INTEGER Millennium House
| INTEGER Millennium House The Smart Home | |
|---|---|
  Location within England | |
| General information | |
| Type | House |
| Location | Garston, Watford, England, United Kingdom |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Construction started | 1997 |
| Completed | 1998 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Damian Bree, Tim Day, Paul Hodgkins, Nicholas Thompson |
The INTEGER Millennium House is a demonstration house in Watford, England.[1] It was renamed The Smart Home after being refurbished in 2013.[2]
Design and construction
The origins of the INTEGER Millennium House date to May 1996 seminar about green building, which catalyzed the formation of a design team to "evaluate available design and technical solutions to improve housing performance". The efforts of this design team culminated with the creation of a model of a house.[1] Damian Bree, Tim Day, Paul Hodgkins, and Nicholas Thompson began designing the INTEGER Millennium House itself in October 1997, a process that proceeded for 10 weeks.[3] Built on Building Research Establishment property in Garston, Watford, the actual construction of the house took 13 weeks, and it opened to the public in 1998.[1][3] Built as a demonstration project without a budget, the INTEGER Millennium House utilized expertise and materials donated by suppliers without cost to the project.[1] The entire house was constructed with standard components, many of which were prefabricated, and neither prototypes nor experimental components were used for building it.[1][3]
Features
The INTEGER Millennium House includes numerous green features, including a green roof, wind turbine, solar photovoltaic panels, and solar water heaters that can heat water up to 95 °C (203 °F). The house also features a geothermal heat pump, rainwater collection and retention for both washing automobiles and watering gardens, and a greywater system that recycles water used for bathing and washing for toilet flushing, which reduces water usage by roughly 30%.[1][3] Furthermore, the house includes numerous innovative technical systems, including under-floor trench heating that is individually controlled by thermostat in each room, a central service core that contains all of the house's cables and pipes in a vertical space designed to provide easy access to them for purposes of maintenance and upgrade, and timber-framed bathroom modules similar to those built for off-shore oil drilling.[1]
Refurbishment
Refurbishment...
Awards and accolades
The house was featured on two BBC Television programmes, both Tomorrow's World and a six-part special series entitled DreamHouse.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "The INTEGER Millennium House, Watford, UK" (PDF). Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme. International Energy Agency. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ Smit, Jo (2 October 2013). "Refurb demo house launches in Watford". Building4change. BRE Trust. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "BBC Dream House". BDP. Bree Day Partnership. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
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