{Forwarding a quick message from Robert} "As I mentioned in a recent News episode, I think it was October's, we're moving all our home energy focussed episodes from the Fully Charged Show channel over to here on the Everything Electric Show channel - and this episode (as a couple of you have spotted) is a refreshed edit. We are indeed planning on returning to Springfield Meadows soon now the development is finished, so do keep an eye out for the update on this fantastic project. We do hope you still enjoy this episode, and as always, if you have been, thanks for watching!"
Will, I am curious as to the reason you're moving those episodes to this channel. The Fully Charged channel has nearly 20 times the number of subscribers and a much broader reach. I'm subscribed to both channels, but that is clearly not the case for most. Cheers.
Hi @@MarcCoteMusic thanks for your question, and for being a double subscriber! Our goal is to build the Everything Electric Show channel into being the home of all our home energy content, and a showcase channel for what's possible in the electrification of home energy sector. Formerly, as Fully Charged PLUS, the channel featured content which was primarily UK focused and our subscriber base reflected this, although we knew a proportion of our audience were international, like yourself - which is fantastic. We've more great episodes coming and these too will also initially be UK focussed, though I'm sure there will be many takeaways for the wider international audience. I hope that answers your question, and thanks again for subscribing, it's very much appreciated.
Can Fully Charged Show please do an episode on where chemical elements for batteries come from and who are the communities on the ground employed in mining?
The standard reason given is big house builders moan that making homes zero carbon would cost too much. So they would never be able to make affordable homes.
The answer to that is with politicians. They determine policy based on advice from officials and the ruling governments manifesto. Officials carry out the Ministers wishes.
Or if there are large trees or other buildings casting shadows. (If leaf detritus lays on a panel because of rain "sticktion", so to speak, then the panels' output is much reduced.) Or if the panels are wired in series or parallel and share a controller then one underperforming panel will bring down the rest. And, if LiFePo4 cells are used in a domestic storage system then if the ambient temperature is below 0C then the BMS might well prevent the cells charging at full rate, or at all. I have a home battery bank system (SEALED LEAD ACID tech) and run the domestic lighting directly off the 12V circuit, which saves having to invert the 12VDC to 230VAC. That's been working for almost thirty years, with new batteries evey six years or so. Excellent tho' the notion of solar panels is the UK weather is not ideal for said solar panels. Having solar panels on the roof does not make for easy cleaning after a heavy rain storm carrying Saharan dust or even contributions from very healthy birds in tip top condition, if you follow. I pity those who live on the coast ... everyone knows guano is just another name for epoxy resin ... and birds just shit anywhere and everywhere, virtually 24/365, without any social conscience whatsoever. Bastards
While it’s wonderful to see such a development, and there is provision for affordable housing, most of these technologies are going to be out of reach financially for most people. I would love to see more developments like this, but also within a price range that is affordable for the average British family.
Yes please! If I could just find out how to insulate this house without worrying about ventilation that would be a big step. This house has air bricks which are part of how the house prevents itself from getting damp.
Beautiful! We've renovated (2010) an old concrete house with straw bales, solar thermal water heater & storage, PV (producing 4 times more electricity than we use), no organic waste for us and for a few more families (feeds the chickens). The house and our family are proudly carbon negative 💪🏼
The trouble with me is that I am into total sustainable city planning ideas, with housing for EVERYONE, housing that has nothing to do with a persons financial status....and that way of thinking doesn't fit into the capitalist ideas like this that builds little clusters of housing for a kind of elite class of people and sort of hopes that these ideas will somehow eventually trickle down to people on lower incomes.
100% this Housing can be a right that everyone has because everyone needs to live indoors; or it can be a lucrative investment opportunity, a way to build wealth that only ever goes up in value. It can't be both.
Agree, while the quality may be good, these, select-development, generally, over-sized, super-low-density, properties are not the answer. Too big, take up too much space, use way too much material, and are often located away from any amenities, necessitating umpteen car journeys per day, clogging up the nearest urban centre, where residents are trying to walk/cycle etc. Sorry, lovely to live in, if you've got the odd £1.2 mill knocking around, I'm sure, but its just greenwashing.
Trickle down does work. Looks at Solar/PV, then prices have dropped globally as uptake occurs. Yes gov grants have helped, but when they first came out they were expensive. Take the same for Electric cars, electric bikes etc etc. Most new green tech be it housing or transport is more expensive than the lesser green alternatives, but without the early adopters who can afford to buy them, they would be dead in the water. I complete agree these should be the standards for all new builds and renovations.
'Comparable'? 'per square foot'. I'd be very, pleasantly shocked, if the cost of a three bedroom 'PassivHaus' is in any way 'comparable' in price, to your bog-standard bricks and mortar, gas-boiler house. I pray it's true, but I am sceptical, especially in more remote areas.
This is the economy of the future, everything that we build, cars, trains, houses produces electricity for the economy. I coud buy this kind of house definately!
I helped my friend build a similar standard property in France over a decade ago and have ever since been astounded that this is not the minimum British standard. I live in Worcester UK and all around estates are going up to fifty plus year old standards. This is CRIMINAL.
We have a consultation out in Scotland just now about making Passivhaus our new building standard - fingers crossed it gets pushed through, as even the new standards this year are woeful.
@jon fowler: you are hysterical like a wo-man. if developers cannot make money, they will just stop building. especially now when consumers cannot even afford homes. i'm sure that would be "appreciated" by everyone, but you, ec0-t3rr0rsts.
We built our own house fifteen years ago making insulation the priority. I haven’t ever used the central heating and the room temperature even in the height of winter does not drop below 19 degrees. This summer the house was cool inside. I have a heat recovery system which I would highly recommend. I don’t have any condensation in the house after baths and showers. Why more houses cannot be built this way. It is not rocket science and the knowledge is out there.
I wonder if these technologies can be incorporated into homes that can be afforded by van drivers, care assistants, waiting staff, postal workers, labourers, shop assistances and folk on long term benefits?
I did find it funny to hear its great using less resource but yet, its an estate full of people that are retired mainly or small families living in massive houses... with more rooms then people sure makes sense. Good to see they are building to better than passivhaus standard, would be great if the standard of housing was built to the minimum of passivhaus.
It would be great if every building company did this, but unfortunately most want quick build, quick profit returns and dont give a dam about making it economically viable for there customers.
While this estate and those like it are going in the right direction, unfortunately it is only those who are comparitively well off who would be able to live in such a household. What we really need is a program to convert existing housing to something approaching these energy standards and to make such technologies viable at the lower end of the market.
There was a plan for that - its gone now. Housebuilders urge David Cameron not to scrap energy efficiency measure This article is more than 9 years old. Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent Mon 28 Oct 2013 Letter organised by Green Building Council says axing Energy Companies Obligation would be counter-productive "A letter to Cameron signed by organisations including the Federation of Master Builders, the National Energy Foundation and the homebuilder Barratt Developments argues that repeal of the ECO 'would have the perverse effect of increasing energy bills for [low-income households], with severe consequences for jobs in what should be a growth sector of the economy.' "
This is great, but they are all enormous houses, so their energy consumption must still be considerable? And the land footprint is significant on what appears to be a greenfield site. Would be interested to see this approach applied to a much denser development. Also curious how they are defining affordable, as if it's the official 80% of market rates measure, I'm guessing these are still over £300k, which isn't affordable for anyone.
