By Chris Newman December 31st, 2015
Ok, so its our own record, but we’ve had the lowest calendar year energy usage for our demo house so far. I’m putting it down to 3 changes over last year – a) slightly lower occupancy with the children being...
By Chris Newman June 3rd, 2015
Way back in September 2013 we posted a piece comparing our demo house to Passivhaus and Enerphit. I’ve provided updated figures here based on our actual bills for 2014: The figures pretty much speak for themselves. Remember, we didn’t follow...
By Chris Newman June 2nd, 2015
Our demo house was recently featured on London Lives’s Place Invaders. If you don’t want to watch the main presenter rocking round some pretty silly houses then skip to 22 minutes in. It’s a quick fire tour...
By Chris Newman June 2nd, 2015
I eventually got round to applying for the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive for the solar thermal system on our demo house. We’d previously received £300 from the Renewable Heat Incentive Premium Payment which rightly reduces the amount we will received....
By Chris Newman June 2nd, 2015
It’s been a while since I updated the energy use figures for our demo house…..not because it’s performing badly though. In fact it continues to perform really really well. As there is so much data now I’ve split it out...
By David Shewan September 1st, 2014
Today we can announce that our demo house, Hope Villa, has been short-listed for the Energy Efficient Building Project of the Year award as part of the Energy Awards 2014. The house, which is owned by Parity’s Commercial Director, Chris Newman,...
By Chris Newman May 8th, 2014
We are proud to have won the Domestic Retrofit category at the GreenBuild Awards 2014.