The Mail on Sunday
British Homes Awards 2009
SPONSORED BY VELUX
Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods
Sponsored by VELUX,
Knauf Insulation and Mitsubishi
Electric Ecodan and in partnership with Communities and
Local Government , BRE, Modern
Built Environment - Knowledge Transfer Network (MBE KTN)
and NHBC the Mail on Sunday British Homes Awards, with the
support of BIDA
and The Landscape Institute champion innovation and are pivotal
in providing a catalyst for change in the way we design and
build our new homes.
For 2009 the Awards will again be considered within 12 Categories
and, following the successful legacies of the Barratt Green
House (Home for the Future 07)
and The Avanti House with Crest Nicholson (Tomorrow’s
Lifestyle Home 08) architects and interior designers are
invited to participate in the annual design competition.
In his foreword to the CLG paper Lifetime Homes, Lifetime
Neighbourhoods published in February 2008 the Prime Minster
wrote:
“We don’t just need more homes,
we need more quality homes. Homes that are designed and built
to a high standard, and that respond to one of the biggest
challenges of 21st century- the challenge of an ageing population”
The ageing society poses one of our greatest housing challenges-by
2026 older people will account for almost half of the increase
in the total number of households, resulting in 2.4 million
more older households than there are today.
To address this challenge the 2009 British Homes Awards
in partnership with CLG and Help the Aged challenge architects
and interior designers to rethink not only the construction
and design of homes that comply with and surpass Lifetime
Homes Standards, but also the way communities are created
to allow ageing occupants to maintain a 21st Century lifestyle
and the enjoyment of communal amenities.
This Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods
competition was promoted at Ecobuild and Futurebuild (March
03-05). The short-listed designs will be presented as a gallery
exhibit at BRE Insite (June 01-04) and the winning design
will be announced on September 17th at the Awards presentation
in London and published in next year’s edition of Design.
The key to a better place.
To register your interest now email: mg@britishhomesawards.com
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