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BedZED or the Beddington Zero Energy Development, is an environmentally-friendly housing development near Beddington, England. Photograph of the BedZED eco-village in Beddington, England taken by Paul Miller. ...
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Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the Queen (King) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified - by Athelstan 967 AD Area - Total 130,395 km² 50,346 sq mi Population - 2007 estimate...
BedZED was designed by the architect Bill Dunster who was looking for a more sustainable way of building housing in urban areas. The project was conducted as a partnership between the BioRegional Development Group, the Peabody Trust, Bill Dunster Architects, Arup, and Gardiner and Theobald as cost consultants. The Peabody Trust is one of Londons largest and oldest housing associations. ...
Arup is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. ...
The 82 houses, 17 apartments and 1,405m² of work space were built between 2000-02. The project was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2003. A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ...
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Transport
BedZED is accessible from the east side of London Road (A237), opposite New Road, 1km north of Hackbridge station although cars are not recommended to be taken because of the low energy emission practice. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
BedZED is within 5 minutes walk of the Hackbridge station which services trains from Victoria station or Kings Cross Thameslink. There is a Tramlink service from Croydon or Wimbledon to Micham Junction station which is within a 15 minute walk of BedZED itself. Victoria station may refer to: London Victoria station Manchester Victoria station Victoria tube station Victoria Station, a restaurant chain which uses real train boxcars as dining rooms. ...
Thameslink class 319 dual voltage Unit, East Croydon railway station, April 2004 Thameslink is a fifty-station franchise in the British railway system running 225 km north to south across London from Bedford to Brighton through the Snow Hill tunnel. ...
Tramlink (initially known as Croydon Tramlink) is a public transport tramway in south London, operated by FirstGroup on behalf of Transport for London. ...
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BedZED is serviced by the number 127 bus on the Purley to Tooting route via Wallington rail station and Hackbridge. Purley is the name of more than one place. ...
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BedZED encourages public transport, cycling and walking and has limited parking space.
Design principles Key ideas are; - Zero-energy - The project is designed to use only energy from renewable source generated on site. In addition to 777m² of solar panels, tree waste fuels the development’s cogeneration plant (downdraft gasifier) to provide district heating and electricity. The gasifier is not being used due to technical implementation problems though the technology has and is being successfully used at other sites
- High quality - The apartments are finished to a high standard to attract the urban professional.
- Energy efficient - the houses face south to take advantage of solar gain, are triple glazed and have high thermal insulation.
- Water efficient - most rain water falling on the site is collected and reused. Appliances are chosen to be water efficient and use recycled water where possible. A "Living Machine" waste water recycling system was installed but is not currently operating.
- Low impact materials - building materials were selected from renewable or recycled sources and located within a 35 mile radius of the site to minimize the energy required for transportation.
- Waste recycling - refuse collection facilities are designed to support recycling.
- Transport - car parking spaces are limited, but residents share in a car pool.
- Encourage Eco-friendly transport - Electric and LPG cars have priority over petrol/diesel cars, and electricity is provided by parking spaces for charging electric cars.
Similar or related terms: Near zero energy building, Zero energy house, Near zero energy house A zero energy building (ZEB) can be described as structure with a net energy consumption of zero over a typical year. ...
A photovoltaic module that is composed of individual PV cells. ...
Cogeneration (also combined heat and power or CHP) is the use of a heat engine or a power station to simultaneously generate both electricity and useful heat. ...
District heating (less commonly called teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location for residential and commercial heating requirements. ...
Solar gain (also known as solar heat gain or passive solar gain) refers to the increase in temperature in a space, object or structure that results from solar radiation. ...
Carpooling is shared use of a car, in particular for commuting to work, often by people who each have a car but travel together to save costs. ...
45 kg LPG cylinders Liquefied petroleum gas (also called liquified petroleum gas, liquid petroleum gas, LPG, LP Gas, or autogas) is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel in heating appliances and vehicles, and increasingly replacing chlorofluorocarbons as an aerosol propellant and a refrigerant to reduce damage to...
Performance Based on monitoring conducted in 2003 [1], BedZED has achieved the following reductions on UK averages: - Space heating requirements are 88% less
- Hot water consumption was down by 57%
- The electricity used, at 3kWh, is 25% less than the UK average. 11% of this is currently produced by photovoltaic panels [2]. The remainder would normally be produced by a wood chip fueled combined heat and power plant, but this isn't currently operational due to the company who installed it having financial problems.
- Mains water consumption has been reduced by 50%, or 67% compared to a power shower household.
- The residents' car mileage has been reduced by 65%.
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The kilowatt-hour (symbol: kW·h) is a unit for measuring energy. ...
Cogeneration (also combined heat and power or CHP) is the use of a power station to simultaneously generate both heat and electricity. ...
Drinking water Mineral Water Drinking water is water that is intended to be ingested by humans. ...
See also Domestic housing in the United Kingdom is currently one of the major obstacles to achieving the 20% overall cut in UK carbon emissions targeted by the Government for 2010. ...
Passive solar building design involves the modeling, selection and use of appropriate passive solar technologies to maintain the building environment at a desired temperature range (usually based around human thermal comfort) throughout the suns daily and annual cycles. ...
References - ^ Nicole Lazarus (October 2003). "Beddington Zero (Fossil) Energy Development: Toolkit for Carbon Neutral Developments - Part II". BioRegional.
- ^ Simon Corbey (December 2005). "The BedZED lessons". University of East London.
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