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As the show-home
at the cutting-edge eco-development BedZED opens its doors, its
designers are teaming up to make sure this is not the last we see
of eco-housing in London.
Beddington Zero Energy Development
(BedZED) is a ground-breaking development of 82 eco-homes and workspaces
in south London, addressing every area of sustainable living. It
is the largest and most ambitious eco-development in the UK. A co-development
between the Peabody Trust and BioRegional, it is the result of a
long and fruitful collaboration of a design team including:
· Bill Dunster Architects – pioneers of sustainable
design.
· BioRegional Development Group – sustainability solutions.
· Gardiner & Theobald - Quantity Surveyors
· Arup – building physics, energy, water, ventilation,
services.
· Ellis and Moore – structural engineering and infrastructure
· Gardiner & Theobald – managing cost and construction
This design team is now launching
itself as ZEDteam, ready for a new eco-development. They have the
know-how to plan, design, construct and manage integrated sustainable
developments that achieve the “triple bottom line” of
environmental improvement and protection, social progress and profitability
and best value.
Jonathan Deans, a partner at Gardiner
& Theobald, said, “The future of high volume sustainable
development is to have market-led solutions – to build within
a level of cost which can be funded by sales and letting. BedZED
shows this can be done. To have an impact on the wider environment
we need to build many more developments like BedZED.”
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Dickon Robinson, Director of Development at Peabody Trust, said,
“The ZEDteam have set new standards for sustainability ahead
of existing benchmarks.”
Pooran Desai, Director of BioRegional,
said, “We want to make sure this design for total sustainability
is taken up wherever possible. The Royal Commission on Environmental
Pollution as stated that we need to cut our production of greenhouse
gases by 60% by 2050, and the ZED design allows us to reduce it
to zero.”
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Photo: Bill Dunster Architects
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