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Eco Hub at Lordship Recreation Ground, Haringey, London
The new Eco-Hub is the centrepiece of the regeneration and transformation of the historic Lordship Recreation Ground, and has been designed to exemplary sustainable standards. Commissioned by Haringey Council and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund Parks for People programme, Big Lottery and the Greater London Authority. It will provide teaching space for environmental education, a multi-purpose community space for community organisations including the Lordship Rec mother and toddler group, a public cafe near the playground and the lake, with kitchen and public WCs, and a boot room for Park volunteers. From the outset, detailed consultation with Friends of Lordship Rec, local user groups, environmental education teachers and officers at LB Haringey, helped develop a pragmatic building brief and set out the core aims of community involvement and a truly sustainable building design for the Eco-Hub. Local people joined the construction team to build the strawbale walls.
Withy Cottage
Timber Frame & Straw Bale self build with thermal bridge free construction (other than door and window frames). Simple flat raft foundation on EPS.
Dartmouth Avenue
The first of three schemes undertaken by Greenoak Housing Association and architect Jon Broome. The aim was to develop a replicable model to reduce emissions and other environmental impacts in mainstream housing by incorporating cost effective and trouble free measures. The emphasis is on reducing energy demand by creating a well insulated and airtight envelope. The properties in this development range in size from 80m2 2 bed dwellings to 108m2 4 bed dwellings. The average floor area and energy use per dwelling has been used in this entry.
Grove Cottage
Extension & Refurbishment of Victorian Townhouse using Passivhaus methodology and CarbonLite guidance. Certified to the Passivhaus Institute's new EnerPHit (refurbishment) Standard. [NEW:Passivhaus Trust awards shortlisted project - presentation available on these pages].PHPP certification is based on 20 C, rather than the 21 C the house was heated to during 2010/11. Forecasts are based on a 'typical year' rather than the 'actual' year being monitored. Measured data here is from 2005/06 (before) and 2009/10 (after). Measured room temperatures show an average of 21 degrees centigrade during the heating season. Please note the final air leakage as certified under EnerPHit was an N50 of 1.0 ACH. When adjusted for 2010 average monthly temps.& an internal temp. of 21 C, PHPP predicted a space heat demand of 36kWh/m2.a whereas 35kWh/m2.a was measured.
Low Energy Home - Hay Tor
Energy upgrade of 1950's concrete bungalow. We were trying to achieve the best available insulation (u-values) in all areas and good airtightness within budget restrictions. We are very pleased with the result just over a year after the start of the Retrofit, which makes the home much more comfortable.