It's great to see a forward thinking Construction Company adopting renewable solutions into their designs. I was particularly struck by the answer to your question about whether or not Greencore are being encouraged by regulation. It's a sad indictment to hear Ian Pritchett say "the current regulations allow homes to be built to a pretty mediocre standard". UK regulators need to wake up and understand the new energy reality. It's not like it hasn't been all over the news for the last year! The Government repeatedly says "the UK needs to become energy independent" but can't seem to grasp the obvious fact that if you design and build more energy efficient homes in the first place they won't consume as much energy as the mediocre ones do. So it will make it much easier to gain energy independence. The Building Regulations must be updated ASAP to require all new homes be built incorporating the energy efficiency methods adopted on the Greencore Construction development. And the Planning rules should be update to require that as far as is practically possible, new home site layouts must ensure the most favourable orientation of homes to maximise solar PV generation. Maybe also make it necessary for all large scale developments to include ground source heat systems too?
Every new build in the UK should be like this, but this only represents 0.00001% of the building program going on in this country. We cannot afford these houses, as I am guessing 1 million each at least and we don't want to live in a one bed flat. So I guess we will live out our days in our 1963 Bungalow with an ASHP which will struggle on the 5-c or more and suffer the cold nights as it cannot keep up with the heat losses!! Insulation I here you cry, well our steel framed brick faced Bungalow cannot have insulation in the cavity and what is more no insulating company will touch them. I have worked on a costly solution, but it would been moving out until the job is done! But at least we have solar, and a house battery with 2 EV's up the driveway and Octopus Go to run our very inefficient home on. What we need is an insulation program that can help us all out, which has to be the main priority!
RE framework and equality; hmmm, affordable OK, but is it just another term for pepper potting? All fine if you get good neighbours but after having lived in multiple pepper potted area, I would avoid like the plague after anti-social problems, it was a complete nightmare, both times! I appreciate you can have bad neighbours regardless, but I think the odds are stacked against you with the aforementioned. So as a value proposition, IMO you'd be mental to invest what is presumably a large amount in one of these houses. WRT to the shared cars, the same applies, all great until people smoke or leave them in a mess. I can see that it is the future, book a car on your phone and it self drives to you and takes you to your destination, but as with many of these visions, I think the reality may fall short. And the cladding puts me off too, will it go the distance?
Look up Tornagrain Zero C. A new town of 5000 homes that started being built in 2018. There must be others in Scotland, as building regs are much more stringent anyway.
And how much are these houses? They do look expensive. Well, I know they will be as a friend of mine builds eco-houses down south and they are so expensive he rents them. The problem I can see with this development is - the houses are all large (not all of us have a large family and we don't want to be maintaining extra rooms we don't need). Where are the terraced houses? The semis? Terracing is more compact, and each house shields the other with at least one wall, preserving heat in the winter, lessening the number of walls that will have the hot sun shining on them in the summer.
@mandellorian If the standards were widely adopted (or forced by building regs) the additional costs would probably be minimal. Also over the lifetime of the house the energy savings would be immense - more than offsetting additional mortgage costs.
mmmm, so detached low density housing for the privileged is now to be a blue print? Low density is NOT sustainable living no matter how much bull they dress it up with. Look at the site layout, half of the houses are not south facing. That is 101 of passive design. Also, they claim here "timber is carbon neutral" is just more rubbish. That timber gets cut down with fossil fuel, then gets cut into shape by fossil fuels, get transported from harvest site to mill by fossil fuels. Then gets kiln dried by fossil fuels, transported to timber whare house and eventually into rural Oxfordshire, all by fossil fuels. I'm all for sustainability, but idiots like these using it as a marketing tool is what allows sustainability to be abused!
@@bobsmith-dn1xw it's more than just the materials but valuable comment. house like this would yield say 20 residence every 100m / yards of road. not enough to provide sufficient capital for public transport. To make public transport viable you need 4x that amount people per 100m of road. At this density bus stops become too far apart and cost of fuel too expensive. The cost of providing services (roads, sewer, electricity, gas) become too expensive per person. where the cost of that infrastructure needs to be divided by small number of people, having 5x the density would result in 1/5 of the infrastructure cost. And that include costs for school, hospitals, etc. Any company calling this "sustainable development" makes me very angry as it is the complete opposite and people buy into this idea thinking it's good. Its a lie and fraudulent. For a channel as this promoting it as "sustainable" is actually disgusting and disingenuous. I'm happy to take on this developer/builder on an sustainability debate on this channel. No editing, happy to expose this con.
This project they have I'm sure visited before, but I still think they are amazing and I'd love to live in a house like that. Love to see that spread globally as we need our housing to be like this not basically tents like many many houses are.
What a disappointing episode! I sat through the whole thing again expecting some update after 18 months and it was just a straight repeat without even a voice over to say it was a repeat.
This shows what can be done and at the same time highlights how negligent our leaders have been in not mandating these standards. Of course builders could all be doing this, but their greed means they don’t. I look with disgust at the hundreds of inferior houses being build in my area.
@mandellorian isn’t that about how big the house is? They claim the price per m2 is the same for conventionally built houses. The ones in the vid look like big detached properties. They also said the site also had affordable housing.
Ah, well, y'see... I'm not sure if you're UK-based (your use of 'apartment' for 'flat' makes me feel that you may perhaps be in the States?), but in Britain - which is a tiny, ancient, crowded island about the size of the average Texan turnip field - every scrap of ground has been spoken-for since the Romans went home 2,000 years ago. There is no 'spare' space. So building land costs a lot. A LOT. Ask me how much land costs in Britain. "Hey, Eleanor - how much d- " DON'T ASK! A house on one whole ACRE of land that wasn't at the bottom of the North Sea would cost many millions, so few developers will bother to put a house on a plot with more than 15' of space around it. A tent pitched on half an acre would cost more cash than most people see in 50 years. The ultra-rich tend to live on house-boats, but mooring fees are unbelievably steep. The best place to live in England is either Australia or Canada. 🤭
I'm really struggling to believe that any building will ever be carbon negative in its embodied carbon as long as we have expectations that we enjoy all the joys of modern living. It's the same problem as EVs being labeled zero emissions, but the manufacturers are fast and loose with their carbon emissions accounting on materials, transport, all the ancillaries including people's impact going to work, etc. The more straight forward conclusion is that very complex things that we construct out of hundreds of thousands of parts, have a massive impact, and never an inconsequential or negative one. Wood timber is not negative carbon, because you had a tree that was drawing down carbon into to soil (more than it was locking in in the wood's cellulose) and then you cut it down and now you have to wait many, many years before a similar sized tree is filling its place able to perform the same carbon uptake. Harvesting trees and making buildings with them is not carbon sequestration, and that's what the builder/architect is counting them as. That said, wood, and bamboo have more chance of being sustainable and circular than the glass and ceramic tile. It's great to see passive, very low energy homes. And to see the most efficient appliances. We can do the best we can do today, and improve tomorrow, and be proud of that, but let us not improperly describe new buildings as carbon neutral or carbon negative. Constructing any new home is a major carbon hit. Eliminating the EVs and having these buildings in a walkable/bikeable space will address the transportation situation better.
