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Keep up to dateTen targets for the 1377-dwelling Millennium Village | ||
Targets over five years | Solutions adopted | Progress in first 289 dwelling designs |
80% primary energy reduction | Gas-fired combined heat and power, plus passive solar gain, improved insulation and controls in dwellings | 65% primary energy reduction (WS Atkins audit) |
50% embodied-energy reduction in building materials | Concrete using recycled aggregates, cement render cladding, timber framing and cladding, and aluminium external trim | 25% embodied-energy reduction in building materials (BRE audit) |
30% water consumption reduction | Grey water and surface water recycling, efficient WCs and showers | 12% reduction in water consumption (WS Atkins audit) |
30% construction cost reduction | Egan principles of quality management framework, modular construction and off-site prefabrication, including steel-framed bathroom pods, innovative pre-rendered cladding panels and composite timber-frame panels | 鈥淎ll innovative construction carries a premium in costs and programme at first because contractors are entering the unknown. The first two sub-phases are still on programme despite a cladding subcontractor dropping out after three months. For later sub-phases, costs are now reducing.鈥 (Ross Hammond, project director) |
25% construction duration reduction | ||
Zero construction defects | 聽鈥淭he first nine houses will all be defect-free on handover.鈥 (Ross Hammond) | |
50% site wastage reduction | 15% reduction in site wastage (BRE audit) | |
19% integration of affordable and open-market dwellings | Physical integration and indistinguishable appearance | 47 affordable homes in identical shells to low-rise houses for sale |
Mix of uses | Live-work homes and 4460 m2 of commercial development, but no office or industrial development | 14 live-work homes, a primary school and health centre |
Sustainable community | Lifetime homes made adaptable by sliding partitions, mobility-standard doors and bathrooms and capacity for internal lifts |
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