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ecently I attended an eye-opening event showing off an innovation which makes it possible not only to live with the reality of fl ooding in the UK, but also create homes where people want to live. For better or worse, this often tends to be on fl ood plains. In fact, it’s thought that 27% of all new homes are built on a fl ood plain in the UK, while the Met Offi ce says that extended extreme weather is now increasingly likely.
The Hadley FloodSAFE house, currently undergoing testing in a full-size mockup of a steel-framed family home at the country’s largest fl ood testing facility, HR Wallingford, demonstrates a very simple approach to a complex problem. Sensors detect fl ood water and slowly raise the house on mechanical steel jacks, up to 1.5 metres, in around 15 minutes. The structure, which is a three-bedroomed house with standard proportions, and brick-slip cladding, will then lower as the water lowers.
Brought to the market by Hadley, a light gauge steel maker who have also begun to create offsite-built homes for the UK market, and believe that developers will now, if further tests including live pilots prove successful, be able to fully maximise their plots. Currently plots they are able to secure can have sections which are liable to fl ood, and they are only able to build out a certain percentage as a result.
According to Hadley’s MD Ben Towe (himself a mechanical engineer), this is going to enable developers and architects to be able to build homes “with the best view” on riverside plots for example, which will be more lucrative in terms of sale price. This, plus the ability to fully maximise a site, will help to more than offset the extra capital cost (thought to be around £35,000 per unit) of the system.
At the same time, homebuyers will not be forced to move out of their local areas to fi nd an affordable home, if more of such sites can be used. This is a key motivator for the concept’s inventor, and FloodJack founder, Andrew Parker, who says the social value which this can bring to communities is vital. And practically, developers won’t have to ‘raise the land’ in order to build across sites.
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Also recently, but at the other end of the sustainability spectrum, it was confi rmed that the Passivhaus in Camden designed for the late Max Fordham by his practice, bere:architects and Price & Myers, has been confi rmed as the country’s fi rst genuinely zero carbon home, a few weeks after the famed engineer’s death. This means that it conforms to the UKGBC (the UK Green Building Council) criteria for not only carbon emitted during construction, but also during its operation.
Whether or not this solution is repeatable at scale, having a large amount of concrete providing thermal mass, and a form boldly dedicated to performance rather than traditional notions of ‘home’ aesthetics, it is a huge achievement that has rightly won major awards. It represents a completely different approach to dealing with sustainability challenges to that of the FloodSafe House, but surely, the more practical solutions we have, the better.
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ON THE COVER... Working in collaboration with RTA Studio, Irving Smith Architects created a net zero timber research facility, with a design in CLT and LVT that references Maori culture
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SCION TIMBER INNOVATION HUB, ROTORUA, NEW ZEALAND Also known as Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, Irving Smith Architects’ inviting new timber research institute has a net zero construction that respects local Maori heritage
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