While in London on Wednesday the Team at MoreEco decided to make a quick visit to Grand Designs Live at Excell in London. Are main aim was to have a look at the Eco buildings which were being showcased at the event.

We visited the future-build theatre by ECO2H2OUSE.  This eco house
demonstrated the techologies being used in the building of a low/zero
carbon home. In the UK today, an average new house which uses the technology
involved will consume 77% less energy for space heating when compared with one
built to standard building regulations.

The Eco House uses
innovative low-energy technology that has been designed to meet the
passive house energy standards and levels of air tightness. The Passive
house standard is as follow;

• Compact form & good insulation
• Southern orientation & shade considerations
• Energy-efficient window glazing & frames
• Highly efficient heat recovery form exhaust air using and air to air heat exchanger
• Energy-saving household appliances
• Total energy demand for space heating and cooling of less than 15kWh/m2/yr

The second eco house we toured was the ‘EcoHub’. This cute mini dome-shaped eco pod offers teh last word in super energy efficiency. Clad in sustainable wooden or recycled tyre tiles, this tw-bedroom, double pod home uses mirco-renewable technology to achives a zero carbon rating. The people at EcoHub are committed to dramatically reduce our carbon footprint. We got on well with them as this is the same aim at we have at MoreEco.

The third eco house we were inspired by, was the landARK. If you have a scrap of land, maybe a back garden, a hillside, a coppice clearing, or maybe eveen a corner of somebody’s car park (plus a few weeks holiday) then this i agreat fun eco house to have. All you need is a rubber mallet, a tape measure, screwdrives, a powerdrive drill and enough peace to read the manual. Checlkout the pictures we have taken.

Finally the last house we visited was the Cloud 9 stand. These timber eco homes are again made with sustainable timber and come with solar panels, heat recovery ventilation, large windows and open space plan. energy bills for these house are less than £400 per year.

We have uploaded pictures of the Grand Designs Live event taken from the trustworthy MoreEco iPhone to Moreeco Flickr account. The slide show is below.

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