Build Requirement: Four x 2 bedroom flats built to Passivhaus standard
Location: The Glebe, East Saltoun, East Lothian
Client: East Lothian Housing Association.
Construction: Beattie Passive Approved Contractor - Lomond Group. Ross Jamieson, Site Foreman for Lomond Group attended the Beattie Passive Training Academy.
Apartment Sizes: 74sqm, 69sqm, 80sqm, 74sqm = total of 297sqm
East Lothian Housing Association were looking to deliver the Housing Associations first Passivhaus homes to achieve high energy performance, to give their tenants lower energy bills, high quality homes (including low levels of sound between dwellings) with high levels of comfort.
Neil Ross from Places for People commented, “Fuel poverty is a very real issue across the country yet the Beattie Passive Build System has enabled East Lothian Housing Association to deliver much needed homes with an improved living environment and dramatically lower fuel bills."
Wall U value: 0.11 W/m2k
Roof U value: 0.11 W/m2k
Floor U value: 0.08 W/m2k
Air Tightness: Below 0.46/hm2@50pa
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