An overview of the one planet challenge - looking at using resources sustainably - and how this can apply to and benefit your retrofit project. Particularly aimed at housing associations and local authorities.
Presention for Ecobuild 2011 by Julie Codet-Boisse, Head of project delivery at BioRegional
What does one planet living look like and how can you embed it into your retrofit project?
1. What does one planet living look like and
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how can you embed it into your retrofit
project?
Ecobuild – 2nd March 2011
Ecobuild
Julie Codet‐Boisse, Nicole Lazarus, Joanna Marshall‐Cook
2. BioRegional – An entrepreneurial charity
BioRegional is an entrepreneurial charity which initiates and delivers practical
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solutions that help us to live within a fair share of the earth’s resources – what
we call one planet living.
We do this by setting up new enterprises and partnerships around
the world. Our aim is to lead the way to sustainable living
through practical demonstration.
through practical demonstration
Three main streams of work:
• One Planet Companies
• One Planet Regions
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• One Planet Communities
• Bi
Bioregional production Systems
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3. One planet communities across the world
London
Sutton
Canada
Brighton
UAE China
San
Francisco Washington
DC
Portugal
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South Africa
www.oneplanetvision.org
6. One Planet Living
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If everyone on earth consumed as much as the average person
in the UK, we would need three planets to support us
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20. PAYS in Sutton
• B&Q / EST / Sutton Council /
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BioRegional
• £1m for whole‐house retrofit in
privately owned homes
• Incentives: 40% subsidy from DECC
+ interest free loans
Source: www.reduceheatloss.co.uk
Source www reduceheatloss co uk
• Average spend was £12,500 per
household (£7,600 with subsidy) with ~£25 monthly repayments over
25 years
• Some lessons learnt: planning issues, time‐consuming process,
additional cost to restore to original state, etc
additional cost to restore to original state etc
21. Retrofit for the Future in Sutton
• BioRegional / Sutton Housing Partnership
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/ Parity Projects / Sutton Council
• Comparison of 3 similar 3‐bed terraced
social housing properties:
– Unimproved house + behaviour change
– Decent Homes / CERT + behaviour
change
– One Planet house + behaviour change Source: http://retrofit.oneplanetsutton.org
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• Monitoring over a 30 month period
• Results to be used by SHP and Sutton Council to include in overall
retrofit strategy
22. Zero Carbon Hackbridge
• Aim
– demonstrate how an urban community can be retrofitted cost‐
effectively to become zero carbon and inform the Green Deal
• Area‐based appoach
– look at the different solutions needed for the combinations of
building types and tenures present in this community
• Why Hackbridge?
– Representative of many urban areas that will need to be
retrofitted if we want to achieve our national objectives of 80%
CO2 reduction by 2050;
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– near London so can become a showcase and close to BedZED so
we can have people to visit it
– Sutton is also one of the 4 Big Society pilots
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23. Zero Carbon Hackbridge –
Zero Carbon Hackbridge SCT project
• Define an overall strategy on how
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Hackbridge can be retrofitted to zero
carbon, trying to bring together all the
current / future energy projects (LCZ,
Demap, PAYS, Green Deal, RFF, DE)
• Define financial model for retrofitting in
social housing (working with Sutton
Housing Partnership)
• Assess cost of retrofitting future district
heating into existing blocks of flats vs cost
of retrofit measures
Source: Parity Projects
24. One Planet Food ‐
One Planet Food The project
• 3‐year programme:
Sept 09 – Sept 2012
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BioRegional and EcoLocal LOCAL FOOD
• Aims:
1. Bring local food into the borough
2. Go
Grow more food locally
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3. Encourage healthy eating
4. Raise awareness about local healthy
food
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25. The Veg Van & Community farm
The Veg Van
• Sells farm and other local produce
• Hackbridge and Carshalton stations and St
Helier Hospital / soon at a local school
• 27% of customers now eating more fruit & veg
• £1 spent at Veg Van creates 84% more for the
local economy than if spent in supermarket
The Community Farm
• 7.5 acre plot of land
• Part time farm manager
• 30 core volunteers, Probation Service
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• Objective: self‐managing after 3 years, link
both into a social enterprise
• Launching a truly local veg box in June 2011
26. Case study –
Case study Local authority
A London Borough has a regeneration area that is currently comprised of:
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• A number of small industrial areas (which are due for redevelopment);
• 1930s terraced and semi‐detached houses;
1930s terraced and semi detached houses;
• 2 primary schools;
• 1990s flats;
• 1890s terraced houses;
• 8 blocks of 1950s flats owned by the Local Authority; and
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Two parades of shops in 1900s terraced buildings.
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Following the 10 Principles, what actions would you take as a local
authority to regenerate the area while integrating One Planet Living?
27. Case study –
Case study Housing association
• Green Housing is a key developer of affordable housing in
South East London and the Thames Gateway
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– providing around 200 new homes every year, to Code 4 standard
– However no environmental standards set for existing housing
What actions would you take as a Housing Association to
retrofit this housing stock in line with the One Planet Living
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principles?
Estates within the Housing Stock Age Building construction
124 semi‐detached houses 1930s Solid wall
Single glazing
150 Flats in 5 blocks with 3 storeys 1950s Cavity Wall
Single glazing
Single glazing
72 Terraced houses 1930s Timber frame with single skin solid brick
Single glazing
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50 flats in 2 blocks 3 storeys 1980s Cavity wall
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Single glazing
10 tower blocks (80 flats per block, 10 1960s Concrete un‐insulated construction
storeys) Single glazing
28. Concept retrofit for suburban village
• Short concept study undertaken by BioRegional Quintain and
architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
• Issues of typical suburban densities (~20dwellings/ha):
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Fail to build communities
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– Lead to excessive energy use (house, car)
– Make poor use of the land
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What could be targeted intervention to create a One Planet
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suburb?
Source: Desai. (2010) One Planet Communities. John Wiley & Sons Ltd