Carbon Challenge zero carbon Barratt home goes on display

Barratt is showcasing its zero-carbon homes, to be built on the site of Hanham Hall hospital near Bristol, in the BRE Innovation Park. Barratt will build 200 of the homes on the English Partnership's Carbon Challenge site, a third of which will be affordable by lower income buyers. All will be code level 6 and will completed in 2011, five years ahead of the 2016 deadline.

The Barratt Green House, designed by Gaunt Francis architects, won the 2007 Home for the Future Design Award run by the Mail on Sunday in collaboration with the National Centre for Excellence in Housing (a joint venture between BRE and the NHBC). The award-winning design was voted for by more than 22,000 Mail on Sunday readers.

Designed to Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, it will be the first home constructed by a mainstream home builder to meet the criteria for zero stamp duty.

Constructed from aircrete, storey high panels with thin-joint mortar, the house uses concrete floor slabs to provide a robust frame with high ‘thermal mass' to ensure that any potential overheating problem is reduced. The house generates its own energy with photovoltaic cells, both on it's own roof and on a neighbouring building, and with an air-air heat pump.

Jaya Skandamoorthy says 'the Green House is a major achievement by Barratt, it brings a wealth of new innovative systems, materials and technologies to the Park which the industry can learn from and this is what the Park is all about.'

Read The Guardian article on these homes

Read RUDI's article on the Hanham Hall project