1. What shade of Green is your Home?
(Blog Posts/Blog)

... you may be able to help the environment as well as your pocket.   When replacing light bulbs go for the low energy variety.  The use up a fraction of the energy of traditional types. Place a water ...

2. April News
(Blog Posts/Blog)

... move in.  Provisional calculations for energy consumption/generation and water use are now available following ongoing monitoring, the indications are very promising, showing as they do that these houses ...

3. Top Tory at Fairglen
(Blog Posts/Blog)

Last month we received a surprise visit from the Shadow Energy Minister; Charles Hendry who met with the projects resident architect John Stengelhofen during the Christmas break. It’s a sign of how important ...

4. Carbon Neutral Houses Exempt from Stamp Duty - or are they?
(Blog Posts/Blog)

... will achieve this at the moment without huge arrays of photo-voltaic panels or on-site wind turbines (which of course restricts their locations to windier (less energy efficient!) sites. So it is quite ...

5. Free Electricity
(Blog Posts/Blog)

We are pleased to find out that Michael Gacca at number 12 in Fairglen, Hayle will soon be recieving cash for his electricity generated from a Percy Williams eco home.  Michael tell us that energy suppliers ...

6. Loft insulation by Rockwool
(Green Buildings/Green Building Suppliers)

... much less in heating energy to have to replace it. We selected Rockwool's loft insulation for the Fairglen project, in order to make these homes some of the most thermally efficient on the market.  ...

7. Solar Voltaic Panels - Plug in to the Sun!
(Green Buildings/Green Building Suppliers)

As a natural part of the energy efficient design of the Fairglen Eco-homes we have incorporated solar voltaic panels into every dwelling. As you would expect these are required by the Low Carbon buildings ...

8. Eco Heat Pumps
(Green Buildings/Green Building Suppliers)

Eco heat pumps are another important feature of a low energy building, and the units we have selected are the best available. Eco Heat Pumps is owned by Swedish company Danfoss, and provides heat from ...

9. Press Release - Hayle Development
(Green Buildings/Green Building Suppliers)

... to follow - is coming to life in Hayle. The £3 million first phase of 12 houses is nearing completion in the Fairglen project, which is targeting near-zero energy bills for its occupants and is believed ...

10. Houses for Sale in Hayle and Redruth
(News/Latest)

... homes for sale in Hayle. Situated in a former south-facing nursery just off the coastal road to the beach in Hayle, it is amongst the largest energy efficient new communities in the area. Phase 2 of these ...

11. Green Buildings
(News/Latest)

... to follow - is coming to life in Hayle. The £3 million first phase of 12 houses is nearing completion in the Fairglen project, which is targeting near-zero energy bills for its occupants and is believed ...

12. Eco Houses in Hayle, Cornwall
(News/Our Developments)

... off the coastal road to the beach, it is amongst the largest energy efficient new communities in the area. Energy consumption is minimized by the use of a combination of: hot water and under-floor heating ...

13. Energy Saving Trust
(Web Links / Green Building Links)

A great resource for those planning to reduce the energy requirements for their homes, the Energy Saving Trust are a non-profit organisation that provides advice on energy saving. ...

14. Green Building Suppliers
(Category)

  We strive to be at the forefront of green building.  But what do we mean by ‘green building’? We constructing energy efficient homes with high insulation levels photo voltaic (PV) cells geothermal ...