I'm afraid your an idealist - and idealism always fails! You have to be a pragmatist in REAL LIFE! These people are pragmatically building(note - actually building..!) very low carbon houses and lifestyles. They're actually doing something about the problems we face - not preaching about what we should be doing in a non existent, idealised version of reality..... ....and they should be praised, not criticised ......
@@andymccabe6712 I literally said this in my post: "It's great to see passive, very low energy homes. And to see the most efficient appliances. We can do the best we can do today, and improve tomorrow, and be proud of that, but let us not improperly describe new buildings as carbon neutral or carbon negative." If you're not willing to be realistic about the impacts of homes, even better built low energy ones, and prefer that practicality means you can BS people and tell them it's negative carbon, your ancestors will look back at you and call you bold-faced liars who tried to con people during the climate crisis.
Great that companies like this are pushing the envelope and looking beyond net zero. Hopefully more and more people will see the benefits and value of them. One other comment about heating a passive house, we also had a similar discussion with our architect when designing our house (we moved in in July this year) and we went with a heat pump primarily for the air conditioning option which is becoming more necessary as the years go by. We are in Victoria BC and last year's heat dome killed hundreds of people in BC. The UK has also had periods of crazy heat too in the last few years.
This, and similar ones, are the projects I would like to be involved with as an architect. If you, or anyone you know, wants either a one-off home or a development of many (especially in or around North Northamptonshire) I have 40 years experience trying to persuade clients to design sustainably, but rarely get the opportunity. Time to change. My RIBA Chartered Architects Practice has the capability, competence, knowledge, skills and professionalism needed :-)
Not being rude, but very little effort or knowledge is needed to build a sustainable home, I know, I built my own Passiv Haus including all the architectural drawings, the will is the part that is rare. It doesn't even need to cost much more.
@@ForeverNeverwhere1, I think you greatly misunderstand the benefit of architecture to society and the complexity of designing buildings in the C21. Yes it can be done by anyone legally in the UK but that doesn't mean it should be :-) There is a reason why it takes a minimum of 7 years to qualify as an architect in much the same way that any hospital porter 'could' perform surgery, but would you want them to? The issue in the UK is that because the government, media and ignorant think designing buildings is easy,, it is the principle reason why housing and other buildings are so badly designed by non architects, planners, politicians and NIMBYs (often dictating to architects how to do the job they are trained for from a position of relative ignorance). There are many chartered building design professionals in the UK. Use them in preference to those with relevant experience, training, skills, knowledge and qualifications etc. Those who don't know what they don't know about architecture obviously don't know what they don't know so are unaware of it, in ignorance. That is not being rude just a statement of the facts since visually literacy is rarely, if ever, taught in schools.
My friend’s hubby in Margaret River works with hempcrete as his business model. They do fabulous work. Award winning stuff. 😊 Was hoping this was a catch up on this community. Oh well.
I think it would be great if all new builds were to be built with solar and a 10kWh battery, and parking should have EV outlets, where possible. Imagine how far that would go towards grid leveling, and therefore a greener grid. They also need to greatly increase the minimum building standard, the quality built not far from me, for £500k houses, is terrible.
I respect a lot of this, but it kinda glossed over the accessibility to public transportation. He did say a bus every 15 minutes, which is OK, but where does that get you to? Can you bike to anywhere? Are two rental cars enough? Also, even with the variety of sizes, they all are single family homes, which have their own inherent energy costs. Multifamily units would be even more efficient.
1:45 who put the solar on the house on left !? its on the wrong side ! 1:56 and theres only 3 wee windows on the other side WTF REALLY, 3:19 wood, hemp and wool fibres ? You got interrupted and hard to hear, 4:29 come on do better multiple joins and horizontal surfaces and constantly cold materials in bathrooms are a bad idea, 4:41 any slope to the or are they flat roofs ? flat roofs are prone too sagging, pooling and leaking and should never be used ever. 7:04 are the floor tiles a particular material theat holds heat or standard always cold (when not heated) tiles ? 12:14 a chimney ! someone not care about clean air act ! hmm some materials used arent 0 or less.
Nice project, good to see people trying to get towards net zero....still a long way off but they are moving in the right direction. Would like to see their calculation on "better than net zero"
Zero embodied carbon - I don't get it either, Robert - wood: cut it down with a chainsaw, transport it, cut it, plane it, kiln it, transport to a timber yard, tansport it to site, power tools on site etc. Is the carbon in the tree supposed to cover that? I'm all in favour of sustainability, but who does Springfield think they're kidding. Show me the maths Springfield...
Beautiful houses but trying to pretend they are in any way good for the environment is a joke. These are expensive luxury homes, 3 or 4 families could live in the same same footprint more frugally. Even if it was built out of concrete, petroleum based products and everything else that would still have a smaller environmental impact.
Brilliant but the problem for me is the houses look great but are built big and really expensive,Elon musk designed a solar powered small unfoldable mobile house for $10000 which would be affordable for the poorest people
I’d love to see what the electric bill is like in winter. Our house is something similar, be it on a smaller scale. And our electric is stupid at the moment😢. Glass just isn’t a good at holding heat no matter what you do. Not to mention bifold doors are extremely drafty, obviously depends how much winds hits it.
Triple glazed passive house rated windows are pretty good insulators. The condensation in spring and autumn is on the outside. In winter they frost up on the outside surface. You also need to think of them as heat sources too. On a sunny day they let more heat into the house than they lose at night. Shame I could not see any external shading on the windows on these houses though. In summer the owners will come to loath the heat coming through them. They need external blinds.
@@ecoworrier they are ok. The best u value they can achieve is still only 0.80 W/m2K. They Still feel like ice after a few hours. I’m 100% for this tho 👍 I just think we need better insulated glass.
@@drewthatsme6212 that's not my experience. I've had them for 10 years. Many are floor to ceiling. The inside pane always takes the heat from your hand in the first seconds but then feels warm. No cold draughts sitting next to them. No cold feeling next to them.
@@drewthatsme6212 And just to push home the point, you have to consider them as heat sources (if south facing) as well as heat sinks. Walls are never heat sources.
