• New build housing: 39 houses, 8 flats
• Environmentally sustainable design
• Dutch Green Financing Model
• Post-completion monitoring
• Replicable
• Tried & trusted: not intended to be cutting edge!

Project Features

• Extra insulation
• Swedish windows
  • Argon gas filled double glazing, achieves U= 1.1w/m2k
• Sunspaces
• Solar collectors
• Non UPVC use (i.e. gutters, flooring)
• Low VOC paints
• Waste segregation (inside & outside)
• Walls
  • Double insulation, U =0.25 w/m2k
  • Timber frame construction

Heating:

• Aquasol solar collector panels for preheating domestic water
• Gas condensing boilers, 83-98% efficient
• Radiators
  • 60/40 short DHW piping
  • low temperature heating
  • very small radiators
  • Underfloor heating in some units

Ventilation:

• Wind pressure vents
• Some mechanical ventilation with low energy fans

Sun space:

• 2 storey attic area exposed
• east/west orientation to heat incoming air

Water:

• dual flush toilets 2.5 /4 litres
• water saving spray taps
• flow regulators
• 1500mm baths
• rainwater collection for garden use