Working in collaboration with Saint-Gobain, the University of Nottingham’s School of the Built Environment engineering students have designed the HOUSE (Home Optimizing the Use of Solar Energy) which is being touted as the UK’s first zero carbon, solar-powered mass market home. The carbon-neutral home will be put on public view at London’s Ecobuild exhibition in March and the first Solar Decathlon Europe competition in Madrid in June of next year.
Using a prefabricated design, our truly sustainable home will show how a small ‘starter’ home could be produced with the ability to sit side by side as part of a semi-detached house or terrace.
Says Dr Mark Gillott, co-director of the Institute of Sustainable Energy Technology.
The L-shaped building, a full-scale carbon starter home abides by the Government regulations vide the UK’s Code For Sustainable Homes and is an off-the-grid construction. Fully fit to install on terraces or stacked as apartments, the Nottingham HOUSE is creditable move toward achieving carbon neutral by 2016.
Via: GreenWise