I have A rated windows and just get condensation on the outside. This is my first winter with them mind, but subjectively the house feels warm. It has been pretty mild so be interested when we get a cold snap.
oh look, another "down south" development that's going green while we up here get greenfield development with really horrible building practices and horrible buildings
Direct electric underfloor is 3 x more expensive than heat pumps and solar wont be generating enough in winter when you need the heating. The PV array arent large enough if you have an EV, the car club is excellent and also should do an electric push bike hub
I dont know how much these houses are, million plus? It would be nice to see a not for profit builder knocking up 50 2 up 2 down semis for 300k or under to the same spec
Pumicecrete is by far the best building material on the planet Pumicecrete is a mixture of pumice cement and water mixed and poured into a set of reusable forms walls are poured from 12"to 24" thick pumicecrete is fireproof termite proof rust rot and mold proof non toxic and has a high R value and good sound attenuation solid poured walls means no critters can live in your walls Pumicecrete can be built for a fraction of the cost and time and pumice is the only material that can go directly from the mine to the job site ready to use without any additional possessing and zero waste
I would love to have a house that has: a) Solar PV sufficient to meet my energy needs (I have room for 16 south facing panels at 400W / panel a 6.4Kwh system then) 10K b) A battery sufficient to enable off grid living when the sun goes down (I estimate 20 Kwh should do it so the latest MyEnergi Libbi should solve that) 15K c) An integrated electric building and water heating solution a MyEnergi system incorporating an Eddi - Zappi - Harvi) 15K d) A Commensurate electric vehicle to tie it all together to replace my Audi A5 (2nd Hand Tesla Model 3 or Y) 40K Can anyone lend me 80K? No thought not. I currently cannot afford any single option above despite the best of intentions from an environment perspective - I'm stuck with my Octopus Green Energy only plan as my only available contribution also being stuck with a gas combi boiler I'd love to get rid of for say a Tepeo - Yep another 10K He says these houses costs are comparable to other modern housing - why am I so sceptical and really not believe that.
Looks like ordinary boring modern design houses. Is triple pane windows not standard practice in the UK? But, passive houses (or close to) with solar panels on is surely the way all houses should be built. In fact, the solar panels seem a bit small, especially if you factor in car charging.
The house's look great and I like the environmental building but they look very expensive and being built in Oxfordshire a very expensive part of the country I dont think I will be buying one anytime soon
ROBERT!! THANK YOU FOR PRESENTING THIS PROJECT. Now that is what I call holistic design process with intelligent use of materials that [Hemp, Wood, Triple glazing, Energysmart use of Electricity etc.]
Is there a link between the treat to the fossil fuel industry and the increase is wars or the threat of wars around the world? Wars are a great market for burning oil
I think this is the 2nd video toting carbon neutral based on using wood. Does the UK not already use wood in instruction? It sounds like they just found a clever way to brand something that was already a common construction material. What am I missing? Confused Australian.
Historical reasons. Wooden-framed houses used to be the the norm in England [e.g. in medieval times] until masonry (kiln-fired bricks) became common from the 18th century onwards. Masonry is more stable and resilient than wood in the UK's often wet climate and offers better fire resistance. In recent decades, although modern mass-produced housing in the UK now is often timber framed, which is a quicker and cheaper form of construction, it still often has a brick outer skin wall, giving the appearance to the buyer of masonry construction.
I remember watching this when it was on last time, i'm guessing on the Fully Charged channel. Still very interesting the second time around! How about an idiot's guide to home solar with battery backup episode?
Reminds me a lot of BedZed in south London. The principles are all there, and it was built more than 20 years ago! Technology has come a long way from the time it was built, we just have to keep going! It worked, it still works and makes sense, and will keep working for people, for the environment, for nature, for the planet! well done!
I thought so too. I looked at the intro text just under the video, and it says Robert visited there in 2021. I believe this is the video from then. I guess that now is the time to do the followup.
This is brilliant, but I don't think that this level of density can really be held up as a sustainable model - it looks like these are still quite car-dependent, and don't look compatible with fifteen minute cities concepts!
If land were more affordable, more would be invested in the quality and performance of a house. Until the cost of land is shaken up, poor standards for thermal performance will persist.
Watch out for that "zero embodied carbon". It's not without controversy. Mature living trees drawdown carbon, dead ones don't. Living soil is part of the carbon cycle which may hold 4 times the carbon as the trees and other vegetation above ground. Newly planted trees take 10-20 years before they are drawing down more carbon than they respire. If you are sitting down consider watching ruclips.net/video/5lAlqhyaMQQ/видео.html which is about burning wood (including the last old growth) from Canada purchased through a UK government subsidy.
I love all the movement towards net zero, the challenge that I cannot get my head around is the size off these homes. It seems that they could have built, twice if not more the number off homes, with the resources used. I guess it is the same as the oversized cars that are built all the time. I wish I could say I was doing better, but I still aspire to travel and larger homes. We have just taken the first step and sold our large house, and Land Rover. Down to one car, and renting for a year trying to work out what the lowest footprint we can live in for the future. I am hopeful for brighter future, sometimes to remain concious and not get sucked into the commercial dreams we are sold.
{Forwarding a quick message from Robert}
"As I mentioned in a recent News episode, I think it was October's, we're moving all our home energy focussed episodes from the Fully Charged Show channel over to here on the Everything Electric Show channel - and this episode (as a couple of you have spotted) is a refreshed edit.
We are indeed planning on returning to Springfield Meadows soon now the development is finished, so do keep an eye out for the update on this fantastic project.
We do hope you still enjoy this episode, and as always, if you have been, thanks for watching!"
Looking forward to the follow up.
Will, I am curious as to the reason you're moving those episodes to this channel. The Fully Charged channel has nearly 20 times the number of subscribers and a much broader reach. I'm subscribed to both channels, but that is clearly not the case for most. Cheers.
This type of project would be perfect for a district heating system and thermal storage. You should put these people in touch with Polar Night Energy.
Hi @@MarcCoteMusic thanks for your question, and for being a double subscriber!
Our goal is to build the Everything Electric Show channel into being the home of all our home energy content, and a showcase channel for what's possible in the electrification of home energy sector.
Formerly, as Fully Charged PLUS, the channel featured content which was primarily UK focused and our subscriber base reflected this, although we knew a proportion of our audience were international, like yourself - which is fantastic.
We've more great episodes coming and these too will also initially be UK focussed, though I'm sure there will be many takeaways for the wider international audience.
I hope that answers your question, and thanks again for subscribing, it's very much appreciated.
Can Fully Charged Show please do an episode on where chemical elements for batteries come from and who are the communities on the ground employed in mining?
Please can we have an episode where you pin down the head of building regulations and get them to answer why UK standards are so woeful?
What a most excellent idea!!!!!
In a nut shell cost
The standard reason given is big house builders moan that making homes zero carbon would cost too much. So they would never be able to make affordable homes.
@@rowanfrost1265 They don't make affordable homes anyway unless bullied into doing so by the local council.
The answer to that is with politicians. They determine policy based on advice from officials and the ruling governments manifesto. Officials carry out the Ministers wishes.
Nice to see how rich people live.
30% "affordable".
It's a bit of a joke.
this neighborhood concept is itself, not sustainable. hilarious not every one of these houses has battery backup given they are all electric.....
Simply ensuring that every property is oriented to have a good solar collection facing roof area, is something that is so often overlooked.
yes
To add to that.. passive solar design implementation at design stage to maximize solar gains into the home 🏠
Or if there are large trees or other buildings casting shadows.
(If leaf detritus lays on a panel because of rain "sticktion", so to speak, then the panels' output is much reduced.)
Or if the panels are wired in series or parallel and share a controller then one underperforming panel will bring down the rest.
