Everyone is building sustainable housing now, but can they do it affordably?
A key challenge of the introduction of and any housing standards, both in grant funded housing or in the open market, must be for them to be implemented in a cost effective way in order to ensure their success in volume.
Any process of introducing [...]
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.
Some [...]
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.
