2050 Homes Nottingham Phases 1–2
by Studio Partington
Client Nottingham City Homes
Awards RIBA East Midlands Award 2024 and RIBA Sustainability Award 2024 (sponsored by Autodesk)
In Nottingham’s Sneinton area, 63 non-traditionally constructed houses have been upgraded using a Dutch standard, Energiesprong, which could offer a scalable solution.
What sets the Energiesprong approach apart from other external wall cladding schemes is the rigorous approach to the whole-life costs of the houses. The architects ensured that this retrofit addresses not only thermal performance and primary energy source problems, but also some of the issues created in poorly planned aspects of the original neighbourhoods, such as insufficient daylighting.
The thermal upgrade consisted of overcladding the houses’ walls, roofs, and ceilings with prefabricated timber-framed panels. The panels, complete with windows, insulation, and finished cladding, impressively took only 12 days per home to install, and required little internal intervention, allowing tenants to remain in their homes throughout the construction work.
Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.
Contractors Melius Homes
Helping hand/Guardian Energiesprong UK
Renewable Energy Installer Sasie
Gross internal area 4722 m²
