NET-ZERO HOMES

Hermitage Mews is a compilation of 8no. high-quality net-zero townhouses, designed as highly sustainable and completing on site in spring 2024. The project is built on a long and thin plot of land in the London Borough of Croydon and will be an infill of a gap-site in a suburban part of the borough. The development hosts a mix of 3 and 4 bedroom homes including dual aspect dwellings and doors addressing the street; encouraging neighbourliness and natural surveillance.

The scheme has been designed to achieve the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge, thereby meeting high-sustainability standards, with low operational energy and low embodied carbon targets. Our sustainability approach used timber for construction and for the main structural elements, thereby reducing the embodied carbon. The building adopts a fabric-first approach to the walls, floors, and roofs, with a robust mechanical ventilation strategy, reducing the operational energy required to run each home, and provide a comfortable home with low energy bills. Additionally, overheating was modelled and mitigated to respond to our more extreme temperatures as a result of the climate emergency. Green roofs and significant planting has been incorporated on site to increase it’s biodiversity net gain while providing wildlife corridors for habitat.