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Sulgrave Gardens Shortlisted for Sustainable Housing Awards

Wednesday August 13th 2014

Sulgrave Gardens, one of Octavia’s most recent schemes has been shortlisted in the ‘Sustainable new housing project of the year’ category for The Sustainable Housing Awards 2014, organised by Inside Housing magazine and its sister publication Sustainable Housing.

MDA Consulting acted as Cost Consultant, Employer’s Representative and CDM Coordinator, as well as dealing with Party Wall and boundary matters on behalf of the client. Completed in September 2013, Sulgrave Gardens consists of four blocks providing a mix of 9 affordable rent units, 13 shared ownership homes and 8 town and mews houses for private sale, built using industry-leading PassivHaus principles with six of the houses being certified to full PassivHaus standards. An exemplar model for the UK building industry, this scheme is one of the first mixed-tenure PassivHaus developments in the UK and one of the few PassivHaus schemes to be set in a city context. A combination of super insulation, minimised thermal bridging and triple glazing are some of the features that will result in homes saving up to 90% of standard heating bills for the occupiers.