Last week, we hosted a groundbreaking ceremony at the site in Rothwell, Kettering, where the two CarbonLight Homes will be built. The event was attended by the project’s partners, including HTA Architects, Willmott Dixon, Kettering Borough Council and North Northants Development Company and marked the start of the build process.
Construction will begin in the next few weeks when the public will be able to watch the build process via time-delay video on our website. Completion is expected in March 2011, when the two houses will be opened to the public for six months. They will then become the subject of post-occupancy evaluation before being sold.
Lord Best, President of the Local Government Association and Chair of the Hanover Housing Group, also attended the ceremony and we are looking forward to welcoming him back to visit the completed homes next year.
Lord Best shared his concern that “the industry is desperately lacking in the research needed to be able to produce homes that are energy efficient and promote the health of the occupant at a low cost” and added that he is “grateful to the Model Home 2020 project team for looking at the science behind it.”
Passivhaus is already there
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