Award winning Carbon Neutral Home, Surrey
This new build residence is set within 4 acres of the Surrey Hill’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with far reaching views across the South Downs. The four bedroom house and swimming pool were constructed using a steel frame to achieve the long spans and open spaces internally. The building was clad in timber and stone and incorporates sedum roofs.
The drainage design incorporates a soakaway for surface water discharge and a foul treatment plant. Graphic Structures provided structural and civil engineering design.
The building is deemed carbon neutral due to its ability to remove up to 10 tonnes of carbon a year from the national grid’s supply. The house is heated with a 28kw ground source heat pump system and the building has a 22kw rooftop photovoltaic array with battery storage. With an EPC energy rating of A, scoring 120 points, the building is insulated beyond Part L of the building regulations by around 20%.
Bird and bat boxes were installed and the landscape works include the creation of two new ponds, the planting of dozens of new trees and around 2 acres of wildflower meadow.
Completed 2021
Winner of IStructE South-East Region Structural Awards 2022, Most Sustainable Project
Image Credit: Round-Turner Visuals
Project Name
4 Bedroom Carbon Neutral Home
Location
Surrey
Sector
Private Residential
Client
Private Individual
Architect
one_world design
Contractor
Bramdean Construction
