Energy Efficient Affordable Housing
With the ever-growing population worldwide, the shortfalls of affordable houses in almost every nation is growing.
In order to help master this challenge, we have developed the ‘EcoHomes’ integrated system, thus addressing the issues of budget, implementation speed, durability, environment friendliness and scalability in the context of international building quality and energy efficiency standards.
- Conforming to Building Standards and Specifications
- Flexible in structural design
- Able to provide allowance for future expansion and renovation works
- Caters for most common heights
- One to six floors heights (EcoHomes System
- Above six floors heights (EcoHomes System in combination with conventional construction methods)
- Adaptability to restrictive site conditions
- Earthquake proof (up to 9 on the Richter scale)
- Typhoon resistant
- Energy saving with low thermal heat transfer into the building interior (standard configuration)
- Fire resistant (minimum 2 hours)
The objective of the integration of renewable energies, adapted to the respective location, into the ‘EcoHomes’ integrated system is full or partial energy self-sufficiency.
The implementation of local renewable energy technologies allows:
- environmentally friendly generation (transformation) and supply of power
- to cut back lead times for grid planning and building
- a more efficient use of budgets
- to draw upon a huge number of international funding opportunities available to co-finance and / or for inexpensive re-finance
Depending on the respective building sites climatic and resource conditions, we are able to incorporate the following renewable energy technologies:
- Solar (photovoltaic
- Roof top installed solar modules will not only produce (convert) energy but will also shelter the building structure from immoderate heath, hence reduce the amount of energy needed to air-condition the building.
- Wind
- A proprietary (patented), highly efficient (20% plus compared to conventional turbines of the same size), noise reduced (about 30% less) wind turbine, scalable from 5 to 50 kWh per unit can be installed on the building's roof top or next to the building.
- Water turbine
- Integration of small- to midsized water turbines.
- Wave energy converter
- Wave energy converter In case building sites are close to shore, a state-of-the-art Wave energy converter for 24 / 7 energy generation (transformation) can be integrated.
- Waste to energy
- A local, decentralized waste to energy solutions encompasses several distinct advantages:
- substitutes costly fossil fuel or renewable energy with existing, no-cost fuel
- eliminates resource building to collect, transport and dispose waste
- reduces traffic and subsequent air pollution
- avoids waste disposal
- more efficient use of budgets
In the recent past, it has become well known that investing in energy efficiency will generate a higher return in the long term while protecting our planet.
We are transferring Zero Energy House strategies and technologies from house building in Europe (mainly from Germany), thus leveraging based on existing and cost-efficient technologies.
The main Energy Efficiency elements will be:
- Roof shading or roof gardening (incorporating partial vegetable self-sufficiency)
- High-insulation masonry
- Insulating glass and window / door frames
- Optimizing energy consumption
- for air-condition
- for lighting (LED)
- for other electrical consumer
- Introducing shared services
- Load control per building, apartment, shop
- Central building service management
- Energy storage technology to balance energy generation and demand
