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VELUX model homes receive top industry accolade at British home awards

5 July 2010

The VELUX Model Home 2020 project emerged as the winner of the Innovation Award for Building Technology at the prestigious British Homes Awards (BHA) held on Thursday 1st July in Central London.

The two zero carbon homes were selected for the accolade by a panel of industry experts, including Sunand Prasad, Immediate Past President of RIBA, Dr Peter Bonfield, Chief Executive of the BRE and David Pretty, Chairman of the New Homes Marketing Board.

The judges commended VELUX's scheme for its original use of building technology and the exciting way it captures natural daylight and ventilation to minimise energy consumption. The properties were hailed as an exemplary benchmark for the design of future sustainable homes.

The Model Homes, to be built in Kettering, Northamptonshire, have been designed by another of the BHA's winners, HTA Architects, who received the coveted title of Architect of the Year. They are intended to offer an example of sustainable homes that are both appealing to the consumer while remaining affordable and easily replicable for the mass housebuilding market and aim to deliver a 70% reduction in carbon emissions with the remaining 30% of carbon offset by allowable solutions.

Now in their fourth year, the annual British Homes Awards recognise excellence in British building design, and champion innovation and change in the way the industry designs and builds our future homes.

Kevin Brennan, head of sustainability at VELUX Company Ltd, comments: "At VELUX, we strongly believe that it is possible to build bright and well ventilated zero carbon homes that the consumer will want to live in and that the mass house builder can reproduce simply and profitably. We are delighted that our Model Home 2020 project – a pioneering and ambitious bid to transform the way the industry perceives sustainable homes - has been recognised by the industry in these prestigious awards."




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