News: Recognition for Rotherham retrofit scheme
Bramall's retrofit project in Rotherham has been named winner of the "Property and the Built Environment" category in the 2011 Sustain Awards.
The ceremony, held as part of the recent Ecobuild conference in London, was attended by representatives from across the construction and sustainability sector and showcased the industry’s best housing and design schemes.
The retrofit scheme has been completed by Rotherham social housing contractor Bramall Construction, in partnership with arm's length management organisation 2010 Rotherham and design and sustainability specialists URBED, and Aecom as part of the Technology Strategy Board's £17m "Retrofit for the Future" programme.
Six council homes in Wath Road, Brampton Bierlow have been given an overhaul in order to improve their energy efficiency and drastically reduce carbon emissions.
Work carried out on the properties included improvements to insulation, using sustainable products such as paper and wood fibre, and the installation of photovoltaic panels and solar thermal tubes to generate electricity and hot water.
Residents have also benefitted from technology including mechanical ventilation systems, which greatly improves air quality, and high performance double and triple glazed windows.
Residents already living in the homes were interviewed before the start of the process to ensure the new technology would suit them and their lifestyles. The approach was then tweaked so that all six properties were refurbished using different combinations of technology in order to get the maximum benefit for each resident and in order to "test out" the methods of reducing carbon emissions.
Steve Batty, partnering manager at Bramall Construction said: "We are delighted to be recognised in the Sustain Awards this year and the award is credit to the hard work put in by the partnership.
"We hope that the improvements we have made to the homes in Rotherham will continue to be of benefit to the residents for many years to come."
Charlie Baker, URBED lead Designer, added: "This team was able to prove that achieving 80% reductions in energy use is possible for the buildings and the people in them as well as pointing the way to making it financially viable."
Bramall Construction website
Images: Bramall Construction
The ceremony, held as part of the recent Ecobuild conference in London, was attended by representatives from across the construction and sustainability sector and showcased the industry’s best housing and design schemes.
The retrofit scheme has been completed by Rotherham social housing contractor Bramall Construction, in partnership with arm's length management organisation 2010 Rotherham and design and sustainability specialists URBED, and Aecom as part of the Technology Strategy Board's £17m "Retrofit for the Future" programme.
Six council homes in Wath Road, Brampton Bierlow have been given an overhaul in order to improve their energy efficiency and drastically reduce carbon emissions.
Work carried out on the properties included improvements to insulation, using sustainable products such as paper and wood fibre, and the installation of photovoltaic panels and solar thermal tubes to generate electricity and hot water.
Residents have also benefitted from technology including mechanical ventilation systems, which greatly improves air quality, and high performance double and triple glazed windows.
Residents already living in the homes were interviewed before the start of the process to ensure the new technology would suit them and their lifestyles. The approach was then tweaked so that all six properties were refurbished using different combinations of technology in order to get the maximum benefit for each resident and in order to "test out" the methods of reducing carbon emissions.
Steve Batty, partnering manager at Bramall Construction said: "We are delighted to be recognised in the Sustain Awards this year and the award is credit to the hard work put in by the partnership.
"We hope that the improvements we have made to the homes in Rotherham will continue to be of benefit to the residents for many years to come."
Charlie Baker, URBED lead Designer, added: "This team was able to prove that achieving 80% reductions in energy use is possible for the buildings and the people in them as well as pointing the way to making it financially viable."
Bramall Construction website
Images: Bramall Construction
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