Newsflashes
See Seminar Series
for information about Events, such as lectures
in the Seminar series.
Friday 4th December 2009, The Royal Society, London:
The Creative Energy Homes Project was the winner of the highly prestigious Technology and Innovation Awards run by 'The Engineer'. This award follows on from the projects recent shortlisting for the 'Environment' award at the 2009 Energy Institute Annual Awards Ceremony in London last month. The prestigious awards scheme run by 'The Engineer' was hosted by TV presenter, comedian, actor and writer Robert Llewellyn - The Engineer Technology & Innovation Awards 2009 recognises and rewards outstanding examples of technology and innovation that result from collaborative links between the UK’s businesses and universities.
E.On house October 2008 Media Links:
BBC News Coverage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7649535.stm
ITV News Coverage
http://www.itvlocal.com/central/news/?player=CEN_News_15&void=242161
3rd October 2008: The E.ON house is now
open and features on a 4 minute BBC news broadcast, with a
1930s flavour, and we may seek permission to display it here.
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The E.ON 2016 Research Team will be working in Partnership with SIG to deliver sustainable solutions for the three retrofit upgrades the house will undergo on its way to achieving its zero-carbon status. |
August 2008: Details of the Tarmac
house are now on show on this site.
April 2008: As part of the Creative Homes
project, The University of Nottingham along with the Energy
company E.ON are working together to develop
and assess cost effective measures for reducing carbon emissions
from ageing domestic properties.
Construction on the 2016 low
carbon house started in April 2008 and is to be close to the
design standards of a 1930's semi detached house, and will
explore the options for converting this to a 2016 (Code 6)
standard. See the EON
page for more Information and for Progress..
A 1936 Austin 7 parked outside the E.ON 2016 Research
House: October 3rd 2008
A 1930's Austin 7 is a rare site on today's roads yet
millions of us still live in homes of that era. Whilst automobile
technology has advanced considerably many of us still live
in homes that are energy inefficient.
February 2008: Creative Energy Homes will
be presenting "Designs on Zero" in the Creative
Energy Homes theatre at EcoBuild 2008 at Earls Court in London
(10.30am on Feb 26th & 27th). The seminar's will be chaired
by CEH Project Manager Dr Mark Gillott and will include presentations
by architects, designers and supply partners for the Project.
See EcoBuild
website
February 2008: BASF House opened
December 2007: First view of the idea for
the EON house is on view here, see the EON
page.
November 2007: External Shell of the SIPS
constructed BASF House complete
15th March 2007: An alternative to Portland
cement was used during the construction of the Stoneguard
C60 Research House here at the SBE. Alex Honey & Graham
Parnell (of Civil + Marine, Hanson Group) have over 50 years
of experience of the ready mixed concrete and cement industries
and hope to give you enlightening (if not entertaining) talk
on sustainable alternatives in concrete and also on concrete
in general.
Steel Walls go up
March 2007: During the first two weeks of
March there has been rapid progress above ground, raising
the prefabricated steel frames of the wall construction -
much of it done by volunteer student labour. Pictures coming
soon, including some timelapse photography of the erection.
Time Capsule buried in basement
On the 2nd February 2007 two defining documents of our time
were attached to the external basement walls of the C60 house
and buried. Copies of the Code for Sustainable Homes - the
UK national standard for sustainable design and construction
of new homes (December 2006) and the February 2007 IPCC Report
- Climate Change 2007: The Physical ScienceBasis.
From left to right - Dr Mark Gillott (Project Engineer),
Guillermo Guzman (Project Architect), THE DOCUMENTS, Alan
Heywood (Stoneguard Site Agent) and Lucelia Rodrigues (PhD
Research Student).
Royal Society of Chemistry article about Climate Credits...
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the RSC article Includes a description of the
Stoneguard House project.
CEH Industrial Partner Seminar Series
Thursday 23rd Nov: The Creative Energy Homes
Project is now well and truly underway - with over 50 industrial
partners working on the project we have an excellent research
and learning resource for innovative products and technologies
for use in the Built Environment. Over the coming year we
will be holding a seminar series associated with the Project.
The CEH technologies used will be presented by invited industry
experts working with us on the Project.
The first seminar will take place 12-1 pm in the SRB Lecture
Theatre on Thursday 23rd Nov: The Role of an Advanced
Modern Method of Construction in meeting the Stern Report.
See the Page on the Seminar
Series.
Stoneguard Factory Visit
Weekend of the 18/19
Nov: School staff and students will be assisting
with the manufacture of the light weight steel frames for
the Stoneguard C60 Research House. The off-site manufactured
frames will be delivered to site during December for construction.
Daylight and Solar analysis animations
We now have a page of Daylight and Solar Analysis animations.
Select Analysis from the menu.
Supplier Partners Page
The website now includes a list of Supplier Partners, providing
materials and services to the Stoneguard C60 house
project, with links to their websites.
Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) walls Pouring!
Sept 21: The Walls are being poured on the C60 Research House
site. Concrete is being poured into the Insulated Concrete
Form (ICF) walls. If you have never seen an ICF construction
it may be of interest (a number of architects & engineers
from around the country have already visited due to their
interest in the products used). The concrete we are using
incorporates ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) and
locally sourced Trent Valley aggregates. GGBS is a Portland
cement replacement. The manufacture of Portland cement is
a major contributor of greenhouse gases, responsible for about
5% of all global carbon dioxide emissions. In comparison,
manufacture of GGBS requires less than one fifth of the energy
and produces one fifteenth of the carbon dioxide emissions.
ICF walls Training!
Weekend of the 16/17 September: Students were trained in
the use of Logix Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) and onsite
constructing the Stoneguard C60 Research House basement walls.
Minister visits Eco
Ian Pearson the minister for Climate Change
and the Environment visited the school on 5th September. He
made a site visit to the Stoneguard building site and was
shown the Creative Energy Homes presentation by Prof. Riffat.
Construction Cam keeps an eye on the job
July 11 2006: We now have a construction
cam overlooking the site and providing a live video feed
to the internet. You need Explorer with Java to see the image.
Please allow up to half a minute for the image to resolve
when first loaded. A diary of weekly still images is also
available.
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