Good Practice Case Study 236 Low energy design of care homes: the cost-effective route to energy efficiency

Publication Year

1997

Document Status

Withdrawn

Abstract

Describes two nursing/residential care homes where energy efficiency was considered at the design stage. One of the homes is privately owned, and the proprietors took advice from the architects on what could be done to minimise energy costs. The other is owned by a national housing association that has a policy of designing energy efficiency into all its new homes.

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