Did make me chuckle. As someone who works for a developer that comment is why we don't add things that will cost us more. Instead we put in the cheapest thing we can as people won't pay for stuff that will save them money. Instead we are driven by the local market value. I wish people would pay more for items that will benefit them long run but they just don't and mortgage companies don't. Recognise the benefit either.
@@dcanmore And all because the Conservatives removed the maximum borrowing cap in the 1980s. This controlled the maximum amount of money a bank was allowed to let you borrow,. Before that you were allowed to borrow 2.5x your salary & 1x your partners. So the average mortgage today would be about £140,000 and these houses would cost a more reasonable about £250,000.
@@ianmurray250 so you like the idea of people borrowing more than they can pay for? We have done that a few times, and it always seems to lead to a collapse, and people lose their homes, and banks get to make a fortune off of people's misfortune!
@@nc3826 I am based in California my day job is growing smokable ham flower but I am also doing research projects with fibre and green varieties finding the most success with Chinese land races thus far on the fibre production side
@@tonydeveyra4611 I'm guessing smokable ham flower and Chinese land races are nicknames for the species.... Nice to see a high hurd/blast producer is also on your radar too, since CBD seems like the main focus for most ppl for now.... FWIW there are a few Hempcrete Block producers outside of the USA that are trying to start production in the USA in the next year. But they both are not that close to California.... and there so much new tech that will bring down the cost of processing it... it should become a far more cost effective options for builders... good luck...
I wish these types of videos provided actual specs and drawings. Did they actually use hempcrete or did they just use hemp wool? I’m planning a hempcrete house is North Carolina but it is very hard convincing architects and builders to use a product that is newer to the USA.
I'd like to suggest a bicycle locking station next to the rental car. Someone nearby could bike (ebike) to where the car is, lock up their bike, then take the car into the city etc.
Yeah disappointing that they managed not to mention bikes at all whilst espousing their green credentials. secure and convenient bike parking, closer to the front door than the car parking, big enough for a cargo bike, with a wide-enough door and charging is the new standard. At least in Cambridge the local plan already requires most of this, but I guess most places say nothing about the subject. There was no sign of connectivity to the existing nearby housing either (other than cycling down the main road, which probably isn't great).
iI's about 200m to the car parking slot from the furthest-away house. I think most people can walk that far. But yeah bike parking is always good. And he did say that people could come from elsewhere - those really would want somewhere to lock their bike.
@@user-jt1jv8vl9r You can already buy such a vehicle (I own one - it's great). But that's an e-moped not an e-bike. The speed limit of 15 for vehicles deemed to be 'cycles' and allowed to use cycle paths is sensible policy because bikes and pedestrians are mixed together in millions of location across the country. Speed differential matters. I agree that a 30mph-capable vehicle for a 15 mile each-way commute makes a lot of sense, otherwise it takes an annoyingly long time. Mine was 12 miles and cycling it every day was about 55mins each way - so I got the moped. The main catch is that you don't get to pedal on a moped so it's cold in winter. There are moped-speed machines that you can pedal too so you might prefer to get yourself one of those.
Their content has been driven by the pandemic. That’s the sole reason why the majority of episodes have been vehicle centric. Once the C-19 shackles are removed, Fully Charged Show will be free to spread its wings. Hopefully , back to its roots.
It's naive to expect EV cars will solve all the worlds problems. But they are definitely part of the solution, not least the battery storage they offer in future, for the grid.
When children are at the school gates on a winters day, parents in their cars running there heating and exhausts belching carbon monoxide...I know what type of vehicles I would prefer waiting for them!
@@TheGearHunter all the aspects of this development are brilliant but the focus not only of this project but most governments on electric vehicles is stupid while they ignore the simple potential of compressed air vehicles. Simple technology and no rare mineral inputs just cleaning the air during it's use.
We are working on it as a developer to do much of what was just said in the film but with standard houses competing with big developers and ours is made offsite rather than onsite. So watch this space it is happening and we are not the only ones.
My pad has been carbon-negative for years. Soon my driving will be as well, via bi-directional charging. Share this video to those “mediocre legislators” and those mediocre thinking Luddite friends. ONE PLANET !
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Robert, I like this episode very much! I'm a former automotive engineer that for many different reasons changed to energy efficiency in buildings... You hit many nails on the head in a single episode, congratulations!
Very cool.. really like the imbedded solar roof. It does seem a little bit of a shame that they aren't already at 100% of them with batteries. Just seems like a natural thing to put in a house designed from the ground up to be a highly self sustainable home.
Only down side I see is cooling. The point of installing raised above the roof is it allows air flow. Wonder how they allow cooling? Useing the electric car batteries as storage is probably a better use of batteries. Most cars spend most of their time parked.
