Making Sustainable Housing Affordable

Flagship Housing Group needed a cost effective approach to achieving sustainability targets such as EcoHomes and the Code for Sustainable Homes, and invited us in 2004 to work with Oxbury & Company to develop a flexible housing prototype. The result is GreenGauge Homes; an approach to building sustainable housing that can improve on government guidance on energy efficiency and still be built within the Housing Corporation’s Standard Grant Funding Structure.

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Open Market Housing

Affordable Housing

GreenGauge Homes

Live and Let Live

Urban Housing at Code 4

Cromer Road, Ipswich

Riverside Road, Ipswich

Grundisburgh Village

Whitton Church Lane, Ipswich

Smart Street School, Ipswich

Cavendish Street, Ipswich

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The warning signs for climate change were discernible long before the public became aware of ‘global warming’ and appropriate technologies and products were already well established by the time the subject became headline news.

So rather than trying to ‘reinvent the wheel’, the partnership identified tried and tested technologies for building materials and energy generation, and developed a system to suit a variety of locations and layouts. The resulting product is GreenGauge Homes, which can be offered in various formats to Flagship’s affiliated Housing Associations.

The product is in use in a number of Local Authority areas and has featured in Flagship’s application for the Housing Corporation Gold Standard Awards for Affordable Housing. The first scheme at Lingwood was completed in 2008.

Employer

Partnership with Flagship Housing Group and Oxbury Ltd.

GreenGauge at Lingwood

Pilot scheme - a development of 15 homes, the first GreenGauge Homes scheme...

GreenGauge at Horstead

This scheme of 8 GreenGauge Homes in Horstead is an example of GreenGauge v2.0...