moisture movement and ventilation had to be understood as interconnected parts of the same building.
Pro Clima systems formed an important part of that envelope, and spending months installing and detailing those products ourselves gave us a level of understanding that cannot come from a product catalogue.
The Ballina project did more than teach us how to build a Passive House. It changed the way we thought about buildings altogether.
From building homes to helping others build better
Our experience with Passive House made one thing increasingly clear: better products only achieve better outcomes when the people specifying and installing them understand how they work.
That became the next chapter for Scholten Group.
Rather than keeping what we had learned within our own building projects, we began working more closely with Pro Clima and supporting other builders and trades using high performance building envelope systems.
What started locally in the Northern Rivers has grown into a much wider role, helping make good building envelope systems easier to understand, source and install correctly.
That combination of product knowledge and real construction experience remains at the centre of the business.
Pro Clima systems, technical support and training
Today, Scholten Group is a Pro Clima Partner with locations in the Northern Rivers and Brisbane.
We support the industry in three main ways.
Pro Clima systems
We supply Pro Clima membranes, tapes, sealants and building envelope systems through a growing network of hardware stores, timber merchants and building suppliers across NSW and South East Queensland.
Builders and trades can find product locally through our stockist network, while merchants have access to stock from our Northern Rivers and Brisbane locations.
Practical technical support
Because we have installed these systems ourselves, we understand the questions that arise when drawings meet the reality of a building site.
We help with product selection, system compatibility, installation questions and practical detailing, and can connect projects with Pro Clima’s specialist technical team where deeper technical input is required.
Training and education
We run practical training sessions for trades and merchant teams covering Pro Clima systems, airtightness, weathertightness, moisture management and installation.
For us, education is an important part of supplying the product. The better people understand why a system works, the better chance there is of getting the details right.
Local support, two locations
Scholten Group is based at Pearces Creek in the Northern Rivers, with a second location in Brisbane supporting South East Queensland.
Having people and stock on the ground in both regions means we can stay close to the projects, stores and people we support.
Experience backed by recognised expertise
Our approach combines years of construction experience with formal training and ongoing involvement in the high performance building industry.
Stewart and Cameron are licensed builders and Certified Passive House Tradespeople.
Scholten Group is a Pro Clima Partner and is involved with organisations including the Australian Passivhaus Association and International Passive House Association.
Part of the conversation around better building
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Mould, Moisture Control & Airtightness in Modern Construction
Member Profile: Stewart Scholten
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