@@Ed.R They don't cool, they just do better in more moderate climates, you will lose some kWh's though with integrated PV like that. Looks incredible though, no?
Love what you are doing Ian & James. It’s so important your work and achievements get the public exposure they deserve to help other developers to follow suit. It can be done!
Excited to hear about the Home series coming on the channel, it's great to see some of the tech and initiatives that are coming, especially with the recommendations about new boilers in the news.
Great video. Great to se what can be done today. I love that you bring out other content than cars, also boats, bicycles, wind turbines and other green energy production facilities. Also very nice to se Robert so active again. For a period it seems he was buried in paperwork instead of participating in the videos.
Great to see. I think it's important with new housing developments that they are connected to town centres with easy and safe walking and cycling routes. Too many are plonked on the edge of towns and cities with little to no connection other than roads, which simply induces more car journeys and road building. In my mind it's as important as the buildings themselves.
There's been a "car-club" where I live for several decades now, (yes, DECADES:), and in the last few years I've seen shared e-bike/e-moped systems appearing around us. Having a shared-resource approach built into a community is a very good idea, and a step in the right direction.
Fantastic video and really great to see. Would love to see how the heating and hot water works through the winter with low solar generation and the reliance on the grid during those times. More home project videos please! Would also love to see some retrofit projects to inspire what we can do in our already poorly built homes to improve their efficiency.
This project looks totally legit. He asked the right questions and they gave mostly the right answers. Not greenwashing at all. Would be interested to revisit the car sharing after a few years and find out whether it was regularly used or whether they had to run it at a big loss.
Good direction for construction. Makes sense How much are these houses? . They look very big. The smaller the household, the bigger the house. The "affordable houses" aren't really affordable. The occupants can part own it. Shared ownership is one of the many tools introduced to inflate house prices. A nation of buy to let addicted to rising house prices. No wonder the young are alienated.
Really looking forward to the house series. I've recently moved and i need to do a fair amount of work, i want to be getting solar, batteries, air source and improved windows and insulation so will be watching with keen interest!
Superb project and great to show the world how feasible this kind of thing is. Obviously the test will be how quickly this concept can trickle down to low and regular income housing developments. Couldn't come soon enough!
Need more of this in the states, but affordable. Houses come up so quickly with no thought on emissions, let alone longevity, in 'planned' communities :c
Great project. Start undercutting “contemporary builds” on price and watch the uptake. If we can find alternative financing methods (rather than the accepted mortgage system) then it becomes a no-brainer. Great work.The ball is starting to roll!!
Beautiful new build houses that I will never be able to afford to live in , I do love this idea of building on all the greenbelt land for unaffordable housing .
We have built a passive house in Blue Mountains NSW Australia two years ago. We will be building six level CLT/Passive House with Battery and PV. We will adding nine EV charges, as well and having a community micro grid on the North Coast NSW, in 2022/2023. it will be first project of three built by 2025. Fully Charged LIVE Australia will be coming to Sydney on the 29th & 30th October 2022
Good job Robert ,very pleased for the House series , and we need legislation to improve massively to get the big house builders to build more sustainable and reduce the cost of carbon locking materials down to where average builders can also use them .
Very encouraging and shows what can be. Unfortunately most new build homes are absolute minimum standard and full of inefficient appliances. We really do need more of these Eco houses of at least carbon neutral but carbon negative even better. Great video FC Team 👍
I would love to hear from the architects of these houses, understanding the decisions they’ve made on the house designs and how they help make the house carbon negative.
Do you think they mean it, or are they just saying that to keep the ‘greenies’ off their back? I was looking at some Persimmon houses the other day - awful buildings and a car-centric layout of the estates. They make “Mediocre” look like it’s an effort for them.
I'm really looking forward to the home series! Just bought a house and doing research what we can do to make it as CO2 neutral as possible! Perfect timing for this series. I would really like to know how much additional electricity generation you need to have electric under floor heating, heat pump options, etc, etc. Also, it's so much fun to be less dependent on fossil fuels and be more self sufficient, it's just the feeling of self sufficiency that's fun, and saving some monthly recurring expense by investing in your house.
Love all shows on energy efficiency in homes, businesses and vehicles.Wasting energy anywhere wastes money. An energy efficient home is more comfortable and is better for your wallet and the planet.
Excellent episode, more like it please. It's really uplifting to see a development like that but that's tempered with great frustration when you think that we're in the middle of a house building boom in the UK and most of them are being thrown up as cheap as possible with no effort to reduce their environmental footprints. It's such a massive missed opportunity. Hopefully Greencore get their hands on some more land!
