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Developer Hillcrest Homes has been working with leading full service carbon management organisation, the CarbonNeutral Company, to calculate the amount of CO2 that will be emitted during the construction of its Littledales Park development in Hartford.
Climate change is recognised as the biggest threat faced by our society, and it is everyone’s responsibility to pay back what they take from the planet in addition to making long-term lifestyle changes. As well as looking at ways of reducing CO2 emissions, such as using local material suppliers and reducing waste, Hillcrest has offset its unavoidable emissions by supporting two sustainability projects in the UK and abroad.
Hillcrest Homes want to make their buildings more energy efficient and, where possible, include energy saving features, including underfloor heating, mega-flow pressurised water systems and water reducing valves which limit the amount of water pushed through the taps without limiting the pressure.
Hillcrest Managing Director, Mike Kennedy says; “We work hard to meet the increasing need for high standard new and energy efficient homes. Unfortunately at the moment, it is not economically viable for developers to install every environmentally friendly product on the market and many of them are untested”.
Hillcrest is investing in two projects – a wind farm in New Zealand, and a reforestation project in Snowdonia National Park. Hillcrest is supporting The CarbonNeutral Company with a replanting programme, which will reinstate the site back to natural forests.