Alex Neil MSP visits College’s Home of the Future| 09.06.10

Alex Neil, Minister for Housing and Communities, today (Wednesday 9 June), visited the first affordable, low-energy, low-carbon home at South Lanarkshire College, East Kilbride.  The low-energy, low-carbon house ‘Aurora’ is the result of a successful and unique partnership between South Lanarkshire College, Dawn Homes and more than 50 private sector partners.  It showcases the low-energy technologies and high insulation levels capable of reducing energy use and energy bills to zero while contributing towards challenging government targets to reduce greenhouse gases and carbon emissions. The low-energy house exceeds building standards requirements that are recommended to come into force in 2013 and then in 2016/2017 by The Sullivan Report: ‘A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland’. It also leads the way as a blueprint for eco-friendly house construction and is providing a unique training facility in the UK to teach students the principles behind low-energy buildings.

South Lanarkshire College’s low energy house project with Dawn Homes won a Business to College Innovation Award on 24 March 2010.  It also won the homes for Scotland Award for Environment and Sustainablity on 21 May 2010.

For more information on this event, please read the press release.