Energy and Buildings

Tim Fenn Ian Pritchett Phil ShadboltManaging Director Technical Director Managing Director

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Bicester Ecotown: Challenging Blueprint Ecotown PPS

A minimum of 5,000 houses

Buildings Zero Carbon

Car Traffic reduced by 50%Public Transport within 10 mins walk

Zero Waste; Waste as a Resource

40% Open Space

1 Job per Household

Closed Water Cycle

Local Food

Increase Biodiversity

Whole Bicester as Ecotown

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What planners normally want............3

What architects want and get awards for?4

What we get when house builders and developers finish building.

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Renewable Energy

• Zero Carbon

• Energy from Waste

• Community Energy Centre

• Micro-energy generation

Water Management

• Recycled water

• Rainwater harvesting

• Green Roofs

• SUDS

• Water catchment management

Waste Management

• Zero Waste

• Education/Awareness

• Waste as Resource

• Materials from waste

Sustainable Construction

• Low Energy Building/Zero carbon

• Local Materials

• Climate Change Resilience

• Micro-energy generation

• Sustainable Building Training

Sustainable Transport• 50% reduction in car travel

• Cycling/walking

• Public Transport

• Biofuels

• Electric Vehicles

Local Employment

• 1 Job per house

• Virtual Business Centres

• Entice Green Businesses

• Promote Green Economy

Healthy Lifestyles• More Exercise

• Organic Food

• Access to Open Spaces

• Healthy Buildings

Bio-diversity

• Green roofs

• Community Gardens

• Social Forestry

Open spaces

• More Exercise

• Healthy Living

•Access Country-side

•Water Retention

Local Food

• Urban Agriculture

• Community Supported Agriculture

• Community Orchards

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Understanding energy consumption

Building Energy Efficiency8

Building Energy Efficiency

What will be the value Bicester’s Eco-houses and Commercial Buildings?

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Future Heating Energy Costs Ecotown vs other

Part L House 10% increase in heating cost per year

Code 4 house 10% increase in heating cost per year

ECO2H2O house in Ecotown 3% increse in heating cost per year

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New Building Systems

Kirkland Frazer Moore

New building systems1

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New building systems1

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New Designs

Renewable Energy1

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Solar evaluated tubes

Phase Change Material in solar energy storage

Solar pv & evaluated tubes

Retrofit: External insulation

Retrofit: Internal insulation

Performance testing

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Design

versus

“as built”

performance…..

Who’s responsibility?

If we fail?1

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Huf House

• Failure to reach CO2 emission targets

• Climate change

• Fuel poverty

• Poor economic growth\unemployment

• Disappointed home owners/tenants

• Legal claims

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• Not just high performance German cars