£100 A Year Home to Be Created by the Housing Association

The Scots Housing Association has recently announced that it plans to create a green home that is so energy efficient its bills only cost £100 each year.

The Green Building Press has reported that the housing association will be working together with the architect firms City Building and PRP to create four prototype homes that will then be used on future projects.

The housing association’s executive director of regeneration, Jim Sneddon, said that what they are nicknaming ‘Glasgow House’ has become more than an idea – ‘it is now a development with a real future’.

He added that the energy efficient and cost effective home will come with a number of benefits. First and foremost it will ‘help families enjoy a better quality of life’ making homes more comfortable and far cheaper to run. Homes such as this will also make a big difference to the environment and carbon emissions.

A number of eco friendly measures will be installed in the property, ranging from insulation to double glazing in windows. Homes will also be making use of the latest renewable energy technologies to create even bigger savings.

Since the announcement of the Ravenscraig redevelopment project, Glasgow has been at the centre of a debate about sustainable housing.

At the heart of the Ravenscraig redevelopment are recycled materials, energy efficient techniques and sustainable measures of construction that go into shaping how the site will develop. It is one of the largest regeneration sites in Europe.