Scott, J; Deveci, G; Edge, M and Martin, P (2004) Towards zero-heating: Affordable models for environmentally friendly housing in Scotland. In: Khosrowshahi, F (ed.) Proceedings of 20th Annual ARCOM Conference, 1-3 September 2004, Edinburgh, UK.
Abstract
The 'Zero Heating' home has been designed, built and monitored. The home is the end result of a major research programme aiming to produce radical new designs for more sustainable affordable housing in Scotland's rural areas. The precedents for housing with these kinds of aims have tended to be one-off, high cost designs, which have made environmental improvements at the expense of economic affordability. They are typically not replicable designs, which can be applied to a mass market for affordable housing. The 'Zero Heating' home, despite being a single, prototype house, aimed to deliver replicable improvements at an initial capital cost no greater than that of standard, low cost, 'spec-built' mass housing. The 'Zero Heating' home offers great possibilities for radical energy conservation and other environmental improvements in new housing. The house was monitored and evaluated to establish the building performance and the benefits to the environment of this type of home. The analysis of this home will also establish key recommendations for future evolutions in affordable housing for the mass housing market.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | affordable housing; passive solar design; sustainability; green design; performance evaluation |
| Index terms: | prototype, building performance, low cost, programme, environmentally friendly, capital cost, rural area, energy conservation, performance evaluation, housing, affordability, evolution, affordable housing, passive solar design, Scotland |
| Subjects: | construction type, modelling and simulation, economic analysis, environmental science, energy systems, bidding, accounting and finance, performance measurement, Geography, sustainable design, project controls, land use and regional development, quality assurance |
| Topics: | Time Control, Quality Management, Urban Studies, Procurement, Construction Technology, Sustainability, Geographical Context, Engineering Principles, Business Strategy |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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