Bristol housebuilder embracing new tech to reduce new home energy bills

By Nicky Godding

15 August 2022

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A Bristol housebuilder is embracing new technologies to reduce the carbon footprint and future energy bills.

Autograph Homes has unveiled plans for a new development of high performance, eco-friendly homes which are to be built on Bristol’s semi-rural, northern edge.

Construction at The Haw Wood is due to start this summer, with homes featuring ultra-efficient, low impact technologies to radically reduce energy costs and scale down carbon footprint.

Simon Taylor, MD of Autograph Homes said: “It makes absolute sense to include the latest energy saving technologies in new build homes, as well as ensuring a low carbon build, to help relieve some of the concern people currently have about energy bills. It is also the right thing to do for the planet.

“Our ethos is to build homes for today, fit for the future, and that is embodied in our approach to sustainability.”

Sustainable features being designed into the new builds at The Haw Wood include high levels of insulation, outstanding airtightness and a precision-built timber frame to minimise heat loss through the roof, walls and floor.

Simon added: “Timber frame construction has the lowest CO₂cost of any commercial building material: it takes less energy to produce and build with and of course, it’s easily recycled. In fact, every timber frame home saves a potential four tonnes of CO₂ each year.”

The new homes will also include oversize, thermally insulated windows letting more natural daylight flood into the properties, illuminating the interiors, reducing reliance on artificial lights and helping to warm the house through solar gain, as well as cutting heat loss during winter.

Every property at The Haw Wood will be pre-fitted with PV panels; ground floor underfloor heating, as well as an electric vehicle charging point. Also fitted will be air source heat pumps and to store the excess energy generated by the PV panels, new home-owners can also opt for a home battery, to reduce bills and carbon even further.

By Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe.

After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts.

She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.