Designed to be sustainable, the development features efficient biomass boiler, which heats the entire development via underfloor heating. It provides most of the energy savings with the fuel for the boiler coming from sustainable sources. Other sustainable features include a rain water recycling system that could reduce water consumption to 80 litres per day, which is around half the current national average water consumption of 150 litres.
The Greenway development is one of the first developments in London to meet the Mayor’s Housing Design Guidelines which set out minimum standards for floor space and outside private space. It is also built to be carbon neutral and conforms to the highest environmental building code standards.
The Greenway will officially finish by November 2012 and will provide 18 homes for people in Hounslow through social rent and the affordable rent scheme. The Greenway was part of the Green Sky Thinking event, a London-wide open house event which highlights new thinking and practice on sustainable building.
