{"id":1303,"date":"2007-06-12T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T03:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2007-06-12T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T03:30:13","slug":"the-uks-first-zero-emission-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/the-uks-first-zero-emission-home.html","title":{"rendered":"The UK&#8217;s First Zero-Emission Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006870.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/postimages\/toparticle\/6870_toparticlephoto.jpg\" alt=\"Article Photo\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In 2016, the UK will implement new standards for efficiency in residential homes. Nine years in advance, though, they&#8217;ve already got a complete demo home that complies with the future regulations, designed to &#8220;lose 60% less heat than the normal home,&#8221; according to the BBC. The Lighthouse, as it&#8217;s called, was constructed by Kingspan Off-Site, a company that specializes in sustainable integrated building systems and products. It&#8217;s on display at OFFSITE2007, a biannual event in Watford that &#8220;explores how modern construction and advanced technologies are coming together to deliver higher performing, more sustainable and smarter buildings.&#8221; The materials used [for the Lighthouse] include highly insulated, airtight building fabric which has been designed to provide generous daylight levels and includes effective solar control, together with integrated building services based around a platform of renewable and sustainable technologies. These include water efficiency techniques, renewable energy technologies, passive cooling and ventilation, as well as mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR). OFFSITE2007 is keeping a photo blog documenting the building process and the reactions to the completed zero-energy home during the course of the summer event. Right now, the cost of building such a home is undeniably higher than building a less efficient one&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006870.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Posted by <b>Sarah Rich<\/b> in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/search\/?category=42&amp;search=Go\">Green Building<\/a><\/i> at 11:20 AM)<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/worldchanging_fulltext\/~4\/124068981\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, the UK will implement new standards for efficiency in residential homes. Nine years in advance, though, they&#8217;ve already got a complete demo home that complies with the future regulations, designed to &#8220;lose 60% less heat than the normal home,&#8221; according to the BBC. The Lighthouse, as it&#8217;s called, was constructed by Kingspan Off-Site, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}