Lovell launches Tomorrow Home project

Lovell has launched its Tomorrow Home pilot programme, aimed to develop low-carbon smart homes “that will help to address the climate crisis, and importantly save residents money”.

The partnerships developer and contractor has constructed a Tomorrow Home demonstration abode at its Cornish Park scheme at Spennymoor, Durham, featuring 124 homes. This stands next to the same house type – a “Cornish” three-bedroom semi-detached corner turner home - which has “more limited technologies” compared to the Tomorrow Home.

In partnership with Teesside University, Lovell has collected data from the construction of the two demonstration homes. It will continue to monitor their in-use performance according to operating costs and embodied and operational carbon figures to determine how the Tomorrow Home performs against other technologies.

“This will inform the specification of future homes that Lovell develops as the business moves to the Future Homes Standard and beyond,” the business said.

The technologies installed in the two homes are:

Plot 65 – Tomorrow Home

• Eco Heatwave infrared heating system
• Atlantic Calypso air source hot water cylinder
• Vent Axia whole-house mechanical ventilation and heat recovery system (MVHR)
• Myenergi solar inverter and battery store linked to electric vehicle charger
• Eco2solar photovoltaic panels
• Recoup …