WORKING ARCHITECTURE GROUP [WAG]

Britain has the oldest housing stock in the developed world and much of this is represented by the Victorian terraced housing that characterises the centre of our urban areas. There is much talk about the house of the future and the regeneration of our older urban areas, but the reality is that, at current demolition rates, the average house will have to last for 1000 years before it is replaced.

We can help you to evaluate how to make your existing properties more sustainable. We can produce feasibility assessments, followed through with high quality design, and on site construction and project management that will enable you to:

- improve how your buildings are currently used and occupied

- improve the insulation and performance of walls, floors, windows and roofs

- install renewable energy and heating technologies (such as solar photo-voltaics, solar water heating, wind turbines, ground/air source heat exchangers etc)

- install rainwater harvesting

- install greywater recycling

- install composting toilets

- use natural or non polluting materials. The air inside our houses is typically ten times worse than our city streets, due to the materials that our houses, and our consumer products, are made from.

we help:

- individuals who want to be environmentally responsible, improve the environmental performance of their home

- landlords want to be environmentally responsible, reduce running costs and increase value

- housing associations want to be environmentally responsible, reduce running costs and increase value

- property developers who want to be environmentally responsible, and add value to properties

To discuss this further email info@wag-architecture.co.uk, or call us on 020 73772423

Eco renovation - making existing properties Sustainable

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