Steel House C60
Why Carbon 60?
The Government's Energy White Paper of 2003 sets a target
of reducing CO2 emissions by 60% by
2050. The Carbon 60 House addresses all four principles of
the Government's Energy White Paper: the 60% emissions reduction
target, fuel poverty, security of supply and competitiveness
as well as demonstrating the latest modern methods of construction.
The house will be built using fast-track prefabrication techniques.
These techniques facilitate high levels of environmental performance,
speed up the house building process and reduce wastage and
defects.
October 2008
Performance
The use of innovative cladding materials will ensure the
structure is highly insulated with extremely low levels of
air leakage. These characteristics will dramatically reduce
energy consumption compare with conventionally built homes.
A major characteristic feature of the house is the integrated
conservatory or sun space. This part of the house is the energy
cell which provides free passive solar heating in the winter
as well as facilitating ventilation and providing high levels
of natural daylight. This is combined with a ground cooling/heating
system. Air entering the sunspace is first thermally conditioned
by passing through earth tubes buried beneath the ground.
The earth beneath the house remains at a constant temperature
of 12C. The thermal mass of the ground stores energy which
is utilised in the winter for preheating and in the summer
for cooling. Finally, active solar heating is provided by
a solar thermal collector located on the roof. Any additional
thermal energy is supplied by a ground source heat pump located
in the basement plant room. Many additional environmental
features have been incorporated in the house and are shown
on the schematics.
See: Stoneguard's
Dedicated Website for the C60 project
See: Education
Guardian Article Nov 1st 2006
Researchers – staff & students |
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Principle investigators:
Prof Saffa Riffat
Dr Mark Gillott
Guillermo Guzman
Research students:
Lucelia Rodrigues
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Student Build Team Committee:
Archie Fishlock
Jo Deeming
Brad Moore
David Mackay
John Coogan
CEH Website by: David Nicholson-Cole
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