And, if LiFePo4 cells are used in a domestic storage system then if the ambient temperature is below 0C then the BMS might well prevent the cells charging at full rate, or at all.
I have a home battery bank system (SEALED LEAD ACID tech) and run the domestic lighting directly off the 12V circuit, which saves having to invert the 12VDC to 230VAC.
That's been working for almost thirty years, with new batteries evey six years or so.
Excellent tho' the notion of solar panels is the UK weather is not ideal for said solar panels.
Having solar panels on the roof does not make for easy cleaning after a heavy rain storm carrying Saharan dust or even contributions from very healthy birds in tip top condition, if you follow.
I pity those who live on the coast ... everyone knows guano is just another name for epoxy resin ... and birds just shit anywhere and everywhere, virtually 24/365, without any social conscience whatsoever.
Bastards
As is here.
And designing and properly building a roof that will support the solar panels weight load!
It’s frustrating that the costs aren’t talked about. Would be useful to understand how much do they cost to build, buy and rent please.
If you have to ask the price you probably can't afford it.
True that!
While it’s wonderful to see such a development, and there is provision for affordable housing, most of these technologies are going to be out of reach financially for most people. I would love to see more developments like this, but also within a price range that is affordable for the average British family.
These are great houses. But what I'd like to see is plans for sustainable regeneration of inner city terraces.
Yes please! If I could just find out how to insulate this house without worrying about ventilation that would be a big step. This house has air bricks which are part of how the house prevents itself from getting damp.
Beautiful! We've renovated (2010) an old concrete house with straw bales, solar thermal water heater & storage, PV (producing 4 times more electricity than we use), no organic waste for us and for a few more families (feeds the chickens). The house and our family are proudly carbon negative 💪🏼
The trouble with me is that I am into total sustainable city planning ideas, with housing for EVERYONE, housing that has nothing to do with a persons financial status....and that way of thinking doesn't fit into the capitalist ideas like this that builds little clusters of housing for a kind of elite class of people and sort of hopes that these ideas will somehow eventually trickle down to people on lower incomes.
total agree Peter sustainable house for all or we are going to get 40° heats on 10°winters.
100% this
Housing can be a right that everyone has because everyone needs to live indoors; or it can be a lucrative investment opportunity, a way to build wealth that only ever goes up in value. It can't be both.
Agree, while the quality may be good, these, select-development, generally, over-sized, super-low-density, properties are not the answer. Too big, take up too much space, use way too much material, and are often located away from any amenities, necessitating umpteen car journeys per day, clogging up the nearest urban centre, where residents are trying to walk/cycle etc. Sorry, lovely to live in, if you've got the odd £1.2 mill knocking around, I'm sure, but its just greenwashing.
@@neiljacks5379 Well said and true, as far as I can tell.
Trickle down does work. Looks at Solar/PV, then prices have dropped globally as uptake occurs. Yes gov grants have helped, but when they first came out they were expensive.
Take the same for Electric cars, electric bikes etc etc.
Most new green tech be it housing or transport is more expensive than the lesser green alternatives, but without the early adopters who can afford to buy them, they would be dead in the water.
I complete agree these should be the standards for all new builds and renovations.
'Comparable'? 'per square foot'. I'd be very, pleasantly shocked, if the cost of a three bedroom 'PassivHaus' is in any way 'comparable' in price, to your bog-standard bricks and mortar, gas-boiler house. I pray it's true, but I am sceptical, especially in more remote areas.
Really interesting! What about the cost to buy? I imagine these houses are not cheap and this is usually the main issue for a lot of people.
🤔is this re-upload from the main channel?
that development was also near Oxford...🤔
This is the economy of the future, everything that we build, cars, trains, houses produces electricity for the economy. I coud buy this kind of house definately!
I helped my friend build a similar standard property in France over a decade ago and have ever since been astounded that this is not the minimum British standard. I live in Worcester UK and all around estates are going up to fifty plus year old standards. This is CRIMINAL.
A lot of 1930’s builds in our area
@@03samjon1 a lot of 1800's housing where I live mine being one of the. It's like living in a morgue😱
We have a consultation out in Scotland just now about making Passivhaus our new building standard - fingers crossed it gets pushed through, as even the new standards this year are woeful.
@jon fowler: you are hysterical like a wo-man.
if developers cannot make money, they will just stop building. especially now when consumers cannot even afford homes.
i'm sure that would be "appreciated" by everyone, but you, ec0-t3rr0rsts.
We built our own house fifteen years ago making insulation the priority. I haven’t ever used the central heating and the room temperature even in the height of winter does not drop below 19 degrees. This summer the house was cool inside. I have a heat recovery system which I would highly recommend. I don’t have any condensation in the house after baths and showers. Why more houses cannot be built this way. It is not rocket science and the knowledge is out there.
Yeah all very nice for those who are well off. No doubt the poor will be subsidizing the rich again
I'd love to see builders in the US that are doing similar things.
I wonder if these technologies can be incorporated into homes that can be afforded by van drivers, care assistants, waiting staff, postal workers, labourers, shop assistances and folk on long term benefits?
I did find it funny to hear its great using less resource but yet, its an estate full of people that are retired mainly or small families living in massive houses... with more rooms then people sure makes sense. Good to see they are building to better than passivhaus standard, would be great if the standard of housing was built to the minimum of passivhaus.
It would be great if every building company did this, but unfortunately most want quick build, quick profit returns and dont give a dam about making it economically viable for there customers.
While this estate and those like it are going in the right direction, unfortunately it is only those who are comparitively well off who would be able to live in such a household. What we really need is a program to convert existing housing to something approaching these energy standards and to make such technologies viable at the lower end of the market.
Good idea but the uk isn’t set up for that with regards to government planning.
There was a plan for that - its gone now.
Housebuilders urge David Cameron not to scrap energy efficiency measure
This article is more than 9 years old. Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent
Mon 28 Oct 2013
Letter organised by Green Building Council says axing Energy Companies Obligation would be counter-productive
"A letter to Cameron signed by organisations including the Federation of Master Builders, the National Energy Foundation and the homebuilder Barratt Developments argues that repeal of the ECO 'would have the perverse effect of increasing energy bills for [low-income households], with severe consequences for jobs in what should be a growth sector of the economy.' "
This is great, but they are all enormous houses, so their energy consumption must still be considerable? And the land footprint is significant on what appears to be a greenfield site. Would be interested to see this approach applied to a much denser development. Also curious how they are defining affordable, as if it's the official 80% of market rates measure, I'm guessing these are still over £300k, which isn't affordable for anyone.
It's great to see a forward thinking Construction Company adopting renewable solutions into their designs. I was particularly struck by the answer to your question about whether or not Greencore are being encouraged by regulation. It's a sad indictment to hear Ian Pritchett say "the current regulations allow homes to be built to a pretty mediocre standard".
UK regulators need to wake up and understand the new energy reality. It's not like it hasn't been all over the news for the last year!
The Government repeatedly says "the UK needs to become energy independent" but can't seem to grasp the obvious fact that if you design and build more energy efficient homes in the first place they won't consume as much energy as the mediocre ones do. So it will make it much easier to gain energy independence.
