Old Home Superhome
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The Old Homes Superhome (OHSH) project is aimed at transforming energy efficiency within existing housing stock in the UK through a programme of demonstration activities.
The Old Home Superhome Project
PHSH starts from the premise that to combat climate change, the global carbon footprint must be cut by 60% across the board (and probably at least 80% in Britain). For older housing the choice is simple: either homes must be transformed or they will have to be demolished with all the consequent cost, disruption and loss of amenity. For example, in parts of London, such as Camden or in Kensington and Chelsea, up to 80% of homes were built before 1919, and the consequences of large-scale demolition would be disastrous.
Networking with other organisations, Old Home Superhome is setting up and promoting:
- A network of exemplar energy efficient old dwellings, which are local and publicly accessible within 15 minutes to nearly everyone in the country. Making them accessible to the public helps homeowners and local authorities to get hands-on knowledge and be inspired to transform their own housing; OHSH plans to have 1,000 exemplars within 5 years, equivalent to one per Tesco.
- An education programme showing how to replicate the techniques, aimed at homeowners, trades people, local authorities and architects, with the aim of changing attitudes and for people to take action to transform their dwellings
- A research programme to introduce new technologies that deliver better savings per pound spent, and to monitor actual performance.
- A knowledge resource of projects, so successes and failures can be quickly reported and time, money and effort can be saved
- A funding programme that encourages large numbers of public and private owners to transform their housing
Old Home Superhome is controlled by the Sustainable Energy Academy, but managed on their behalf by the National Energy Foundation.
