07/10/2025
REPOST ! 🔥🏡 https://cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/events/raising-the-roof-on-whole-house-retrofit-cambridge-city/ We are excited that Freeland Rees Roberts Architects’s deep retrofit decarbonisation project in Gilbert Road will be open to the public as part of Cambridge Carbon Footprint’s ‘Open Eco Homes – Winter Special’!
🤔 At first glance, you won’t see much - but that’s what it’s all about! ⤵️
This is what we have done:
➡️ A warm new coat for the existing house, with careful junction detailing to hide 160mm of EWI and lots of additional roof insulation
➡️ Out with the gas – all now operated via ASHP
➡️ Careful integration of new technology - without turning the house into an M&E showroom…
➡️ All new MVHR ductwork carefully integrated and hidden
➡️ Removal of chimneys and airtightness improvements to reduce air leakage
➡️ Handmade brick slips to replicate existing period details
➡️ Re-use of existing windows (moved out into the insulation layer) to reduce waste
➡️ Solar PV & battery - By JLB car charger, and lots of other exciting features.
➡️ No need for the client to move out NGU CONSTRUCTION