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the green building
client - taylor woodrow developments
Development comprising 32 self contained luxury apartments with a 120 place children’s daycare nursery and doctor’s surgery.
The environmental strategy was to create a low energy building through radical design reducing environmental impact and increasing occupant comfort within a commercially sustainable budget. Energy and conservation measures targeted:
- Embodied energy used in construction
- Active energy consumption by plant and equipment
- Passive design involving the creation of a thermally efficient envelope
From a structural perspective, the adoption of a reinforced concrete frame minimised the embodied energy, exposed concrete surfaces absorbed and radiated heat through heating pipes contained within the floor screed.
Other energy conservation features include a central atrium to naturally ventilate the occupied spaces, wind turbine to generate power, roof mounted solar thermal collectors to generate domestic hot water.
regent house, hubert road, brentwood, essex, cm14 4je
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