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Building Centre Family Fun Day
Come join us as we support the Building Centre with its Comfy Houses – Family Fun Day, an event, provided as part of the Building Centre Retrofit23 Exhibition which will discuss climate change and retrofit solutions through a series of children’s presentations, storytelling and activity experiments designed to engage young minds of all ages. Date: Sunday 24 Sep Time: 12-4pm Location: Building Centre See the Building Centre website below for booking details. Admission is FREE….
Drymen Announced Winner at Scottish Home Awards
ECD Architects are delighted that our Drymen Passivhaus project for Hanover Scotland has been recognised as winner of the Scottish Home Awards 2023 Affordable Housing Category! The Scottish Home Awards were founded in 2007 and is run for the benefit of the housebuilding community, with the objective of helping housebuilders and housing associations sell, rent or promote their properties more effectively. The Conic Way and Montrose Way development in Drymen marks the first Passivhaus development…
Drymen Passivhaus up for TWO Inside Housing Awards
We are delighted that our Drymen Passivhaus project for Hanover (Scotland) Housing Association Ltd has been shortlisted for the Inside Housing 2023 Development Awards in two categories. These are: • Best Affordable Housing Development – Scotland • Best Healthy Homes Development category The 15 new build homes on Conic Way and Montrose Way are Certified to the Passivhaus Standard and feature optimal solar orientation, thermal comfort, excellent indoor air quality, and wildflower meadow grass for…
Join us at the Warren for a free afternoon of fun for the whole community.
The Portsmouth City Council engagement team are hosting an event in partnership with Havant Borough Council and Park Community School, with hundreds of people expected to attend. The event will take place on Saturday 8 July, 12-2pm at the Giant Steps green area in St Clare’s Avenue, Havant (PO9 4JW), and will be a chance for people to see and have their say on new proposed housing plans for The Warren area. Free ice-cream, face-painting…
ECD Passivhaus school project achieves at AT awards
We are delighted to announce that Thornhill Primary School received a Commendation for Sustainability for Technical and Environmental Excellence at the Schuco Excellence Awards 2023. Thornhill is a Passivhaus Certified school. The judges congratulated the scheme on its outstanding environmental credentials – not least the role played by the high-performance ‘of-the-shelf’ Schüco curtain walling and door systems in achieving Passivhaus certification. See a full list announcing the winners on the Architecture Today website. Congratulations to…