Winner of the prestigious LAMA award for this design for The Best Eco-Friendly Building
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Timber structure of five storeys
- Passive solar heating; strategic orientation / shading
- Passive cooling ventilation: high thermal mass undercroft
- Passive ventilation by Solar Chimney
- Rainwater management system
- Baubiologie building fabric, of clay timber cellulose etc
- Interior Planting for air quality management
- deciduous shading on pergola trellis work on SE and SW
- gas driven heat pumps / condensing boilers
- sedum and intensive grass roofs
- Interior passive natural ventilation: cellular and open plan while preserving acoustic privacy
- synergy with community-driven self-help organisation
- Building Energy Management System controlling PV solar powered servos on many windows, vents, pumps, dampers, fans to optimise performance; fine tuning of software in the light of several years monitoring
- Active solar thermal hot water system
- Engineered solution to fire safety and evacuation
- long design life approach to exterior and rain screen elements of a building from organic materials, while minimising embodied energy; the trade off required
- double façade and ventilation box windows
- Article by Pirmin Jung in 'Architektur & Technik', May 2008 Switzerland
- Detailed interview with Ecotect Paul Leech
- Proceedings of www.sb08.org Sustainable Building World Conference 2008 Melbourne, Australia: Oral Paper by Paul Leech SB1213
- Poster for www.sb05.com, Sustainable Building World Conference 2005 Tokyo
- "Sustainable Buildings in Practice:What the Users Think" By Prof George Baird, Wellington NZ: ISBN: 978-0-415-39932-6 Routledge January 2010
- 25th Passive and Low Energy Architecture : PLEA International Conference; Dublin UCD October 2008; Paper 443 by Paul Leech
- Engineers Ireland ;Lecture series ; Lectures by Paul Leech in Dublin and Cork , Autumn 2008
