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Lyttleton Street

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council wanted to use INTEGER to challenge the perceived mediocrity in current homebuilding practice, and so increase the expectations of the public regarding social housing. In choosing to build 15 new INTEGER homes on the fringes of a 40-acre estate of high-rise blocks and low-rise dark brick homes, Sandwell MBC aimed to illustrate this contrast in the most striking way.

Design and Construction Innovation

• Timber wall panels filled with recycled cellulose insulation
• Western red cedar cladding
• Low maintenance aluminium roofing
• Glazed entrance lobbies and solar double-storey conservatories
• Clearly defined pathways for electrical wiring and cabling for data, voice and TV

Environmental Technologies

• Passive stack ventilation in kitchen and bathrooms
• Solar water heaters linked with boilers and sensor, if the heater draws insufficient solar energy to reach the required temperature, the boilers turned on.
• Grey water system

Intelligent Technologies

• Redundant cabling systems
• Every room has two phone lines for dialing-up to the internet and to make calls simultaneously
• Single central boiler system to meet the low heat demand of highly insulated homes
• Intelligent controls judge the optimum time for the boiler to operate
• Use of low-energy light fittings