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EXPO ORGANISERS URGE VISITORS TO BE ECO-FRIENDLY TRAVELLERS
As Scotland’s Housing Expo enters its last week as a public exhibition, organisers are urging visitors to support the eco-friendly ethos of the project by leaving their cars at home.
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DAVID BLAIKIE ARCHITECTS
David Blaikie Architects are an environmentally responsible, award winning, design led practice based in central Edinburgh and working throughout Scotland.
Our architecture is produced through careful brief preparation and detailed research overlaid with a rich cultural understanding to produce unique, site specific solutions that reflect our clients' personal and commercial aspirations. Our work is honest, innovative and, we hope, surprising.
Architect
Owner/Developer
Contractor
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Component and Interior Sponsors
LIOS GORM
(A GREEN PLACE TO LIVE)
Affordable housing driven by sustainable sourcing of local materials, advanced off-site construction techniques and passive systems.
These homes are restful, versatile and instinctive, designed to promote micro-community and personal well being.
Pragmatic sustainability achieved by off-site construction and pre-fabricated central service cores, built with Scottish timber.
House Type
2 storey house
Upper flat
Fully accessible lower flat
Internal floor area
2 storey house – 126m²
Upper flat – 52m² / Lower flat – 52m²
Number of bedrooms
2 storey house – 3
Upper flat – 1 / Lower flat – 1
Number of Public rooms
2 storey house – 2.5
Upper flat – 1 / Lower flat – 1
Construction
Timber framed closed panel wall, floor and roof cassettes with load bearing central service cores.
Predicted annual energy performance/running cost for heating (from SAP rating)
2 storey house - £112
Upper flat – £52
Lower flat - £47
Energy usage (heating only) in KWH/M2
House 37 kWh/m²
Upper flat 42 kWh/m² / Lower flat 39 kWh/m²
For LIFT applications contact Albyn Enterprises by telephone on
01463 259895.
