British Homes Awards 2010

the daily telegraph
british homes awards
are expanded to recognise buildquality

The British Homes Awards champion best practice by recognising exemplars across specific categories and have been expanded to recognise and endorse build quality in construction. Sponsored by Premier Guarantee, The British Homes BuildQuality Awards complement the established categories for design, promoting those completed schemes that best achieve the creative aspirations of the architect.

Integral to the Awards is an annual design competition that stimulates the development of innovative systems and technologies to minimise carbon emissions and the dependency on fossilised fuels within our homes. Evidence of the creativity the UK’s leading architects in addressing the critical issue is presented on the UK’s most comprehensive showcase of energy- efficient homes at www.ecohomehub.com

Following the successful legacies of our 2007 Home for the Future, the Barratt Green House and the 2008 Lifestyle House, The Avanti House, now in development with Crest Nicholson, last year’s competition addressed the critical issue of housing for our ageing population, with “Sunnyside- up house” voted the winning design.

Recognising that our homes are responsible for the creation of 27% of carbon emissions the 2010 competition, in partnership with The Gentoo Group and the National Refurbishment Centre, has gone retro, challenging architects to submit their innovative retrofit design solutions for a redundant housing block in Sunderland.

The 5 designs short-listed will inspire the energy efficient refurbishment of our existing housing stock. Even though there can only be one winner- as voted by the readers of The Daily Telegraph and announced at this year’s Stirling Prize- all who participated this year- and in our previous competitions- are congratulated on their design vision.

For more information on the Awards, email:

mg@britishhomesawards.com

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