A Contributory Partner With Barratt Homes The Zed House Project

As a leading, accredited UK supplier and installer of Urban Green Infrastructure, Soft Landscaping, and Irrigation, for over 14 years - Hedera Screens were delighted to be chosen as a contributory partner by Barratt Homes to support their trailblazing new concept - The Zed House Project.

The designated eco-friendly, sustainable products selected for the installation were:

PlantBox Wall mounted living wall

Benefits:

·      Manufactured in England from 100% recycled materials

·      £1 from each trough sold is donated to the PlantBox Trust

·      Clever water indicator, tells you when to fill up

·      Simple to put together

·      Stimulates biodiversity

·      Promotes health and well-being

·      Low maintenance

Mobilane Hedera Helix ‘Woerner’ Ivy green screens

Planted in responsibly sourced handmade timber planter boxes and posts

Benefits:

·      Can also be ground planted, sleeper beds and using our cabling method

·      Provides instant privacy, as the screens are grown to height

·      Various heights and species available

·      Scientifically proven to filter harmful PM10 toxins from road pollution

·      Stimulates biodiversity

·      Promotes health and well-being

·      Easy and quick to install

·      Low maintenance

Both products made a significant contribution towards creating Barratt Homes vision of a beautiful ‘Biodiversity Garden’.

Introducing more horticulture and plants are at the heart of most initiatives for clean air, biodiversity, and privacy, but thankfully now becoming widely recognised in the main for their contribution, the possibilities of which are endless.

Barratt Developments, the UK’s largest house builder, recently launched its unique flagship zero carbon home concept called the Zed House, that will be occupied and monitored to assess its performance. It will be the first new home in the country built by a major house builder to go beyond the new Future Homes Standard by delivering a carbon reduction of 125%.

Last year Barratt announced that all its new homes will be zero carbon by 2030 and this flagship concept house is the first step in achieving that. It is being developed as an industry showcase home to demonstrate what is achievable, particularly from a mainstream, volume house builder.

The new home is being built with over 40 leading industry partners from across the house building, sustainability, and technology sectors, all helping to broaden knowledge in zero carbon living with the lessons learnt from the construction being shared across the industry. Barratt challenged its supply chain partners to bring-in the most cutting-edge products into the house to reduce its embodied carbon.

In the garden of the Zed House there will be a biodiversity garden featuring nests for bats and swifts, a wildlife pond, hedgehog highways, a wall mounted living green wall and ivy green screens, planted in timber planter boxes. The team are using experts from RSPB and Barratt to help promote wildlife and nature at the house, with the garden achieving a gold rating from RSPB.

Set on the main campus at the University of Salford, the new Zed House is based on the popular Barratt ‘Alderney’ house type. To ensure the house operates in the ‘real-world’ it will be occupied by an academic from the University of Salford, meaning its energy consumption can be measured and displayed in the Knowledge Hub for all to see.

David Thomas, Chief Executive of Barratt Developments, said: “We want to showcase what can be done to deliver zero carbon living using the latest technologies and working with the best industry partners. Ultimately, the aim is to find solutions to enable the industry to build high quality, zero carbon homes that customers love, at scale. We can then share this knowledge to help the industry deliver the future of sustainable housing.”

We supply and install:

• Mobilane Ivy Green Screens – ground planted, sleeper bed or timber planter boxes
• Internal and external Living Walls
• Internal Moss Walls/Art
• Sedum green roofs
• Noistop acoustic barrier fencing
• LivePicture
• LiveDivider
• Soil stabilisation matting
• Wildflower matting

Complimented by optional commercial soft landscaping, irrigation services and aftercare maintenance.

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01530 560 550