Solar powered house unveiled

A full scale zero carbon, solar powered house, designed and built by students at The University of Nottingham has been unveiled at the worlds biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment.

The prototype home, built with the low carbon agenda and mass market in mind, went on display for the very first time at Ecobuild — which takes place at Earls Court between March 2 to March 4 2010. Among the visitors to the house on opening day was Housing Minister John Healey.

The Nottingham H.O.U.S.E (a family home optimising the use of solar energy) is the result of months of planning, design and construction work by a 40 strong team of students from the Department of the Built Environment.

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Education

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• Education
• Architecture
• Nottingham House
• Eco Build
• Solar Decathlon
• Mark Gillott

[VideoGameCoupons]

keep the good work up.

[kira13kira13]

using petroleum based materials is quite good actually..burning petroleum on the other hand...that's the problem ...

[sarmenhb]

wow just imagine on how much money you'll save by not paying water & power. just getting water of course but power itself is expensive.

[eldredearl]

Solar panels currently use a lot of petroleum based products in their production... check out a company called BioSolar - who have created a renewable technology based backing sheet. biosolar.com

[journeyquest1]

If this technology is mass produced it would be cost effective and affordable. This is the oil companies worst nightmare.