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Aiming for AECB 'Gold' Standard
Aiming for AECB 'Gold' Standard
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What can be achieved at reasonable cost to minimise energy consumption of a typical family by thoughtful extension and refurbishment? Will the gas and electricity meter spin any slower? Ralph Swallow, a practising structural engineer with building design practice Fluid Structures, records his first hand experiences, lessons learned, and post occupation monitoring.

This is a four page article. First published in April 2009


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Figures suggest that the average dwelling in the UK extracts from the national grid 278kWh of energy per square metre, per year, whilst a house designed to PassivHaus standards is allowed only 15kWh/m2/yr for heating and a total primary energy consumption of no more than 120kWh/m2/yr. Of course a ‘zero carbon’ house built to level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes goes a huge step further and should be extracting exactly 0.0kWh/m2/yr, from the ‘grid’ when averaged over a year. We had all these figures in mind when we set out three years ago to double the size of our Victorian semi, hoping by now to be wallowing in a haze of green self satisfaction. This, in some respects, is the case, but there have been some frustrating lessons learned on the way. It has also been interesting to see what a typical extend and refurbishment project can achieve in reducing energy consumption, on a modest budget with a local builder, compared to the well documented self-build and new-build case studies.

Back in 2006, with two young children who were just about learning to run, two dogs, and our modest Victorian 3 bed ‘railway cottage’ feeling ever smaller, we took the decision to extend, rather than ...

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