Sustainability & Building Physics

ZeroC was a committed sustainable developer and these credentials have been assiduously applied to Officers Field. All the homes have been delivered to Code 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes. The houses have been built using a highly insulated advance timber frame system and all the timber used in the construction has, without exception, come from sustainable forests. Fifty nine of the homes are being heated, and have their hot water supplied, through three district biomass heating systems running on sustainably sourced wood pellet.

Each of the three plants is based around a Woodpecker Thermon boiler and is located within the ground floor of one of the coach house garages. The sourcing of heat/hot water from biomass reduces the carbon emissions of the development by well over 50%. The remaining 18 homes are having their heat/hot water supplied using individual wood pellet boilers. All the private houses are fitted with rainwater harvesting systems. These systems collect rainwater from the roofs of the houses and use it to flush the WC’s, run the outside tap and run the washing machine. This reduces the use of mains supplied water by over half and dramatically reduces water/sewage bills.