Larkfleet teaches children about sustainability

Larkfleet Group recently gave 90 local school children from Bourne Abbey Primary School a tour around its Sustainability Demonstration House to teach them about sustainable living.

The timber-framed three-bedroom house, located next to company's headquarters in Bourne, remains only part-built to demonstrate how a home can be constructed to meet the requirements of Level 3 and Level 4 of the government's Code for Sustainable Homes.

Some parts of the structure such as sections of walls, floors and ceilings, have been left unfinished to show how it is possible to combine different building techniques and energy-saving technologies to meet demanding environmental standards without excessive cost.

Larkfleet showed water-saving and energy-saving technologies such as rainwater harvesting and air source heat pumps that are fitted in the house to demonstrate the variety of ways people can live more sustainably.

Other technologies demonstrated in the house include photovoltaic panels which produce direct current electricity from the sun.

This can be used to recharge batteries or power equipment.

Larkfleet has a strong reputation for building energy efficient homes in the local area as well as retrofitting existing properties with energy-saving technologies.

Larkfleet is currently updating the Sustainability Demonstration House with additional technologies such as replacing the current low energy lighting with LED lighting, improving the photovoltaic system to demonstrate how it can work with the 'feeder tariffs' that allow householders to sell electricity to the grid, and improving the controls on the water harvesting system.

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