Prefabricated Eco Friendly Houses?
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My better half has very kindly offered for me to help a cousin of hers with a school project. The cousin lives and studies in Thailand, and is doing a project on eco friendly houses - something in which Europe is supposedly leading the way.
As I'm a property developer she's contacted me to ask about prefab eco friendly houses thinking that they're all the go over in the UK, but my knowledge is virtually zero (aside from one project just outside of Leeds).
Does anybody know of any such projects or manufacturers? Ikea supposedly sell prefab units, and there are supposedly a couple of German firms, but aside from that I'm a bit lost.
Does anybody know anything about the above?
As I'm a property developer she's contacted me to ask about prefab eco friendly houses thinking that they're all the go over in the UK, but my knowledge is virtually zero (aside from one project just outside of Leeds).
Does anybody know of any such projects or manufacturers? Ikea supposedly sell prefab units, and there are supposedly a couple of German firms, but aside from that I'm a bit lost.
Does anybody know anything about the above?
Sam_68 said:
Oh, god...there's one of those near me.Thought the architect had gone loopy...
mybrainhurts said:
Oh, god...there's one of those near me.
I'd be quite surprised if there is. To the best of my knowledge (and the BRE's, who accredit/certify the PassivHaus standard in the country), there has only been one attempt to build one in this country, so far, and it failed at the post construction certification stage.I'm about to build what are likely to be the first ones to be offered on the open market.
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I do believe the pre-fabricated houses are being built by Ikea, in Gateshead as we speak. I'm sure a bit of googling will turn up something.
Another company that was leading the field in pre-fab houses, flats etc is www.panaloc.co.uk I've dealt with these guys on a number of occasions and can probably be of more help.
Feel free to PM with any questions
Another company that was leading the field in pre-fab houses, flats etc is www.panaloc.co.uk I've dealt with these guys on a number of occasions and can probably be of more help.
Feel free to PM with any questions
Andy M said:
Thanks guys - much appreciated 
Sam - are you able to share any more information on your project?
Not much, at the moment, I'm afraid. We're about to submit the Reserved Matters Planning Application on the site, upon approval of which (pretty much a formality in this case, due to pre-agreement of a very detailed design code and masterplan) we need to decide whether we actually 'push the button' and build the site, in the current market, or wait a while.Sam - are you able to share any more information on your project?
Assuming it gets the thumbs up from Board, we'll be building 5 'PassivHaus' houses as part of a larger (70+ units) development.
I probably ought not to say any more than that, and certainly design and construction specification is confidential at this time, but I will say that we're expecting the greatest challenge to be the very low infiltration rates (<1.0 cubic metres/sq. m/hr) that are demanded by the PassivHaus concept.
Sam_68 said:
mybrainhurts said:
Oh, god...there's one of those near me.
I'd be quite surprised if there is. To the best of my knowledge (and the BRE's, who accredit/certify the PassivHaus standard in the country), there has only been one attempt to build one in this country, so far, and it failed at the post construction certification stage.I'm about to build what are likely to be the first ones to be offered on the open market.
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