Eco Factor: House designed to be powered entirely by solar energy.
Students from the University of Nottingham have designed the UK’s first zero carbon mass market home that can be powered entirely by solar energy. Dubbed the HOUSE (Home Optimizing the Use of Solar Energy), it is a full-scale zero carbon starter home that requires no form of active heating.
The HOUSE complies with Level 6 of the UK’s Code For Sustainable Homes. The L-shaped dwelling lends itself to mass market production in terraces, rows or stacked as apartments. The student team has worked with construction company Saint-Gobain, which has provided the materials and expertise required to construct the sustainable house.
The HOUSE will be displayed in London’s Ecobuild exhibition in March next year and will also compete in Solar Decathlon Europe, which is scheduled to begin in June 2010.
Via: GreenWise
