May '10 News

A new-build home boasting a wide range of green technologies is the latest SHH project to complete.  Having purchased an existing house on a North London 1960s conservation area estate, our clients asked us to create an open and light-filled family home geared to family life with two young children.  In spite of the Conservation Area restrictions, SHH’s scheme gained full approval from the local authorities, partly because the proposed new replacement building boasted so many green elements and technologies, incorporated both at the client’s behest and SHH’s suggestion.  These included solar panels to heat water; a geo-thermal heat pump with boreholes, which uses the natural underground earth temperature of approximately 10-12° both to heat and cool the house; a rainwater harvesting system, which reuses water for irrigation and WC flushing; improved building fabric U-values (exceeding current regulations); energy-efficient lighting and a cedar terrace deck with sedum planting around the perimeter.