The Building Regulations must be updated ASAP to require all new homes be built incorporating the energy efficiency methods adopted on the Greencore Construction development. And the Planning rules should be update to require that as far as is practically possible, new home site layouts must ensure the most favourable orientation of homes to maximise solar PV generation. Maybe also make it necessary for all large scale developments to include ground source heat systems too?
Probably one of the most exciting episodes.... We need to see more of this stuff!
Every new build in the UK should be like this, but this only represents 0.00001% of the building program going on in this country. We cannot afford these houses, as I am guessing 1 million each at least and we don't want to live in a one bed flat. So I guess we will live out our days in our 1963 Bungalow with an ASHP which will struggle on the 5-c or more and suffer the cold nights as it cannot keep up with the heat losses!! Insulation I here you cry, well our steel framed brick faced Bungalow cannot have insulation in the cavity and what is more no insulating company will touch them. I have worked on a costly solution, but it would been moving out until the job is done! But at least we have solar, and a house battery with 2 EV's up the driveway and Octopus Go to run our very inefficient home on. What we need is an insulation program that can help us all out, which has to be the main priority!
A bus from Southmoor to Oxford every 15 minutes? I grew up there back in the 70s, and the bus service, at least, has improved considerably.
RE framework and equality; hmmm, affordable OK, but is it just another term for pepper potting? All fine if you get good neighbours but after having lived in multiple pepper potted area, I would avoid like the plague after anti-social problems, it was a complete nightmare, both times! I appreciate you can have bad neighbours regardless, but I think the odds are stacked against you with the aforementioned. So as a value proposition, IMO you'd be mental to invest what is presumably a large amount in one of these houses. WRT to the shared cars, the same applies, all great until people smoke or leave them in a mess. I can see that it is the future, book a car on your phone and it self drives to you and takes you to your destination, but as with many of these visions, I think the reality may fall short. And the cladding puts me off too, will it go the distance?
We should shift stamp duty to the buyer and allow a significant rebate for improving your homes performance.
Are they going to build any in Scotland, I would love the opportunity to sell my house for one of those.
Look up Tornagrain Zero C. A new town of 5000 homes that started being built in 2018. There must be others in Scotland, as building regs are much more stringent anyway.
@@gordonmackenzie4512 That looks really pretty.
And how much are these houses? They do look expensive. Well, I know they will be as a friend of mine builds eco-houses down south and they are so expensive he rents them.
The problem I can see with this development is - the houses are all large (not all of us have a large family and we don't want to be maintaining extra rooms we don't need).
Where are the terraced houses? The semis?
Terracing is more compact, and each house shields the other with at least one wall, preserving heat in the winter, lessening the number of walls that will have the hot sun shining on them in the summer.
This is a clear blueprint for future housing developments and should be adopted by the major construction companies.
But won't be as it might make a dent in those 20% profit margins, they might have to live on 15% instead.
@mandellorian If the standards were widely adopted (or forced by building regs) the additional costs would probably be minimal. Also over the lifetime of the house the energy savings would be immense - more than offsetting additional mortgage costs.
mmmm, so detached low density housing for the privileged is now to be a blue print? Low density is NOT sustainable living no matter how much bull they dress it up with. Look at the site layout, half of the houses are not south facing. That is 101 of passive design. Also, they claim here "timber is carbon neutral" is just more rubbish. That timber gets cut down with fossil fuel, then gets cut into shape by fossil fuels, get transported from harvest site to mill by fossil fuels. Then gets kiln dried by fossil fuels, transported to timber whare house and eventually into rural Oxfordshire, all by fossil fuels. I'm all for sustainability, but idiots like these using it as a marketing tool is what allows sustainability to be abused!
I was wondering how scalable this is. If this was made the standard would there be enough materials? Otherwise the price would spike.
@@bobsmith-dn1xw it's more than just the materials but valuable comment. house like this would yield say 20 residence every 100m / yards of road. not enough to provide sufficient capital for public transport. To make public transport viable you need 4x that amount people per 100m of road. At this density bus stops become too far apart and cost of fuel too expensive. The cost of providing services (roads, sewer, electricity, gas) become too expensive per person. where the cost of that infrastructure needs to be divided by small number of people, having 5x the density would result in 1/5 of the infrastructure cost. And that include costs for school, hospitals, etc.
Any company calling this "sustainable development" makes me very angry as it is the complete opposite and people buy into this idea thinking it's good. Its a lie and fraudulent. For a channel as this promoting it as "sustainable" is actually disgusting and disingenuous. I'm happy to take on this developer/builder on an sustainability debate on this channel. No editing, happy to expose this con.
This project they have I'm sure visited before, but I still think they are amazing and I'd love to live in a house like that. Love to see that spread globally as we need our housing to be like this not basically tents like many many houses are.
What a disappointing episode! I sat through the whole thing again expecting some update after 18 months and it was just a straight repeat without even a voice over to say it was a repeat.
This shows what can be done and at the same time highlights how negligent our leaders have been in not mandating these standards. Of course builders could all be doing this, but their greed means they don’t. I look with disgust at the hundreds of inferior houses being build in my area.
@mandellorian isn’t that about how big the house is? They claim the price per m2 is the same for conventionally built houses. The ones in the vid look like big detached properties. They also said the site also had affordable housing.
Stoked for the design concept.
Shared ownership though, wasn't that actually classed as not really ownership.
I don't get why people want a house bigger than their garden, especially rich people, might as well get an apartment and a window box
Ah, well, y'see... I'm not sure if you're UK-based (your use of 'apartment' for 'flat' makes me feel that you may perhaps be in the States?), but in Britain - which is a tiny, ancient, crowded island about the size of the average Texan turnip field - every scrap of ground has been spoken-for since the Romans went home 2,000 years ago. There is no 'spare' space.
So building land costs a lot. A LOT.
Ask me how much land costs in Britain.
"Hey, Eleanor - how much d- "
DON'T ASK!
A house on one whole ACRE of land that wasn't at the bottom of the North Sea would cost many millions, so few developers will bother to put a house on a plot with more than 15' of space around it.
A tent pitched on half an acre would cost more cash than most people see in 50 years.
The ultra-rich tend to live on house-boats, but mooring fees are unbelievably steep.
The best place to live in England is either Australia or Canada. 🤭
BRILLIANT,
well done guys, what a great solution and shift of thinking.
I'm really struggling to believe that any building will ever be carbon negative in its embodied carbon as long as we have expectations that we enjoy all the joys of modern living. It's the same problem as EVs being labeled zero emissions, but the manufacturers are fast and loose with their carbon emissions accounting on materials, transport, all the ancillaries including people's impact going to work, etc. The more straight forward conclusion is that very complex things that we construct out of hundreds of thousands of parts, have a massive impact, and never an inconsequential or negative one.
Wood timber is not negative carbon, because you had a tree that was drawing down carbon into to soil (more than it was locking in in the wood's cellulose) and then you cut it down and now you have to wait many, many years before a similar sized tree is filling its place able to perform the same carbon uptake. Harvesting trees and making buildings with them is not carbon sequestration, and that's what the builder/architect is counting them as. That said, wood, and bamboo have more chance of being sustainable and circular than the glass and ceramic tile. It's great to see passive, very low energy homes. And to see the most efficient appliances. We can do the best we can do today, and improve tomorrow, and be proud of that, but let us not improperly describe new buildings as carbon neutral or carbon negative. Constructing any new home is a major carbon hit.
