Saturday 30 March 2013,  University of Nottingham Campus

Seven homes on the University Park Campus have been designed and constructed to various degrees of innovation and flexibility to allow the testing of different aspects of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), energy efficient design and renewable energy systems.

The project is a research and educational showcase of innovative state-of-the-art energy efficient homes.

It aims to stimulate sustainable design ideas and promote new ways of providing affordable, environmentally sustainable housing that are innovative in their design.

Structures known as the Nottingham H.O.U.S.E (Home Optimising the Use of Solar Energy), it was designed and built by students from the Department of the Built Environment at the University of Nottingham.

Built with a mass market in mind, the aim was to show how a small, eco-friendly 'starter' home could be produced - one with the ability to sit side by side with other houses as part of a terrace.

Creative Energy Homes http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/creative-energy-homes/houses/houses.aspx

The Ecologist http://www.theecologist.org

The solar powered house of the future? - The Ecologist http://tinyurl.com/bwcwhpm

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You can see some earlier examples of an alternative approach to eco-friendly building in the series I photographed showing the process of straw bale construction.

Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 34 http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/515

Hill Holt Woods Project 1  http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/380178.html

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ALAN LODGE 

Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham.  UK

Email:                 tash@indymedia.org

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Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]

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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.

                                   It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"

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