A co-living home for two households in a woodland garden near Dundee has won a major accolade at the Exemplar Sustainable Building Awards (ESBA), at a ceremony in London this week.
The Seed won the Small Projects category at the awards. Replacing a derelict building, the home is almost entirely timber and meets both Passivhaus Classic standard and RIBA 2030 embodied carbon requirements. The initiative has been held up as a shining example of how Passivhaus can work in locations with difficult site constraints and restricted solar gain.
Developed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF), the ESBA awards are delivered in partnership with the Passivhaus Trust (PHT), and Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP).
The winning projects, products, and initiatives demonstrate how far the UK’s construction industry is innovating in terms of addressing operational and embodied carbon, and enhancing occupant health and wellbeing.
“The Exemplar Sustainable Buildings Awards are demanding and data-driven,” said Emma Osmundsen, chair of Passivhaus Trust. “Delivering low operational energy and embodied carbon, with occupant health and wellbeing at the core, is challenging. The winners represent the current leading edge of sustainable building in the UK.”
Discover more about the Exemplar Sustainable Buildings Awards winners and the full shortlist: www.esba.uk
