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Linford's Renewable House wins National Construction Award
(06/12/2010)

Linford Group has lifted the top Innovation award at the Constructing Excellence National Awards for its ‘Renewable House’, which is located at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) Innovation Park in Watford. The Renewable House was created to demonstrate that mainstream affordable homes can be constructed from renewable materials - meeting both housing demands and environmental targets. It showcases the zero carbon, thermal insulation, sound insulation and “breathable” properties of h... [more]

Renewable House demonstrates the commercial viability of building affordable homes from renewable materials
(27/10/2009)

The Renewable House is a new demonstration house that has been designed to illustrate that low cost and low carbon are compatible. Built at the BRE Innovation Park and officially opened at Insite 2009, the Renewable House is a demonstration of the commercial viability of building affordable homes from renewable materials. The house has been designed to meet Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, with a build cost of £75,000, excluding groundworks and utilities. Unlike many other houses... [more]

The Renewable House provides a solution to meeting the target of sustainable and affordable homes
(09/03/2009)

So far there has been a wealth of examples of how environmental techniques can be utilised for one-off designs. However, the Renewable House looks to provide a solution to meeting the Government’s target of up to 250,000 sustainable, affordable and desirable homes. The Renewable House is a unique housing project being built for launch at BRE's INSITE09 event , on 1-4 June 2009. The house is based around using renewable materials to deliver an affordable house that meets Level 4 of the Code f... [more]

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