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Scotland gets first eco-home
03/12/09
Edited by Andy Jowett. Budding builders in Scotland will be able to brush up green home improvement skills after the country's first affordable, low-carbon house was officially opened at South Lanarkshire College.
The Aurora has been built by Dawn Homes in a public-private partnership supported by over 50 private building firms, the BBC reports.
It uses heat recovery systems, insulation, triple glazing and ground source heat pumps to cut out the need for gas central heating. The property is also designed to potentially generate more electricity than it uses, which would allow home owners to sell energy back to the grid.
The house will be used as a training facility at the college for builders-to-be but, at its official opening, Scotland's finance and sustainable growth minister John Swinney its design also represents the future of low-carbon housing in the country.
Dawn Homes director Martin Egan said: "The Aurora is the first step towards producing affordable and eco-friendly homes for the mass market and in particular, the social housing market, where [its] energy efficiency savings offer a very real solution for fuel poverty."
