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A large Grade II listed house divided into flats that has been squatted
for many years. E-Arc
Architects organised funding via Solon Co- operative
Housing Services to renovate the building and let the flats to a
co-operative, and incorporate embedded electricity generation in the
form of 14kW of Photovoltaic Panels (specified by PV
Systems) funded and monitored for two years by the BRE and funded by
the DTI) and
a gas-fired CHP plant (specified by EA
Technology by way of a grant-funded feasibility study). Constructive Individuals were commissioned to obtain Building Regulations approval and to complete detailed design for the building work. The building was viewed by the Local Authority as a test case in reaching accommodation between the apparently conflicting interests of energy conservation and generation, and conservation of the historic fabric of the building. Work on the project involved us in some interesting and valuable research before the project was abandoned by the Client. |