Welcome to the GreenGauge Homes website.
This site is being developed to share information about the GreenGauge Homes approach to developing sustainable affordable housing.
Over the coming months we will be publishing a range of material on this site including:
Information about the GreenGauge Homes approach to sustainable housing, for example “Why are GreenGauge Homes not Kit Houses?”;
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When the Ecohomes standard was introduced, followed by the Code for Sustainable Homes which replaced it, these standards were first compulsory for Grant Funded Affordable Housing, that is, most housing developed by housing associations.
As a result the first to respond in a significant way to the demands of these codes were the developing housing associations.
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In 2003 a group of housing design, development and construction professionals embarked on a project to see how affordable housing could meet changing energy standards and still be built within a tight grant funding structure.
This project was the GreenGauge Homes at Lingwood in Norfolk, the first to be built with the GreenGauge Homes approach.
This website has been created to share our continuing findings, discuss the issues and seek new partners who want to move their housing developments forward, one step at a time.
