Landscape & Urban Design Issue 53 2022 | Page 49

GREEN & BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE
The team are using experts from RSPB and Barratt to help promote wildlife and nature at the house , with the garden achieving a gold rating from RSPB .
• Scientifically proven to filter harmful PM10 toxins from road pollution
• Stimulates biodiversity
• Promotes health and wellbeing
• Easy and quick to install
• Low maintenance
Both products made a significant contribution towards creating Barratt Homes vision of a beautiful ‘ Biodiversity Garden ’.
Introducing more horticulture and plants are at the heart of most initiatives for clean air , biodiversity , and privacy , but thankfully now becoming widely recognised in the main for their contribution , the possibilities of which are endless .
Barratt Developments , the UK ’ s largest housebuilder , recently launched its unique flagship zero carbon home concept called the Z House , that will be occupied and monitored to assess its performance . It will be the first new home in the country built by a major housebuilder to go beyond the new Future Homes Standard by delivering a carbon reduction of
125 %. Last year Barratt announced that all its new homes will be zero carbon by 2030 and this flagship concept house is the first step in achieving that .
It is being developed as an industry showcase home to demonstrate what is achievable , particularly from a mainstream , volume housebuilder . The new home is being built with over 40 leading industry partners from across the housebuilding , sustainability , and technology sectors , all helping to broaden knowledge in zero carbon living with the lessons learnt from the construction being shared across the industry .
Barratt challenged its supply chain partners to bring-in the most cutting-edge products into the house to reduce its embodied carbon .
In the garden of the Z House there will be a biodiversity garden featuring nests for bats and swifts , a wildlife pond , hedgehog highways , a wall mounted living green wall and ivy green screens , planted in timber planter boxes .
Set on the main campus at the University of Salford , the new Z House is based on the popular Barratt ‘ Alderney ’ house type . To ensure the house operates in the ‘ real-world ’ it will be occupied by an academic from the University of Salford , meaning its energy consumption can be measured and displayed in the Knowledge Hub for all to see .
David Thomas , Chief Executive of Barratt Developments , said : “ We want to showcase what can be done to deliver zero carbon living using the latest technologies and working with the best industry partners . Ultimately , the aim is to find solutions to enable the industry to build high quality , zero carbon homes that customers love , at scale . We can then share this knowledge to help the industry deliver the future of sustainable housing .”
As featured on This morning program : https :// www . itv . com / thismorning / articles / alice-beer-visitsbritains-most-eco-friendly-house
We also supply and install :
• Living Ivy Green Screens – ground planted , sleeper bed or timber planter boxes
• Internal and external Living Walls
• Internal Moss Walls
• Sedum green roofs
• Noistop acoustic barrier fencing
• Live Picture
• Live Divider
• Soil stabilisation matting
Complimented by optional commercial soft landscaping , aftercare maintenance and irrigation services .
For further information , please contact :
Lesley Farrall , ITC & Digital Marketing Manager - Hedera Screens Ltd
01530 560550 lesley @ hederascreens . co . uk www . hederascreens . co . uk
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