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JULY 06 - CALA THROWS LIGHT INTO NEW HOMES

CALA Homes is throwing new light into a former hospital development whilst maintaining the historic ambience of the project through innovative use of modern building materials and technology.

Greenbank Village will provide over 400 homes from apartments to detached five-bedroomed family homes, ranging in price from £210,000 to over £1 million. The development- due for completion in 2006- includes refurbishment of the original Victorian buildings, designed by Robert Mottram and opened by Edward VII in addition to an extensive range of new build homes. A number of the new apartments and the adjacent mews will feature Glidevale Sunscoop tubular rooflights as a sustainable solution to optimising natural daylight within the properties. Some 35 Sunscoops are being used, “catching” natural daylight through a discreet glazed dome on the roof and reflecting it down a mirrored tube through the roofspace into the accommodation below.

Explains CALA Homes’ architectural manager Malcolm Ferguson, “The development has a very high specification, and we wanted to use energy-efficient solutions where possible to create a bright atmosphere within the homes. Sunscoops will enable us to flood the core elements of the top floor apartments with light and bring the ambience we want to the top floor.”

Research undertaken by SRI (Silsoe Research Institute) shows a single 250mm diameter Sunscoop that is 2.5m long gives more than four times the amount of light of a single 60W bulb on a bright day with direct sunlight, without any of the energy consumption or heat generation, and effectively creating a light source in a room without any requirement for electrical wiring and connections.

Glidevale’s Sunscoop roof flashing and polycarbonate dome is AA fire rated, enabling use without restriction on number and proximity of adjacent property.

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