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13 October 2011
H+H UK Ltd Hi Seven Grade 100mm and 140mm aircrete blocks have been specified for a £1.7 million project at Batheaston Primary School in Bath. The blocks have been used to build a new hall, reception, classrooms and a kitchen facility with the aim of the project to achieve U values 25% better than the current Building regulation requirements for walls.
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14 October 2011
Changes to government funding structures for social housing allow Councils, for the first time in nearly thirty years, to build directly-owned houses for rent. Capitalising on these changes, Ashford Council embarked on a programme of building that is likely to see some 20 units per year added to the council-owned portfolio using private sector finance to fund the development.
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04/11/2011
With the green deal approaching, the use of pioneering eco-technologies in housing is more important than ever before. Here Chloë Stothart reveals the housing providers, developers and architects leading the way
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5 October 2011
The Centre is in the form of two L-shaped buildings in a ‘69’ layout with a central courtyard. One building is two stories high with glass curtain walling. The other is four stories with solid, Thin-Jointed aircrete walls using Celcon Plus blocks 200mm thick. The two buildings take up the whole of the site; there is no landscaping. Half the ground floor is inhabited; the other half is car parking.
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5 October 2011
Phase one consists of a mix of two storey 2 and 3-bedroom affordable and retirement houses. The homes were required to achieve level three in the Code for Sustainable Homes, and the excellent acoustic, thermal and air tightness characteristics inherent with this type of construction contributed greatly towards this.