Eliminating the EVs and having these buildings in a walkable/bikeable space will address the transportation situation better.
I'm afraid your an idealist - and idealism always fails!
You have to be a pragmatist in REAL LIFE!
These people are pragmatically building(note - actually building..!) very low carbon houses and lifestyles. They're actually doing something about the problems we face - not preaching about what we should be doing in a non existent, idealised version of reality.....
....and they should be praised, not criticised ......
@@andymccabe6712 I literally said this in my post: "It's great to see passive, very low energy homes. And to see the most efficient appliances. We can do the best we can do today, and improve tomorrow, and be proud of that, but let us not improperly describe new buildings as carbon neutral or carbon negative."
If you're not willing to be realistic about the impacts of homes, even better built low energy ones, and prefer that practicality means you can BS people and tell them it's negative carbon, your ancestors will look back at you and call you bold-faced liars who tried to con people during the climate crisis.
If only they would build houses using these principles in Australia …. I can’t wait for the day I can build a house like this in Cairns 😅
Great that companies like this are pushing the envelope and looking beyond net zero. Hopefully more and more people will see the benefits and value of them. One other comment about heating a passive house, we also had a similar discussion with our architect when designing our house (we moved in in July this year) and we went with a heat pump primarily for the air conditioning option which is becoming more necessary as the years go by. We are in Victoria BC and last year's heat dome killed hundreds of people in BC. The UK has also had periods of crazy heat too in the last few years.
This, and similar ones, are the projects I would like to be involved with as an architect. If you, or anyone you know, wants either a one-off home or a development of many (especially in or around North Northamptonshire) I have 40 years experience trying to persuade clients to design sustainably, but rarely get the opportunity. Time to change. My RIBA Chartered Architects Practice has the capability, competence, knowledge, skills and professionalism needed :-)
Not being rude, but very little effort or knowledge is needed to build a sustainable home, I know, I built my own Passiv Haus including all the architectural drawings, the will is the part that is rare. It doesn't even need to cost much more.
@@ForeverNeverwhere1, I think you greatly misunderstand the benefit of architecture to society and the complexity of designing buildings in the C21. Yes it can be done by anyone legally in the UK but that doesn't mean it should be :-) There is a reason why it takes a minimum of 7 years to qualify as an architect in much the same way that any hospital porter 'could' perform surgery, but would you want them to? The issue in the UK is that because the government, media and ignorant think designing buildings is easy,, it is the principle reason why housing and other buildings are so badly designed by non architects, planners, politicians and NIMBYs (often dictating to architects how to do the job they are trained for from a position of relative ignorance). There are many chartered building design professionals in the UK. Use them in preference to those with relevant experience, training, skills, knowledge and qualifications etc. Those who don't know what they don't know about architecture obviously don't know what they don't know so are unaware of it, in ignorance. That is not being rude just a statement of the facts since visually literacy is rarely, if ever, taught in schools.
My friend’s hubby in Margaret River works with hempcrete as his business model. They do fabulous work. Award winning stuff. 😊
Was hoping this was a catch up on this community. Oh well.
It would be great to get their name (Company)
There's no way, they cost the same as a conventional house. Only use a car when you need to, yeah I always use my car when I don't need to 😂
Brilliant, this is how all new houses should be.
My house has no A/C and only 3 500w 120v electric fan heaters for 1620 SQ ft.
R45 walls
R60 ceiling
R10 triple pane windows
I think it would be great if all new builds were to be built with solar and a 10kWh battery, and parking should have EV outlets, where possible. Imagine how far that would go towards grid leveling, and therefore a greener grid.
They also need to greatly increase the minimum building standard, the quality built not far from me, for £500k houses, is terrible.
I respect a lot of this, but it kinda glossed over the accessibility to public transportation. He did say a bus every 15 minutes, which is OK, but where does that get you to? Can you bike to anywhere? Are two rental cars enough?
Also, even with the variety of sizes, they all are single family homes, which have their own inherent energy costs. Multifamily units would be even more efficient.
Please sassyhomes come over to mid Wales/Shropshire because the local developers build to the minimum they can get away with!
1:45 who put the solar on the house on left !? its on the wrong side ! 1:56 and theres only 3 wee windows on the other side WTF REALLY, 3:19 wood, hemp and wool fibres ? You got interrupted and hard to hear, 4:29 come on do better multiple joins and horizontal surfaces and constantly cold materials in bathrooms are a bad idea, 4:41 any slope to the or are they flat roofs ? flat roofs are prone too sagging, pooling and leaking and should never be used ever. 7:04 are the floor tiles a particular material theat holds heat or standard always cold (when not heated) tiles ? 12:14 a chimney ! someone not care about clean air act ! hmm some materials used arent 0 or less.
Thank goodness. Cooking with gas sucks. We don't need to be lighting a fire in our kitchens to cook anymore. It's not the 1920s anymore! 😜
Nice project, good to see people trying to get towards net zero....still a long way off but they are moving in the right direction. Would like to see their calculation on "better than net zero"
At first glance I saw the clapboards and other wood cladding, and said, "Oh! He's doing a show in the US." Very handsome designs.
Zero embodied carbon - I don't get it either, Robert - wood: cut it down with a chainsaw, transport it, cut it, plane it, kiln it, transport to a timber yard, tansport it to site, power tools on site etc. Is the carbon in the tree supposed to cover that? I'm all in favour of sustainability, but who does Springfield think they're kidding. Show me the maths Springfield...
Beautiful houses but trying to pretend they are in any way good for the environment is a joke. These are expensive luxury homes, 3 or 4 families could live in the same same footprint more frugally. Even if it was built out of concrete, petroleum based products and everything else that would still have a smaller environmental impact.
Wait a minute. The second guy says cutting down trees is carbon negative?!?! Sounds like pure marketing BS to me.
Brilliant but the problem for me is the houses look great but are built big and really expensive,Elon musk designed a solar powered small unfoldable mobile house for $10000 which would be affordable for the poorest people
I’d love to see what the electric bill is like in winter. Our house is something similar, be it on a smaller scale. And our electric is stupid at the moment😢. Glass just isn’t a good at holding heat no matter what you do. Not to mention bifold doors are extremely drafty, obviously depends how much winds hits it.
Triple glazed passive house rated windows are pretty good insulators. The condensation in spring and autumn is on the outside. In winter they frost up on the outside surface. You also need to think of them as heat sources too. On a sunny day they let more heat into the house than they lose at night. Shame I could not see any external shading on the windows on these houses though. In summer the owners will come to loath the heat coming through them. They need external blinds.
@@ecoworrier they are ok. The best u value they can achieve is still only 0.80 W/m2K. They Still feel like ice after a few hours. I’m 100% for this tho 👍 I just think we need better insulated glass.
