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Affordable Flats, Bury St Edmunds
A three storey block of twelve social housing flats on the edge of a conservation area in central Bury St Edmunds for clients E2. Designed to meet the highest BREEAM Ecohomes standard the building is an exemplar of sustainable design – combining timber construction, low technology M+E services and plant life to create a beautiful low energy, ecological building. Full height and full length plant screens to all building elevations, supporting a comprehensive range of wall climbing plants at all levels, give a strong identity and aesthetic to the building.
Features include:
- Low carbon footprint
- High insulation levels using renewable cellulose
- Non mechanical earth pipe fresh air supply to all flats giving pre-warmed winter ventilation and pre-cooled summer ventilation
- Simplified M+E services
- Only one domestic boiler required to provide heating and hot water to all twelve flats
- Solar panels generating hot water
- Rainwater harvesting
- Extensive plant life integrated into the building aiding cooling in summer
- Panelised timber frame construction giving speed and ease of assembly
- High levels of recycled components in construction
- Timber cladding
- EM Field safe zones to principal bedrooms