ECD Winner NHIC Awards

ECD Court Farm Road ‘Retrofit & Replicate’ has been awarded winner of two awards at the National Home Improvement Council Awards 2009:

• The Big Green Home Award
• The George Plucknett Award

The Big Green Home Award was presented to the project which demonstrated the widest range of energy efficiency products, measures and microgeneration technologies to be retro fitted, maximising cost/payback and CO2 savings. Judges comments reviewing the ECD submission stated:

The judges were impressed by the range of solutions the products utilised, which combined to deliver a predicted 85% reduction in the house energy consumption and a potential £600 saving on the annual energy bills. It is a great example of what can be applied to the social housing sector, addressing fuel poverty and CO2 emmissions.

The George Plucknett Award is presented to the organization which has completed a project htat most closely fulfils the objectives of the NHIC. The winning entry is chosen from the winners and finalists from all categories of the NHIC Awards and so represents an outstanding level of achievement. Judges comments in nominating Court Farm Road stated:

Winner of Category 7 [Big Green Home Award], another facet of this project is to establish what it is like to live in an energy efficient home. As a result ‘post occupancy’ interviews are being conducted to assess residents’ to the eco-measrues employed and the impact these measures are having on comfort and satisfaction at Court Farm Road.

The NHIC represents companies and organisations that work in the home improvement sector and they earnestly believe in higher standards of materials and workmanship, backed up with codes of practice, guarantees and warranties.