Great to see the carbon positive project. BioRegional are always at the cutting edge of sustainable projects. I’ve just converted and extended my house with similar principles. The roof is fully covered with PV shingle from Sunstyle (the first use in the UK). So they are the roof, not on another roof below. I’m not connected to them in any way so I use the name to help others. And I’m managing to generate more than enough power for the house and my electric car. I use the Tesla Power Wall and Zappi charger (thanks to Fully Charged fro the heads up on those). I’ve not had to go down the airtight passive house route to do that, which is my preference to stay connected to nature, so there are other ways to do this. All significant materials used are pretty well zero carbon (CO2 free concrete) or natural products like larch cladding and bamboo floors. Looking forward to more in the series
Good to see the launch of the home show. Good timing with the IEA reports roadmap saying no gas boilers by 2025. We are all going to be engaged in this. And it will link with electric cars😊
Will be researching the one planet initiative! I’m close to carbon neutral with solar, insulation, electric car...just decided I’m going to go negative by adding solar to my daughter’s house 😉
Most houses are _already built_ and it is these we need to improve. New houses are all well and good, but how do you reduce the problem of the existing housing stock without having to wait for them to all fall down and get replaced?
@@fullychargedshow Good to hear. Maybe stretching the definition of 'everyday' , but a case in point... I had an architect recommend using internal sips to improve insulation of a 150 year old stone walled building, but I find lots of information saying that these buildings need to be thermally leaky to prevent moisture building up in the stone, and causing damp problems. Basically the building needs to breathe. How do you reduce the carbon footprint of problem buildings?
This is great, shops and schools within walking distance, cars and diesel buses are no longer necessary. No forest has been demolished to build this very affordable neighborhood, and I am particularly impressed by this technical feat.
Tip for mapping enthusiasts: you can help map new (but also existing) developments on crowdsourced OpenStreetMap, use Mapillary for street-level images
Just down t'road from me. All already sold STC by the looks of it. Perhaps Bobby will say that in a sec... :) watchy watchy. 5 bed properties were / are £1.2m. Fantastic though, and the more of this built the cheaper it will get.
Crikey, Southmoor. I grew up there. It was a much smaller village in those days, and had the A420 main Oxford - Swindon road running through it, now bypassed. British Leyland at Cowley, Oxford, used to ship body panels from Pressed Steel Fisher, Swindon, so the old road could get quite busy at times.
Really interesting show !👍 I think the start-up Magnax would really have it's place in this show. They are specialised in yokeless axial flux motors/generators. So maybe a company for future videos 😄
About the car sharing. It does already exist in some European cities. The one I use in Copenhagen is quite extraordinarily, really. It is often cheaper for the family to rent a BMW or Mercedes to go to the local shopping mall than it is to take the bus. Not all of the cars are electric, but a good many are. Perhaps when travel is allowed again it would make for an interesting episode.
Really great to see this, it's a good attempt at creating carbon negative living, but maybe take a look at what ALSET (TESLA backwards) homes are doing for further inspiration.
Coincidentally, I was searching online for houses like this, on the day the video was released, in Wales. I wish there were more of them and they were easier to find - if there are more of them. One thing that irritated me, as always - wheelie bins in the video. What the *****" is going on with them? They are a blight that never fail to spoil anything they are near.
I’ve been visiting just about every property in my town of 11k people in the U.K. what stunned me was the amount of unused or empty homes - I would estimate over 5%.
I'm no expert Brian but I am in the process of rebuilding part of my home to almost passive house standards and I can tell you that you can get close but you cannot achieve the same level of efficiency as a new Passive Home build. There are simply too many compromises. Air sealing as well as a full understanding of all materials used in the current building are required in order to avoid the risk of mold. Is it worth it? I think so...hopefully I'll be able to share first hand experience in the next year or two.
Every UK house should be built like this. Every politician, local government official, housing department etc should be made to watch this video and then told to enforce this standard of housing in the UK. Send the link of this video to you local MP. Gas boilers and log burners are polluting the air we all breathe for NO GOOD REASON.
Certainly they're more sustainable, affordable, and sensible developments than what's being shown in this video. Car reduction, walkable neighbourhoods, terraces and multi-dwelling units, community focus etc.
Hempcrete is made of lime and industrial hemp it absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. All housing communities should be pushing for this energy positive and carbon negative homes are the future.
This is an amazing development, need this globally. Would love to have one of these houses as long as I could have my bees, veggie garden, EV & garage, and fruit trees.
In what kind of country do you live? These houses are now mandatory in most of western europe. At least in country, new houses have to meet very high standard isolation/solar roof electricity/no emission. You cant build a new house now, without having solar panels on it. The problem with all these new very high isolation / zero emision houses is that they get EXTREMELY HOT during the summer. Meaning after some years after people bought those houses, they need to spend another 5000 euro's on air conditioning. And they need to put charging stations for electrical cars in the future.
