Refurbishment Examples

Three case studies about improving the energy efficiency of existing housing, written by Jo Moulds for Green Building Magazine.

MedilinkWM initiative i-Health
the UK's first smart technology demonstrator created from a fully refurbished Victorian terraced house in West Bromwich

http://www.myi-health.co.uk/news/details//2/t/Smart

Alternative Technology at Home
At my home near Ipswich in rural Suffolk, East Anglia, I have spent some enjoyable time on several projects to make us more eco-friendly and green living...

http://www.alternativetechnology.info/

Green Cottage
''our home Green Cottage is equipped with all the latest energy technology and conservation methods, and is a suggestion for a typical terraced house in East Bury with energy efficiency and renewable energy measures. In these pages, we aim to show what can be done in a resource-poor and climate-changed 21st century with a very ordinary house!''

http://greencottage.burysolarclub.net/

The EcoHouse
The EcoHouse, Leicester's internationally renowned environmental showhome, demonstrates hundreds of environmental features and ideas, inspiring and encouraging visitors to make green changes to their own homes and gardens.

http://www.environ.org.uk/ecohouse/

The Yellow House
''This site tells the story of how we turned our 1930s ex-council house into our environmental dream home. We wanted to reduce our energy consumption by two thirds and renovate our home using sustainable materials, but without losing comfort or style.''

http://www.theyellowhouse.org.uk/

Nottingham Eco House
A new project, This project will demonstrate environmental DIY and improvements that can be made to a terraced house to reduce carbon footprint and thus save money and reduce fuel poverty.

http://nottecohouse.wordpress.com/

The Ecohome Nottingham
Penney Poyzer and Gil Schalom have a terraced Victorian house and have done a full eco-retrofit, including external insulation to the rear and internal at the front, a rainwater system and compost toilets.

Lots of detailed info on all the work they have done.

http://www.msarch.co.uk/ecohome/

Energy Heritage Project
http://www.ewht.org.uk/Energy-Heritage-Project.aspx

www.alternative-energy.co.uk
PV installation which generates move power than the house uses.

http://www.alternative-energy.co.uk/

catherined
Blog about externally insulating a house: http://climatex.org/users/catherined/blog/

BedZED
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BedZED

PassivHaus
All components of the exterior shell of a PassivHaus are insulated to achieve a U-Value that does not exceed 0.15 W/m2/K http://www.passivhaus.org.uk/index.jsp?id=669

There are presently no completed PassivHaus dwellings in the UK http://www.passivhaus.org.uk/index.jsp?id=670

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

BRE Victorian Homes Refurbishment Project
http://www.rethinkinghousingrefurbishment.co.uk/

See the £50K house refurb competition, based in Sheffield.

Low Energy Victorian House
Project in Camden: http://www.levh.org.uk/

A very expensive project: £127,004 grant plus £325,015 contribution in kind!

"The aim of this project is to reduce CO2 emissions from a Victorian building in a conservation area in the London Borough of Camden by 90%." http://www.urbanbuzz.org/scommunities/showFundedProject.do?id=13