Eco House Facts

The Eco House is the central feature of Hall 2 at the show, highlighting the future of living in a way that is also friendly to the environment.

For almost a quarter of a century the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show has highlighted the importance of green topics such as energy conservation and recycling. At the 2008 Centenary Show many of these ideas are taken a stage further in the Eco House.

The house is the brainchild of architectural designer, John Prewer, who for over 20 years has advocated sustainable innovation and the virtues of modular building (building in kit form). If the ‘kit’ word conjures up images of uninspired, prefabricated clones, the Eco House will be a revelation pointing the way to how homes could be constructed in the near future.

Off-site manufacturing (osm)

Optimise material in production and mass production benefits; weight saving solutions; reduced site construction time; reduced construction weather dependency; dry build construction; factory quality and consistency; reduced number of components; pollution and waste mitigation; improved health & safety

Adaptability

The design is performance-focused – ie the engineering and construction methodology can be used to create buildings for homes, education, healthcare, emergency housing, etc; it enables flexibility in arrangement, form and appearance through the use of alternative claddings; and it is capable of multi-storey application

Climate change

The design is capable of resisting the perils of extreme climate and temperature and has particular use within flood plains

Volume production

The process of component design is capable of volume production to drive down costs and meet market demand

Re-useability

The vast majority of the core structure and envelope is capable of deconstruction and re-erection either in the same or different form enabling both short and long term use

Carbon zero

The system is capable of contributing towards the construction of carbon-zero or positive-carbon buildings, through passive and active means, having inherent abilities to harness renewable energy

Speed of erection

The selection and design of components together with method of construction enables quick and efficient erection that is not reliant on major plant and equipment or skilled labour

Containerisation

the components forming the core structure and envelope are designed to flat-pack and fit efficiently into a standard ISO Container

Ground remediation

Through the use of raised structure taken from screw piles the system is capable of mitigating the need to prepare green-field sites together with the extent of post-deconstruction remediation