Sustainable Design

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• Employ intelligent passive design to building form and orientation, positioning south facing windows to maximise on solar gain in winter (with roof overhangs to control overheating in summer)
• Create flexibility in spatial arrangement for future adaptability, extensions and adaptations.
• Utilise south facing main roof for photovoltaic and solar panels.
• Green roofs: reduce surface water drainage, cleaner air, attractive to look at, low maintenance
• Explore utilisation of river water as potential energy source.
• Consider ground source heat pumps and primary energy source with back up form solar panels and/or water.
• Recycle existing building material from demolition as much as possible eg. as hardcore to new sub structure
• Grey water re-cycling harvested form roofs, showers, basins etc.
• Ensure good natural ventilation eg. Stack ventilation through double height spaces and good cross ventilation through building
• Source local labour and materials wherever possible.