BRE’s Innovation ParkJames Fisher

Team Leader, Sustainable Communities

BRE, UK

Working in the Construction Industry

World class facilities…

Code for Sustainable Homes - Setting Standards for Sustainability

Code for Sustainable Homes

• Energy / CO2

• Potable water• Surface water runoff• Materials• Site waste / household waste• Pollution• Health and wellbeing• Management• Ecology

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• Pollution

• Health & Wellbeing

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Hanson’s EcoHouse• Code Level 4• 3 bedroom house• Factory made brick and

block walling system• High thermal mass and

passive ventilation• Wall U Value 0.18 • Roof lantern - utilises the

‘stack effect’ to naturally ventilate

• Solar water system• Under-floor heating• Smart technology and

Digital communication• Ground source heating• SUDS - Includes a

rainwater harvesting and geo thermal heating and cooling system

Hanson

ecoTECH’s Organics House

• Code Level 4• Three bedroom• Factory made closed

panel timber frame/panel walling system

• Steel volumetric units (bathroom and kitchen pods)

• Wall U value: 0.18 • Viessman ventilation and

heating system

Stewart Milne’s Sigma Home

• Code Level 5• Three bedroom house• Split floor design• Closed panel timber frame

system• Wall U value: 0.15• Bathroom pods• Windturbines, solar water

heating and PV panels• Dupont’s Energain system

Kingspan Offsite’s Lighthouse

• Code Level 6• Two bedrooms• SIP (Kingspan TEK system)• Wall U value: 0.11• Mechanical Heat Recovery

Ventilation• PV panels and solar water

heating• Rainwater harvesting and

greywater recycling

Willmott Dixon’s Rethinking School

• BREEAM Excellent• Eurban solid timber

construction (gluelam waste timber)

• Velux roof light and lightwells

• Selection of Claddings (including a recycled mobile phones panel)

• Seedam roof• Integrated toilets• ICT infrastructure (flexible &

adaptable)

Willmott Dixon Community Health Centre

• Aims to demonstrate ways in which the NHS can meet their zero carbon new-build target for 2018

• Demonstrates the use of telecare & self-diagnosis systems

Sustainable urban landscapes

The Renewable House – carbon negative?

Creo Apartment Block – Mixed Use

The Prince’s Foundation – Natural House

We would love to welcome CNU to BRE in 2011/2012...

T: +44 1923 664722

E: fisherj@bre.co.uk