@@drewthatsme6212 that's not my experience. I've had them for 10 years. Many are floor to ceiling. The inside pane always takes the heat from your hand in the first seconds but then feels warm. No cold draughts sitting next to them. No cold feeling next to them.
@@drewthatsme6212 And just to push home the point, you have to consider them as heat sources (if south facing) as well as heat sinks. Walls are never heat sources.
I have A rated windows and just get condensation on the outside. This is my first winter with them mind, but subjectively the house feels warm. It has been pretty mild so be interested when we get a cold snap.
oh look, another "down south" development that's going green while we up here get greenfield development with really horrible building practices and horrible buildings
Direct electric underfloor is 3 x more expensive than heat pumps and solar wont be generating enough in winter when you need the heating. The PV array arent large enough if you have an EV, the car club is excellent and also should do an electric push bike hub
Did she global leaders have found a way to live sustainably??? Flying around in their private jets 😂
I dont know how much these houses are, million plus? It would be nice to see a not for profit builder knocking up 50 2 up 2 down semis for 300k or under to the same spec
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I would love to have a house that has:
a) Solar PV sufficient to meet my energy needs (I have room for 16 south facing panels at 400W / panel a 6.4Kwh system then) 10K
b) A battery sufficient to enable off grid living when the sun goes down (I estimate 20 Kwh should do it so the latest MyEnergi Libbi should solve that) 15K
c) An integrated electric building and water heating solution a MyEnergi system incorporating an Eddi - Zappi - Harvi) 15K
d) A Commensurate electric vehicle to tie it all together to replace my Audi A5 (2nd Hand Tesla Model 3 or Y) 40K
Can anyone lend me 80K? No thought not. I currently cannot afford any single option above despite the best of intentions from an environment perspective - I'm stuck with my Octopus Green Energy only plan as my only available contribution also being stuck with a gas combi boiler I'd love to get rid of for say a Tepeo - Yep another 10K
He says these houses costs are comparable to other modern housing - why am I so sceptical and really not believe that.
Looks like ordinary boring modern design houses. Is triple pane windows not standard practice in the UK?
But, passive houses (or close to) with solar panels on is surely the way all houses should be built. In fact, the solar panels seem a bit small, especially if you factor in car charging.
Yes, but it takes more effort out of the builder hence less profit and such it is not done. And people don't know better.
Where is the window shading? I can’t see any - which doesn’t make sense for Summer heat control!
Zero chance of breaking the big builders grip. If only hey?
I Saw You Coming Developments Ltd.
houses looked great but have all sold now, can we confirm roughly how much they sold for?
A lot
It was noted that 30% (iirc) of the units were "affordable" - I'm always curious how that's defined; affordable to whom? Some numbers would be nice.
5 beds were approaching £1.2 mill.
This isn’t for me, i just don’t have the money and never will. A rich mans game.
The house's look great and I like the environmental building but they look very expensive and being built in Oxfordshire a very expensive part of the country I dont think I will be buying one anytime soon
It's all so high end . We need cheap panel systems for affordable housing
All well and good, but if nearly no one can afford these homes it doesn't exactly mean much.
Sounds a bit like The Real Estate Agent 2.0!
Where do the chemical elements that go into producing batteries that power cars,etc, come from?
It's all fiddling for buffalos unless it's built into zoning laws around the world.
Doesn't look like there's any pavements on the estate. So the estate has been built around the car.
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
no numbers or stats, so we dont have any idea on electric usage or price we can save on energy bills, kinda lame
33% are "affordable". i hate the language behind that statement. what a world
ROBERT!! THANK YOU FOR PRESENTING THIS PROJECT. Now that is what I call holistic design process with intelligent use of materials that [Hemp, Wood, Triple glazing, Energysmart use of Electricity etc.]
I this video you have exceeded yourself sir. We’ll presented
The next-door neighbour ate a curry in the share car again.
No thanks.
Is there a link between the treat to the fossil fuel industry and the increase is wars or the threat of wars around the world? Wars are a great market for burning oil
God I really want one!
I'm sure I've seen this before. Is it a re-upload?
I think this is the 2nd video toting carbon neutral based on using wood. Does the UK not already use wood in instruction? It sounds like they just found a clever way to brand something that was already a common construction material. What am I missing? Confused Australian.
Historical reasons. Wooden-framed houses used to be the the norm in England [e.g. in medieval times] until masonry (kiln-fired bricks) became common from the 18th century onwards. Masonry is more stable and resilient than wood in the UK's often wet climate and offers better fire resistance. In recent decades, although modern mass-produced housing in the UK now is often timber framed, which is a quicker and cheaper form of construction, it still often has a brick outer skin wall, giving the appearance to the buyer of masonry construction.
If I was PM I would make this company set the rules for all UK housebuilding! Lovely to see!
I remember watching this when it was on last time, i'm guessing on the Fully Charged channel. Still very interesting the second time around!
How about an idiot's guide to home solar with battery backup episode?
Shame nothing about collecting the rain water ?
Passive house + marketing bs.
Reminds me a lot of BedZed in south London. The principles are all there, and it was built more than 20 years ago! Technology has come a long way from the time it was built, we just have to keep going! It worked, it still works and makes sense, and will keep working for people, for the environment, for nature, for the planet! well done!
I'm sure I've seen this before.
I thought so too. I looked at the intro text just under the video, and it says Robert visited there in 2021. I believe this is the video from then. I guess that now is the time to do the followup.
Standing at a covid safe distance seems so retro 🙂 Yeah, I'm sure it is a reupload.
This is brilliant, but I don't think that this level of density can really be held up as a sustainable model - it looks like these are still quite car-dependent, and don't look compatible with fifteen minute cities concepts!
If land were more affordable, more would be invested in the quality and performance of a house. Until the cost of land is shaken up, poor standards for thermal performance will persist.
Only a turd with with batteries?
Watch out for that "zero embodied carbon". It's not without controversy. Mature living trees drawdown carbon, dead ones don't. Living soil is part of the carbon cycle which may hold 4 times the carbon as the trees and other vegetation above ground. Newly planted trees take 10-20 years before they are drawing down more carbon than they respire. If you are sitting down consider watching ruclips.net/video/5lAlqhyaMQQ/видео.html which is about burning wood (including the last old growth) from Canada purchased through a UK government subsidy.
Yes, this claim is largely hogwash, in order to soothe someone's conscience.
@@neiljacks5379 in order to continue the game of making money while seeming to be responsible. #greenwash
As a percentage of the house is made from renewable products, do they have the same life span as a traditional brick and mortar house?
I love all the movement towards net zero, the challenge that I cannot get my head around is the size off these homes. It seems that they could have built, twice if not more the number off homes, with the resources used.
I guess it is the same as the oversized cars that are built all the time. I wish I could say I was doing better, but I still aspire to travel and larger homes. We have just taken the first step and sold our large house, and Land Rover. Down to one car, and renting for a year trying to work out what the lowest footprint we can live in for the future.
I am hopeful for brighter future, sometimes to remain concious and not get sucked into the commercial dreams we are sold.
Was it 'down to 60 sq meter studio flats ' my evil Vicortian 2 bed terrace is that.